Francis Chickering

- 1658

• Name	Francis Chickering  [1]
  Birth	Ringsfield, Suffolk, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Aft 1600  [3]
  Death	10 Oct 1658	Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I34187	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DGH
  Last Modified	13 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	Henry Chickering,   b. Abt 1560   d. Between 11 Jul 1626 and 7 Jul 1627, Ringsfield, Suffolk, England (Age ~ 66 years)
  Mother	Mary   d. Aft 11 Jul 1626
  Family ID	F20121	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anne Fiske,   b. Bef 1 Apr 1610   d. 5 Dec 1649, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age > 39 years)
  Children	+ 1. Mercy Chickering,   b. Apr 1648, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 12 Mar 1721, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 72 years)
  Family ID	F20122	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Apr 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Arrived in 1637 and settled at Dedham, where he was a proprietor in 1638, listed as freeman 13 May 1640, and served as ensign, selectman, and (in 1644 and 1653) deputy to the general court. At his death he was Dedham's largest landowner.

  
  

• Sources

  [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S906] The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and His Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth by N. Grier Parke II, edited by Donald Lines Jacobus. Woodstock, Vermont: The Elm Tree Press, 1960. [S5881] Ancestral Lines, Fourth Edition: 232 Families in England, Wales, the Netherlands, Germany, New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015. [S5440] Clarence Almon Torrey, "Francis Chickering of Dedham, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist 17:70, 1940.