Came from Great Yarmouth,, England in 1637 to Salem, Massachusetts.
7766PHILEMON DICKERSON who shipped as a passenger on board the “Mary Anne” of Yarmouth, on May 10, 1637. He is named in this connection, as a servant (employee) of Benjamin Cooper, husbandman, aged 50, of Brampton in Suffolk County, England,
or of Cooper’s sister aged 48. He made known his desire to settle at Salem, Mass., and we find first trace of him there in 1639, pursuing his trade of a tanner. He was made freeman of Salem in 1641, and there married Mary Paine, eldest d. of
Thomas Paine of Salem, who was born Oct. 12, 1611, and died March I, 1697, aged 86. About 1649 he removed with his family to Southold, Long Island, where he spent the remainder of his days
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