![]() ![]() He was the father of seven children - John, Robert, Mary, Peggy, David, William, and A. In 1787 he married Mary Dickey, and in 1798 located at Williamsburgh, and on the 22nd of February, 1799, settled on the farm now owned by William Hunter. He was a native of Donegal Co., Province of Ulster, Ireland, and came to America in 1782, and settled near Chambersburg, Pa. William Hunter and his wife, as before stated, came at the same time with Robert Dickey, by way of the Ohio River, and he bringing the teams by Lane's Trace to Williamsburgh. ![]() Robert Dickey never married, and died in 1840, aged eighty-five years. William Lytle, now owned in part by Albert Hartman. In December, the same year, he purchased 300 acres from Gen. 1, 1798, but the boat containing his family and the Dickey brothers did not arrive at the mouth of Bullskin until the latter part of that month, when their goods were brought by land to Williamsburgh, where they settled for a short time. William Hunter arrived at Williamsburgh on Nov. On arriving at Pittsburgh they built a boat, in which they put their goods, leaving William Hunter to bring the wagon and horses by land. In September, 1798, in company with his two brothers, Hughey and Andrew, and William Hunter, a brother-in-law, he started for the Miami country. After this expedition he returned to Kentucky, went to Louisville, Ky., and while there joined a company of volunteers for Harmar's expedition against the Indians in 1791, in which he was so successful as to escape and return to Chambersburg, his old home. Bowman's expedition against Old Chillicothe, in June, 1779, where he was wounded in the shoulder. The former was a native of Franklin Co., Pa., and was in Col. The first settlers in what is now Jackson Township were Robert Dickey and William Hunter. Jackson Township is bounded on the north by Wayne, east by Brown County, south by Williamsburgh, and west by Stonelick. Transcribed by Genealogy Trails Transcription Team Source: "History of Clermont Co., Ohio," By J. ![]() Part of the Genealogy Trails History Group Jackson Township History from History of Clermont Co Ohio ![]()
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