1st wife?

Not the same as Hannah Reeve

Disputed Origins

Birth date seen as 12/07/1648 without supporting evidence.

Not a listed daughter of Thomas Reeve of Southold (d 1665). His son Thomas Reeve, Jr. meets the criteria defined in NYGBR (died between 1675 - 1683). However, he’s too young (a contemporary of this woman) and is not known to have had children.

Disputed wives

Naomi Mapes was only 15 years old when the first of Peter's children, Philemon was born in 1682. In 1684, 1686 and 1688 there were born the last of the four children speculatively those of his first wife. She may have died during the gap in time before the last two children were born. These two are speculated to be Naomi's children.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dickerson-100

Biographical sketch per Charles Werner[14] and Theodore Banta[15]:

Peter was baptized 9 July 1648 at Salem, Massachusettsand was the second son of Philemon and Mary (Paine) Dickerson. [14] He lived at Southold and was a tanner, like his father before him. [14] He was able to amass considerable property and personal wealth. [14] His first wife was an unnamed dauther of Thomas Reeve and his second wife was Naomi Mapes, daughter of Thomas Mapes. [14] [15] In the enumeration of 1686 his family consisted of three males and one female. That female was most likely Naomi since her father passed away the same year and made a small bequest to her in his will, calling her "wife of Peter Dickerson." [15] It is very unlikely that she was the mother of the first two children because of her young age, but she could very well be the mother of the others. [15] Peter Dickerson died at Southold 15 March 1722/23. [15]

Several histories tell of an earlier wife of Peter prior to Naomi Mapes, and also attribute Peter's oldest children to this first wife. Wesley Baker[16] however reveals several early date transcription errors that would have led others to this conclusion, and makes a case that all of Peter's children are Naomi's, and that there is no real evidence of any first wife.

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Children of PETER DICKERSON and unknown 1st wife, or NAOMI MAPES, are:

• i. PHILEMON4 DICKERSON, b. September 10, 1682, Southold, Long Island, NY; d. 1718; m. HANNAH CASE, 1709, Southold, Long Island, NY.
• ii. JOHN DICKERSON, b. 1684; d. 1758, Southold, Long Island, NY; m. ABIGAIL REEVE, 1710, Southold, Long Island, NY.
• iii. MARY DICKERSON, b. 1686; d. 1699.

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In the NYGBR

The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volumes 29-30
edited by Richard Henry Greene, Henry Reed Stiles, Melatiah Everett Dwight, George Austin Morrison, Hopper Striker Mott, John Reynolds Totten, Harold Minot Pitman, Louis Effingham De Forest, Charles Andrew Ditmas, Conklin Mann, Arthur S. Maynard. Page 247. < GoogleBooks >

PHILEMON DICKERSON AND SOME OF HIS RACE. BY THEODORE M. BANTA

(Continued from Vol. XXX., p. 183, of The Record.) 4. Peter2, the second son, appears to have been a more enterprising man than his brother. In the valuation of Sept. 16, 1675, he had twenty acres of land, eight oxen, twenty-three cows and heifers, three yearlings, three horses and colts, forty goats, and fourteen swine, of the value of £250. In the “Estimate" for 1683 it was £121, being about fifty per cent. more than that of his brother. He also carried on the business of a tanner, and had a large amount of real estate in Southold and vicinity.

Peter2 is supposed to have married first a daughter of Thomas Reeve, who was an early settler of Southold, whose name appears in the list of 1675, but not in the succeeding list of 1683. He married again Naomi Mapes, daughter of Thomas Mapes, who was born Jan, 17, 1667/8, and died March 4, 1724/5. In the enumeration of 1686 his family is given as three males and one female ; and as Naomi Mapes was then only eighteen years of age, it is hardly probable that she was already the mother of two children. The will of her father is dated 23 August, 1686, and she is mentioned therein as the wife of Peter Dickerson, and to her was bequeathed “my great brass kettle, to be delivered with what else her mother shall do thereunto.” As this will made liberal provision for all her brothers and sisters, the presumption is that she was recently married and her father had provided for her in her “wedding outfit." …

From the town records we find that 19 Aug., 1707, a Thomas Reeve conveyed to Peter Dickerson for a consideration of five shillings a dozen pieces of land, almost all of which were conveyed 27 May, 1714, by him to his son John. As the conveyance from Reeve was evidently in the nature of a gift, it tends to show close relationship between the Reeve and Dickerson families.

Peter Dickerson d. at Southold 15 Mar., 172/3. No will or administration has been found of record.

Children of Peter Dickerson :

• 4. John”, b. 1675; m. 25 Jan., 1710, Abigail Reeve.
• 5 Thomas”, m. 13 Jan., 1713, Abigail Reeve.
• 6. Philemon, m. 1709, Hannah Case.
• 7. Maryo.
• 8. Naomi", m. 1715, Samuel Terry, who d. Aug., 1762, leaving a widow Naomi, sons Daniel and Richard, daughters Abi and Bethiah, and granddaughters Eloise and Elizabeth Wines.

References

• < The Reeves Project: A global genealogical collaboration > Reeve, Thomas (1611 UK - c1665 NY)
• <The Reeves Project: A global genealogical collaboration > Reeve, Thomas (fl. 1665 NY - 1682 NY)