Moses Dickey
- Born: About 1710, Muckamore, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
- Marriage: Mary Witherspoon About 1737
- Died: 1 Jun 1766, Paxtang Township, Lancaster Co., PA at age 56
 Notes and Events:
• Newspaper Article: Pennsylvania Gazette, 25 Jan 1759. On Sunday the 7th instant the house of Moses Dickey in Paxton twp,
Lancaster Co was burnt to the ground, when his wife, 1 child and a person
working with him, were burnt to death. Another child by jumping out of a
window broke its thigh bone, and a third so badly burnt, that it was
thought it could not live. Moses Dickey was the only person that escaped,
but not without being a good deal scorched. He lost several hundred
pounds in money and everything that belonged to the house. His mill and
outhouses were saved.
• Will: probated 6 June 1766, 1766, Paxtang Township, Lancaster Co., PA. Part of Lancaster County was carved out and became Dauphin County in 1785, current home of Paxtang.
Moses married Mary Witherspoon, daughter of James Witherspoon, III and Ann Walker, about 1737. (Mary Witherspoon was born about 1717 and died on 7 Jan 1759 in Paxtang Township, Lancaster Co., PA.) The cause of her death was Died in a House fire.
Marriage Notes and Events:
• Alt. Marriage. Some sources have the wife of Moses Dickey and mother of Sarah Dickey as Margaret Foster, Birth: About 1717 Death: 7 Jan 1759 Parents: Unknown
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