Rosemary: Thank you for posting this Dick biography from the Dick Surname Board. James Dick, father of Dinsmore Dick, emigrated from County Antrim to Indiana County, PA in 1812. Compare with this: Samuel Dick was born in County Antrim, Northern Ireland on April 21, 1764. His parents died while he was quite young and he was raised by relatives. In the spring of 1783, at age 19, Samuel embarked on a ship at Belfast and sailed for America. He landed at Philadelphia but went directly to Baltimore to join his two older brothers who had come to America a few years earlier. They were engaged in the mercantile business in Baltimore but were about to move to the newly established town of Gettysburg in the southern part of Pennsylvania. They offered to take Samuel into partnership with them but Samuel was determined to make his fortune on his own. He spent a year in the Gettysburg area but moved westward across the Allegheny mountains to the western part of Pennsylvania, which was then referred to as the "backwoods." During the winter of 1785-86 he married Martha Allen Gillespie in Washington County, Pennsylvania. He lived in Washington County until 1790 when they moved down the Ohio river to Cincinnati. Cincinnati was then a small village composed of a few log cabins and a population of no more than 200. Samuel purchased a lot in Cincinnati on the northwest corner of Front and Walnut streets on which he built a house where his family resided for several years. He operated a grocery store and also supplied provisions for the troops at Fort Hamilton and other forts in the interior. He also kept a tavern in the house where he lived. He purchased several other lots in Cincinnati and then acquired a section of land (640 acres) lying on the headwaters of a creek now called Dick's Creek, in Warren County, adjacent to the Butler County line. In 1801 Samuel purchased a section of land on Indian Creek in what is now Butler County. In 1802, Samuel moved the family from Cincinnati to the land on Indian Creek where he raised the family and lived for the remainder of his life. Samuel Dick was one of the grand jurors in July 1803 of the first session of the Court of Common Appeals in Butler County. At the general election in October 1803 he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the State of Ohio. He served in the legislature for one session but thereafter refused to be a candidate for any public office. Samuel Dick and Martha Gillespie had four sons and five daughters. The family achieved considerable prominence in the community and their lives are well recorded in the History of Butler County, Ohio. Samuel Dick died at the age of 82 on August 4, 1846 in the home of his son-in-law, Judge Fergus Anderson, in Ross Township, Butler County. The biography of Samuel Dick states that when he arrived in Philadelphia from Belfast in the spring of 1783, he proceeded to Baltimore where he met two of his older brothers who had previously come to America. Christopher Dick lived in Adams County, Pennsylvania which had just been created from York County. The History of York County contains a great deal of information about the descendants of Christian Dick. Christian, Jr., was born 1766 and died 19 March 1810. He is buried at St. John's Presbyterian Church, Abbottstown, Adams County, Pennsylvania. I wish Samuel had told us the parish in which he was born. In 1989 I asked the Ulster Historical Foundation to do a search for me. They told me that they wouldn't even attempt it unless I could tell them the parish, which I couldn't. As an indication of the number os Dicks living in Antrim, they mentioned that in 1862 there were 26 dwellings occupied by individuals named Dick. Arvil Hancock P.S. This information is quoted from the Dick Chapter in The Hancock Family of England and America, of which I am the author.