Rebecca and John Esten on a deed to land next to his warehouse, uniting lots 6 and 8 on King Street. At this point, Esten also began filling-in the harbor along his wharf
John Dickinson Will-- “I give and Bequeath my Store House att Town to my Daughter Elizabeth and her Heirs for Ever She to be possessed of the Same when She attain to the Age of Twenty Years or day of Marriage as aforesaid… I Give and Bequeath… my other Lott in the Said Town opisite to the Said Store House and to the Northward of the Same, to my Daughter Mary Dickinson and her Heirs for Ever.”
WILL of John Dickinson of Smiths, estate to wife Elizabeth for life, storehouse and lot at town to daughter Elizabeth, lot to the north of the storehouse to daughter Mary.
“The jurors for & on behalf of or Soveraign Lady ye Queen on their Oaths present a Negro man Slave Call’d Jack belonging to George Wainwright of Warwick tribe in these Islands within ye Jurisdiction of this Court, offer that wereas he the said Negro man Jack not having ye fear of God before his eyes but moved & seduced by the Instigation of the devil with force & Armes feloniously & Burglary Did some Short time before the Sixteenth day of May last past in the Night time, Into the storehouse of Mr. John Dickinson of Smiths Tribe (where William Davis [jr. of Smith’s] dwells) break, by breaking open the door therof with a Crow; And also he the said Jack did then and there feloniously take and carry away out and from the said house Sundry Goods & Merchanize, as one bagg & a piece of a saile with shugar in them both, and a bottle with rum in It; And so the said Negro Jack the said storehouse in manner and from a Burglary break and Enter, and the Severall goods as aforesaid feloniously Stealetake and carry away, against the peace of our dread Soveraign Lady the Queen her Crowne & Dignitiy." Jack pleaded not guilty. Jury found him not guilty. Jack accused of a second crime of breaking out of prison…found guilty and fined 18 pounds
"… the parish vestry accused Dickinson of encroaching on the Town Bridge wharf wile erecting a building on the lot and ordered him to pull it down. The merchant appealed to Governor Bennett who overruled the vestry on the grounds that Dickinson’s building did not prejudice access to the bridge.”
