Individual Details

Dorcas "Knickerbocker" SISSON

(Abt 1789 - )

Events

Birth	Abt 1789	Despite the claims of many Ancestry trees, this person was not a "Knickerbocker". She was really a "Sisson". See below. (I am showing "Knickerbocker" as her middle name only as a reminder of the error in the 1850 census.) - Pennsylvania
Extra information	1789	Knickerbocker genealogists latched onto a pair of ditto marks in the 1850 census as proof that she is a Knickerbocker. Wrong. She was Dorcas Bartlett Sisson, widow of Wright Sisson, who died in Otsego County in 1848, age 61.
Knick Census Project: 1850	1850	NY, Tioga, Barton. HOH = E. P. Sisson. Dorcas was the widow of Wright Sisson. Dorcas was not a "Knickerbocker." Dorcas was grandmother of Margaret Sisson, who married Ira Knickerbocker.
Extra information	1850	Ira Knickerbocker was living in the same household as Dorcas in 1850. Ira married Margaret Sissen. He is almost certainly the son of Alvin. Caught twice in 1850 census. (Tioga County was done many months earlier than neighboring Bradford PA.)
Residence	1850	Look at census sheet. Living with the Sissen family. Dorcas is listed last, after Ira Knickerbocker. Dorcas does not have a last name, only a set of ditto marks. In other census records she was "Sisson". - Barton, Tioga, New York, USA
Residence	1865	Dorcas Sisson, living with the same family as 1850. She is listed as "Mother". Age 76. Her son was born Otsego County. Her oldest grandson was also born Otsego. - Nichols, Tioga, New York, USA
Residence	1870	Dorcas Sisson is still living with the same Sisson family. Age 79. - Athens, Bradford, Pennsylvania, USA
Residence	1 Jun 1875	Relation to Head: Mother - Cohocton, Steuben, New York, USA

Families

Spouse	Wright SISSON ( - 1848)
Child	James Wright SISSON (1820 - 1899)
Child	E.P. Epaphroditus SISSON (1821 - )
Child	Margaretta SISSEN (1830 - )

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