Ancestry
The Dick family was descended from William de Dick, the first magistrate of Edinburgh in 1296. The family crest shows two unicorns surrounding a sinking ship and the motto, “At Spes Infracta, Via Tuta Virtus,” which means “But hope is unbroken, virtue is a safe path” Generations later, Archibald Dick was born in 1715 and immigrated to America, where he served in the Revolutionary War. In his will, he freed his slaves, giving each a legacy. One of his sons, Elisha C. Dick, was a friend of George Washington’s and the only doctor attending his last illness who disagreed with the diagnosis and spoke against using leeches. The second son, Thomas Barnard Dick, drowned while fishing, leaving his son, Archibald Thomas Dick, who practiced law and served in the War of 1812. Archibald Thomas Dick’s only son was Franklin Archibald Dick.
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