Age 83 yrs, 3 mos
Son of Thaddeus & brother of Nathaniel, Asa, and Thomas (and perhaps others). Living in a cluster / next door neighbors were Thomas, Niram and Asa in Danbury CT. Niram is a nickname for Adoniram. Records can be found under both names, although he was always called 'Niram'.

For info pertaining to mutual granddaughter of Niram and Nathaniel which establishes the link to Thaddeus Dikeman, see:
Full text of "Commemorative Biographical Record of New Haven:
"...Niram and Nathaniel Dikeman were brothers, and they were the sons of Thaddeus Dikeman. Two children blessed this home of Mr. and Mrs. Tyrrill: 111 Dwight ..."
as found on page 470 at:
www.archive.org/stream/.../commemorativebio12beer_djvu.txt

Children of Martha (Barker) and Niram Dikeman were:
1-Leander Dikeman (1806) md. Betsey Marshall Osborn,
d/o James and Jerusha McCausey Osborn;
2-Betsey Marie Dikeman (1808) md. Ebenezer 'Czar' Dikeman,
s/o Nathaniel and Experience Hawley Dikeman;
3-Harriet Dikeman (1810) md. Ezra Schofield;
4-William Dikeman (1812) md. Maria R. Judd.
grdau/o Nathaniel and Experience Hawley Dikeman;
5-David Dikeman (1814) md. Lucretia Pullen;
6-Alfred Dikeman (1816) md. __ Potts;
7-Laura Dikeman(1818) md. Ezra Carter;
8-Niram Dikeman jr. (1823) md. Mary Jane Smith;
9-Martha Dikeman (1825) md. James Edwin Platt;
10-Susan Abbott Dikeman (1827) md. James Henry Hoyt;
11-Frederick Barker Dikeman (1833) md. Hannah Morgan.

Paternal lineage: DIKEMAN/DYCKMAN
Niram8 Dikeman (25JAN1779-MAY1862), Thaddeus7 Dikeman (1739-1834), Fredrick6 Dikeman (17JUN1711-1765), John5/Johannes Dikeman (1671-28APR1768), Cornelis4 Dyckman (1647-), Johannes3 Dyckman (1619-1672), Joris2 Dyckman (1585-1643), Jurgen1 Dyckman (1536, Coesfield Westphalia Germany).

ORAL TRADITION:
"The Dikemans were considered to have been French Huguenots who left southwestern France during the" Religious Wars" and settled in Westphalia Germany as workmen on the dyke systems there. In taking the trade name, they lost their original identities but gained protection through anonymity. From Germany, they migrated to Holland in the same trades, and once there married into Dutch and other Huguenot refugee families." This oral history of the family has not been, and probably cannot be documented.

Niram claims documentable Huguenot lineage through his paternal gg-grandmother, RACHEL DeVAUX.