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Charlotte Dickinson ( – ) was an American missionary and abolitionist from Oregon.

Charlotte married Congregational minister Obed Dickinson in November 1852 and they immediately began a journey by ship around Cape Horn to Obed's assignment in the Willamette Valley through the American Home Missionary Society. They arrived in Portland, Oregon in April 1853 and transported the furniture they had brought with them by boat and cart to Salem, Oregon, a trip that took eighteen days. Salem at the time had a population of 500 and the five other ministers in the town were all Methodist, due to Salem being the headquarters of the Methodist Mission in Oregon.