William WILSON

                   >User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.0.6> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:16:43 -0500> Subject: Joseph Dawson> From: Dan Jackson >> To: Martha Marble >> X-Declude-Sender: djackson@aisnc.net  [208.139.146.58]> > Martha,> Below is a response to Mr. Clark. Send it to him and post it as you > wish. I am proof reading a biography of Joseph Dawson that I will send to > you ASAP. I'd like to have it posted in Old Dobbers, Lenoir, Wayne and > Greene if possible under biographies. What I hope will happen is that I > get some responses from people with reliable information that I don't > have. I am also working on a genealogy of the Craven County set. Then I > want to print the whole Dawson clan along the Neuse in book form. Thanks > for sharing. Dan> > > > > Mr. Clark,> Thanks to Martha Marble for sharing your request with me. You have > brought up many items that are of interest to me. A great deal of the > early settlers of eastern North Carolina came from the lower James River > counties in Virginia especially IOW, Surry, Brunswick, Lower > Norfolk. Northamption Co. NC is note worthy in researching central > eastern NC counties like old Dobbs, Duplin, Johnston, Edgecombe.> One well-documented group is the Quakers from Rich Square MM in > Northampton Co. and Perquimans MM who settled Contentnea MM in present day > Wayne Co. Patience Pike Scriven Dawson was among the Quakers. Her first > husband was Isaac Scriven. The Pikes moved from Pasquotank MM to Rich > Square MM before coming to Contentnea MM, first known as Falling Creek > MM. Isaac Scriven requested that the meeting be held at his home because > he was too ill to travel to the meeting house. This was in 1772, the year > he died. The Dobbs Co. Book 7 index shows that Isaac Scriven first > appears between April 1765 and April 1769. Richard Caswell sold him land > during that time. It was not until June 1777 that Patience Pike Scriven > was removed from the meeting because she married out of unity. We can > then place her marriage to Joseph Dawson about that time. After the > death of Joseph Dawson in 1784 she was reinstated by request on 14 > October 1786. She raised her son Jesse Dawson in the Quaker > fellowship. Jesse was born between 1778 and 1783 and died in Stillwater > MM, Belmont Co. Ohio 13 January 1865. He married Elizabeth Doudna in > Stillwater in 1807. The Doudnas were also from Wayne Co.> Joseph Dawson received several patents beginning in 1739. The vague > descriptions show that the land was east of Stony Creek and west of Bear > Creek. Some of the other land descriptions mention the east side of Bear > Creek which would put the land in either Lenoir or Greene. For the most > part his land was contained in present day Wayne Co. I've found no > indication that he ever lived in Greene Co.> As to the wives of Joseph Dawson, only Patience Pike Scriven is > proved. No primary record that I've seen gives any name for a wife of > Joseph Dawson. Even on the extant Craven Co. deeds of Joseph Dawson, his > wife is not named.> While I have no clue to the name of the mother of most of his children, > Elizabeth Bryan, daughter of William and Ann Delamar Stoakley Bryan of > Craven Co., is not. This Elizabeth Bryan married Francis Dawson of Craven > Co. Craven Co. deeds and wills prove this without question. Joseph > Dawson's daughter Selah (Celia) married William Walters (Waterer) and they > moved to Robeson Co. NC around 1794. A Walters descendant pointed me to a > book The Descendants of William Walters, Sr. of Robeson Co. NC in which > Elizabeth Bryan daughter of William and Ann Bryan is named as Joseph's > wife. I talked with the writers of this book and they told me their > information came from genealogy files in the Lumberton Public Library in > Robeson Co. I checked these files and found abstracts of the wills of > William and Ann Bryan with notations that this might be the wife of Joseph > Dawson. This "might be" turned into "is"
after publication of this book.> Joseph Dawson's oldest son was William Dawson. He married Martha Wilson, > daughter of William and Charity Wilson of Dobbs Co. William Wilson died > in 1766. Charity was dead by 1778 when William Dawson filed suit against > John Wilson, son and exe. of estate of Charity Wilson. William Dawson > claimed that his wife Martha did not receive her filial share of the > estate. On the 1769 Dobbs Co. tax list is Charity Wilson and son > George. So we know that William and Charity had sons John and George and > a daughter Martha. Your suggestion that this William might be a son of > William Wilson of Tyrrell Co. is interesting. Since I descend from > William Wilson of Chowan/Bertie/Northampton Co. I have looked at many > records for a William Wilson including Tyrrell Co. This William Wilson > was a justice of the peace in Tyrrell in 1739. I believe that Martha > Dawson's father William was also a jp in Johnston Co. in 1756 before the > area became Dobbs Co. There was also a William Willson who received a > patent in Pitt Co. in 1779 adjacent to a Daniel Willson.> John Daniel was in the area by 1757 when he received a Granville > grant. He sold this land to James Hall with witness Ephraim > Daniel. Looking at the Wayne Co. deeds, it appears that John Lawson and > John Daniel were neighbors of Joseph Dawson along Bear Creek. John Daniel > was later "of Lenoir Co." William Wilson may have been a brother to > Martha; I can't prove it either way.> William Dawson named a daughter Lucy Lane in his 1802 will. She had > married Isham Lane after 1796 when she witnessed a deed from her father to > her brother William Jr. as "Lewsey Dawson." We know she married Isham > Lane from a Wayne Co. deed dated 1805 where she sold her dower right in > the land she acquired from her husband Isham Lane. The given name Bryant > did not come from the Dawsons as an older Bryant Lane died in 1782. He is > possible brother to Isham Sr. There is one estate record for Isham Lane > at NC Archives. It may be a compiled record of two different Isham > Lanes. It is quite possible that Isham Lane the elder married Lucy > Dawson as a second younger wife and had only two daughters before his > death in 1801. It is clear that guardian records for Milley and Howey > Lane begin in 1805. Millie's final account is 1818 and Howey's is > 1819. From two other Wayne Co. deeds we learn of two more children of > Isham Lane. Bethany "Theany" Lane Parker's children sold her share of > Isham Lane's land in 1811. Cullen Lane sold his share in 1807. From > Isham Lane's estate record is a petition dated 20 May 1812 calling for a > distribution of his property. Essentially it states that Milley Lane and > Howey Lane infants by William Smith (he married Rachel Dawson, Lucy's > sister) guardian. Isham Lane died intestate and the adm. were Isham the > younger and Bryan Lane. Property valued at 3000 pounds was to be > distributed to Lucy Lane, Bryan, Matthew, John, Cullen, Bethany, Sally, > Penny, Elizabeth, and the petitioners Milley and Howey. The petition > calls for 12 equal parts. So far we have only 11. The petition further > states that Isham Lane, Jr. was only reputed to be the son of the > intestate and he was not born in wedlock. Counting him would make > 12. This makes a good case that Isham Lane the elder was husband of Lucy > Lane. Whether this Isham Lane the elder is the same as the first Isham > Lane that appeared in Dobbs Co. I really cannot say. The distinction of > Isham Lane Jr. was not used until 1782; prior to that it was only Isham > Lane. The 1790 Wayne Co. census lists both Isham Lane Sr. with 2 males > over 16, 3 males under 16 and 5 females. Isham Jr. has 1 male over 16, 2 > males under 16, and 1 female. The 1800 Wayne Co. census lists only Isham > Lane Jr. with 3 males under 10 and 1 male 10-16, 1 male 16-26, one male > 26-45 and only 1 female 26-45. The picture is not clear.> I am not knowledgeable about your Daniel family, but many were in Wayne > Co. as well as Greene. There was also a Robert Lanier Daniel who was a > justic
e of the peace in Pitt Co. in 1760. Sound familiar? I would enjoy > hearing from you and discussing other connections. Dan Jackson