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From: Martha Marble <>
Subject: [NCGREENE] Re: Dawson, Aldridge, Warters, Beaman etc
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 10:39:24 -0400


Am sending the wills to Guy for the Wayne Co Archives site and Patty will
link to Lenoir and Greene since all these people are found in all three
counties. Will of Joseph Dawson and his son William Dawson.

Martha


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>Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 22:20:14 -0700
>Subject: Re: Dawson
>From: "Dan Jackson" <>
>To: Martha Marble <>
>
>Martha,
>I really appreciate all the info you sent. I have Joseph's will and his son
>William's will typed. I'll be happy to send it. I've done research today
>in the Sampson/Duplin deeds and a Thomas and Isaac Dawson were in the area
>of Duplin next to Lenoir. Isaac Dawson was listed in the will of John Grady
>in 1787. I do not know the relationship now. Isaac Dawson bought land in
>1764 from John Dever of Dobbs Co. that was on the east side of the North
>East Cape Fear River. Panter swamp was also mentioned. Witnesses were
>William Graddy and William Prescott. One of Joseph Dawsons daughters
>married a Prescott. Since the early Duplin Co. court records are missing,
>the earliest for the area begin in 1784 and none of the Dawsons appear in
>the Sampson Co. court records so they must have remained in the eastern part
>of Duplin Co. I'll have to make a trip to Archives to help with this.
>Joseph Dawson,Sr. received the first land grant on 7 June 1739 in Craven Co.
>on Bear Creek and Stoney Creek (now Wayne). He continued to acquire land in
>that area as did his son William. They were both in Simon Herrings muster
>list in Johnston Co. in 1755. It would appear that Joseph was born c. 1715.
>I'm attaching his will. I also have a 35 page chronology on these Dawsons
>that I'll be happy to share. It is interesting that Joseph married Patience
>Pike Scriven, a Quaker, as his last wife. His first wife is not known. I
>have her will as well. Jesse Dawson was the only child born of this union.
>Dan
>

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