Series VIII. The Tangled Trail of Benjamin Dawson of Orange and Spotsylvania Counties, and the City of Richmond and Northumberland, Fauquier and Frederick Counties in Virginia (2010).

Containers:

Box 25-28

Extent:

Extent: 4 boxes.

Scope and content:

The Tangled Trail of Benjamin Dawson of Orange and Spotsylvania Counties, the City of Richmond and Northumberland, Fauquier, and Frederick County, Virginia includes information on the identity of the Benjamin Dawson (d. ca. 1826), who married second wife Ann Pope Roy (d. ca. 1832) in 1804, attempting to differentiate him from contemporaries with the same name. There is material on the first marriages of Benjamin and Ann Dawson, the dispute over Benjamin Dawson's will and land he owned in Ohio, his Revolutionary War service, his children with both wives, and likely candidates for his parents and siblings. Johnston's research indicated that this Benjamin Dawson showed up at different times in Frederick, Fauquier, Northumberland, Orange, and Spotsylvania Counties, and Richmond, Virginia.

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