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John Dixon Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Purchased: 25 items,
Gift: 580 items,
Gift: 1 item,
Gift: 4 items,
John Dixon Jr. was born in 1778 and died September 5, 1830. He married Sally (Sarah) Throckmorton, the daughter of Warner and Julia Throckmorton, in 1795. They had three children: Dr. John Dixon(1812- 1835), Isabella S. Burwell, Harriet Peyton. Dixon remarried Mary T. (?). There was one child from this union Mary E. Dixon.
Family History
John Dixon Jr.'s father was John Dixon (d.1788). He married Elizabeth Peyton, daughter of Sir John Peyton of Isleham, Gloucester County, on February 6, 1773. They had four children: John, Lucy, Seigniora, and Betsy.
John Dixon Jr.'s grandfather was the Rev. John Dixon(d.1777). He married Lucy (?). They had five children: John, William, Thomas, Lucy, Elizabeth
John Dixon Jr.'s great grandfather, John Dixon (d.1758) came to Virginia from Bristol, England in the eighteenth century. He married Lucy Reade(1701-1731), daughter of Mr. Thomas Reade of Gloucester. They had three children: Rev. John Dixon, Roger Dixon, and Thomas Dixon. After the death of his first wife, he remarried Ann (?), of King William County. They had four children: Cornelious, Lyonell, Robert, and Susannah Ann. All the male children from this second union died unmarried.
Additional family and genealogical information can be found in the first folder of the first box of the John Dixon Papers, Collection number: Mss. 39.1 D64.
The John Dixon Papers include letters, legal papers, farm and personal accounts, 1760-1829 of John Dixon, Jr. (1777-1830) of "Airville" Gloucester County, Virginia.
Letters include those from Charles H. Braxton of "Oak Spring," Burwell Bassett of Williamsburg, Richard Jones, John Nicholson, John Peyton, and James and Samuel Stubbs of Gloucester County. The collection also includes a letter, 22 October 1827, of Burwell Bassett and a letter, 1826, of John Mercer Patton (1796-1858). These papers contain references to the Whiting family of Williamsburg, Virginia.
Papers relate to settlements of estates which John Dixon administered, while early material include copies of the wills of his great-grandfather John Dixon of Bistol, England, his father John Dixon (d. 1788) of Gloucester County, Virginia, and the settlement of the estate of his mother Elizabeth Peyton Dixon.
Additions to the collection include copies of a 1729 land patent, the 1766 will of Roger Dixon and two genealogies of the family.
These papers have been organized into six series: 1. Family Papers; 2. Letters Written to John Dixon Jr.; 3. Legal Papers of John Dixon Jr.; 4. Other Papers of John Dixon; 5. Business Papers of John Dixon Jr.; 6. Addition.
John Dixon is the great-grandfather of John Dixon Jr.
John Dixon is the father of John Dixon Jr. A copy of his will is included among his estate papers.
Elizabeth Dixon is the mother of John Dixon Jr.
This is a printed circular letter.
Item concerns the transference of M. Dixon's interest in John Gwyn's estate.
This item concerns the authorization of Morgan Tomkies to sell slaves.
Items include a deed given by Warner and Thomas Throcknorton to John Dixon covering a mill dam and a tract of land in Gloucester County, Virginia; and a copy of a court order granting John Dixon permission to erect a mill.
Kennon and Tomasia Whiting vs. William S. Thornton, administrator of Meaux Thornton et als.
Items authorize William C. Minor to settle and adjust claims against various persons, and include papers concerning these claims.
Item concerns a lease for a tract of land. John Dixon was a witness for this agreement.
Item concern the manufacture and sale of Hotchisses' improved straw cutter.
Items concern the use and disposal of certain property.
Item concerns the specifications for staves for hogsheads; and a memorandum concerning other lumber.
This item was paid for by John Dixon, quarter master.
Items include a copy of his will.
Item is the land patent of John Dixon of Bristol, England.
Item is the will of John Dixon of Bristol, England.
Item is the will of Roger Dixon of Fredericksburg, Virginia, second son of John Dixon.
Letter from Caroline T. Anderson giving Dixon family genealogy.