Timothy Dalton III (1745 - 1822)

Born 1745 in Bedford, Virginia

Died 19 Aug 1822 at about age 77 in Beech Creek Twp, Hawkins, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Timothy Dalton III was born about 1745 in Bedford, Virginia to parents Timothy Dalton II and Elizabeth ___. He married Sarah Chichester Mason about 1770 in Virginia.

Children: Carter D, Fannie, Thomas, Patience, Mary Jane, John Levi, Timothy IV. He died on 19 Aug 1822 in Beech Creek, Tennessee.

Timothy Dalton arrived in the area of Sullivan County, Tennesee before 1796. He is listed there in 1796 and 1797. It has not been documented where or when he came to Tennessee, but he most likely left Pittsylvania County, Virginia in 1788. A Timothy his age is listed in the 1787 tax lists in that County for the last time, living on Horse Creek, just across a low divide from Beech Creek.

In 1804 he bought a tract of land across a low divide from Horse Creek, on Beech Creek in Hawkins County, paying $500 for 300 acres (Source: Hawkins County Deeds 4:109). There is a story in the Hawkins County records that Timothy may have fallen victim to a land swindle. He is said to have paid the $500 to Alexander Outlaw, an agent of Richard Caswell, then governor of North Carolina. There is an entry in the Hawkins County Deeds dated 1808, three years after Timothy bought the land, in which William Caswell notified the county that the agent was no longer employed by him and that any of this agents subsequent actions were void. In 1809 Timothy filed suit against said agent. Outlaw was arrested and held in jail in 1811. In July 1812, a jury in Jefferson County awarded Timothy $915 in damages and costs."

Sources

• K Johnson, firsthand knowledge. Click the Changes tab for the details of edits by K and others.

• US Federal Census 1790

• Heads of Families at the first US Census, Virginia 1790

• American Genealogical Biographical Index

• Tennessee Wills and Probate Records, Beech Creek, Tennessee