Charles Dixon Esq (1730 - 1817)

Born 8 Mar 1730 in Kirkleavington, Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Susannah (Coates) Dixon — married 5 Jul 1763 in Hutton Rudby, Yorkshire, England

Descendants

Died 21 Aug 1817 at age 87 in Sackville, Westmorland, New Brunswick

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Biography

Charles Dixon Esq was born in Yorkshire, England.

Charles was a member of the 1st Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick.

Charles Dixon Esq is Notable.

Charles was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1730. He was the son of Charles Dixon, and was christened on the 9th of March 1730, at Kirk Leavington, Yorkshire. ^[1]

He married Susanna Coates on the 5th of July 1763, in Hutton Rudby, Yorkshire. ^[2]

Charles and Susannah (Coates) Dixon were among the Yorkshire Methodists who sailed from Liverpool 16 Mar 1772 on "Duke of York" to Halifax, Nova Scotia. They arrived at Ft. Cumberland, Nova Scotia on 21 May 1772 and eventually settled in Sackville, in the portion of Nova Scotia which was subsequently split off to New Brunswick upon the creation of the new province in 1784.^[3]

Isaac Allen Jack writes in 1900:^[4]

Charles Dixon learned the trade of a bricklayer from his father, with whom he worked until he was nineteen years old, and then followed his trade alone for ten years. He subsequently engaged in a paper-mill at Hutton Rudby, he conducted it successfully until 1771, when he emigrated with his family to New Brunswick. Locating in Sackville, he invested a part of his money in land, buying a tract of twenty-five hundred acres, on which he carried on farming and merchandise to some extent until his death on August 21,1817. He became prominent in public affairs, and in 1775 was appointed Justice of the Peace, in 1778 was made Judge of Common Pleas, prior to 1783, then a member of the legislature, and was afterward Collector of Customs a number of years. On June 24, 1763, he married Susanna Coates, who died June 13, 1826. Both were members of the Methodist church. They had eight children.

He died 21 Aug 1817 at Sackville. The 20 Sep 1817 edition of the Acadian Recorder reported: "d. 21 Aug at Sackville, N.B., Charles Dixon, Esq., J.P., 88; former M.L.A. for Sackville when part of N.S.; an English settler here in 1772; left 125 descendants."^[5] He is buried in the Methodist Burying Ground, Middle Sackville, Westmorland, NB.

Sources

1. ↑ England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980, database on-line. Citing: British Isles Vital Records Index, 2nd Edition. Transcription: Christening Ancestry : (accessed 23 Feb 2024).
2. ↑ England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973, database on-line. Citing: England, Marriages, 1538–1973. Transcription: Marriage Ancestry : (accessed 23 Feb 2024).
3. ↑ Duke of York, Immigrant Ship Transcribers Guild Website
4. ↑ Isaac Allen Jack, (1900). Biographical review: … biographical sketches of leading citizens of the Province of New Brunswick. Boston: Biographical Review Publishing, pp. 360-363
5. ↑ Nova Scotia Vital Statistics from Newspapers,1813-1822 compiled by Terrence M. Punch

Also

• DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/dixon_charles_5E.html

• THE CHIGNECTO ISTHMUS AND ITS FIRST SETTLERS, by Howard Trueman, Published by William Briggs, Toronto, 1902, (pp. 255-6).

• THE SIEGE OF FORT CUMBERLAND, 1776 : an episode of the American Revolution, by Ernest Clarke, Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, cop. 1999.

• PLANTERS AND PIONEERS, by Esther Clark Wright, Wolfville, N.S. : E.C. Wright, 1982.

• HISTORY OF CHARLES DIXON : one of the Early English Settlers of Sackville, N.B., compiled by James D. Dixon, a grandson, Sackville, N.B., Forest City Publishing Co., Rockford, Illinois, 1891.

• Find A Grave: Memorial #61146116

• Dixon, James D. (James Dunbar) (compiler). History of Charles Dixon : One of the Early English Settlers of Sackville, N.B. (Sackville, N.B., 1891), Page i - 16; viewed at Archive.org (http://archive.org/details/historyofcharles00dixouoft) on Sunday, October 15, 2023.

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Malcolm Bliss for creating WikiTree profile Dixon-2793 through the import of Malcolm Bliss Family Tree_AutoBackup_2013-05-29_01.ged on May 29, 2013.
• WikiTree profile Dixon-1470 created through the import of NicklasReum.ged on Dec 29, 2011 by William Reum.