Samuel Dodson (1738 - 1796)

Born 6 May 1738 in Chester Co., Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Rhodes) Dodson — married 1762 in Chester, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 7 Jan 1796 at age 57 in Lizard Valley, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Private Samuel Dodson served with 6th Battalion, Northampton County Militia, Pennsylvania Militia during the American Revolution.

Samuel Dodson is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A032924.

Samuel Dodson was a patriot for Northampton County Pennsylvania during the American Revolution. As early as 1775 Samuel Dodson was active with the 3rd Class & in 2nd Company, and later with the 6th Battalion Northumberland County under Capt. William Moyer, Lt. Col. Henry Geiger.^[1]

Marriage

Husband: Samuel Dodson

Child: Hannah Dodson

Child: Abigail Dodson

Child: Jeremiah Dodson

Child: John D Dodson

Child: Joseph Dodson

Child: Thomas Dodson

Child: Mary Dodson

Child: Elizabeth Dodson

Child: Samuel B Dodson

Child: Sarah Dodson

Marriage Date: 1762^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed July 24, 2020), "Record of Samuel Dodson", Ancestor # A032924.
2. ↑ Source: #S08395 Elisabeth Rhoads, wife of Samuel Dodson, Oct. 6, 1773, Received into congregation on her sick bed

• Source: S07451 Title: PA Archives
• Source: S08395 Title: The Moravian Church Records of Gnadenhütten
• http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/philadelphia/church/1stpresby01.txt.

Notes

Note NI0046From the Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Vol.26: Northampton County, PA Name DODSON, Samuel 72 Acres Date of Survey June 12, 1767 http://www.reocities.com/Heartland/Acres/8467/d-warrant.html

1770 March 5 Penn Twp Northampton County George Gilbert Collector:

Doudson Samuel 4 acres of clear land, 46 acres of wood land, tax £0-0-11

Doudson Richard poor

Church records for this family are from The Moravian Church Records of Gnadenhütten

History of Carbon County, Pennsylvania: also containing a separate account ... By Frederick Charles Brenckman

Benjamin Gilbert, an aged Quaker, and his family came to the valley of the Mahoning from Byberry, near Philadelphia, in 1775.

They built a saw-mill and a grist-mill on the spot where the mill of David A. Kistler now stands.

The story of the peace and prosperity which rewarded their industry and thrift during a period of five years, followed by their captivity among the Indians and the destruction of the improvements which they had made, constitutes one of the many pathetic incidents in the frontier life of eastern Pennsylvania, and has already been related.

Upon the return of the Gilberts from captivity, they took up their abode at Byberry, their former home, disposing of their land here to Captain Joseph Longstreth, who, with Robert McDaniel, replaced the improvements which had been burned by the Indians.

Samuel Dodson and family located on land now owned by Ira Troxel at about the same time that the Gilberts came to the region. One of the family, Abigail, a girl of fourteen years, was carried off by the Indians with the Gilberts.

1770 March 5 Penn Twp Northampton County George Gilbert Collector:

Doudson Samuel 4 acres of clear land, 46 acres of wood land, tax £0-0-11

Tax Lists in Northampton County Court House 1774-1806, Translated by Rev. A. S. Leiby: Samuel Datzen January 16, 1776 Penn Township; Jacob Smethers, Assessor, Daniel Warner Senr., Collector. Northampton Tax records: Dodson Samuel 6 acres of clear land, 50 acres of wood land, 1 horse, 1 cattle, tax £0-2-5

A GENERAL MUSTER ROLL OF THE THIRD BATTALION OF NORTHAMPTON COUNTY MILITIA. 1778. (c.) Samuel Dodson

1779 Penn Township, George Taubenspeck, Collector

Dodson Samuel 50 acres, 2 horses, 4 cattle, tax £3-12-0

Northampton militia. Return of Captain William Moyer's company of the 6th Btn, commanded by Lt. Col. Henry Geiger - return dated October 26, 1780.

In the year 1781 the assessment-roll made by the commissioners of Northampton County on the 27th of December contained the following names: (1) Richard Dodson, John Rhoads, Joseph Rhoads, Samuel Dodson.

1784 Penn Twp Northampton County Tax records for Saml Datson:

1785 Penn Twp Northampton County: Dodson Samuel 72 acres, 1 horse, 1 cow, tax £0-5-4

Another list shows: Dotsen Samuel 70 acres, 1 horse, 2 cattle, tax £0-5-0

1786 Penn Twp Northampton County Samuel Dodson and Thomas Dodson

Probably son: Parents: Samuel Dodson & Elisabeth

Child: Thomas, born June 21, 1776 in Penn Township, baptized Sep. 1, by Francis Böhler. Sponsors: John Holder, the aged, George Biwighouse, Maha Warner, Anna Catharine Böhler

1787 Penn twp Northampton County Tax records: Dodson Samuel 72 acres, 1 horse, 1 cattle, tax £0-6-0

1788 Penn TWp Northampton: Dotsen Samuel 0-2-7

Dotsen Thomas 0-1-9

Dotzen Samuel 70 acres, 1 horse, 2 cattle, tax £0-5-2

Dotson Thomas 50 acres, 1 horse, 2 cattle, tax £0-3-6

1789 Penn Twp, Northampton:

Dawsen Samuel 0-1-8 50 cres, 1 horse, 2 cattle, tax 0-4-10

Dawsen Thomas 0-1-4

1790 Samuel and Thomas listed as Dawson again.

1793: Dotson Samuel 72 acres, 1 horse, 1 cattle, tax £0-2-6

Samuel Dodson died in 1795, and was buried in the Lizard Creek Valley. Soon thereafter most of his family removed to Shamokin, later going to Huntington township, Luzerne county, where their descendants are numerous. Among those who remained was Isaac T. Dodson, who became a well known citizen of Mauch Chunk.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~carbdat/m&h/mah.htm

MAHONING TOWNSHIP: The family of Samuel Dodson came to the valley about the same time the Gilberts came in. They settled about a mile distant, on a farm now owned by David D. Kistler, near Pleasant Corner. He was a native of Chester County, where he was married, and where his children were born. Abigail, when fourteen years of age, was sent by her father to the mill of Benjamin Gilbert, on the Mahoning Creek, early on the morning of the 25th of April, 1780. She was captured with the Gilbert family by the Indians. She was separated from the others, and adopted first by a tribe of the Cayugas and later by others. The family of Dodsons remained upon their plantation, and did not, like many others, abandon their settlement. In 1785, Thomas Dodson, a cousin of Abigail, determined to go up to the northward and make a search for Abigail. He was provided with the necessary equipment, and started on horseback. After much search she was found in the Genesee Valley with the tribe of Indians by which she had been adopted. As her return at some time had been anticipated, it had been decided that if her friends came for her she would be allowed to go. The chief of the tribe was away at the time Thomas arrived, and the family of which she was a member, although loath to let her leave them, consented, and preparations were made for her departure. A new suit of Indian cloth, ornamented with beads, was made for her, and feasts were given at which many gathered. When all was ready …

The family of Samuel Dodson lived at the place where they settled in 1775 until 1797. Samuel Dodson, the father, died in 1795, and was buried at Lizard Creek. His children were John, Thomas, Samuel, Joseph, Hannah, Elizabeth, Polly, Abigail, and Sally. John, the eldest son, after the death of his father, took the management of the farm, and in 1797 sold it, and the family all moved to Shamokin. The children of Samuel had all reached maturity, and several of them were married and settled on the homestead farm in Mahoning Valley. Joseph was married before the death of the father; and Isaac T. Dodson, so well known to old citizens of the county of Carbon, was born on the homestead farm in 1796. His father, Joseph, moved with the rest of the family to Shamokin. After a few years most of the family of Samuel removed to Huntington township, Luzerne Co., where their descendants are numerous

From Internet Posting: Notes for Samuel B. Dodson, Sr. Also in the Gnadenhutten, on the Mahoning, Moravian church records are baptism records from Elisabeth & Samuel Dodson's children: Thomas (b. 21 Jun 1776), Mary (b. 2 Jun 1779), Elisabeth (b. 24 Sep 1783), Samuel (b. 21 Jul 1786), Sarah (b. 14 Nov 1788).

Elisabeth Rhodes: Baptism: Oct 06, 1773, Friends Church

Marriage: 1762, Chester Co., PA

Judge Rhone married 31st day of December, 1879, to Rosamond L. Dodson, a daughter of Osborne Dodson, of the township of Huntington. Mrs. Rhone is a descendant of Samuel Dodson, who in 1780, was a resident of Penn township, Northampton county (now Mahoning township, Carbon county), Pennsylvania. At that date, with a settlement here and there, it was the frontier of Pennsylvania, and not far from where Fort Allen (now Weissport) was erected. Her greatgrandfather, Joseph Dodson, located in Huntington township, on the farm where he died, in 1851; and in that township her father, Osborne Dodson, was born and buried. Her grandfather, Samuel Dodson, is still living, aged 80.

She was born in Dovvnieville, Sierra county, California, during the residence of her father in that State, while acting as a civil engineer. An incident occurred in connection with the Dodson family while they were residents of Northampton county that is worth relating here. Benjamin Gilbert, a Quaker from Byberry, near the city of Philadelphia, in 1775, removed with his family to a farm on Mahoning creek, five or six miles from Fort Allen. He was soon comfortably situated, with a good log dwelling house, barn, saw and grist mill. The Gilbert family, consisting of eleven persons, were alarmed about sunrise on the 25th day of April, 1780, the year after Sullivan's expedition, by a party of eleven Indians, whose appearance struck them with terror. To attempt to escape was death. The Indians who made this incursion were of different tribes or nations, who had abandoned their country on the approach of Gen. Sullivan's army, and fled within command of the British forts in Canada, promiscuously settling within their neighborhood, and, according to Indian custom of carrying on war, frequently invading the frontier settlements, taking captive the weak and defenseless. They made captives of the Gilbert family, consisting of Mr. Gilbert, his wife, three sons, two daughters, two daughters-in-law, a servant, and Benjamin Gilbert, son of John Gilbert, of Philadelphia. Abigail Dodson, a daughter of Samuel Dodson, first above mentioned, aged fourteen, lived with her father on a farm about one mile distant from the mill, and who came that morning with grist, was also captured. The Indians proceeded about half a mile, and captured the Peart family, consisting of three persons. The forlorn band were dragged over the wild and rugged region between the Lehigh and Chemung rivers, while their beds were hemlock branches strewed on the ground and blankets for a covering. They were often ready to faint by the way, but the cruel threat of immediate death urged them again to the march. They reached Niagara on May 25. Abigail Dodson was given to one of the families of the Cayuga nation, and was finally surrendered to her relatives at a place now known as the city of Detroit, Michigan, after having been in captivity about three years. In September, 1780, occurred what was then called the Scotch (now Sugarloaf) Valley massacre. A company of thirty-three men. under Captain Klader or Myers, had come up from the south-eastern part of the State, crossing over Broad and Buck mountains, passed down through the ravine southeast from Conyngham, and halted at the spring, now owned by the Conyngham Water Co., north of the road and west of the Little Nescopeck creek where it crosses the Butler road, on the east side of Conyngham. Feeling, no doubt, a degree of safety, the little band set their guns around a tree, and were refreshing the inner man with the pure "water from the spring. While thus employed, they suddenly found themselves separated from their trusty old firelocks by a band of Indians, with here and there a heartless tory among them. The enemy had come down through the same ravine, and, taking the troops at such disadvantage, completely discomfited them. The Indians took thirteen scalps, and all the survivors were made prisoners. They then burnt several buildings, and escaped to Niagara. The massacre occurring after the capture of Abigail Dodson, she obtained her information from a prisoner in Canada, whom the savages spared and turned over to the British, and she told the story as here given. She afterwards married Peter Brink, of Huntington township, and lived to a good old age. The mother of Mrs. Rhone is Lucy Miller Dodson

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Acknowledgements

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