John Dixon (1717 - abt. 1767)

Born 16 Nov 1717 in Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle County, Colony of Delaware

Ancestors

Husband of Rebecca (Cox) Dixon — married 26 May 1742 in Kennett MM, Chester, Province of Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died about 1767 at about age 49 in Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle County, Colony of Delaware

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Biography

John was a Friend (Quaker)

John Dixon was a Pennsylvanian.

John Dixon was born on 16 November 1717 in Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle County, Colony of Delaware, son of Henry Dixon (about 1695–about 1742) and Ruth Jones (about 1695–about 1758)^[1][2]

His siblings were:

1. Joseph Dixon (2 October 1719 – 1 January 1770)
2. Henry Dixon (about 1720 – about 1796)
3. Solomon Dixon (about 1720 – unknown)
4. Ruth Dixon (about 1721 – unknown)
5. Dinah Dixon (1725 – unknown)
6. Samuel Dixon (about 1725 – 1 January 1804)
7. Mary Dixon (1 January 1730 – unknown)
8. Martha Dixon (about 1733 – 0 December 1763)

John (24) married Rebecca Cox (19) (born in 1722 in Hockessin, New Castle, Delaware; daughter of William Richardson Cox and Catherine (Kinkey) Cox) on 26 May 1742 in Kennett MM, Chester, Province of Pennsylvania.^[3]

Their known children were:

1. Hannah Dixon (24 February 1743 – about 1760)
2. Catherine Dixon (15 October 1744 – 1768)
3. Martha Ann Dixon (about 1745 – about 1810)
4. Henry Dixon (28 July 1746 – 31 May 1827)
5. Ruth Dixon (2 January 1749 – about 1766)
6. Joshua Dixon (9 October 1750 – 1834)
7. Rebecca Dixon (8 December 1752 – 1821)
8. Mary Dixon (5 October 1754 – 1763)
9. John Dixon (19 June 1756 – 26 July 1838)
10. Elizabeth Dixon (30 March 1758 – 1767)
11. Samuel Dixon (22 August 1760 – about 1762)
12. Martha Dixon (20 August 1763 – 1767)

John passed away in 1767 in Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle County, Colony of Delaware, aged 48.^[4]

From Hadleys of Chester County PA and New Castle County DE:
DEEDS - 29 Apr 1767 - Land late of Simon Hadley is mentioned in a mortgage between Isaac Allen of New Garden Twp., Chester Co. (PA), inn holder, 170 pounds with interest unto Rebecca Dixon, widow of John Dixon, 142 acs., in Mill Creek Hundred (DB Y1, p. 223)^[5]

BURIAL: Hockessin Friends Cemetery, Hockessin, New Castle County, Delaware, USA

Note: Newark Monthly Meeting's first minutes date from 1686, and deal with Friends Meetings in northern Delaware: Newark Union, New Castle, Centre, and later Hockessin and Wilmington. See the category page for Newark Monthly Meeting, Pennsylvania (now Delaware) for more information about Newark MM.

Sources

1. ↑ Humphrey, John T., Pennsylvania Births, Chester County, 1682-1800, Humphrey Publications, Washington, D.C., 1994, p.49
2. ↑ U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935. (Ancestry online publication). Original data: Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Births and Burials, 1706-1806; Collection: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes; Call Number: MR-Ph 275
3. ↑ Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Marriage Records, 1512-1989, database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6CYX-5GD9 : 13 January 2021), John Dixson in entry for Rebecca Cox, 1742
4. ↑ Comps., Friends Historical Library Swarthmore College and Haverford College, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes, Swarthmore and Haverford, Pennsylvania, Kennett MM Births, p.18
5. ↑ Hadleys of Chester County PA and New Castle County DE

• Page 5 Dixon, Willis Milnor. Kith and Kin. Los Angeles, Calif.: Press of White and Tyler, 1922
• Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999, database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6CTY-4YQV : 11 January 2021), John Dixon, 1717
• Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014, U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA
• Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Marriage Records, 1512-1989, database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6CYX-5GD9 : 13 January 2021), John Dixson in entry for Rebecca Cox, 1742
• FamilySearch ID LBNX-WP8 - John Dixon
• Find a Grave, memorial page for John Dixson (16 Jan 1717–1767), Find A Grave: Memorial #180122978, citing Hockessin Friends Cemetery, Hockessin, New Castle County, Delaware, USA; Maintained by L Evans (contributor 47540766)

Acknowledgments

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Thanks to A.W.Gürth for starting profile Dixon-18373
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