Tillman Dixon (1750 - 1816)

Born 26 Jun 1750 in Caswell, North Carolina [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Carlos) Dixon — married 16 Nov 1789 in Saint Andrews Parish, Brunswick, Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died 2 Apr 1816 at age 65 in Dixon Springs, Smith, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Tillman was born in 1750, either Dinwiddie County, Virginia before his parents moved to North Carolina, or as the DAR reference notes, he was born in Caswell County, North Carolina. See Research note. ^[1][2]

His biography^[3] notes he was born in Caswell Co NC, the son Henry Dixon Sr and Elizabeth Abernathy from Prince George Co Virginia [the part that is now Dinwiddie Co]. The Henry Dixon family migrated to Caswell Co NC sometime before the Revolutionary War. Dates have not been established. [1]^[3]

Tilman was a Capt in Revolutionary War from the NC Regiment. Listed as "Tilghman Dixon," NC lst Lt, lst NC, Oct 10, 1885. Capt, Feb 5, 1777, taken prisoner at Charleston, May 12,1780, exchanged June 14, 1781, retired Jan 1 1783 [2] He is the brother of war hero Lt Col Henry “Hal” Dixon.^[3]

Tilman married Mary Carlos 16 Nov 1789 in Sussex Co VA. "Mary Carlos" is identified as the daughter of "Archilaus Carlos," Robert Booth Security and witness.^[4] Records in Virginia show several deeds where Archelaus and Henry Dixon were witnesses, indicating the families had links and both related to the Wynn family.^[3]

He died at his home place "Dixona" in Smith County, Tennessee. Dixon bible entry for Tilman Dixon reads: "Died at his residence at Dixon Springs, Tenn on 2nd of April a.d.1816, at 10 minutes after 10 o'clock A.M. Major Tilman Dixon in the sixty sixth year of his age." [3] He is buried in the family cemetery at "Dixona." Photos on line [1]^[3]

Notes^[5]

• Capt IN Revolutionary War
• Owned Over 6,000 Acres & 80 Slaves

Will

Will of Tilman (sic) Dixon. Smith Co., TN, WB 1-5 (1805-1833) (Tilman Dixon’s will appears to be in WB 2), pp. 208-212, w. 26 Oct (1810? 1816?), p. May Term 1816. Digital image at Ancestry.com - https://ancstry.me/2JwS3R5

son Americus V. Dixon
son Don Carolus (sic) Dixon
daughter Polley Greenway Overton
daughter Eliza Henry Dixon; he also wants Eliza to be kept in school in Lexington, KY Robert (Courum?) (no relationship given)
Exr: George Matlock, Robert Allen, Archibald W. Overton, Don Carolus Dixon
Wit: Wm Allen, H Brooks, S Anthony, Wilson Cage

Research Note

Tilman's father, Henry Dixon (Dickson) is first recorded in Prince George Co, Virginia in 1745 when he was granted land patents for 233 acres and 931 acres on the north and south sides of Sappony Creek in what is present-day Dinwiddie Co. Tilman, born in 1750 was later to marry Mary Carlos, whose family lived on Sappony Creek on the border of Dinwiddie and Sussex Counties. Mary's grandparents, the Carters, owned land adjacent to this "Henry Dixon" which points to a Prince George county origin for this generation of the Dixon family. ^[6][7]

The oft-quoted reference to the Carlos/DonCarlos-Tilman Dixon marriage from Boddie’s Southside Virginia Families has numerous errors. Regarding marriage information: while there was a Rev. Thomas Lundie at St Andrews Parish in 1789, there is no record of a marriage between Mary and Tilman; St. Andrews Parish is in Brunswick not Sussex Co. While the Sussex Co Register of Marriages does not identify the parish, Albemarle Parish was the one serving Sussex are at that time, and where Mary's brother, William Carter Carlos married a few years later. [Southside Virginia Families, Vol. I., by John Bennett Boddie, page 173.]

Disputed Origin

A previous version of this profile, without source, identified him as the son of Charles Williams and Elizabeth Abernathy.

Sources

1. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed Dec. 23, 2016), "Record of Capt Tilman Dixon", Ancestor # A032593.
2. ↑ merged profiles had same birth date and death information but disagreed on birth location, with one showing Dinwiddie, Virginia
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4} Unknown what "biography" is being referenced, or what the footnotes in the text - apparently from said biography - might be. It also seems that this text was copied from this unknown biography.
4. ↑ Sussex, Virginia, Marriage Register 1754-1853 p.57. image 237 of 518. Film 007579169, FamilySearch, (accessed 25 April 2021), Digital image at -https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9XF-2DVH?i=236
5. ↑ Smith CO TN Will Book 1803-1825, P. 188-192 (Wingfield Family 13.FTW)
6. ↑ Secretary of the Colony of Virginia serving as the colonial Land Office, Prince George County. Land Office Patents No 24, 1745-1746, p.189-191 (Reel 22). Library of Virginia database. Digital image at-https://lva.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma990007469870205756&context=L&vid=01LVA_INST:01LVA&lang=en&search_scope=MyInstitution_noAER&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=LibraryCatalog&query=any,contains,dickson&sortby=title&facet=creator,include,Virginia%20Colonial%20Land%20Office&facet=creator,include,Dickson%20Henry&offset=0
7. ↑ Secretary of the Colony of Virginia serving as the colonial Land Office, Prince George County. Land Office Patents No. 22, 1743-1745 (v.1 & 2 p.1-631), p. 532-533 (Reel 20). Library of Virginia database. Digital image at- http://image.lva.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/drawer?retrieve_image=LONN&dir=/LONN/LO-1/020/020&image_number=0548&offset=%2B16&name=Patents+No.22+1743-1745+(VOL.1+%26+VOL.2)&dbl_pgs=no&round

• Ancestry Family Trees (Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members).
• Source: S1211361527 Repository: #R1200515334 Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=110251552&pid=196
• Repository: R1200515334 Ancestry.com
• Will of Henry Dixon. Caswell Co., NC, Original Wills, w. 4 Aug 1795, p. - no date shown, recorded Book C, folio 135. Digital image at Ancestry.com - https://ancstry.me/2LjydKS
• https://www.angelfire.com/nc/HenryDixon/tilman.html
• Heitman, Francis Bernard, Historical Register of Officers of the Cont Army, National Capital Press, Wash DC, 1914, p198. FamilySearch.
• Dixon Family Bible. Don Carlos, James Robert and Elizabeth Smailer Don Carlos, The Don Carlos Family, 1979, following p. 4 (not numbered). The authors note there is a Xerox copy of the bible in the Nashville Archives. Other source: The Dixon Family Bible is on record in the Virkus Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy Vol I, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1968; and the NC Society of the Cincinnati. The bible quote is also found in Boddie, p. 173.
• Source: Unidentified Ancestry.com trees.

Acknowledgments

• Margaret Moyer created the WikiTree profile Tilghman-92 through the import of mmcook3.ged on May 24, 2013.
• Cheryl Glass created the WikiTree profile Dixon-3408 through the import of J B Glass _ Florence Geneva Le.ged on Dec 9, 2013.