John Dodson Sr. (abt. 1687 - abt. 1784)

Born about 1687 in Richmond, Henrico, Virginia, British Colonial America [uncertain]

Husband of Elizabeth (Goad) Dodson — married about 1724 in Virginia

Descendants

Died about 1784 at about age 97 in Shenandoah, Virginia, United States

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Biography

John Dodson was born in the early 1700's in Richmond County, Virginia. John was the son of Charles Dodson Sr. and Anne Unknown.

John was named in the will of his father, Charles Dodson Sr., as follows: ". . . Fifthly. I give and bequeath to my son John Dodson two hundred acres of Land it being part of hickory neck and of Indian Cabin neck binding upon his borther William Dodson to him and the male heires Lawfully begotten of his owne body and if the abovesd John Dodson should die without any male heire that then the Land Returne to the next of the Dodson . . ." ^[1]

John married about 1724, Elizabeth Goad, daughter of Abraham Goad and Katherine Williams of Richmond County, Virginia.^[2]

John's son Charles Dodson was about the age of eleven when the ". . . Churchwardens of North Farnham Parish ordered that he and his brother, Moses, be bound out. The reason is not stated. . . "^[3]

John moved his family from Richmond County, Virginia sometime before 1741, ". . . when the Rev. John Craig baptized his daughter Elizabeth . . ."^[4]

John was in Augusta County, Virginia by September 1756, when he patented 400 acres. John willed this land to his son Peter.^[5]

John made his will on the 16th of November 1779, in Shenandoah County, Virginia. John's will left the following: " to wife Elizabeth, all my personal estate during her life, at her death what remains of personal estate to son Peter Dodson . . . to son Peter Dodson, all my land and plantation whereon I now live containing 400 acres on the drains of Stony Creek, and said wife Elizabeth shall have her living and maintenance out of my said plantation during her life . . . to son Charles Dodson, the sum of 5 pounds current money in retalliation of the land to which he might have had a rsight and I do hereby utterly debar my son Charles Dotson his heirs from holding and possessing any part of my land forever . . . to daughter Elizabeth, married to John Coile [Kyle] and daughter Ann, married to Michael Callender, the sum of 30 shillings . . . Executor: son Peter Dodson . . . to be sole executor . . . Wits: Jacob Rinker, Jr., George Rinker, Henry Rinker . . ."^[6]

John and Elizabeth were the parents of the following known children: Martha Ann Dodson, born 7th November 1725, Richmond County, Virginia; Charles Dodson, born 28th August 1726, Richmond County, Virginia; Moses Dodson, born 12th January 1729, Richmond County, Virginia and deceased before 1779; John Dodson Jr., born 12th August 1731 Richmond County, Virginia, and died 27th May 1734, Richmond County, Virginia; Peter Dodson, born 22nd May 1735, Richmond County, Virginia;^[7] and Elizabeth Dodson, born about or before 1741 in Augusta County, Virginia.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ page 1437, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants Volume Two by Mrs. Sherman Williams, Compiler and Editor and The Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr., Publisher, Southern Historical Press, Inc., Easley, South Carolina, copyright 1988
2. ↑ page 7, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants Volume One by Mrs. Sherman Williams, Compiler and Editor and The Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr., Publisher, Southern Historical Press, Inc., Easley, South Carolina, copyright 1988
3. ↑ Richmond County, Virginia Order Book 10, page 521; and page 23, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants Volume One by Mrs. Sherman Williams, Compiler and Editor and The Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr., Publisher, Southern Historical Press, Inc., Easley, South Carolina, copyright 1988
4. ↑ page 6, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants Volume One by Mrs. Sherman Williams, Compiler and Editor and The Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr., Publisher, Southern Historical Press, Inc., Easley, South Carolina, copyright 1988
5. ↑ Virginia Land Grants: Northern Neck Grants, Fairfax tract; also: page 7, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants Volume One by Mrs. Sherman Williams, Compiler and Editor and The Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr., Publisher, Southern Historical Press, Inc., Easley, South Carolina, copyright 1988
6. ↑ Shenandoah County, Virginia Will Book B, page 107, and page 1447, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants Volume Two by Mrs. Sherman Williams, Compiler and Editor and The Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr., Publisher, Southern Historical Press, Inc., Easley, South Carolina, copyright 1988
7. ↑ The births of the first five children of John and Elizabeth and the death of son John Dodson Jr. are recorded in the parish register of North Farnham Parish on Pages 48 and 49, The Registers of North Farnham Parish 1663-1814 and Lunenburg Parish 1783-1800 Richmond County Virginia, Compiled and Published by George Harrison Sanford King, Fellow, American Society of Genealogists, Fredericksburg, Virginia, published by: Southern Historical Press, Inc., Easley, South Carolina, copyright 1966 by George Harrison Sanford King, transferred in 1986 to Southern Historical Press, Inc.
8. ↑ Names of all six of John and Elizabeth's children are found on pages 7 and 8, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants Volume One by Mrs. Sherman Williams, Compiler and Editor and The Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr., Publisher, Southern Historical Press, Inc., Easley, South Carolina, copyright 1988

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