Ann (Gregg) Houghton (1670 - 1729)

Born 1670 in Ardmore, County Waterford, Ireland

Ancestors

Wife of William Dixon — married 1690 in New Castle, Delaware

Wife of John Houghton — married before 1710 in New Castle, Delaware

Descendants

Died 1729 at about age 59 in New Castle County, Delaware

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Biography

Ann was a Friend (Quaker)

Ann (Gregg) Houghton migrated from Ireland to Delaware.

Ann was the second child and only daughter of William Gregg II and his wife, Ann. Ann Gregg was born probably in County Waterford, Ireland. Based on the ages of her children alone this would have been in about 1670. She immigrated to Delaware with her parents and siblings.

Ann Gregg married William Dixon in Delaware in about 1690 and, after his death, John Houghton around 1709/10.

Ann's first marriage to William Dixon is shown as circa 1690 in The Era Magazine.^[1] Based on her last child being born in about 1715 it is unlikely that her birth was before 1670.^[2] She was widowed in 1708,^[3] so she could have married John Houghton in 1709 or 1710, as some have given the marriage year.

Not speculative, however, is which children were born to William Dixon and which to John Houghton, since John's 1720 will includes last names for his children: Mary, Martha, and Rebecca Houghton and Dinah, Ann, George, Henry, Thomas, and John Dixon.^[4]

Ann and William had the following children^[5][6]:

1. Thomas Dixon
2. Henry Dixon
3. William Dixon
4. Dinah Dixon
5. John Dixon
6. George Dixon
7. Ann Dixon

Ann and John had the following children:

1. Mary Houghton
2. John Houghton
3. Martha Houghton
4. Rebecca Houghton

Ann died in 1729^[2] in Delaware.

Research Notes

If Henry was born in 1692, he would have been an adult at the time of John Houghton's 1720 will - which did not list William. More information about William and Henry Dixon is needed to make sense of the will's listings. Especially the non-mention of John and Ann's son John Houghton.

Ann Gregg was born in County Kings, Ireland in 1670. She came to America with her father, William Gregg II, his wife, Ann or Martha, and her 3 brothers, John, George, and Richard on the ship Caledonia when she was 12 years old. As so many of our pioneer ancestors did, she married the boy next door, William Dixon or Dickson, whose father's land was next to her father's land. Ann had at least 7 children when her first husband died. She married John Houghton, and John and Ann then had three daughters: Martha, Mary, and Rebecca who was born when Ann was 45. John Houghton died in 1720 at only 54 when his daughters were 5, 8, and 10.

Sources

1. ↑ A.M.C., "Gregg-Dixon-Houghton, of Newcastle County, Delaware", The Era Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, Volume 5, Issue 11, Henry T. Coates & Co., 1898. (Copy attached)pg 331
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} The descendants of William Gregg, the Friend immigrant to Delaware, 1682 : from which nucleus disseminated nests of Greggs to Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina. (aka: Quaker Greggs) by Hazel May Middleton Kendall Publ: Anderson, Indiana 1944; page 21, https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/184154/?offset=0#page=22&viewer=picture&o=&n=0&q=
3. ↑ William Dixon's will was written January 31, 1708 and probated September 20, 1708 (according to information on his William's profile).
4. ↑ I Liz Shiflett, believe that William Dixon was not included because he had already reached his majority while the other Dixon children were not yet 21, which would require a revision of the 1695 estimate for Henry Dixon's birth.
5. ↑ Encyclopedia of American Quaker genealogy, by WIlliam Wade Hinshaw. Volume VI, page 495 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015051447657&view=1up&seq=508&skin=2021
6. ↑ Kith and kin [electronic resource] : containing genealogical data of the following families : Dixon, Andrus, Battin, Beal, Bosworth, Chapin, Converse, Copeland, Cummins, Esterly, Hanna, Hardenberg, Holloway, James, Kendall, Mast, Nichols, Shed, Stewart, Walker, Wallbridge, and other collateral lines by Dixon, Willis Milnor, Publ 1922; Page 4 https://archive.org/details/kithkincontainin00dixorich/page/n6/mode/1up?view=theater

Acknowledgments

• The WikiTree profile for Gregg-34 was created through the import of Weaver.ged on 03 January 2011.