William Kinchen II (1725 - abt. 1758)

Born 1725 in North Carolina

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Col. Wm. William's eldest child

1. Samuel was born 1753; his father Samuel died and in his will made a special bequeath to his grandson Sam'l at that time his only grand-child.

This grand-son Sam'l md. the daughter of Col. John Dawson to-wit, Charity Alston Dawson. Col. John Dawson died in Northampton county, N. C., in 1761; he was Justice of the Peace in 1739 for Bertie county, He left large estates to his son

1. Henry
   and bequests to his daughter
2. Mary who md. Wm. Kinchen. These children were the offspring of a former marriage his 1st wife was probablv named Mary.
   

Henry Dawson was member of the Assembly from Northampton in Nov., 1766 and died in 1770. His oldest son was

1. John,
2. Henry,
3. Stephen,
4. Mary and
5. Martha,

and wife Patience survived him. :Doubtless he had 'other children who died before he executed his will. Among them may have been

1. Patience (named for his wife) and others.

John Dawson, of Edgecombe, will executed 1749, wife Mary, this John md. 2nd Charity Alston and mentions in his will her offspring as his young children. This John Dawson could not have been of Gov. Dobb's Council, and did not marry Penelope Johnson. His wife also bore him a son John who md. Atherton, and represented Northampton in Legislature 1780, 1 and 2, and Halifax 1787-90. William Johnston Dawson represented Bertie in 1791, where doubtless his father John lived and died in 1770 and had been member of Gov. Dobb's Council. John Dawson's wife Charity died in Northampton, 1764. She makes special bequests to her brother Solomon Alston, and sister Elizabeth Williams. Mentions nephews and nieces and her true and trusty friends Thos. Kearney and Wm. Williams, Exrs. Among the witnesses to the will was James, Josey and Marv Granberry, (the latter evidently the 2nd wife of Col. Nath'l Allen, and grand-mother of the Hon. Allen Granberry Thurman, deceased, of Ohio.) There was an Klisha Williams wko md. Sarah Josey and had children (among others) William and Elisha.
Mr. W. Wm. Kinchen was one of the Church Wardens of Isle of Wight Co., Vs., July 13, 1724. (So writes Dr. Jos. A. Groves).
He also writes that John Dawson was the brother-in-law of Barnaby Thomas died 1735 and wife named Mary. Jeptha Atherton's will executed in Northampton Co., 1787, states that he had bought land from Barnaba Thomas where the Court House now stands.

Sources

• Hathaway, James Robert Bent, editor. The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 2.
• Boddie, John Bennett. Seventeenth Century, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, pp. 230 - 232. amb, 3 June 2017
• Genealogies of Virginia Families from the William and Mary College Quarterly. Vol. V. Thompson-Yates. Section: Notes on the Family of Edward Walton and Some of Its Connections. Ancestry interactive; (page 355; image 365 of 1022). Accessed by amb 21:37, 19 December 2018 (UTC).

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