Lucretia (Pettit) Dixon (abt. 1790 - aft. 1860)

Born about 1790 in Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Wife of Nathan Matthew Dixon — married 13 Mar 1814 in Columbiana County, Ohio

Descendants

Died after 1860 after about age 70 in Ohio, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Lucretia was a Friend (Quaker)

Lucretia was born about 1790. In 1792, her family joined the Sadsbury Monthly Meeting in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.^[1] In 1810, she and her family moved to Columbiana County, Ohio.^[2] She married Nathan Dixon there on March 13, 1814.^[3] In 1850, she and husband Nathan were living in Hanover Township, Columbiana County, along with three of their adult children.^[4] By 1860, they were living in Blanchard Township, Hardin County, Ohio.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, Pennsylvania, Sadsbury Monthly Meeting (4/18/1792, membership requested; 7/10/1792, request granted).
2. ↑ U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, Pennsylvania, Sadsbury Monthly Meeting (4/3/1810, removal certificate requested; 6/5/1810, request granted); U.S., Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. IV, p. 651 (7/14/1810, Lucretia received at Middleton Monthly Meeting). Lucretia was granted a certificate separate from her family, presumably because she was no longer a minor.
3. ↑ "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XDLF-RQF : 26 August 2019), Nathan Dixen and Lucretia Pettet, 29 Mar 1814; citing Marriage, Columbiana, Ohio, United States, V 1 P 168, Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm. It appears that Lucretia and Nathan were married by a justice of the peace, presumably leading to their being condemned for marriage contrary to discipline by the Middleton Monthly Meeting on June 9, 1814 (U.S., Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. IV, pp. 620, 651).
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXSY-Y1F : 12 April 2016), Lucretia Dixon in household of Nathan Dixon, Hanover, Columbiana, Ohio, United States; citing family 309, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC2B-5MM : 13 December 2017), Lucretia Dixon in entry for Nathan Dixon, Blanchard Township, Hardin, Ohio, United States.