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Preferred Citation:
John Dixon Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Acquisition Information:
Purchase of 25 items in 1/1928; gift of 580 items by George P. Coleman in 1938; gift of 1 item by Berna Heyman in 3/1976;
and gift of 4 items of Miss Caroline Anderson on 2/24/1987.
John Dixon Jr. was born in 1778 and died September 5, 1830. He married Sally (Sarah) Throckmorton, the daughter of Warner
and Julia Throckmorton, in 1795. They had three children: Dr. John Dixon(1812- 1835), Isabella S. Burwell, Harriet Peyton.
Dixon remarried Mary T. (?). There was one child from this union Mary E. Dixon.
Family History
John Dixon Jr.'s father was John Dixon (d.1788). He married Elizabeth Peyton, daughter of Sir John Peyton of Isleham, Gloucester
County, on February 6, 1773. They had four children: John, Lucy, Seigniora, and Betsy.
John Dixon Jr.'s grandfather was the Rev. John Dixon(d.1777). He married Lucy (?). They had five children: John, William,
Thomas, Lucy, Elizabeth
John Dixon Jr.'s great grandfather, John Dixon (d.1758) came to Virginia from Bristol, England in the eighteenth century.
He married Lucy Reade(1701-1731), daughter of Mr. Thomas Reade of Gloucester. They had three children: Rev. John Dixon, Roger
Dixon, and Thomas Dixon. After the death of his first wife, he remarried Ann (?), of King William County. They had four children:
Cornelious, Lyonell, Robert, and Susannah Ann. All the male children from this second union died unmarried.
Additional family and genealogical information can be found in the first folder of the first box of the John Dixon Papers,
Collection number: Mss. 39.1 D64. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special
Collections Research Center Wiki: .
The John Dixon Papers include letters, legal papers, farm and personal accounts, 1760-1829 of John Dixon, Jr. (1777-1830)
of "Airville" Gloucester County, Virginia.
Letters include those from Charles H. Braxton of "Oak Spring," Burwell Bassett of Williamsburg, Richard Jones, John Nicholson,
John Peyton, and James and Samuel Stubbs of Gloucester County. The collection also includes a letter, 22 October 1827, of
Burwell Bassett and a letter, 1826, of John Mercer Patton (1796-1858). These papers contain references to the Whiting family
of Williamsburg, Virginia.
Papers relate to settlements of estates which John Dixon administered, while early material include copies of the wills of
his great-grandfather John Dixon of Bistol, England, his father John Dixon (d. 1788) of Gloucester County, Virginia, and the
settlement of the estate of his mother Elizabeth Peyton Dixon.
Sm. Coll. Add. 24:
Copies of a 1729 land patent, the 1766 will of Roger Dixon and two genealogies of the family.
These papers have been organized into six series: 1. Family Papers; 2. Letters Written to John Dixon Jr.; 3. Legal Papers
of John Dixon Jr.; 4. Other Papers of John Dixon; 5. Business Papers of John Dixon Jr.; 6. Sm. Coll. Add. 24.
1 item. Item concerns the transference of M. Dixon's interest in John Gwyn's estate.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id160116
Power of Attorney given by Benjamin N. Robinson
1807
Scope and Contents
1 item. This item concerns the authorization of Morgan Tomkies to sell slaves.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id160117
Land papers
1815
Scope and Contents
2 items. Items include a deed given by Warner and Thomas Throcknorton to John Dixon covering a mill dam and a tract of land
in Gloucester County, Virginia; and a copy of a court order granting John Dixon permission to erect a mill.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id160118
Suit in Williamsburg Chancery Court
1826
Scope and Contents
1 item. Kennon and Tomasia Whiting vs. William S. Thornton, administrator of Meaux Thornton et als.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id160119
Power of attorney given by John Dixon
1828
Scope and Contents
6 items. Items authorize William C. Minor to settle and adjust claims against various persons, and include papers concerning
these claims.
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