George Dawson and Eleanor Lowe

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Husband George Dawson ^{1 2 3 4}

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         Father: John Dawson (      -      ) 2 4 5
         Mother: Rebecca Doyne (      -      ) 2 4

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       Marriage:  - Maryland

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Wife Eleanor Lowe ²

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            AKA: Eleanor [Unk],6 Elenor [Unk] 7
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Children

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1 F Elizabeth M. Dawson ^{6 8}

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         Spouse: Col. William Swearingen (1766-      ) 9 10 11 12

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2 M Nicholas Dawson ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 3 Apr 1745 - Montgomery Co, MD 2
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           Died: 31 May 1789 - Hancock Co, VA 2
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         Spouse: Violette Littleton (1759-1842) 2 3

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General Notes: Husband - George Dawson

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He and his wife were settlers in the township of Union (later North Union), Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

He was the founder of the Dawson family in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. He was a farmer of Montgomery County, Maryland, and in 1768 settled at Bethelboro, Fayette County.

He died prior to 1785, as on December 27 of that year a tract of three hundred and twelve acres was surveyed to Eleanor, widow of George Dawson, under authority of a certificate from a surveyor in Virginia, dated March 18, 1785.

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General Notes: Wife - Eleanor Lowe

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Dec. 27, 1785, there was surveyed to Eleanor Dawson, wife of George Dawson, three hundred and twelve acres of land in North Union township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, by virtue of a certificate from the surveyor of Yohogania County, Virginia, of which the following is an exact copy:
"VIRGINIA SURVEYORS' OFFICE, YOHOGANIA COUNTY.
"Eleanor Dawson produced a certificate from the Com's for adjusting Titles and settling claims to lands in the Counties of Yohogania, Monongahela, and Ohio for four hundred acres of land in this county on the waters of Redstone to include her settlement made in the year 1770 in right of herself during her natural life; the remainder to Nicholas Dawson ex'r of George Dawson Dec'd to be distributed according to the will of s'd George.
"Jany. 21, 1780. "W. CRAWFORD, S. Y. C.
"The certf. mentioned in the within was granted by Francis Peyton, Phil. Pendleton, & Joseph Holms, Gentlemen Com'rs when sitting at Redstone Old Fort the day & year within mentioned, of which the within appears on record in my office. Given under my hand and seal this 18th day March, 1785.
"B. JOHNSON, S. Y. C."

1 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 428, 674.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 595.

3 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 157.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 796.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 327.

6 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 674.

7 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 428.

8 Editor, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Uniontown, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1900), Pg 945.

9 Editor, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 895.

10 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 907.

11 Editor, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Uniontown, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1900), Pg 748, 945.

12 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 160.