Nicholas Dawson and Violette Littleton

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Husband Nicholas Dawson ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 3 Apr 1745 - Montgomery Co, MD 3
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           Died: 31 May 1789 - Hancock Co, VA 3
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         Father: George Dawson (      -Bef 1785) 1 2 3 4
         Mother: Eleanor Lowe (      -      ) 3

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Wife Violette Littleton ^{2 3}

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           Born: 30 Jan 1759 - near Bull Run, Prince William Co, VA 3
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           Died: 19 Sep 1842 - Springfield, Clark Co, OH 3
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Children

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1 F Eleanor Dawson ³

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         Spouse: William Moore (      -      ) 3

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2 M George Dawson ^{1 3 5 6}

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           Died: Bef 1882 - Brownsville, Fayette Co, PA
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         Spouse: Mary Kennedy (      -      ) 5 6

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3 F Nancy Dawson ³

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         Spouse: Micajah Phillips (      -      ) 3

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4 M Judge John Dawson ^{5 7}

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           Born: 13 Jul 1788 - near Georgetown, Hancock Co, VA 2 3
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           Died: 16 Jan 1875 - Uniontown, Fayette Co, PA 2 3
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         Spouse: Ann Gregg Baily (1799-1859) 8
           Marr: 1820 8

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General Notes: Husband - Nicholas Dawson

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His parents were settlers in the township of Union (later North Union), Fayette County, Pennsylvania. He removed to Kentucky, where his son George was reared to manhood. [HFC 1882, 428]

He removed to the Virginia Pan Handle and died there.

Nicholas Dawson (whose home was in what is now North Union township, Fayette Co.) was one of the volunteers under Crawford. In the disorder of the night of the 5th of June he became separated from his command and wandered away, with nothing to guide him in the right direction. While attempting thus to make his way alone he was met by James Workman and another straggler, who saw that he was heading towards Sandusky, and consequently running directly into danger instead of escaping from it. They tried to convince him that he was wrong, but he obstinately insisted that he was not. Finding it impossible to persuade him to change his course, they at last told him that as he would certainly be taken by the Indians if he kept on, and as it was better for him to die by the hands of white men than to be tortured by savages, they were determined to shoot him then and there unless he consented to turn his course and go with them. This was an unanswerable argument, and Dawson finally yielded to it, though with a very bad grace. He changed his route, joined company with the two men, and so succeeded in making his escape, and arrived in safety at his home beyond the Monongahela. [HFC 1882, 109]

He was with Washington in the Indian warfare of 1764 and served under him in the revolution. He was with Colonel Crawford on his last expedition and narrowly escaped capture. In 1783 he removed to the "Pan Handle" of Virginia, now West Virginia.
He and his wife were members of the Church of England (Episcopal).

He was born near the site of Washington, D. C., and came with his father to near the site of Youngstown coke works, in 1768, and settled there. They were planters and brought their slaves with them. He removed to the "Pan Handle" of West Virginia.

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General Notes: Wife - Violette Littleton

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from Fairfax Co, VA

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

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

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

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 M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 158.

6 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 7.

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

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 596.