James Dixon

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Husband James Dixon ¹

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           Born:  - northern Ireland
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Children

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1 M John Dixon ¹

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           Born: Abt 1724 - Ireland
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           Died: Dec 1780 - Hanover Twp, Dauphin Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Arabella [Unk] (      -1775) 1

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General Notes: Husband - James Dixon

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He was a native of the north of Ireland, of Scotch descent, and emigrated to America about 1735. In 1738 he took up a tract of four hundred acres of land on the Swatara in the county of Lancaster, Province of Pennsylvania, at what was named and known for a century as Dixon's ford. This ford was directly back of the town of Palmyra, in Lebanon County, leading into Hanover township, and upon Smith's map of the county of Dauphin, in Pennsylvania, published in 1816, it is so marked. "A few years ago," wrote the late Hermanns Alricks, Esq., in 1873, "bridge viewers located a bridge a short distance above the fording where the banks of the creek were high, on land of Mr. Loudermilch, and now it is called Loudermilch's bridge or ford." In 1765 James Dixon obtained possession of the Graham tract on Bow creek. It is likely he died prior to the Revolution.

1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 156.