Dawson, **William – Genealogy of Stacy Smith Cox

**WILLIAM DAWSON
b: 24 DEC 1797
d: 10 SEP 1844

Biography

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William's family is enumerated in the 1820 Fayette Co., Indiana Census (Brownsville Twp page 32) as:
~ 1 white male under age 10
~ 1 white male age 16-26
~ 1 white female age 16-26
(NOTE: Enumerated before William is his father Thomas Dawson and his brother Thomas Jr. Dawson and enumerated right after William is his brother Asa Dawson.
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William's family is enumerated in the 1830 Shelby Co., IN Federal Census (Addison Twp.) as:
~ 2 Males under 5 (Nathan and John ?)
~ 2 Males 5-10 (Garrison and William Jr.)
~ 2 Males 10-15 (Thomas and ?)
~ 1 Male 30-40
~ 1 Female under 5
~ 1 Female 30-40
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Bureau Of Land Management - General Land Office Records (Online)
Accession/Serial #: IN0470__.362
BLM Serial #: IN NO S/N
State: INDIANA
Patentee Name: WILLIAM DAWSON
Document #: 6672
Issue Date: July 10, 1826
Cancelled: No
Authority: April 24, 1820: SALE-CASH ENTRY (3 Stat. 566)
Acres: 80
Land Office: INDIANAPOLIS
Legal Land Description: E?NW 11/ 12-N 6-E No 2nd PM IN SHELBY
(NOTE: The document image of this land record shows that William is of Shelby County, Indiana)
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Early Land Records of Pleasant Township 25 Range 7
Grant County Indiana
Date Name Section # of Acres
4 Apr 1831 Wm. Dawson 25 80
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Bureau Of Land Management - General Land Office Records (Online)
Accession/Serial #: IN1430__.043
BLM Serial #: IN NO S/N
State: INDIANA
Patentee Name: WILLIAM DAWSON
Document #: 583
Issue Date: August 2, 1831
Cancelled: No
Authority: April 24, 1820: SALE-CASH ENTRY (3 Stat. 566)
Acres: 80
Land Office: FORT WAYNE
Legal Land Description: W?NW 25/ 25-N 7-E No 2nd PM IN GRANT
(NOTE: The document image of this land record shows that William is of Shelby County, Indiana)
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It appears that though William lived for a time in Shelby Co., Indiana, he moved back to Fayette Co. between 1831 and 1840 as he and the family are found living there in Waterloo Township in the 1840 Census. Enumerated just a few households before William is Thomas Simpson and William Simpson who are likely Tabitha Simpson Dawson's brothers. William Dawson's family is enumerated as follows:
~ 1 white male age 5-10
~ 1 white male age 10-15
~ 3 white males age 15-20
~ 1 white male age 20-30
~ 1 white male age 50-60
~ 1 white female age 0-5
~ 1 white female age 5-10
~ 1 white female age 10-15
~ 1 white female age 40-50
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Sheila Watson's Grant Co., Indiana Tombstone's Inscriptions
Grant Co., Indiana Website at RootsWeb

Whiteneck Cemetery
Dawson, Wm. Sr. died Sept. 10, 1844 aged 46y.8m.17d. (Found a footstone with the initials W.D.)
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Facts

24 DEC 1797 - Birth - ; NC or VA
10 SEP 1844 - Death - ; Grant Co., IN

Ancestors

		**THOMAS Sr. DAWSON BET 1730 AND 1740 - AFT 1830

	**THOMAS Jr. DAWSON BET 1775 AND 1780 - AFT 1830

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**WILLIAM DAWSON 24 DEC 1797 - 10 SEP 1844

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	**ELIZABETH ? BET 1775 AND 1780 - AFT 1830

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Family Group Sheet - Child

PARENT (M) **THOMAS Jr. DAWSON
	Birth	BET 1775 AND 1780
	Death	AFT 1830	Union Co. or Fayette Co., IN
	Marriage		to **ELIZABETH ?
	Father	**THOMAS Sr. DAWSON
	Mother	?
PARENT (F) **ELIZABETH ?
	Birth	BET 1775 AND 1780
	Death	AFT 1830	Union Co. or Fayette Co., IN
	Marriage		to **THOMAS Jr. DAWSON
	Father	?
	Mother	?
CHILDREN
M	**WILLIAM DAWSON
	Birth	24 DEC 1797	NC or VA
	Death	10 SEP 1844	Grant Co., IN
	Marriage	26 MAR 1818	to **TOBITHA SIMPSON at Franklin Co., IN
M	Garrison Dawson
	Birth	AUG 1800	?
	Death	18 SEP 1827	Fayette Co, IN
	Marriage	ABT 1818	to Rebecca ?
M	Thomas Dawson
	Birth
	Death
	Marriage	18 FEB 1820	to Rebecca Michel at Fayette Co, IN
F	Elizabeth Dawson
	Birth	ABT 1801	Virginia
	Death
	Marriage	12 DEC 1816	to Alexander Reed at Franklin Co., IN
	Marriage	2 DEC 1819	to William Dungan at Fayette Co, IN
F	Mary\Polly Dawson
	Birth	ABT 1795	Kentucky
	Death	AFT 1860
	Marriage	3 SEP 1816	to Ephraim Miers\Myers at Franklin Co., IN
M	Asa Dawson
	Birth	BET 1794 AND 1804	North Carolina
	Death	BET 1841 AND 1850	Fayette Co, IN
	Marriage	5 JAN 1826	to Elizabeth "Betsey" Smith at Fayette Co, IN
	Marriage	25 DEC 1817	to Polly Hubbell at Wayne Co., IN