**WILLIAM DAWSON

__________________________________________________________ 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. __________________________________________________________ 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 __________________________________________________________ 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) __________________________________________________________ Early Land Records of Pleasant Township 25 Range 7 Grant County Indiana Date Name Section # of Acres 4 Apr 1831 Wm. Dawson 25 80 __________________________________________________________ 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) __________________________________________________________ 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 __________________________________________________________ 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.) __________________________________________________________