PIONEER DIXON FAMILY


1.  CURTIS DIXON, (son of ROBERT and ESTHER (---) DIXON) was born 12 Oct 1752
at Coventry, Kent Co RI.  He was a Revolutionary veteran, and arrived in 
Jefferson County in 1820 in that part of the Town of Brownville which later 
became the Town of Orleans.  He died 22 Feb 1835, but his burial place is
unknown.

He married 4 Mar 1776 in Oxford Township, MA

LYDIA WIGHT, (daughter of LEVI and SUSANNAH (BARSTOW) WIGHT) who was born
17 Oct 1754 in Killingley, CT.  She died 22 Jun 1843 at the home of her 
daughter SALLY PERCY in the Town of Clayton, Jefferson County.

Children, DIXON:

+    2    i      ROBERT B. DIXON married SALLY HOOPER

     3   ii      LEVI DIXON

     4  iii      LYDIA DIXON

     5   iv      ESTHER DIXON married ELLAHU HYDE

+    6    v      JEREMIAH DIXON married (1) ELIZABETH SYLVESTER, (2) SARAH
                 KINYON

     7   vi      NANCY DIXON married JOSEPH OLNEY

+    8  vii      SUSANNAH DIXON married (1) JACOB LAW, (2) DANIEL HAYES

     9 viii      JOHN DIXON d.y.

    10   ix      JOHN DIXON d.y.

    11    x      ACHSA DIXON d.y.

+   12   xi      SARAH/SALLY DIXON married (1) WILLIAM BORDUE, 
                                           (2) SAMUEL PERCY

    13  xii      MARY/POLLY DIXON married GEORGE MITCHELL



2.  ROBERT B. DIXON, (son of CURTIS and LYDIA (WIGHT) DIXON) was born 
14 Oct 1776 at Dudley, MA.  He was a veteran of the War of 1812.  He died 
19 Mar 1858 at the home of his son RICHARD HARRISON DIXON in South Bend, 
St. Joseph County IN and buried at South Bend.

He married c1804 Town of Palatine, Herkimer County NY

SALLY HOOPER, (daughter of DAVID and DEBORAH (TAFT) HOOPER) who was born 
29 Sep 1780 at Killingley, CT.  She died 1 Aug 1837 near Stone Mills, 
Town of Orleans, Jefferson County NY and buried in the Stone Mills Cemetery, 
Stone Mills, Town of Orleans.

Children, DIXON:

   14    i      HANNIBAL DIXON married LOIS (GREENLEAF) COMMINGS
                        who had a daughter ACHSA who married
                        IRA C. SYLVESTER.

   15   ii      HUFFMAN DIXON married HARRIET JOHNSON

   16  iii      RICHARD HARRISON DIXON married ADALINE OLIVER

   17   iv      ROBERT B. DIXON Jr married NANCY SMITH
                 (Note:Among their children were IRENE and RACHEL  
                 who each married sons of ALBERT BAMFORD.)  

   18    v      SALLIE ANN DIXON married DANIEL SMITH

   19   vi      CURTIS KENT DIXON married ELIZABETH ESTES

   20  vii      DAVID H. DIXON married ALMIRA COLLINS

   21 viii      JOHN DIXON



6.  JEREMIAH DIXON (son of CURTIS and LYDIA (WIGHT) DIXON) was born 25 Feb 1782
at Dudley, MA.  He died in the Town of Orleans 17 Sep 1853 and was buried in
Grove Cemetery, LaFargeville.

He married (1) 1805 in the Town of Denmark, Lewis County, NY

ELIZABETH SYLVESTER, (daughter of NATHANIEL and SARAH (BARTLETT) SYLVESTER of
Deer River, Lewis County NY) born 28 May 1785 Chesterfield, Hampshire County MA. 
She was the mother of all his children.

He married (2) in the fall of 1843

SARAH KINYON.

Children, DIXON:

   22    i      SYLVESTER NATHANIEL DIXON (author of the Dixon genealogy)
                married DIMMIS DICKINSON GREENLEAF

   23   ii      THEODOTIA DIXON married JAMES A. WRIGHT

   24  iii      MARY LEONARD DIXON married HARRY SLOAT
                     They had a son JAMES WRIGHT SLOAT who
                     married EMMA C. KANE

   25   iv      AMBROSE MALCOLM DIXON married ANN PARCH

   26    v      ELIZA DIXON d.y.



8.  SUSANNAH DIXON (daughter of CURTIS and LYDIA (WIGHT) DIXON) was born in 
1786. She died in the Town of Clayton, Jefferson County 28 May 1847.

She married (1)

JACOB LAW.  No issue.

She married (2)

DANIEL HAYES who was born in NH c1777.

Children, HAYES:

   27    i      LYDIA ANN HAYES married EDWIN MARTIN WINSLOW

   28   ii      J. D. HAYES

   29  iii      a son



12. SARAH/SALLY DIXON (daughter of CURTIS and LYDIA (WIGHT) DIXON) was born in
1794.  She died in the 1860s.

She married (1) 

WILLIAM BORDUE/BORDEAU with whom she had one child:

Child, BORDEAU:

   30    i      WILLIAM BORDEAU married (1) (---), (2) DIANTHA (---)

SARAH/SALLY DIXON married (2) SAMUEL PERCY, born in Ireland c1794, who lived in
the Town of Clayton.





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