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Fair enough, Ed. I thought the paper you presented seemed well-researched with its sources stated.
The reason John Dobson's age is relevant to the question of whether Andreas Killian's daughter was his wife is because of the argument that Catherine/Katrina was some years older than John was, and therefore less likely to have been his wife. This argument proceeds from a false premise, that the estimate of 1750 for a birth year for John is a reasonable one.
In my post to you I should have mentioned another piece of evidence bearing on John Dobson's birth year:
Crown Patent Book 23 – “6456 pg. 199 JOHN DOBSON 28 April 1768 200 acres in Mecklenburgh on both sides of Henry Widners fork of the S. fork of Catawba river”
(Source: Colony of North Carolina 1765-1775, Abstracts of Land Patents Volume Two, by Margaret M. Hofmann at p. 485)
Another reference to John Dobson at: Crown Patent Book 20 “1557 pg 431 Nicholas Beck 4 May 1769 200 acres in Tryon on both sides of Henrys river – including the mouth of a small branch and (being) about a mile above JOHN DOBSON, joining the side of a small branch and the side of a hill.” (Ibid. at p. 120)
Based on the location given, I believe this can only be Capt. John Dobson, the son of Dr. Joseph Dobson. Henry Widners fork is, I believe, the same as is now known as Henry’s river or Henry’s fork of the South Fork of the Catawba river, and flows from what is now Burke County into what is now Catawba County where it joins the South Fork of the Catawba river.
At some point in the following several years John moved north across the Catawba river, as land entries in 1778-79 show him entering land on Irish Creek in Burke County.
I understand a male had to be at least 21 years old in order to obtain a grant of land. Also, we know the issuance of a patent was not an instantaneous process, and the process likely took some time to complete.
This is additional evidence putting John Dobson’s birth year at some time before 1747 at the latest.
Regards,
S.C. Connor
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