Anthony Houstown, Willson & Dixon, New Castle, Delaware
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In reply to:
Anthony Houstown's neighbors in New Castle, Delaware
Shirley Walsh 4/23/07
William Dixon was son of Henry and Rose Dixon from County Armagh, Ireland.
c.1660s (?) the Dixons had migrated from (...................... ?) Scotland to Ireland
due to the religious persecutions in Scotland under the Scotch king. While in Ireland they had been members of the Lurgan Meeting of the Society of Friends.
(Presbytery of Laggan records ?) At least a part of the Dixon family came to Delaware from northern Ireland in the 1680s.
One source stated that Henry Dixon was an innkeeper (Red Lion ?) at New Castle,
but it has been difficult to find any record substantiating the fact that either Henry or Rose Dixon ever came to Delaware. It does appear that three of their children, William, Dinah, and Rose, settled in New Castle County and were a part of the Newark Meeting of the Society of Friends.
William Dixon was bc.1662 in the Parish of Sego, (Seago ?) Co Armagh, Ireland.
He m. 4 May 1683 Isabelle Rea, also from Parish of Sego, Co Armagh, Ireland.Among those who signed the marriage certificate were Henry Dixon, Rose Dixon, Thomas Harlan, and Isabelle Logan.
Isabelle (Rea) Dixon probably did not live to come to Delaware.
William Dixon m.2ndly by c.1690 Ann Gregg, dau of William Gregg.
The Greggs seem to have come from Ireland, but had a Scottish background.
In 1685 William Gregg acquired a tract of 400 acres of land in Christiana Hundred, New Castle County in the area of Delaware that, in more recent times, has become the center of the du Pont powdermaking industry.
William Dixon attended Centre Meeting in Delaware following his marriage to Ann Gregg. Several of their children seem to have moved west to Mill Creek Hundred and became the founding members of Hockessin Meeting.William was a weaver by trade and settled on Red Clay Creek, in Christiana Hundred, New Castle County.
William Dixon made a will Jan 31, 1708, probated Sep 20, 1708.
(This William Dixon was not then, the surviving executor of the will of Anthony Houston c.1724.Was he a surviving executor of the will of Wm Houston ? )
He mentions his wife Ann, and appoints his brothers, Michael Harlan and John Gregg, administrators.
Following William Dixon's death in 1708, his widow Ann (Gregg) Dixon married John Houghton. The Houghtons had three daughters.
William and Ann (Gregg) Dixon's son George Dixon, was born in 1706 in New Castle. He and his wife Ann (Chandler) Dixon, daughter of Swithin and Ann Chandler,were the parents of at least five children: Enoch, Caleb, Phebe, Joshua, and George. It is possible they had a sixth child named Dinah (b. 12- -1729 and d. 8-20-1743). Dinah was listed with the other five children in the Concord Monthly Meeting records, but their parents were not identified.George and Ann (Chandler) Dixon with some of their children moved from Delaware to Orange County, North Carolina Colony around 1767.