Thomas Dixon, I - Three Mary’s for Thomas Dixon?

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Thomas Dixon, I

Thomas Dixon died in 1670. His estate was appraised by Henry Martin. Mr. Martin married the widowed Mrs. Dixon.[1]

Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, during the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Records. Vol. 1, Heritage Books. pg. 220, Retrieved November 6, 2018, from https://books.google.com/books?id=awsLo8_j-m0C&pg=PA220&dq

His widow Mary is not identified. But 3 profiles are suggested on geni:

Mary Martin

Mary Dixon

Mary Phillips

Susanne Floyd - you seem to have a reliable source for the Norton’s. Should we detach the others?

Erica Howton, all I can go on is what my source says, but this profile here Mary Dixon seems conflated with a son named Henry Dixon and one named Henry Norton.

That seems a bit odd. I would say remove her from Thomas Dixon I. As for Mary Phillips, there are no sources and no children. I would remove her too. But.....

From Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A history of the County ... https://books.google.com/books?id=awsLo8_j-m0C&pg=PA220&dq#...

"Thomas Dixon died in 1670. His estate was appraised by Henry Martin. Mr. Martin married the Marie, the relic. In 1678, William Bodie gave cattle to Henry and Marie Martin's children Thomas Dixon, Henry Dixon, and Henry Martin.

Thomas was a favorite name in this family and this is the family of Thomas Dixon the author of "The Clansman," from whose book of this name was taken the plot of "The Birth of the Nation," America's first notable screenplay."

Oh my dear lord....when was this written? Shivers.

Back to Mary, Marie. Maybe there are two wives - a Norton and a Bodie. Will try to look some more. Still shaking over this crazy.

Yes, the reference to Birth of a Nation took me aback, too.

I’ll look for a Boddie genealogy, but I pretty much think it’s a tree error. The book extract does not identify Mary’s origins.

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