Jane Dix

Not the same as Jane Wilkinson & not a known child of William Wilkinson & Anne Teasdale. Not the same as Deborah Barnes & not her mother. Margaret Traine was not her child.

Disambiguation

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dix-19

Edward Dix of Watertown was NOT the husband of Deborah Unknown Dix. Her first husband is not identified.

Edward's first wife was Jane; she appears in the Watertown vital records as the mother of his four children through the last, Rebecca. Edward then married Susanna Unknown, who was named in his will. She outlived him as is well documented by her lawsuit to recover her dowry.

There WAS a Deborah Unknown Dix who as a widow with three young children moved to Connecticut where she married Robert Barnes but she WAS NOT the "widow" of Edward Dix of Watertown, and there is only one Edward Dix of Watertown identified (and he WAS NOT the 19-year old immigrant to Virginia on the "Thomas & John" before anybody starts thinking in that direction. Anderson in "Great Migration" has thoroughly differentiated those two men.)

Nor was Deborah Unknown Dix a daughter of Edward; his children are all identified in Watertown VRs and Deborah's married name was Dix, not her last name at birth. See Dix-19 profile on wikitree.com for full sourcing.

Disputed Origins

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dix-19#Marriage_.26_Children

In reference to Edward Dix of Watertown, many sources cite that an Edward Dix embarked at Gravesend, England on the "Thomas & John" Jun 16 1635 age 19, and on the same ship was Jane Wilkinson age 20. The belief that these two Edward Dix's are the same person may have originated with Bond,[1] although by the time of the publication of the second edition of his work, Bond had called that belief into question.[2] Anderson argues effectively against the idea,[3] noting that:

• The "Thomas & John" 6 Jun 1635 passengers were bound for Virginia, not New England and there are only one or two documented instances of Virginia passengers later appearing in New England
• Edward Dix of Boston & Watertown was admitted freeman on 4 Mar 1634/35, therefore was already in New England at the time the passenger list was made
• The "Thomas & John" passenger Edward Dix was too young to have been made a freeman in Massachusetts in 1635 as he was only 19 (let alone not being in New England yet).
• Since this is also the only known source for the surname of Edward's wife Jane, it must be concluded that Jane's surname is unknown

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-554805

Jane was probably born some time before 1620, based on the birth of her first child in 1637.[1] It is assumed that she married Edward Dix before the birth of her first child. She died some time between the birth of her fourth child in Feb 1641/42 and Edward making his will on 25 Jun 1660.

Family

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dix-19

Savage believes Edward Dix married Jane shortly after coming to New England.[3] Her surname is not proved (and not likely to be Wilkinson, see "Disputed Origins" section). Torrey in "New England Marriages to 1700" lists her name as Wilkinson with a question mark and says only that they were married by 1637 in Watertown.[4] with this text:

DIX, Edward (-1660) & 1/wf Jane [?WILKINSON]; by 1637; Watertown {Pope's Pioneers 140; Ackley-Bosworth 269; Watertown 195, 753; Avery Pedigree 94, 117; Harris (,12) 7; Newton (,4) 62; NYGBR 51:88 has Sarah; Snow-Estes 2:237; Warner-Harrington 175, 485, 543}

Jane apparently died after the birth of daughter Rebecca although no vital records are yet found for her death.

Children with wife Jane Unknown:[5]

1. Abigail, b. 2 May 1637. Married at Cambridge, 1 Dec 1653, Thomas Parks.
2. Mary, b. 2 May 1639. Married at Watertown, 5 Feb 1662/3 Abraham Brown. Married (2) Samuel Rice
3. John, b. 4 Sep 1640. Married at Watertown, 7 Jan 1670/1 Elizabeth Barnard
4. Rebecca, b. 18 Feb 1641/2. Married at Watertown, 18 Feb 1667/8 Thomas Flagg

His second wife was Susanna (named in his will) but her surname is unknown as is her marriage date to Edward Dix. Of this second marriage Torrey says even less, only that she died after 1661 as noted below.[4] They are not known to have any children.

References

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dix-19 cites

1. Bond, Henry, and Jones, Horatio Gates Genealogies of the families and descendants of the early settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston : to which is appended the early history of the town., Boston : N.E. Historic-genealogical Society, 1860, p. 198 (https://archive.org/details/genealogiesoffam00bond/page/198/mode/1up accessed 12 Apr 2021
2. Bond, Henry, and Jones, Horatio Gates Genealogies of the families and descendants of the early settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston : to which is appended the early history of the town., Boston : N.E. Historic-genealogical Society, 1860, p. 753 (https://archive.org/details/genealogiesoffam00bond/page/753/mode/1up accessed 12 Apr 2021)
3. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995, p. 552) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB393/i/12107/552/0 accessed 12 Apr 2021.
4. New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. Vol. 1 pg. 457 $subscription
5. Watertown, Massachusetts Vital Records: Births for "Dix" https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Watertown/aBirthsD.shtml
6. Historical Society of Watertown (Mass.), Watertown Records, Watertown (Mass.): Press of Fred G Barker, 1894, "Births, Marriages and Deaths, First Book," p. 23 (https://archive.org/details/watertownrecords01wate/page/23/mode/1up accessed 12 Apr 2021).
7. Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871, Online database, AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014; from records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives, digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org. (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB536/i/14471/6296-co6/38228624 accessed 12 Apr 2021)
8. Foreman-Farman-Forman genealogy; descendants of William Foreman, who came from London, England, in 1675, and settled near Annapolis, Maryland, supplemented by single lines of the families of the ancestors of the writer's paternal great-grandmother, his own mother and the descendants of Edward Frisbie, an original settler of Branford, Conn. by Farman, Elbert E. (Elbert Eli), 1831-1911 Publication date 1911 pg. 154

• The Ancestry of Hattie E. J. Bruce - the Dix Family” link
• Historical Society of Watertown (Mass.), Watertown Records, Watertown (Mass.): Press of Fred G Barker, 1894, "Births, Marriages and Deaths, First Book," citing the birth of the children of Edward and Jane Dikes; Abigail, 2 May 1637, p. 5; Mary, 2 May 1639, p. 7; John, 4 Sep 1640, p. 8; and Rebecca, 18 Feb 1641/42, p. 9 Archive.Org accessed 12 Apr 2021).
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35831108/edward-dix cites “ Anderson's Winthrop Fleet.”