Mary Martin

Genealogist John Bennett Boddie did not explicitly name Mary Boddie, sister of William Boddie, as the wife of Thomas Dixon. Nor is it confirmed they were the children of John Boddie & Mary Boddie.

Biography

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~paday/genealogy/dobbers/dixon.htm

Thomas Dixon, I, of Isle of Wight County was born about 1639 probably in England and settled in the upper Parish of Isle of Wight County, Va. probably about 1655 - ;1660.

He married Mary or Marie, a daughter of John Boddye (Boddie) and his wife Mary of London and Ingateston, Essex. She was baptised on 18 May, 1635 in the Parish Church of Fryerning, where he father was buried in 162+0.

She came to Virginia with her brother William Boddie in 1660-1661.

Thomas Dixon died intestate in Isle of Wight County prior to 2 May, 1670 when administration was requested by Henry Martin, who married Mary "the relict". The estate was appraised by Thomas Barloe, Edward Brantly, Robert Roe and Elias Fort and returned on 25 Oct., 1670.

In 1678, William Boddie gave certain cattle to Henry and Mary Martin's three children, Thomas Dixon, Henry Dixon and Henry Martin.

Issue of Thomas Dixon I and Mary/Marie Boddie:

• 1. Henry Dixon
• 2. Thomas Dixon II. born about 1665 in the Upper Parish of Isle of Wight County, died in Isle of Wight County in 1748. Married Penelope __.

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Disputed origins

http://www.nortonfamily.net/sc-marion-horry-norton.htm#chart1 (dead link)

Mary Norton (daughter of Capt. John Norton, I & Anne Norton - Married first Thomas Dixon and second Henry Martin. Note: Isle of Wight County, Virginia: Administrations and Probates, page 24, dated May 2, 1670 – recorded June 24, 1670: Henry Martin dying intestate, administration requested by Henry Martin, who married the relict of Thomas Dixon. Security: Thomas Moore – Mr. Robert Roe.

References

1. Mary Body in the U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s < AncestryImage > NUGENT, NELL MARION. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666. Vol. 1. Richmond [VA]: Dietz Printing Co., 1934. 767p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1983. “ Name Mary Body Arrival Year 1665 Arrival Place Virginia Primary Immigrant Body, Mary.
2. Nugent, Nell Marion; Virginia State Library; Virginia Genealogical Society. Cavaliers and pioneers; abstracts of Virginia land patents and grants, 1623-1800. Publication date 1934. Vol. 1, page 475-476. < Archive.Org > MR. WM. BODY, 3350 acs., Isle of Wight Co., 12 July 1665, p. 252, (183). At the head of the Cyprus & western branches, beg. by the Beaver Dam, running N.E. &c. to the Meadow which makes the head of the western branch &c. to Colemans corner, E. by N. Nly. to corner of Tho. Joyner near the head of the Elme Sw. 550 acs. by patent dated 20 Oct. 1661 & 2800 for trans, of 56 pers: … Francis Fletcher, Wm. Body, Ann Body, Body,Jno. Downe, twice, …
3. Nugent, N. Marion. (1963). Cavaliers and pioneers: abstracts of Virginia land patents and grants, 1623-1666. [2d ed.] Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. < Hathitrust search, keyword “Body” >
4. Ancestry.com. Boddie and allied families [database on-line]. “Dixon.” Page 104. < AncestrySharing >; (document attached). “ Thomas Dixon, I, of Isle of Wight County, possibly the first of this family in Virginia, died in Isle of Wight, Virginia, in 1670, leaving wife Marie and sons, Thomas and Henry. An appraisement of his estate, was sworn to by Henry Martin, “who married ye relict of Thomas Dixon, 25 Oct. 1670.” 1. The next record we find of the Dixons, is when William Boddie, 3rd day of the 5th month 1679, gave cattle to Henry Martin’s and Marie Martin’s three children, Thomas Dixon, Henry Dixon, and Henry Martin.2
5. Boddie, John Bennett. 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. < GoogleBooks > "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."
6. https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~paday/genealogy/dobbers/dixon.htm