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About Rev. Thomas Dodson, Sr.
A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA. DAR Ancestor # A032939
Thomas Dodson was born about 1707 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, English Colony of Virginia. He was a son of Thomas Dodson and Mary Durham. Thomas married sometime before 1725 Elizabeth Rose, daughter of John and Mary Rose of Northumberland County. Elizabeth was the mother of all his children. [1]
From http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/DODSON/2006-10/1161613686 :
"Thomas and Elizabeth Rose Dodson engaged in a 1734 land transaction with Thomas’ parents. This may have been property Thomas Senior had given to his son, as about this time, Thomas Jr. appears to have sold his Richmond County land and moved his wife and then five children up the Rappahannock River to what was then Prince William County and is now Fauquier County. Other Dodson family members also moved to the area about the same time, as did Elizabeth Dodson’s sister Mary Stamps and her family.
"Dodson family historian Bill Randolph pointed out Thomas Dodson Jr. eventually owned a lot of land. With inheritances from his father, uncle and father-in-law, he was in a better financial position to purchase property than many at the time. The notes of Rev. Elias Dodson stated the Thomas Dodson who married a Rose, “was rich and was called a great gentleman”.
"On May 3, 1742 Thomas Dodson sat on a grand jury in Richmond County, so obviously he was considered a trustworthy man. . . . .
"On May 8, 1761 Thomas Dodson. made a deed of gift to his son Thomas Dodson, Jr for "natural love and affection . . . the parcel in his actual possession part of two tracts on the Mine Branch in Steward's Line . . . in Faulkner's line . . . 150 acres. The same day he deed 100 acres to his son George, also for natural love and affection, of "part of a tract of land purchased by the said Thos. Dodson of Thomas Faulkner". This would then indicate Thomas Dodson the elder purchased the land which he then gave away to his sons. (Some of this property was sold jointly by the two Thomas Dodson families in 1766. George sold his property at the same time; the Dodson moved to Pittsylvania County
that year).
"Thomas Dodson did business with Dumfrie's Store of Fauquier County in the 1750's.
"Sometime around the middle of the century, Baptist evangelists began to make inroads into the staunchly Anglican colonies. As with many religious issues, change did not come easily and there was a great amount of controversy. Stories of colonial Virginia are rife with the great dissention caused by people who embraced a new way to worship God. Among those people touched by the Great Enlightenment were members of the Dodson family.
"Thomas Dodson Jr. was an original member of Broad Run Baptist Church, founded on
December 3, 1762. He was baptized there and several of his children also joined the church. His brother and sister-in-law, Joshua and Ruth Dodson, also were founding members. There is no record of Elizabeth's participation (which is noteworthy since women are listed in the rolls).
"The Dodson family is full of Baptist preachers from about that time on, including three in
Thomas and Elizabeth Dodson’s immediate family. It appears that the Primitive, or Hardshell, Baptist Dodson families began to move to Pittsylvania and Halifax County about 1766, though some were there as early as 1753 when the area first opened up for settlers. Whether the Dodsons were primarily interested in new land or a new place to worship God, we cannot say, but the Hanks family members who went south at the same time also were Baptists."
Thomas Dodson Jr. had a son we know as Thomas "Second Fork" Dodson--because he bought a farm on the second fork of a creek in Pittsylvania County. He had some problems with the Broad Run Baptist Church:
"Like his father, Thomas “Second Fork” also joined the Broad Run Baptist Church. He was baptized on August 11, 1765. His faith may not have grown as much as the minister of the church hoped, for on November 11, 1769 when he was dismissed to the Halifax church, he and fellow member Joshua Scurlock went "under censure to the church at Birch Creek to be under their care"."
Jesse Dodson was the son of the Reverend Thomas Dodson and his wife, Elizabeth Rose, of North Farnham, Richmond County, VA.
Jesse and several of his sons, Jessee, Jr., Elijah and Elisha, are included in this tax list.
The following was taken from Sketches of Tennessee's Pioneer Baptist Preachers, by J. J. Burnett. D. D., First Series, Vol. I, Pub. 1919, Press of Marshall & Bruce Co, Nashville, Tenn; Pg. 142.
contributed to Dodson Digest by Margaret Dodson Findley
(Transcribed verbatim)
- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monicap/fam00861.htm
- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~katy/dodson/b17167.html
Created: 2002-03-27 23:17:13.16, Updated: 2002-03-27 23:17:13.16, By: Conversion 1) ELIZABETH ROSE Created: 2002-03-27 23:17:13.16, Updated: 2002-03-27 23:17:13.16, By: Conversion 2) ELEANOR SLOAN
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Thomas Dodson, Jr
BIRTH 1 Oct 1707 Farnham, Richmond County, Virginia, USA DEATH 21 Oct 1783 (aged 76) Pittsylvania County, Virginia, USA BURIAL Unknown MEMORIAL ID 79914414 · View Source
MEMORIAL PHOTOS 0 FLOWERS 16 Thomas Jessie Dodson Jr
Thomas Jessie Dodson Jr was born about 1707 in Richmond County, Virginia as the first child of Thomas Jesse Dodson Sr and Mary Durham. He had eight siblings, namely: Abraham, Joshua Sr., Elisha Sr., Greenham, George, David, Mary, and Alice. He died before 21 Oct 1783 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. When he was 18, He married Elizabeth Rose,daughter of John Rose, before 1725 in Richmond County, Virginia. When he was 63, He married Ellenor ? (Widow Sloan) about 1770.
Thomas Jessie Dodson Jr was affiliated with the Broad Run Baptist Church, in Fauquier County, Virginia. He signed his will on 12 Aug 1779.
Thomas Jessie Dodson Jr and Elizabeth Rose had the following children:
George.
Rhoda.
Thomas (2nd Fork).
Joseph Dodson Sr. was born on 21 Feb 1725 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia. He died about 1773 in Halifax County, Virginia.
Mary Dodson was born on 16 Jun 1730 in Richmond, County, Virgina.
Elizabeth Dodson was born on 27 May 1732 in Richmond, County, Virgina.
Sarah Dodson was born on 27 May 1732 in Richmond, County, Virgina.
Alice (Alcy) Dodson was born about 1734 in ? Prince William County, Virginia. She died after Sep 1799.
William Dodson Sr. was born in Apr 1737 in Prince William (Present day Fauquier) County, Virginia. He died on 06 May 1832 in Taylorsville, Iredell County, North Carolina (Buried Three Forks Baptist Church Cemetery, Taylorsville, Iredell County, North Carolina). He married Winifred Johns(t)on on 30 Nov 1763 in Fauquier County, Virginia. He married (Given & Maiden Name Unknown) after 1770.
Rev Jesse Dodson was born on 22 Nov 1752 in Fauquier County, Virginia. He died on 22 Nov 1843 in McMinn County, Tn.
Thomas Jessie Dodson Jr and Ellenor ? (Widow Sloan) had no children.
Source: The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia, Volume I; Chapter 1.
Family Members Parents Thomas Jesse Dodson 1681–1740
Mary Durham Dodson 1686 – unknown
Spouse Elizabeth Rose Dodson 1706–1766
Siblings George Dodson 1702–1783
David Dodson 1703–1740
Joseph Neville 1707–1783
Greenham Dodson 1709–1777
Alice Dodson Creel 1711 – unknown
Joshua Dodson 1725–1798
Elisha Dodson 1727 – unknown
Children Thomas Dodson 1728–1816
Alice Dodson Dodson 1734–1792
Photo William Dodson 1737–1832
Photo Jesse Dodson 1752–1843
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Rev. Thomas Dodson, Sr.'s Timeline
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1709
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Virginia, Colonial America
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February 21, 1725
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North Farnham, Richmond County, Virginia, British Colonial America
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October 3, 1728
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Farnham, Richmond County, Virginia, United States
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June 16, 1730
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North Farnham, Richmond, Virginia, United States
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May 27, 1732
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North Farnham, Richmond, Virginia, United States
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May 27, 1732
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North Farnham, Richmond, Virginia
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1734
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Virginia, Colonial America
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1736
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April 1737
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Richmond County, Virginia
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