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!One source says John Dawson and Rebecca Doyne (b abt 1680, m abt
1701) were Thomas' parents. Another source says they were Nicholas
Dawson (b abt 1683) and Mary Doyne (b abt 1683/86)??? Yet another
source says that John is father of Nicholas, and both married Doyne
girls???

!from the "Family of John Dawson, of Prince George Co, Md., abt 1700"
prob. written 1870-80?:
"John Dawson is said to have emigrated from the north of England
sometime before 1700. Whether he came from Whitehaven, in
Cumberland, or from Yorkshire is uncertain. By some he is said to have
gone into Maryland by way of Philadelphia, where he tarried for a while;
others understand that he emigrated directly to Maryland.....His death is
supposed to have occurred before 1720, from the fact that his son
Thomas, who died in 1800, aged 92, and was, consequently, born in 1708,
barely remembered the event as one which happened in his childhood.
He married Rebecca Doyne, daughter of John Doyne, an Irish gentleman,
who had a grant of land on Chickamoxon creek, in Charles county, about
thirty miles below the place where the city of Washington now is. They
settled on Broad creek, near the Potomac River, about twelve miles
below the site of Washington, in Prince George county, where he died.