General Notes

Rebecca DIXON, b.13 1M 1731/2 OS, New Castle co,DE; d.19 Feb 1803, Orange co,NC; marr.(28 3M 1746, Hockessin PM of Newark MM, New Castle co,DE) William MARSHILL <mrsh0047.htm>, b. 6 8M 1724, County Tyrone, IRELAND; son of Jacob MARSHILL Jr <mrsh0050.htm> (ca.1690-bef.1729) & Ann GRIFFITH; d.28 May 1803, Orange co,NC; [per gene.recs. at Cane Creek MM,NC; donated 26 acres to the Monthly Meeting on which the 2nd Meeting House was built]
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REBECCA DIXON was born 13 January 1731, in New Castle County, Pennsylvania (now Delaware). She married at Hockessin Meeting House, New Castle County, 28 March 1746,(Records of Newark Monthly Meeting) William Marshall, son of Jacob and Ann (Griffith) Marshall, born County Tyrone, Ireland, about 8th month 1724, died 28 May 1803, Cane Creek, North Carolina. Rebecca and William emigrated to North Carolina with other members of the Dixon, Marshall, Hadley, and Stanfield families. There they reared a family of eleven children; and there Rebecca died 19 February 1803 and was buried in Cane Creek burial ground. The three Dixon children of Thomas Dixon and Hannah Hadley are buried near each other in that burial ground. The Marshall monument lies perhaps one row of graves and slightly to the left of the Dixon marker; the grave of Ruth Dixon Doan lies slightly to the right; so that all three of the children of Thomas Dixon are buried in the same area of the burial ground. Although the grave of Hannah Hadley Dixon Stanfield is unmarked, the Cane Creek Church Book gives the date of her death as 31 May 1783, and her place of burial as Cane Creek. Perhaps she, too, lies in the area occupied by the graves of her three children which she bore to Thomas Dixon. The graves of William Marshall and Rebecca Dixon, his wife are marked by a monument similar to that of Simon Dixon and Elizabeth Allen. The bronze plaque reads:

William Marshall
Born 1724 Died 1803
Married 1746 to
Rebecca Dixon
Born 1732 Died 1803
Came to Cane Creek 1754
Gave 26 acres of land
To Cane Creek Meeting
They lived across the Creek
West of the Meeting House.
Ancestors of the Marshall family
Of North Carolina dnd of the West.
Erected 1930.
The children of William Marshall and Rebecca Dixon are recorded in the church book at Cane Creek Meeting House entitled CANE CREEK MONTHLY MEETING OF FRIENDS, ORANGE (NOW ALAMANCE) COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA, page 28 (2), and their marriages and deaths are recorded in pages of the same book as numbered in the notes copied from the research records copied for this section of family history.


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