• General Notes

  Virginia Prominent Families Vol 1-4
  second president of William and Mary College. Their daughter, Mary Dawson, married Ludwell Grymes. Their daughter, Mary, married Rev. Walker Maury, of Norfolk, Va. Their daughter, Anne, married Maj. Isaac Hite.
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  "William Dawson was son of William of Aspatria, Cumberland,
  pleb. Queen's College matric 11 March, 1719-20, B. A. 22 Feb. 1724-25,
  M.A. 1728, D. D. by diploma to Feb. 1746-7, then President of Williams-
  burg College in Virginia." - Foster's Oxford Matruculations.  He was
  Professor of Moral Philosophy from 1729, President and Commissary.  He
  married Mary, daughter of William and Mary (Randolph) Stith, and had
  a son who married --- Johnson of North Carolina, who had William Johnson
  Dawson, M.C. from that State, 1793-5.  It appears also from Foster that
  Musgrave Dawson, son of William of Aspatria matriculated at Queen's
  College march 2, 1742-43, aged 20, and took his degree of B.A. in 1747.
  He came to Virginia and was minister of St. Mary's Parish.  Caroline
  Co.  What was the parentage of Hon John Dawson? born in 1762, gradu-
  ated at Harvard College in 1782, presidential elector 1793, member of
  the House of Delegates from Spotsylvania Co., 1787, of Congress
  1797-1814, and died March 30.  He was generally known as "Beau Dawson"
  from his note in the fashionable world.  For notice of the Dawsons, see
  
  Wallace's Va. Hist. Mag. I p.40., White's National Cyclopedia of
  Biography.
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  MUSGRAVE DAWSON, son of William, of Aspatria, Cumberland, plebs;
  matric.  Queen's College 7th March, 1743-4; aged 20; B. A. 1747.  [Minister
  
  of Raleigh Parish, Amelia County, Virginia in 1754, and of St. Mary's,
  Caroline, 1758, &c.]
  
       WILLIAM DAWSON, son of William of Aspatria, Cumberland, plebs;
  matric.  Queen's College 11th March, 1719-20, aged 15; B. A. 22d February
  1724-5; M. A. 1728, D. D. by diploma 10th February, 1746, the President
  of Williamsburg College in Virginia.  [Was Professor of Moral Philosophy in
  William and Mary, 1729, and President from 1743 until his death, July 24,
  1752.]

Details of Rev. William's family with Mary Randolph Stith