CRAVEN COUNTY, NC - NEWSPAPERS - Dawson Family Articles
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From the Elizabeth Moore Papers, Collection #322, East Carolina University 
Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, 
Greenville, NC.  PERMISSION TO PUBLISH GRANTED.

From the "Pamlico County News," December 4, 1969
by Elizabeth Moore

DAWSON FAMILY RECORDS
1760, October 11, Inventory of FRANCIS DAWSON’S Estate returned.  One page of
personalty, Christopher Dawson, Executor, CLP.

1766, October 29.  Abstract of will of LEVI DAWSON.  Wife. (not mentioned)
Daughters:  Elizabeth Bexle and Mary Carraway.  Mentions daughter Bexle’s
children.  Executors:  Sons-in-law Bexle and Carraway.  Witnesses:  Mary
Edwards, David Lewis, CLP.  (Note:  Bexle later spelled as Bexley.)

1767.  February 8, Inventory of the Estate of CHRISTOPHER DAWSON, deceased.
One page of personalty returned by WILLIAM CARRAWAY, Administrator.
Christopher Neale, CC, CLP.  

1767.  April Term. Pursuant to an order of Court appointing Francis Dawson,
Christopher Dawson, and Samuel Smythe to divide the estate of Christopher
Dawson, deceased, agreeable to the will met and divided the same as follows:
Legatees:  Levi Dawson, Simon Bexley, William Carraway, June 13, 1767.  CLP.

1774, June 28.  Account of Sales of sundry good belonging to Estate of
Christopher Dawson, deceased, sold by Francis Dawson and John Bryan,
Executors.  Purchasers:  James Clayton, John West, James Hollis, William
Carraway, Agnes Green, Chosewell Dixon, John Justice, William Parey, Francis
Dawson, William Brooks, Joseph Atherly, Charles Shanwoolf, Peter Sparrow, John
Bryan, John Parkinson, Sidney Crispin, John Carney, John Green, Ann Mary
Brown, James Willis, John Tillman, Samson Leith, John Thomas, Nathaniel
Carraway, John Benners, Jesse Bryan, John Biggs, Joseph Oliver, Joseph
Atherly, William Biggs, Abner Nash, Smith Sparrow, Thomas Shine, Joseph
Crispin, Joseph Oliver, Solomon Shanwoolf.  Among items sold:  bedstead, corn,
fish gig, rug, bed quilt, desk, tea table, case and bottles, ivory handled
knives, china bowl, spoon boat, tea spoons, pewter plates, saddle bags, powder
horn, lantern, sheep shears, candle sticks, bee hive. CLP.

1774, October 27, Account of Sales of Sundry goods belonging to the estate of
CHRISTOPHER DAWSON, deceased.  Purchasers:  Joshua Fulcher, Ann Graves, Sidney
Crispin, John Bryan, Thomas Shine, Benjamin Wallis, Charles Shanewolf, John
Biggs, Nathaniel Carraway, Samson Leith, Dennard James, Agnes Green, John
Nelson, Cpt. James Green, Thomas Pearson, William Carraway, Levi Dawson,
Francis Dawson, Adam Wallis, Thoams Oliver, Capt. Tom Green, Matthew Wise,
Jesse Bryan, John Tillman, Thomas McLin, Adam Tooley, John Bryan, Henry
Johnston, John Parkinson, Joseph Oliver, Joseph Edmondson, John Atherly,
Richard Neale, Christian Bowers, John Green, Thomas Carraway, John Biggs,
Southy Rew. Among items sold:  feather beds, boulster, rug, blankets, wheat
fan, house (horse?) named Dover; black horse, red cow with a white back, white
faced and white back steer, white steer with red ears, red heifer, branded
heifer with white face; horned cow and calf.  Large fat pied cow, small pied
cow and yearling, black and white steer, hogs and shoats, the plantation
rented to William Biggs, pair pot trammels, frying pan, canoe, hand mill & c. 
CLP.  

1775.  Inventory of FRANCIS DAWSON, deceased.  1 and 1/2 pages of personalty
returned by John Bryan and William Carraway, Executors, CLP.  (Reference CLP,
Clerk’s Loose Papers, Craven County, now in Archives in Raleigh NC...)


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