Individual Details
Joshua Dodson
(25 May 1725 - Abt 1793)
Josh. Dodson found on a list of taxpayers for Hamilton Parish, Elk Run & vicinity, 1751. From the account book of Capt. John Crump, Sheriff of Prince William County. After 1759, this area became Fauquier County.
Published in the Bulletin of the Fauquier Historical Socity, June 1923, p.239-242. Reprinted in the Newsletter of the Prince William County Genealogical Society, V.10, No. 6, Dec 1991, pp.43-45.
Broad Run Baptist Church, Fauquier, VA
10 Jun 1764 Was added the following Members by Baptism
Negro Dick belonging to Joshua Dodson ...deceased
Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol 26, No. 4, p.288
The only mention of Ruth is in the minutes of Broad Run Bapt Church in Fauquier Co, as they were members in Dec 1762. Joshua and Ruth were dismissed to move to Halifax. No records of them are found in Halifax. There is a Joshua Dodson on the tax list for Surry Co NC in 1782; he had 300 acres on Reed Creek [this location is now in Stokes Co] Joshua Dodson Senr was on a state census in the late 1780's, in Surry Co but he does not appear on the 1790 Census. Some of his children moved to South Carolina. Joshua Dodson and Joseph Williams, were shown as ministers of the Shoals Baptist Church, Oconee River, Greene Co GA in 1789. Most researchers agree that he died in 1793, but there's no proof.
Writings of George W. Dodson, date unknown, suggest that his great-grandfather was this Joshua Dodson, a Baptist preacher, and he had visited Georgia when George's father was a young boy. George's father, Samuel, was born in 1788, so the visit probably wasn't much earlier than 1795.
Events
| Birth | 25 May 1725 | North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia |  | ||
| Marriage | Abt 1745 | Ruth [Dodson] | | ||
| Death | Abt 1793 | |
Families
| Spouse | Ruth [Dodson] (1727 - ) |
| Child | Charles Dodson (1747 - 1831) |
| Child | Pheby Dodson (1763 - ) |
| Child | Betty Dodson (1763 - ) |
| Child | Joshua Dodson Jr. (1764 - ) |
| Father | THOMAS Dodson (1681 - 1741) |
| Mother | MARY Durham (1686 - ) |
| Sibling | George Dodson (1702 - ) |
| Sibling | David Dodson ( - 1740) |
| Sibling | Thomas Dodson ( - 1783) |
| Sibling | Greenham Dodson ( - 1777) |
| Sibling | Alice Dodson ( - ) |
| Sibling | Mary Dodson (1715 - ) |
| Sibling | Abraham Dodson (1723 - 1768) |
| Sibling | ELISHA DODSON (1727 - 1791) |
Endnotes
1. Mrs. Sherman Williams, Compiler & Editor, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants. Two Volumes with index in Volume Two. Volume Two contains abstracts & transcripts of documents. (Easley, SC: Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas Jr.; Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1988), p.4, 1445.
2. George Harrison Sanford King, Compiler & Publisher, The Registers of North Farnham Parish 1663-1814 and Lunenburg Parish 1783-1800 Richmond County, Virginia (Self-Published; Fredericksburg, VA; 1966), p.48.
3. Mrs. Sherman Williams, Compiler & Editor, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants. Two Volumes with index in Volume Two. Volume Two contains abstracts & transcripts of documents. (Easley, SC: Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas Jr.; Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1988), p.19.
4. Mrs. Sherman Williams, Compiler & Editor, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants. Two Volumes with index in Volume Two. Volume Two contains abstracts & transcripts of documents. (Easley, SC: Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas Jr.; Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1988), p.19.