Brittain Dawson & Sabra Williams

Brittain Dawson and Sabra Williams

Timeline and Records

Son- Dread Dawson

Britton Dawson  (1720-1795)   m.    Sarah (Sabra)  (c1730-1817)

Children:

1 – s. Richmond
2 – s. Dread m. Elizabeth Patterson  (dau of Gideon Patterson)
3 – d. Elizabeth m. 1803 John Harwood
4 – d. Mary Margaret m. Edmond  Bugg
              son.. William Arrington Bugg
5 – d. Grace m. Rowell
6 – d. Elizabeth m. Beal
7 – s. Jonas B m. Polly Brantley Phillips
8 – s. Charles
9 – d. Sarah m. Henry Greenwood
10 – s. Henry C m. dau of George W Darden
11 – s. James
12 – s. George

Dawson, Brittain, Richmond Co. 265 Acres 1785 Vol. 1 Pg. 212 Record ID 17991

Dawson, Brittain, Richmond Co. 150 Acres 1785 Vol. 1 Pg. 215 Record ID 17992

Cite as Georgia Colonial and Headright Plat Index, 1735-1866

Dawson Brittain, Richmond Co. Georgia, 80 acres 1784 Vol. B Pg. 228 Record Id 17779

Dawson, Brittain Burke Co. 200 Acres 1787 Vol. S Pg. 57 Rec. Id 18263

Dawson, Brittain Burke Co. 15 acres Year 1818 Vol. YY Pg. 192 Rec. Id 1885

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• DEEDS & RECORDS

 BRITTAIN  DAWSON
1778 Listed as Friend in Will of John Walton
1781 executor for Will of Chaplin Williams (Great Great…Grandfather)  St Georges’s Parrish
1782 App. for estate of Jacob Beal  – South side of Savannah River
1785 Dec 26   Deeded slave to William Arrington Bugg  (Grandson)
1786 With son David, & Humphrey Graves  Estate of Howell Rowell
1790 App. for will of John Everingham (Effingham ?)
1794 Involved in sale of slaves
1795 Will: Exec. Mrs. Sarah Dawson, Mrs Elizabeth Howell
Appraisers:  Dread Dawson, Mrs. Sarah Dawson

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txnavarr/county_history/navarro_county_relationship_to_richmond_county_georgia.htm

        The Brittain Dawson Family was in Richmond, Georgia before 1781 and some Dawson Family members, probably, reside there today. The history of early Richmond Co. Georgia is filled with names of families who migrated there from Virginia and the Carolinas, and, perhaps, some who came directly from North Ireland.     Most interesting is the fact that many of those names were to be found a century later in Western Navarro Co. Texas.    

The trail of many of those families did not go directly from Richmond Co. Georgia to Western Navarro Co Texas, but included intermediate stops across Alabama, Missisissippi, Middle Tennessee, and Southeast Texas.   

Brittian Dawson, Grandfather of Brit Dawson, was in Richmond Co. Georgia as early as 1781 when he served as executor for the will of his friend Chaplan Williams (Great Great…Grandfather) who had lived in Effingham Co.  Other legal documents bear witness to the actions of Brittian Dawson from 1781 until his death in 1795.

      A deed recorded December 26, 1785 states that Brittian had given a slave to his Grandson whose name was William Arrington Buggs, perhaps a Christmas gift.   When Sarah (Sabra) Dawson, widow of Brittain, died in 1817, she left her home to William, stating that all her children were already comfortable in their own homes. 

Obituary: Brit Dawson

Southern Centinel Date: Thursday, March 12, 1795 Paper: Southern Centinel (Augusta, GA)Volume: IIIssue: XCIIPage: 3(repeated on August 14, 1795)DIED.  On Saturday last at his plantation near Augusta, Mr. Briton Dawfon, Esq.

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DAWSON  FAMILY SOLDIERS IN the REVOLUTION

Benjamine, Henry, Henry, John, Isaac, John, Levi, Matthew, Penelope

Years 1789-1799
Brittain Dawson, Richmond Co.; Knowland militia district; 1795; pg. 22*
Dread Dawson, (info same as above)
Dread Dawson, Richmond Co.; 1797; Ward militia district; pg. 40*
Sabra Dawson, Richmond Co., Ward militia district; 1797; pg. 46*

Years 1800-1802
Dread Dawson, Richmond Co.; Ward militia district; 1800; pg. 2
40

Years 1809-1811
Dread Dawson, Richmond Co.; Collins district; 1809; pg. 23
Sabry Dawson, Richmond Co.; Collins district; 1809;

Finally, from the book, “Georgia Wills, 1733-1860” are these Dawsons:

Sabra, 1820 Richmond, Will Book A, pg. 179
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Information in National DAR website:   Britton Dawson was a Civil Servant and served as Inspector of Provisions.  Documented in Candler Rev. Records of GA, Volume II, Page 116.

SARAH (SABRA) DAWSON  (Wife of Brittain   –
1817 Will Willed her home to Wm A Bugg (Grandson)
Mentioned: Daughter Grace Rowell
Daughter Elizabeth Beal
Grandaughter  Polly Walker – m. Gen Valentine Walker

DREAD DAWSON
1800 m. Elizabeth Patterson
1804 Appr. for estate of John Barton

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Book 4 page 425 North Hampton Co, NC
Brittain Dawson of North Hampton to Joseph Sikes 1 Jan 1766-76 acres granted to Barnaby Thomas 1668 and then sold to me by Elisha Thomas 1760 and being in North Hampton. Wm. Sikes, Sam Edwards.

Barnaby Thomas is said to be Brittain’s uncle and Elisha his first cousin.

Brittain’s mother, Elizabeth Thomas would be sister to Barnaby and Phillip Thomas.  Elizabeth md. first John Boddie, and second John Dawson.