Ancestral Glimpses » Ambrose Dixon (± 1620-1687)

Persönliche Daten Ambrose Dixon 

• Er wurde geboren rund 1620.
• Alternative: Er wurde geboren rund 1623 in London, Middlesex, ENGLAND.
• Alternative: Er wurde geboren zwischen 1625 und 1630.
• Er wurde getauftQuaker as an adult.
• Berufe:
• am 27. November 1666 Surveyor for ye highways.
• Caulker of boats, planter.
• Glaube: Januar 1662 Quaker.

  He had joined the Quakers and had been persecuted in Virginia for his associations with them [Dae's note: more likely because he refused to pay the Minister's Tax]. He went to Maryland before January, 1661/2. Dixon's home, "Dixon's Choice," on the south side of the Great Annemessex River was
  a center for Quaker activities in the early years of the settlement.

• Er ist verstorben am 12. April 1687 in Annamessex, Somerset County, Maryland, British America.

  He died April 12, 1687, mentioning in his will his son-in-law, Edmund Beauchamp. For a good account of Ambrose Dixon, see Torrence, Old Somerset, pp. 302 ff.

• Er wurde beerdigt am 12. April 1687 in Meeting House in Annamessex, Somerset County, Maryland.

  Baltimore, Maryland, Deaths and Burials Index, 1877-1992
  FHL Film Number: 14363

• Testament am 7. April 1686 naar Somerset County, Maryland, British America.

  Maryland Calendar of Wills: Volume 2 VOLUME II.
  Dixon, Ambrose, Somerset Co., 7th Apr., 1686; 10th Apr., 1688.
  To dau. Elisa:, wife of Robert Dukes, grandson Thomas, son of Henry Potter, at majority, son-in-law Edmond Beauchamp, wife's son, Henry Pedington, and to Eliza:, wife of George Willson, and to James Brown, personalty. Wife Mary, extx. and residuary legatee of estate during widowhood. To sons-in-law, Thomas Dixon, Thomas Cottingham, Edmond Beauchamp, Robert Dukes, and their hrs., estate afsd. at marriage or death of sd. wife. Any son-in-law who shall disturb the extx. afsd, shall lose his interest in the estate. Test: Stephen Horsy, Sam'l Horsy, Jno. Atkins. 6. 22.

• Ein Kind von William Dixon und Katherine Berkeley
• Diese Information wurde zuletzt aktualisiert am 12. Februar 2018.

Familie von Ambrose Dixon

Er ist verheiratet mit Mary Wilson.

Ambrose. He married a widow named Mary whose first husband was Henry
Peddiiington (Pedenden, Pedlington and other varied spellings). Her
husband had died by 1647, leaving her with one son - Henry Jr. As Mrs
Peddington she appears twice in the early court records:

26 Nov. 1638 - Whereas Henry Pecidenden made it appeare unto this
court that there is 200 acres of land dew to him for the
transportation of 4 persons into the County (can't read) Give him a
small neck of land Iyeinge in Hungars (for transportation of) Henry
Peddenden, Mary his Wife, Christopher Bryan, James Hardyn [so Mary was
already rnarriedto him when they arrived)

Ambrose is listed as a headright in 1649. As Nugent says in her book
Pioneers and Cavaliers, land for headrights was often, if not
usually,claimed years after the person had actually come into the
country. The reason was that it cost money to do the paperwork and
surveying that uses involved in patenting land and few early settlers
had money tospare until they had been in the colony for some years.
Henry Peddington is first mentioned in the Court Records in 1635 but
doesn't claim his free land until 1638. Ambrose Dixon is first
rnentimed in the Court Records in 1640, but isn't named as a headright
until 1649.

In 1661 he ironed Edmund Scarburgh and several others in riding
against the Indians in defiance of the law. A Court Order of 10 May
1651 says:

Whereas Mr Edmunci Scarburgh, Mr Thomas Johnson, Mr Richard Vaughan,
Captain Jan Dollinge, John Robinson,, Toby Norton, Richard Baily,
Ambrose DIXON, Richard Hill, JenkinPrice And divers others Inhabitants
andfree men in the Upper parte of the parish in the Countie of
Northampton Did in a Hostile manner (contrary to the known laws of
Virginia And the League made with the Indians) upon the 28th day
Aprill last past Rayse a partie of men to the number of fiftie persons
with Armes and ammunicon And upon the aforesaid date marched amonge
the Indians with a Resolucon to take or kill the Queen of Pocamoke,
shott at Indians, slashed and cut (can't read), Took Indians prisoner,
And bound one of them with a Chayne, which, said Accons caused the
Indians to invadethe county, to the great danger of our lives and
estates, It is therefore ordered that the Sherriff shall forthwith
Arrest the Bodies ofall the abovesaid parties. .. (goes on to say they
are to remain in custody until they post bonds to appear in person at
James City to answer the Governor and Council on 21 May)

The same year, 1651, Ambrose DIXON is among those that signed the Oath
of Fidelity to the Commonwealth (the king had been beheaded and
themonarchy dissolved, Cromwell was in power)

12 Oct. 1652 Ambrose DIXON and Stephen Horsely (Horsey) patent 600
acres in Northamptor County for transportation of 12 persons among
whom is Mary Dixon.

29 Oct. 1655 - Whereas it appeareth to ye Courte that a dogg and bitch
of Ambrose Dixon followed one Tho: Ward and was by a semant of Mr Jno
Tilnagefound aworrying of two sheep of ye said Tinage which dyed ofthe
biting of ye said dogge and bitch It is ordered that ye said Tho:Ward
shall forthwith make paymerd unto ye said Mr. Jno Tilnage 360 Ibs
tob. and caske with court charge it is further ordered if any man or
woman for further time shall walk with a dog or bitch that shall kill
any sheep that it be thereby charged that the party soe offending
shall pay the full value of the sheep worried or killed

When next Arnbrose appears in Court it is for refusing to pay tithes

Ambrose remained an independent thinker all
of his long life. When he was in his late 50's he again got into
trouble
with the authorities. It seems that he disposed of tobacco that the
Aunder-sheriff had confiscated on his property to pay his overdue
rents and
taxes. The "broad arrow" that is mentioned here is the same mark
thatwas
put on the door of his house by Col. Scarburgh in 1663. Since almost
no one
could read in those days, a sign that everyone understood was used.
The
"Broad arrow" was the sign that property had been confiscated by the
authorities and no longer belonged to the previous owner.
In 1677 (from Judicial Records 1675-1677) it says:
Whereas complaint hath this day beene made to me against Ambrose DIXON
of
the county of Somerset planter did in or neare about in month of
ffebruary
last past at ye tobacco house of ye said DIXON upon his plantation
after ye
marke and dispose of 5 hogsheads of tobacco which was by William
Stevens
undersheriff to Captain Thomas Waller of Somerset County marked with
an
broad arrow and intended to be weighed and received of him ye said
DIXON
towards defraying of his publick dues and his lordships rents and that
when
ye said William Stevens did accordingly goe about to weigh ye same and
to
take an exact accompt thereof both for his owne satisfaction and for
ye
satisfaction of him ye said DIXON that then ye said DIXON (in contempt
of ye
power and authority of ye said Stevens) did openly and violently by
force of
armes and divers threatening and abusive speeches withstand and oppose
ye
said undersheriff and would not suffer him to execute his office but
disposed of ye said tobacco aforesaid If therefore ye said DIXON shall
not
attend ye next county court to bee held in ye said county repaire to
it ye
said court and therefore before ye commissioners of ye same openly and
in
public view of ye whole court prostrate himselfe upon his knees and
acknowledge his great error to his said Lord Proprietor and crave
pardon and
forgiveness for ye same promising ammendment for ye same and ye future
then
and you are hereby strictly willed and required to have ye body of him
ye
said DIXON at ye next provincial court to bee held att St Maries on ye
19th
day of June next to suffer such punishment for ye same as his said
Lordships
Justices shall think fitt to inflict upon him

Ambrose DIXON openly and in publique view of ye whole court did
acknowledge
his great error and humbly craves pardon and forgiveness for ye same

DIXON had clearly gotten in over his head this time and the justices
were quick to make an example of him. Whether they then sent him to
St.
Marys is never said, but probably they made do with his apology.

Ambrose DIXON wrote had his will written the 7th of April 1686:

Dau Elizabeth wife of Robert Dukes
one negro woman Called Betty Ginney and her increase also 1 horse

grandchild Thomas Potter sonn of Henry Potter 1 cow and calf 1 mare
and her
female increase 1 young female negro Thomas Potter to be put
to
scoole there to learne reading and writting and
arethmatik

son in law Edmund Beauchamp 1 cow and calf 1 young black mare called
Ginney
ye Younger

Elizabeth Willson ye wife of George Willson mare of ye bay coller with
a
white star in her forehead called by ye name of Jinney

wifes son Henry Penington one negro girl about 10 years old

James Brown 1000 lbs of good Merchantible tobacco in cask

rest to wife Mary Dixon except part Thomas Dixon lives on

son Thomas Dixon, son in law Thomas Cottingham, son in law Edmund
Beauchamp,
son in law Robert Dukes, son in law John Richards, son in law Henry
Potter
after decease of Wife to be equally divided

if Mary intermarry she is to injoy and posess 1/3 only promised to
make over to friends 1 acre of land for ye consideration of 12 pence
in
money received where meeting house now is
Mary Dixon executrix
Signed with his marke A

codicil - if any of my said children and sons in law shall in any way
trouble or molest illegaly my beloved wife, my executrix Mary Dixon in
or
about or concerning this my last will and testament their shares to be
void

Ambrose Dixon

Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s

Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900sMay 2, 2004 4:38 PM

Personal Information

Name:Ambrose Dixon
Year:1661
Place:Maryland
Family Members:Wife Dixon, Mary; Child Dixon, Sarah; Child Dixon,
Grace; Child Dixon, Elizabeth; Child Dixon, Mary; Child Dixon,
Ambrose;Child Dixon, Thomas
Source Publication Code:2524.55
Primary Immigrant:Dixon, Ambrose
Annotation:Date and port of arrival. Extracted from Maryland Land
Office records of patents and warrants. Reference to original record
ortranscript and microfilm number are also provided. Other historical
and genealogical information may also be provided. The first
publication, The Early Settlers of Maryland, was indexed as source
number 8510 in PILI 1982.
Source Bibliography:GIBB, CARSON. A Supplement to The Early Settlers
of Maryland. Annapolis, MD: Maryland State Archives, 1997. 248p.
Page:68

Source Information: Gale Research. Passenger and Immigration Lists
Index, 1500s-1900s [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc.,
2003. Original data: Filby, P. William, edit. Passenger and
ImmigrationLists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale
Research, 2003.

Sie haben geheiratet rund 1649 in Northampton, Virginia, British America.

Kind(er):

1. Thomas Dixon  ± 1646-1720 
2. Mary Dixon  ± 1650-???? 
3. Sarah Dixon  1650-± 1689 
4. Ambrose Dixon  1655-1655
5. Elizabeth Dixon  ± 1657-1687 
6. Grace Dixon  ± 1659-1753 
7. Alice Dixon  1663-1687 
8. Hannah Dixon  1666-1667

Notizen bei Ambrose Dixon

Since I have never seen any prime source for Ambrose Dixon's parents, I thought now was a good time as any to put out the information from Joan Spiker who posted this to RootsWeb in 1998: "I've seen the information about Ambrose Dixon being the son of Katherine Berkely/Barkeley before, but it is not apparently true. Matthew Wise, in his book, Boston Family of Maryland says (p. 448):

"DIXON FAMILY - After publication in 1967 of The Boston Family of Maryland the compiler [Lankford, Wilmer O.] had persistent doubts about the unsubstantiated pedigree he had found, and printed in the book, that identified Ambrose Dixon's mother as Katherine Barkley, claimed to be a daughter of Thomas Barkley of Ewdnes, Shropshire, England descended from Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Lord Berkeley (1281 - 1326), whose ancestors included King Henry I of England, Charlemagne, and Alfred the Great. A distinguished genealogist, Mr. Francis Leeson, FSG, was engaged to investigate the pedigree. He produced a record of the family of Thomas Barkley of Edwnes, which showed no dau. named Katherine. And he was, moreover, unable to find any record of Ambrose Dixon's supposed parents, William Dixon and Katherine Barkley. The family of Thomas Barkley of Ewdnes, erroneously claimed as grand-father of Ambrose Dixon is as follows: (He goes on to name the children and their dates.)
It is also untrue that Mary Dixon, widow of Ambrose Dixon, md. a man named John Heath in 1691 after Ambrose's death. Mary never re-md. In a court record of 1694 her son Thomas Dixon agrees to build her a house or addition to his house for her to live in for the rest of her life.
I'm going to post the above information for the list. People can, of course, make up their own minds, but I want to go with the known facts."
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/COTTINGHAM/1998-05/0896118891

TimeLine:
DIXON, Ambrose
1663/04/01 ESMd imm; wf Mary; son Thomas; daus Eliza, Mary, Sarah
1665/01/11 LIV registered cattle mark; OT Dickson
1665/12/11 JUD1 OT Dickson
1666/04/01 JUD1 surveyor for highways
1671/03/27 LegB delegate to Assembly; did not attend
1673/11/13 IKL b. to Thomas & Christiana; Annamessex;
bapt. 17 May 1674
1675/03/11 JUD2
1678/11/01 VII Tobacco List
1683/11/13 JUD3
1686/04/07 MCW prob 10 Apr 1688; wf Mary; dau. Elizabeth Dukes
1687/04/12 IKL d&b meeting house Annamessex; sr
1688/08/04 EB14 inventory
Source: They Lived In Somerset: 17th Century Marylanders
Lankford, Wilmer O., © 1990, printed by Manokin Press, P.O. Box 14, Princess Anne, MD 21853
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 90-63790
http://view.greetings.yahoo.com/greet/view?XRTXJXDZQPBI8
Found: 29-Oct-2003, by David Lee Powell

Ambrose Dixon
born: 1628 in London, Middlesex, England
died: 12 Apr 1687 in Annamessex, Somerset County, Maryland
Occupation: Caulker of boats, planter, surveyor.

In 1651 Ambrose Dixon joined Edmund Scarburgh and several others in riding against the Indians in defiance of the law. A Court Order of 10 May 1651 says: "Whereas Mr Edmund Scarburgh, Mr Thomas Johnson, Mr Richard Vaughan, Captain John Dollinge, John Robinson, Toby Norton, Richard Baily, Ambrose Dixon, Richard Hill, Jenkin Price And divers others Inhabitants and free men in the Upper parte of the parish in the Countie of Northampton Did in a Hostile manner (contrary to the knowne Lawes of Virginia And the League made with the Indians) upon the 28th day of Aprill last past Rayse a partie of men to the number of fiftie persons with Armes and ammunicon And upon the aforesaid daie marched amonge the Indians with a Resolucon to take or kill the Queene of Pocamoke, shott att Indians, slashed and cut [illegible here], Took Indyans prisoner, And bound one of them with a Chayne, which said Accons caused the Indyans To Invade the Countie, to the great danger of our Lives and Estate, It is therefore ordered That the Sherriff shall forthwith Arrest the Bodies of all the abovesaid parties And such other (upon inquiry) as hee shall have notice of (which went out against the indyans upon their Designe) To the Number of 50 persons and that hee keepe them in his custodie untill they enter into bonds to make their personal appearance at James Citty to answer the premisses before the Governor and Council upon the XXIth day of this Instant Moneth (att the suite of our Sovereign King)".
He immigrated into Somerset County, Maryland on 4 Jan 1663 from Accomack County, Virginia with wife Mary; son Thomas; daus. Elizabeth, Mary and Sarah. On 4 Jan 1666 he was appointed Surveyor for Highways. 3 Mar 1671 was elected a delegate to Maryland Assembly, but he never attended.

Father: William Dixon
Mother: Katherine Berkeley
Spouse: Mary Wilson

Children:
1. Sarah Dixon
2. Mary Dixon (md. Thomas Cottingham)
3. Elisa Dixon (md. Robert Dukes)

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Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Vol. 8, by Peden, Henry C., Jr. & Wright, F. Edward. (Westminster, MD: Willow Bend Books, 2000), p. 102:
2 AMBROSE DIXON, SO Co., son of (N) (1) Dixon, md. Mary Pedington (widow of Henry).
Ambrose Dixon was in Northampton Co., VA by 1645 (although one source states he appears in 1649 as having been transported to VA by Richard Bayly of Northampton Co.) and by 1652 he had patented 600 acres with Stephen Horsey. In that year Mary Dixon, evidently the wife of Ambrose, was transported into VA by Ambrose Dixon and Stephen Horsey. During the 1650's Ambrose was a caulker by trade and exercised a quiet life until his religious principles brought him (and others) into conflict with the colonial authorities. He became actively involved with Quakerism, which violated Virginia law. Religious persecution eventually drove him to SO Co., and his home became an important meeting place for Quakers.
Ambrose Dixon (Dickerson) immigrated to the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the latter part of 1661 with wife Mary, sons Ambrose and Thomas, and daus. Elizabeth, Grace, Mary, and Sarah, and also Daniel Moore, Margarett Franklin, Thomas Williams, and Cornelius Ware.
On 18 Aug 1663 Ambrose Dixon, SO Co., patented 300 acres Dixon's Lott and 500 acres tract Dixon's Choice on the south side of the Great Annamessex River, adj. Stephen Horsey's plantation Colebourne.
In May 1667, Ambrose Dixon and wife Mary conveyed part of Dixon's Lott to George Wilson, Sr., of Nansemond Co., VA.
Ambrose Dixon, SO Co., was surveyor of highways in 1666 and was elected to serve in the Lower House of the Maryland Legislature in 1671, but did not serve.
On 29 Jan 1673 cattle marks were recorded in SO Co for Grace and Alce [sic] Dixon, daus. of Ambrose and Mary.

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Fleet, Beverley, Virginia Colonial Abstracts,2006
Ambrose Dixon is mentioned on pages 241 and 242.

"Records of the Wilson Family of Maryland and Virginia. 1675-1721. Contributed through the kindness of Mrs. Mary Turpin Layton, of Martha Washington Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, DC. Deed Book MA.6, p. 742. Dated 15 Aug 1675. [Somerset County, Maryland]. George Wilson and Elizabeth his wife of Somerset County, sell land to Robert Dukes, land granted in 1666 to Ambrose Dixon, and the said land alienated by Ambrose Dixon and Mary his wife to Geo. Wilson of Somerset County. CD #10, p. 66. Elizabeth Wilson of King and Queen County, Virginia for love and affection toward son William Wilson deeds land left by deceased husband George Wilson late of King and Queen Co. Land Called Hogg Ridge lying on the North side of Mucumscoe Creek in Somerset County, Maryland. 10 Oct 1704 [?]." Page 241.

"...from Ambrose Dixon and Mary his wife on 8 Mar 1677, and which George, Senr. had in 1709 to his two sons in Somerset County, viz... " p. 242.
Other Dixons listed in the book are:
Dixon, 520, 522 Dixon, Margaret 292.
Dixon, --- (Col.) 382 Dixon, Mary 241, 242 .
Dixon, James 189 Dixon, Samuel 117.
Dixon, John 93, 189, 324 Dixon, William M. 189.
Dixon, L. 523 Dixon, Wm. 88.

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DIXON, AMBROSE (England, Virginia, and Annamessex, Somerset County), member of the Lower House of Maryland Assembly in 1671; soldier (rank not stated) ca. 1675; paid for his services in the late expedition against the Nanticoke Indians in 1678; born ca. 1620, died testate and bur. 12 Apr 1687 (will written on 7 Apr 1686, but not probated unt. 10 Aug 1688; Mary Dixon, widow). Note: Ambrose was a soldier, an innkeeper, and an elected official in spite of the fact that he was a Quaker (their tenets did not tolerate bearing arms, fighting, drinking, and taking oaths).
Source: Peden, Henry C., Colonial Maryland Soldiers and Sailors, 1634-1734.

The 2007 book entitled Somerset County, Maryland: A Brief History written by Jason Rhodes mentions Ambrose Dixon:
On p. 12, he writes, "Another Virginia emigrant of note was Ambrose Dixon,who also settled on the south side of the Big Annemessex. His 850-acre plantation--Dixon's Choice, near what is now Marion Station--was the first Quaker meeting place on the Eastern Shore and eventually became Maryland's first sanctioned bur. ground. Though elected as a Somerset County representative to the Maryland Assembly in 1670, no record of his actually attending the assembly exists."

The author continues to write about other Quakers who settled at Annemessex, as well as Edmund Beauchamp, Stephen Horsey, Randall Revell and Col. Edmund Scarborough.

"Ambrose Dixon, a prominent citizen of Northampton County, having already given bond that he would not entertain the Quaker minister William Robinson, continued to violate the statute forbidding the importation of Quakers. Under pretense of transporting them up the Chesapeake Bay to Patuxet, he landed them at Nassawaddox on the Virginia Eastern Shore, where there was a Quaker meeting house, and where Living Denwood... welcomed them."
Source: Hatfield, April Lee, Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century, 2007, p. 126.

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From Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Volume 1, by Beverley Fleet, p. 241. 
"Records of the Wilson Family of Maryland and Virginia. 1675-1721...
Deed Book MA.06, p. 742. Dated 15 Aug 1675. [Somerset County, Maryland]. George Wilson and Elizabeth his wife of Somerset County, sell land to Robert Dukes, land granted in 1666 to Ambrose Dixon, and the said land alienated by Ambrose Dixon and Mary his wife to Geo. Wilson of Somerset County."

Ambrose Dixon came to Northampton Co.. VA. in 1649. Wife Mary joined him in 1652.
He had joined the Quaker Church and persecutions persisted in VA.
Abt. Jan 1661-62 he moved his family to MD., settling at Dixons
Choice on the South Fork of the Great Annemessex River. This became
the center for Quaker Activity.

So Col. Scarburgh rode to exact the obedience of the settlers to Virginia. His report of his doings is a little masterpiece of invective. Of Stephen Horsey, the new commissioner who lived on Annemessex, he said: "An ignorant yet insolent officer and a factious and tumultuous person, constant in nothing, his children at great ages yet unchristened." Ambrose Dixon he characterized as a "prater of nonsense and much led by ye spirit of ignorance." George Johnson was "ye proteus of heresy . . . notorious for shifting, scismattical pranks ... a known Drunkard & Reported by ye neighbors to be ye father of his negro Wenches' bastards." Dixon and Johnson were Quakers. Scarburgh marked the door of every planter who refused to submit to Virginia with "ye broad arrow" of confiscation.
Source: Footner, Hulbert, Rivers of the Eastern Shore Seventeen Maryland Rivers, (New York: J.J.Little and Ives Company, 1944), pp. 45-46.

After some discussion, Scarborough arrested him [Stephen Horsey], because he would not acknowledge the act of the Virginia Assembly and placed the "broad arrow" on his door. "So thus proceeding," he continues, "wee went to ye house of Ambrose Dixon, a Quaker, where a boat and two men belonging to Groome's Shipp, and two running Quakers were, also George Johnson, and Thomas Price inhabitants, and Quakers." They also refusing, he arrested them, for contempt, and placed the "broad arrow " on their doors. ...
"Ambrose Dixon, a caulker by profession, that lived long in ye lower parts was often, in question, for his quaking profession, removed to Anamessecks there to act what hee could not be here permitted, is a prater of nonsence. * * * A receiver of many Quakers, his house yt hee place of their report."
Source: Neill, Edward D., Virginia Carolorum - the Colony under the Rule of Charles the First and Second, (Albany,NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1886), pp. 301-02.

Brief family records of the Founders—men of English names—Stephen Horsey, Ambrose Dixon, Randall Revell, John Elzey, William Thorne, Henry Boston, William Coulborne, William Bozman, William Stevens, John Winder, Edmund Beauchamp—lend interest, particularly to the genealogist. To these are added lists of Somerset officials bef. 1700, transcripts of early marriage records, lists of first settlers with their religious affiliations, their "head rights," and the Land Patents, with their charming names—"Friends' Contentment," "Make Peace," "Dispense," "Jeshimon," "Taunton Deane,"
"Colebrook," "Rehoboth," "Ledbourne," and "Almodington "—to mention only a few from nearly two hundred.
Source: Book Review: Torrence, Clayton, Old Somerset on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. A Study in Foundations and Founders. 583
pp. in Maryland Historical Magazine Fall 1936, p. 268.

In Apr 1651, Colonel Scarburgh could no longer restrain his desire to punish the Indians along the northern boundary of Accomac for a number of trifling depredations, and for their reported conspiracy to massacre the whites. Collecting a band of well armed and experienced Indian fighters, among whom were Thomas Johnson, Richard Vaughan, John Boilings, John Robinson, Toby Norton, Richard Bayly, Ambrose Dixon, Richard Hill,4 Tomlin Price, besides other inhabitants of Northampton, he set out from Occahannock Creek on the 29th of the month, to capture or kill the King of
Pocomoke, the leading spirit of the supposed conspiracy. It was not long before the formidable mounted band fell upon the natives, whom they shot at, and slashed with their sabres and long hunting knives. Capturing a number of the amazed natives, Scarburgh ordered that their bows be cut and that the two whom he believed to be ringleaders be bound neck
and heels with a chain. Not knowing what was coming next, it was very natural for the Indians to collect in great numbers along the border, and of course it was said that they intended to invade the Accomac country. Whether it was their intention to do so or not before Colonel Scarburgh
made his raid among them is not really known. At any rate, rumors of impending war had been rife for some time, and having much property exposed to their mercy, Colonel Scarburgh was unwilling to sit quietly at home and take the chance of its being destroyed. Numbers of the frontiersmen and fur traders had no doubt come to him with tales about the Indians, which led to his assault upon them. After a short while, the bands of frightened Indians dispersed, and Scarburgh and his raiders returned to their homes. ...
The preamble of the Act of 1660 describes the Quakers as "an unreasonable and turbulent sort of people, who daily gather together unlawful assembles of people, teaching lies, miracles, false visions, prophecies, and doctrines tending to disturb the peace, disorganize Society, and destroy all law, and government, and religion." Masters of vessels were
prohibited by the act from bringing in any of that sect, under penalty of one hundred pounds of tobacco; and if any were imported they were to be apprehended and committed until they should give security that they would leave the Colony. If they should return, they were to be punished, and upon returning a second time they were to be proceeded against as felons. No person should entertain Quakers that had been questioned by the Governor and Council; nor permit any assembly of them in or near his house, under the penalty of one hundred pounds sterling; and the publication of their writings was prohibited. For the violation of this law, William Colbourne, Henry White, Thomas Leatherbury and Ambrose Dixon were arrested and sent to James City for a hearing before the Council. ...
... "Ambrose Dixon, a caulker by profession," "often in question for his Quaking profession," "a prater of nonsense," stands arrested, and "the broad
arrow at his door, but bids defiance."
Source: Ye Kingdome of Accawmacke, pp. 117-18, 180..

The recalcitrant Quakers mentioned in the report of Col. Scarborough to the Virginia Assembly, from which this account is taken, were Thomas Price
and Ambrose Dixon. They and their associates were all settled along the
Annemessex. Col. Scarborough's description of these people is exceedingly
curious, and anything but flattering, but it doubtless reflects the sentiments concerning them prevailing at the time. When Somerset was organized in 1666, there were three Quakers acting as land commissioners, and probably as Justices of the Peace. All this serves to indicate with what feelings they were regarded by the proprietary government of Maryland. Accomack County, Virginia Records.
Source: Harrison, Samuel A., Wenlock Christison, and the early Friends in Talbot County, Maryland, (Baltimore: John Murphy, 1878), p. 11.

"Ambrose Dixon, a caulker by proffession, that lived long in ye lower parts, was often in Question for his Quaking proffession, removed to Anamessecks, there to Act what hee could not be here permitted; Is a prater of nonsense, and much led by ye Spirit ot Ignorance, for wch. hee is followed, A Receiver of many Quakers, his house ye place of their resort, and a conveyor of ye ingaged persons out of the county, averse to Govn't. for wch. hee stands arrestid, and ye broad arrow on his doore, but bids defiance, until surrer course enforced him."
Source: Col. Edmond Scarburgh's Account of Proceedings, (Annapolis: J. Hughes, Printer, 1833), p. 11.

After an excursion into Virginia and North Carolina and a short period of labor in Southern Maryland, Fox and his group crossed the Bay to Somerset. Here services were held at the houses of Ambrose Dixon, Capt. Colburn, James Jones, and others. From the Annemessex section they proceeded by water about fifty miles to the house of a "friendly woman" at Hunger
(Honga) River and then to Dr. Winsmore’s (a justice of the peace recently "convinced") near the head of the Little Choptank River in Dorchester.
Source: Maryland Historical Magazine, Mar 1952, Carroll, Kenneth L, "Maryland Quakers in the Seventeenth Century", p. 306.

...Twenty-four men from Somerset County sat on the bench, in the Assembly, or served as sheriff bet. 1665 and 1673. None of them was
born into a station that would have assured easy access to an office of power in England. As a group they were not sharply distinguished by wealth, birth, or education from the generality of Somerset planters. Henry Boston, and probably Stephen Horsey, Ambrose Dixon, and William Bosman, had started out in Virginia as servants. Dixon, James Jones, Randall Revell, and
Nicholas Rice were illiterate. Horsey and Revell were coopers. Rice a carpenter, Dixon a caulker. Most earned their livelihood making tobacco; none were rich enough to escape work in the fields. Somerset was governed by small planters, former servants, and men who could not write their names, a group whose collective biography could be replicated in a random sample of household heads in the county.22
Source: Maryland Historical Magazine, Spring 1984, Menard, Russell R., "Population, Economy, and Society in Seventeenth-Century Maryland", p. 84.

Ambrose Dixon a caulker by profession that lived long in ye lower parts, was often in question for his quaking profession removed to Anamessecks their to Act what hee could not be here permitted. Is a prater of nonsence, and much led by ye spirit of Ignorance for w'ch he is followed, A receiver
of many quakers, his house ye place of their Resort and a conveyor of o'r ingaged persons out of ye County, averse to Gov'mt, for w'ch he stands arrested and ye broad arrow on his doore, but bids defiance until severer course reforms him.
Source: "Scarbugh's Report" in "Copy of Grant to Lord Baltimore", found in Report and Journal of Proceedings of the Joint Commissioners to Adjust the Boundary Line of the States of Maryland and Virginia, Authorized by the Act of 1872, Chapter 210, (Annapolis: S.S. Mills & L.F. Colton, 1874), p. 228.

In Apr 1651, Colonel Scarburgh could no longer restrain his desire to punish the Indians along the northern boundary of Accomac for a number of trifling depredations, and for their reported conspiracy to massacre the whites. Collecting a band of well armed and experienced Indian fighters, among whom were Thomas Johnson, Richard Vaughan, John Boilings, John Robinson, Toby Norton, Richard Bayly, Ambrose Dixon, Richard Hill, Tomlin Price, besides other inhabitants of Northampton, he set out from Occahannock Creek on the 29th of the month, to capture or kill the King of
Pocomoke, the leading spirit of the supposed conspiracy. It was not long before the formidable mounted band fell upon the natives, whom they shot at, and slashed with their sabres and long hunting knives. Capturing a number of the amazed natives, Scarburgh ordered that their bows be cut and that the two whom he believed to be ringleaders be bound neck
and heels with a chain. Not knowing what was coming next, it was very natural for the Indians to collect in great numbers along the border, and of course it was said that they iutended to invade the Accomac country. Whether it was their intention to do so or not before Colonel Scarburgh
made his raid among them is not really known. At any rate, rumors of impending war had been rife for some time, and having much property exposed to their mercy, Colonel Scarburgh was unwilling to sit quietly at home and take the chance of its being destroyed. Numbers of the frontiersmen and fur traders had no doubt come to him with tales about
the Indians, which led to his assault upon them. After a short while, the bands of frightened Indians dispersed, and Scarburgh and his raiders returned to their homes.
Source: Wise, Jennings Cropper, Ye Kingdome of Accawmacke in the Seventeenth Century, (Richmond, Virginia: Bell Book & Stationery Co., 1911), p. 118.

I suggest that it is a larger infusion of the spirit of nonconformity that makes the southern Shoremen differ from their northerly neighbors. This results on the credit side in an increased independence; on the debit side, in a greater lawlessness. It will be remembered that the first white settlers
on the lower Shore were such men as Stephen Horsey, William Stevens, Ambrose Dixon and George Johnson, Quakers and other nonconformists, who had left their homes in Virginia rather than submit to the rule of the Anglican Church.
Source: Footner Hulbert, The Rivers of the Eastern Shore Seventeen Maryland Rivers, (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1944), p. 170.

Brief family records of the Founders—men of English names—Stephen Horsey, Ambrose Dixon, Randall Revell, John Elzey, William Thorne, Henry Boston, William Coulborne, William Bozman, William Stevens, John Winder, Edmund Beauchamp—lend interest, particularly to the genealogist. To these are added lists of Somerset officials bef. 1700, transcripts of early marriage records, lists of first settlers with their religious affiliations, their "head rights," and the Land Patents, with their charming names—"Friends' Contentment," "Make Peace," "Dispense," "Jeshimon," "Taunton Deane,"
"Colebrook," " Eehoboth," " Ledbourne," and "Almodington"—to mention only a few from nearly two hundred.
Source: Maryland Historical Magazine, Spring 1984, EmersRobert, Russell R., "Population, Economy, and Society in Seventeenth-Century Maryland", p. 268.

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