Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

William Dawson (?-1824)
MSA SC 3520-17302

Sources:

Archival Sources:

Cecil County Court, Marriage Licenses, Marriage of William Dawson and Elizabeth Graves, 1780, MdHR 9435, p. 23 [MSA C632-1, 1/11/6/38].

Census for Bohemia Manor, Cecil County, 1790, First Census of the United States, 1790, NARA M637, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, roll 3, page 320. Courtesy of Ancestry.com.

Census for Bohemia Manor, Cecil County, 1800, Second Census of the United States, 1800, NARA M32, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, roll 10, page 53. Courtesy of Ancestry.com.

Census for Elkton, Cecil County, 1820, Fourth Census of the United States, 1820, NARA M33, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, roll M33_40, page 135. Courtesy of Ancestry.com.

Census for Glasgow, New Castle, Delaware, 1810, Third Census of the United States, 1810, NARA M252, Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, roll 4, page 261. Courtesy of Ancestry.com.

Final Payment Voucher for William Dawson, 1820, Final Revolutionary War Pension Payment Vouchers: Delaware, National Archives, NARA M2079, Record Group 217, Roll 0001. Courtesy of Fold3.com

Final Payment Voucher for William Dawson from General Accounting Office, 1820, Index to Selected Final Payment Vouchers, 1818-1864, National Archives, Record Group 217, box05_00005. Courtesy of Fold3.com.

General Assembly House of Delegates, Assessment Record, William Dawson record, 1783, Cecil County Fourth District, p. 6 [MSA S1161-39, 1/4/5/47].

Journal and Correspondence of the Maryland Council of Safety, July 7-December 31, 1776 Archives of Maryland Online Vol. 12.

Journal and Correspondence of the Maryland Council of Safety, August 29, 1775 to July 6, 1776, Archives of Maryland Online Vol. 11.

Journal of the House of Delegates, 1808, Archives of Maryland Online Vol. 556.

Land Office, Lots Westward of Fort Cumberland, William Dawson's lot in Western Maryland, MdHR 17302, p. 27 [SE1-1].

Maryland State Papers, Red Books, List of Regular Officers by Chamberlaine, December 1776, MdHR 4573, Liber 12, p. 66 [MSA S989-17, 1/6/4/5].

Maryland State Papers, Revolutionary Papers, Descriptions of men in Capt. Edward Veazey’s Independent Comp, 1776, MdHR 19970-15-36/01 [MSA S997-15-36, 1/7/3/13].

Muster Rolls and Other Records of Service of Maryland Troops in the American Revolution, Archives of Maryland Online Vol. 18.

Muster rolls of the Second Maryland Regiment, Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783, National Archives, NARA M246, Record Group 93, Roll 0033, Folder 15. Courtesy of Fold3.com.

Pension of William Dawson, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, National Archives, NARA M804, Record Group 15, Roll 771, pension number S. 34,732. Courtesy of Fold3.com.

Pension of Mark McPherson and Widow's Pension of Mary McPherson. The National Archives. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files. NARA M804, W 2144. 1-73. From Fold3.com.

Revolutionary War Rolls, NARA M246, p. 92, From Fold3.com.

Service Card of William Dawson (Second Maryland Regiment), Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War, National Archives, NARA M881, Record Group 93, Roll 0399. Courtesy of Fold3.com.

Session Laws, 1810, Archives of Maryland Online Vol. 599.

Treasurer of the Western Shore, Military Pension Roll, Record of pension payment to William Dawson, MdHR 4534-4, p. 31 [MSA S613-1, 2/63/10/33].

Published Sources:

Alexander, Arthur. How Maryland Tried to Raise Her Continential Quotas. Maryland Historical Magazine 42, no. 3 (1947). 184-196.

Collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, Philadelphia: John Pennington and Henry C. Baird, 1853.

"Mortuary Notice," Salem Gazette, Salem, Massachusetts, March 1, 1833, Vol. XI, issue 18, p. 3.

"Sheriff's Sale," American Watchman, Wilmington, Delaware, June 5, 1827, page 3.

Tacyn, Mark Andrew. “'To the End:’ The First Maryland Regiment and the American Revolution” (PhD diss., University of Maryland College Park, 1999).

Westward of Fort Cumberland: Military Lots Set Off for Maryland's Revolutionary Soldiers, ed. Mary K. Meyer, Westminister: Heritage Books, 2008.

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