Display Patriot - P-148988 - Jesse DODSON

Jesse DODSON

SAR Patriot #: P-148988

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State of Service: VA      Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
DAR #: A211349

Birth: 22 Nov 1752 / Fauquier / VA
Death: 22 Nov 1843 / McMinn / TN

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Provided provisions for the VA Continental Army
  2. Took Oath of Allegiance in Pittsylvania Co, VA in 1777

Additional References:
  1. Abercrombie & Slatten, Virginia Rev Public Claims, Volume 3, pg 12 & 763
  2. NSDAR: Magazine of VA Genealogy, Vol 23, pg 8
  3. SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004

Spouse: Ruth Dodson
Children: Elisha; Ruth; Tabitha Jane; Sallie;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1996-09-25 CA 211049 David Merrill Leonard (140414) Sallie   
2011-10-06 TX 44008 Thomas Ingle Jackson (162548) Elisha   
2012-02-15 TX 45239 Thomas Ashley Jackson (162547) Elisha   
2012-03-23 TN 47161 William Morris McClure (182993) Jesse   
Burial:
Matlock Cemetery (C-0372538)
Location:
Athens / McMinn / TN / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
1964531
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
24933653
Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:
  • Photo by permission: David Leonard, California Society SAR
  • No GPS coordinates provided


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Author: William Morris McClure
Jesse Buford Dodson was born 22 Nov 1752 in Halifax County, Virginia, the son of Thomas Dodson Jr. and Elizabeth Rose. Jesse died on Nov 22, 1843 in McMinn County, Tennessee and is buried in the Matlock Cemetery, Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee. Jesse married his first cousin Ruth in 1774 and he settled on land given to him by his father and began his life as a Baptist Minister. In 1781 Jesse sold his Virginia land to relatives and headed west to Tennessee. Jesse is listed as a member of the County Line Baptist Church (also known as the North on Holston River Baptist Church). In 1801 he joined the Big Springs Primitive Baptist Church in Springdale, Tennessee and became the Pastor of the Church from November, 1801 to November, 1805. This church was built by Daniel Boone in the winter of 1795-1796 and is still standing. It is one of the oldest churches still standing in the State of Tennessee.

Jesse would travel to McMinn County, Tennessee, around 1820 just after the Hiwassee Purchase with the Cherokee had opened the land to settlement. Dodson was involved in establishing many of the early churches in McMinn County around Salem, Hiwassee, Friendship and New Hopewell. He is listed in the 1919 book of early Tennessee Baptist Preachers. He and Ruth owned ten slaves which she had inherited from her father. When Ruth died in 1828 Jesse set the slaves free stating that "a Bill of Sale of Negroes in my pocket would be a bad passport at the Gates of Heaven."

There is no record of Jesse Dodson service in the Revolutionary War. However, he did receive a Land Grant for service in the War (possibly providing provisions, security) in part of what was then North Carolina and is now Tennessee. His name is also on a list of those who took an Oath of Allegiance to the State of Virginia.

My descendancy from Jesse Dodson Sr. is:

GGGG Grand Parents - Jesse Dodson Sr. and Ruth
GGG Grand Parents - Jesse Dodson Jr. and Mary Newton
GG Grand Parents - Edward A. Dodson and Rachel Caroline Forrest
G Grand Parents - John Dodson and Ermina Lane
Grand Parents - Anna Belle Dodson and William Trewhitt
Parents- Sarah Ganelle Trewhitt and John Morris McClure

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