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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Dawson
Given Name:
Richard
Soundex Code:
D250
Birth, Christening and Other Information
Gender:
Male
Date of Birth or Christening:
about 1720
Nation:
England
Orphan:
Unknown
Position in Parent's Family:
Unknown
Year of Immigration:
about 1774
Landowner:
Unknown
Literate:
Unknown
Convict:
Unknown
Length of Indenture
Year of Indenture:
about 1774
Place of Indenture
County:
Baltimore
Colony:
Maryland
Research Notes
Proof of Convict Status:
"Richard Dawson, an English convict, came into the country last winter, about 55 years of age, was a soldier under the King of Prussia last war, is given to liquor, upwards of six feet high, brown hair, round face, fresh coloured, has been hurt in his left thumb, which occasions it to be stiff..." (1)
Source Citations:
(1) Bernard Bailyn, Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution (1988; New York, 1986), centerpiece, quoting Dunlap's Maryland Gazette; or, the Baltimore General Advertiser, July 18, 1775.