Henry Dixon, known as Hal, "was born in the part of Granville County that later became Orange and then Caswell, the son of Henry Dixon, Sr."[1]
On September 15, 1763, he married Martha Frances Wynne (daughter of William and Frances Wynne[2]) in Halifax County, Virginia.[3][1][2]
Henry Dixon was "described as a muscular man who stood six feet two inches and weighed over 220 pounds" and his (seven) children were "noted for their beauty."[1]
"[W]hen North Carolina was charged to form its first units of the Continental line in September 1775, he was commissioned captain of the First Regiment. He rose through the ranks quickly, becoming a major in July 1776 and a lieutenant colonel in May 1778.... In the spring of 1778 the North Carolina legislature appointed Dixon 'Inspector General over Militia,' a post he held for the remainder of the war."[1]
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Dixon[4] participated in "the battles of Whitesil's Mill and Guilford Court House" as recounted by Herndon Haralson in 1840:
[I]n the year 1781 when Gen. Greene retreated thro’ N.C. into Virginia before Lord Cornwallis, he, this affiant, received a Captain’s Commission, raised a company of volunteers, equipped themselves, and joined the army under the command of the said Colonel Dixon and Gen’l Pickens, and marched against a body of Tories in the neighborhood of Hillsborough, then commanded by Colo. Piles, which they attacked, defeated and cut to pieces on the 21st Feb., 1781—from thence in a few days they fought the battles of Whitesil’s Mill and Guilford Court House.” Haralson also states that Dixon “Marched to the South, where in some action in which he fought he received a wound with a musket or a cannon ball, but in what part of his body he doth not now recollect."[5]
He was wounded in the neck, according to a newspaper article written in 1866 by his great-great-nephew, Joseph Addison Turner (1826-1868):
“My great-grandfather married Susannah, the daughter of Henry Dixon, whose wife was Miss Elizabeth Abernethy, a relative of John Abernethy, the great and eccentric London physician, of whose bluntness and idiosyncasies [sic], more than one member of the Turner family partakes in a large degree.” <snip> “The Col. Henry Dixon, who was wounded in the neck by a cannon ball, at the siege of Yorktown, was the brother of Susannah Dixon mentioned above. From this family of Dixons were descended the Hon. Archie Dixon, late federal senator from Kentucky, and Robert Emmet Dixon, of Georgia, late clerk of the Confederate House of Representatives, who was killed by Forde, of Kentucky.” [6]
He died July 17, 1782 from a wound sustained in the battle of Eutaw Springs.[7][5]
Henry Dixon's will was probated in September 1782 and named his wife Martha and six children: Roger, Robert, Henry, Frances, Elizabeth, and Wynne.[2][8] Susannah is listed as one of their children by a descendant.[9]
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