... The following from Capt. James L. Dawson, Westminster, Md., and Maj. Lucien L. Dawson, Philadelphia, Pa., 1872.
1. PHILEMON DAWSON, b. in Dorchester Co., Md., about 1770, is said to have been an only child. His father's name is not known. His mother was a Miss Le Compte, sister to Charles Le Compte, of Dorchester, a descendant of John Le Compte a French Huguenot, who settled in Maryland about 1670. He m. about 1796, in Whitehaven, Cumbarland county, England, Jane Lowes, daughter of James and Ann Lowes, of that county. When in England at this time "he had his pedigree traced, and his coat of arms painted, which shows him to have been of the Lincolnshire branch." He d. in 1815. He had seven children: ...
