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 1726 - 1797 (70 years)
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| Name |
Charles Dodson |
| Birth |
28 Aug 1726 |
Richmond County, Commonwealth of Virginia  [1, 2, 3] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
0___ 1797 |
Greene County, Tennessee [3] |
| Person ID |
I5695 |
The Hennessee Family |
| Last Modified |
17 Jun 2015 |
| Father |
John Dodson, b. 1687-1693, Richmond County, Virginia d. 17 ___ 1780, Richmond County, Virginia (Age 87 years) |
| Mother |
Elizabeth Goad, b. 0___ 1705, Richmond County, Virginia d. 0___ 1799 (Age ~ 94 years) |
| Marriage |
Abt 1724 |
(Richmond County, Virginia) [2, 4] |
| Residence (Family) |
0___ 1756 |
Shenandoah County, Commonwealth of Virginia [3] |
| Family ID |
F2063 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Mary LNU d. Aft 1816, Greene County, Tennessee |
| Marriage |
Y [3] |
| Residence (Family) |
0___ 1776 |
Shenandoah County, British Colony of Virginia [3] |
| Residence (Family) |
0___ 1776 |
Washington County, Tennessee [3] |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F15505 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Apr 2023 |
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| Notes |
- Charles Dotson Charles was born 28 Aug 1726, Richmond Co., VA (NFPR). When he was around the age of eleven, the Churchwardens of North Farnham Parish ordered that he and his brother, Moses, be bound out. The reason is not stated. There is no further mention of Charles until 1753/4 when Charles and Moses Dodson are named as tax delinquents in Augusta Co., VA (Chalkley).
Somewhere in Virginia, Charles married Mary (surname unknown).
He was living on the Staunton River in 1751 or 1752 when his son, John, was born (John Dodson, Revolutionary Pension #2518). Possibly they were residing in the vicinity of some of their Goad relatives on Staunton River.
Later Charles moved to Shenandoah Co., VA where his father resided, and was living there at the outbreak of the Revolution.
About 1776 he moved his family to Washington Co., TN, the part that became Green Co. in 1783, but was than a part of North Carolina. He settled on the Nolachucky River and was taxed for 300 acres of land as early as 1780.
This tract of land came down in the family to heirs of Charles’ son, Moses Dodson. When John, the father of Charles, wrote his will in 1779 in Shenandoah Co., VA, he left his son Charles 5 pds current money
“in retaliation of the land to which he might have had a right and I do hereby utterly debar my son Charles Dotson his heirs form holding and possessing any part of my land forever . . . “
The purpose of this emphatic statement is not quite clear. The reference to the “land to which he might have had a right” obviously refers back to that 200 acre tract in Richmond Co. which could not be sold out of the Dodson name, per the terms of the will of Charles Dodson Sr. (1704). It is plain and clear that Charles Dodson (son of John and Elizabeth Goad Dodson) of Greene Co., TN thought he had a right to the 200 acres in Richmond Co. He willed it to his own son, John (of Hawkins Co., TN) in 1797. The 200 acres had been “leased” to Robert Mathews in 1726 for the term of "three natural lifetimes."
No one has yet uncovered the facts regarding the eventual ownership of the 200 acres in Richmond Co.
Charles died in Greene Co., TN in 1797 (between 21 Jun, the date of his will, and the August session of court when the will was proved). In the will he named his children, most of whom married in Greene Co., TN. He also named a grandson, Daniel, whose parents were not identified but who was probably a son of Charles Dotson, Jr.
This branch of the family generally adopted the “Dotson” spelling of the name. Mary, the wife of Charles Dotson, survived him and held a life estate in his property. She was alive as late as 1816 as shown by Green Co. tax lists, at which date there is a loss of tax lists until 1828 and she is no longer listed. [3]
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