Dixon Houses on The Dixons - A Colonial Quaker Family

Dixon-Jackson House

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the Dixon-Jackson house in Delaware

Henry Dixon, son of the immigrant William Dixon, purchased two hundred acres in Mill Creek Hundred in 1726, at the age of 34. He built a one-room log house on his property in what is now northern Delaware. When he passed away in 1742 it was inherited by his son, Samuel Dixon, who later sold it in 1771 before moving to Fayette County in southwest Pennsylvania.

Dixon-Wilson House

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Dixon-Wilson House

Dixon-Wilson house, Delaware

Another son of William Dixon and Ann Gregg Dixon Houghton was John Dixon. John’s brother Henry Dixon built the Dixon-Jackson House. John built a home around 1732 west of Henry’s home. This home, now known as the Dixon-Wilson House, is on Valley Road southwest of Henry’s house.

The home has a datestone inscribed “I & J Dixon – 1732” – The ‘I’ being John’s son, Isaac Dixon. When John died in 1740 Isaac inherited and lived in the home. When he died in 1766, his son inherited it. When this John died it was inherited by his son, Isaac. Yes, they liked repeating familial names! Finally, when this Isaac died the house was inherited by his oldest son, Jesher. In 1832 Jesher sold the home to the Wilsons, a fellow Quaker family with long ties to the area, and built his own house on Southwood Road, which is also still standing. I will write about that house in a future post…

Jesse Dixon House

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Jesse Dixon House

Revised 2024-11-26

Jesse Dixon House, North Carolina

💡 Originally written by Edwin Patterson - reproduced here since the original site has gone offline. I have done some minor cleanup of typos, added a few notes of correction regarding people and relations, etc.

This house, which I have called simply the “Quaker House” for a number of years, has become a major project in my life. I had developed an interest in early buildings in the area about 1981 and had moved the first building, the Huckaby log cabin, to this site in 1983. In 1984, a fellow employee at Weyerhaeuser, Moncure, told me about this house in the country south of Siler City. He had been given some wide boards from the house, had taken pictures, and brought me some nails from the boards. I knew the house looked early, earlier than the cut nails from the interior paneling boards indicated.

Nathan Dixon Spring House

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Nathan Dixon Spring House

Nathan Dixon spring house

This Springhouse was built around 1789. It is hard to get an exact date because a lot of recycled wood was used to build it. The owner, Nathan Dixon, was the brother of Jesse Dixon, who lived in the Quaker House.

Nichols House

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Nichols house, Delaware

This house is tied to other Dixon homes in the area, and had some interesting ties to historical events in the Revolutionary War, as mentioned in the historical marker above.

When John Dixon, builder of the Dixon-Wilson house on Valley Road, passed away, his widow Sarah Hollingsworth Dixon married another Quaker, Daniel Nichols, in 1743. Her oldest son, Isaac, later married Daniel’s younger sister, Ann Nichols, and they lived in the Dixon-Wilson House while their son Jehu went on to build the Samuel P. Dixon House near Red Clay Creek. Later still, when Daniel Nichols died in 1798, Isaac and Ann’s son, Thomas, inherited the Nichols House. (Thomas married a Sarah Cooper, unverified)

Samuel P Dixon House

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Samuel P Dixon house, Delaware

In 1791 Jehu Dixon, son of Isaac Dixon, built a fieldstone house in the eastern part of Mill Creek Hundred. After his death it eventually went to his son, Samuel P. Dixon who lived there until his death in 1879. He expanded the home and added a fieldstone barn and a springhouse.

Samuel P Dixon House, Delaware

Eventually his son, Samuel C. Dixon, owned the property until it passed out of the Dixon family around 1910 or so.