John Dawes

1743 - 1811  (68 years)

• Name	John Dawes  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Birth	1743  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Census	1800	Lincoln County, Maine, USA   [3]
  Probate	Kennebec County, Maine, USA   [5]
  Death	4 Nov 1811	Boothbay, Lincoln, Maine, USA   [1, 2, 4, 5]
  Burial	Kenniston Cemetery, Boothbay, Lincoln, Maine, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I27797	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Ebenezer Dawes,   b. Abt 1710, Boothbay, Lincoln, Maine, USA d. 1750, Boothbay Harbor, Lincoln, Maine, USA (Age 40 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elizabeth Matthews,   b. 1730, Lincoln, Oxford, Maine, USA d. 1751, Boothbay Harbor, Lincoln, Maine, USA (Age 21 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1747	Boothbay Harbor, Lincoln, Maine, USA   [6, 7]
  Family ID	F3254	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary McKown,   b. Ireland d. 16 Dec 1885
  Marriage	1768  [7]
  Family ID	F11997	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Census - 1800 - Lincoln County, Maine, USA Probate - - Kennebec County, Maine, USA Death - 4 Nov 1811 - Boothbay, Lincoln, Maine, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Histories

  History-DAWES (Boothbay ME)

  
  

• Sources

  [S9] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S1407] Ancestry.com, Maine, Veterans Cemetery Records, 1676-1918, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2020;), State Archives; Augusta, Maine; Maine, Veterans Cemetery Records, 1676-1918. Maine, Veterans Cemetery Records, 1676-1918 [S516] Ancestry.com, 1800 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Year: 1800; Census Place: Cape, Lincoln, Maine; Series: M32; Roll: 6; Page: 369; Image: 354; Family History Library Film: 218676. [S1746] Ancestry.com, Maine, U.S., Death Records, 1761-1922, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Maine State Archives; Cultural Building, 84 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0084; Pre 1892 Delayed Returns; Roll Number: 28. [S32] Ancestry.com, Maine, Wills and Probate Records, 1584-1999, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2015;), Probate Records, 1799-Ca. 1930; Author: Maine. Probate Court (Kennebec County); Probate Place: Kennebec, Maine. [S4] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online. [S872] Francis Bryon Greene, History of Boothbay, Southport and Boothbay Harbor, Maine. 1623-1905, (Name: Loring; Location: New York; Date: 1906;), Family History: Daws (Dawes, Dawse). Ebenezer Daws set. among the rest of the early ones at Back River, coming from the westward. His w.'s name is unk. , but tradition says she was sister to John Matthews. They are known to have had two sons, John and Jonathan. The Back River home was where Albion Lewis lives. John m. Mary, sister to Patrick McKown, coming with her brother to America, 1763. They were m. in 1768. Their home was where the Dolloff homestead was, on road from E. B. to B. Ctr. They first built a log house, but later the frame one now on the place, which was the first building contract taken by John, Jr., and Thomas Leishman. They had no chil. In Patrick McKown's will, 1779, occurs the clause that his sister should “take my youngest son, John, and my daughter, Nancy, as her own." This son became the well-known Major John McKown and the dau. m. John Ingraham . John Daws was a sea captain, in the foreign trade ; he d. Nov. 4, 1811. She lived many years in Major McKown's fam., but boarded with the Handleys in her last years at her old home. She d. Dec. 16, 1825, a. 83. Jonathan Daws m. Elizabeth Barter, 1768, and lived on his father's homestead . They had ten chil., b. bet. 1770-88 : John, Lydia, Mary, Elizabeth , Benjamin, Lois, Abigail, Patty, Jenny, Sally. The father was a sea captain and d. Mar. 27, 1812. The chil. set. elsewhere. https://books.google.com/books?id=abETAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA471&lpg=PA471&dq=ebenezer+dawes+in+boothbay+maine&source=bl&ots=Avrzt0ClEu&sig=ACfU3U0Yu27DNqhc2NAX2hZspR9RkR5u8Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi1me7FxIz2AhWolWoFHeL3As4Q6AF6BAgUEAM#v=onepage&q&f=false History-DAWES (Boothbay ME)