History of Henderson County, Kentucky by Edmund L. Starling, 1887 Reprinted Unigraphic, Inc., Evansville, IN, 1965,. Henderson Co. MEMORIAL OF GOV. ARCHIBALD DIXON'S FAMILY. CAPTAIN WYNN DIXON. - The father of Hon. Archibald Dixon, was Captain Wynn Dixon, who fought through the Revolutionary War, having joined the army at the early age of sixteen. He moved from North Carolina to Henderson, Ky., in 1804. His father, Colonel Henry Dixon, commanded a regiment in the Revolutionary War, and was killed at the battle of Eutaw Springs. Light Horse Harry Lee, in his memoirs of the Revolution, pays Colonel Henry Dixon a high compliment for his gallantry and bravery at the battle of Camden. HART FAMILY. - The mother of Hon. Archibald Dixon was Rebecca Hart, daughter of David Hart, of North Carolina. David Hart, and his brothers Nathaniel and Tom, were three of the nine members of the Henderson Grant Company, who, in 1775, through their agent, Daniel Boone, purchased of the Indians all that party of Kentucky lying between the Kentucky and Cumberland Rivers, and established at Boonesboro the first government in Kentucky, called Transylvania. CABELL FAMILY. -Hon. Archibald Dixon married Elizabeth Robertson Cabell in 1832. Children by that marriage: Rebecca Hart, (wife of Hon. John Young Brown), Susan Bell, deceased (who married first Cuthbert Powell, second Major John J. Reeve), Dr. Archibald Dixon, Hon. Henry C. Dixon and Joseph C. Dixon. Dr. William Cabell, a native of England, and a graduate of the Royal College of Surgeons, in London, immigrated to Goochland, now Nelson County, Va., in 1723 or 1724. He had four sons, first, William; second, Joseph, who was also a physician; third, John; fourth, Nicholas. Dr. Joseph Cabell married Mary Hopkins, aunt of General Samuel Hopkins. Children by that marriage: Joseph, Mary, who married John Breckinridge, Ann, who married Benjamin Harrison, and Elizabeth. BOLLING FAMILY.-Joseph Cabell, father of Elizabeth Robertson Cabell, married the second time Anne E., daughter of Archibald Bolling, of Red Oak, Buckingham County, Va., and his wife, Jane Randolph. Archibald Bolling was lineally descended from Colonel Robert Bolling of Petersburgh,[sic] Va., and his wife, who was the granddaughter of the Indian Princess Pocahontas. BULLITT FAMILY.-The second wife of Hon. Archibald Dixon was Susan, daughter of William C. Bullitt, of Jefferson County, Ky., whom he married in 1853. Children by that marriage: Kate J., who married D. R. Burbank, Jr., William B. and Thomas B. The father of William C. Bullitt was Alexander Scott Bullitt, who emigrated from Virginia to Kentucky in 1780. He was President of the First Constitutional Convention of Kentucky, and her first Lieutenant Governor. The mother of William C. Bullitt was the daughter of Colonel William Christian, and own neice [sic] of the celebrated orator, Patrick Henry. Colonel Christian was killed by the Indians, near Louisville, Ky., in 1782. Christian County is named for him. The mother of Susan Bullitt, wife of Archibald Dixon, was Ann Fry, a lineal descendant of Colonel Joshua Fry, of Virginia. Joshua Fry was Colonel of the regiment of which George Washington was Lieutenant Colonel. He died a short while before "Braddock's defeat," when Washington succeeded him in the command. The father of Ann Fry was Thomas Walker, the first surveyor to run a line in Kentucky. He was in Kentucky before Daniel Boone's visit in 1769. Dixon Lee Hart Boone Cabell Brown Powell Reeve Hopkins Breckinridge Harrison Bolling Randolph Pocahontas Bullitt Christian Burbank Henry Fry Washington Walker = NC England Goochland-Nelson-VA Red_Oak-Buckingham-VA Petersburg- Dinwiddie-VA Louisville-Jefferson-KY Christian-KY http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/henderson/dixon.txt