Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 
1887, Jessamine Co.

NEWTON DICKERSON.  Dickerson is a descendant of an early pioneer
family who left Virginia in 1790, and settled in the present limits of
Jessamine County.  Newton Dickerson is the fourth son of Elizabeth
(Moss) and Jeremiah Dickerson whose forefathers were Protestants in the 
armies of William Prince of Orange when he was defending the liberties 
of Holland in the sixteenth century against Phillip II and the 
blood-thirsty Duke of Alva.  Mr. Dickerson was born in Jessamine County,
February 12, 1811, and was married to Elizabeth Dickerson (third cousin)
September 21, 1836.  His father was born in Halifax County, Va., in 
1776, and died in 1858, aged eighty-two years.  He had been sheriff of 
Jessamine County under the State constitution of 1799.  Newton Dickerson
was sheriff of the county in 1852-55, and also in 1865-66.  Mr. 
Dickerson is a man of high moral character and unswerving devotion to 
principle, one whom the people of Jessamine have delighted to honor.  
The following is a list of the names of his children: Mary, died in 
1858; Malinda, died in 1875; Mrs. Matilda Simpson, Woodson Fontaine, 
Newton Rice and Luther B. 

Dickerson Moss Simpson
=
Halifax-VA

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