Dinah DIXON HARLAN
(Abt. 1659 - Aft. 1708 )

GENETIC PARENTS

Father: Henry DIXSON
Mother: Ann GREGG

SPOUSE

GENETIC CHILDREN

OTHER RELATIONS

BASIC DATA

Names: Dinah DIXON HARLAN
Born:
Married: Michael HARLAN JAN 1689/90, Newark Meeting, Newcastle Co., Delaware
Resided: England and Delaware
Died:
Buried:

NOTES

New Castle Co. DE
Newark/Kennett Monthly Meeting records 1686 to 1692

1689/10 8th day 12th mo The Monthly Meeting being held at Valentine Hollingworth, Thomas Peirson & Rose Dixon laying their intentions of marriage before this meeting. It's appointed yt George Harlan & Thomas Hollingsworth doe _____ Enquiry concering ye clearness of ye man & Ann Hollingsworth & Mary Connoway to make Enquiry Concering ye clearness of ye woman, and give an account thereof to ye next meeting. Michael Harlan & Dinah Dixon laying their intentions of marriage before this meeting, It's appointed yt thos Hollingsworth & nathan Cartmell to make enquiry concerning ye clearness of ye man & Ann Hollingworth & Mary Connoway to make enquiry of ye cleaness of woman & to give an accth thereof to ye next monthly meeting.

1689/10 ___ day 1 mo Michael Harlan & Dinah Dixon making their appearance before this meeting in order to their marriage (this being ye second time) Thomas Hollingsworth & nathaniel Cartmell being appointed ye last meeting to make Enquiry Concering ye clearness of ye man and Ann Hollingsworth & Mary Connoway to amke Enquiry Concering ye clearness of ye woman, who accordingly have given in their report y t all was clear as far as they can understand wherefore ye meeting leaves y m to their Liberty to take one another according to the good order of Truth. We likewise of ye womens meeting do unanimously agree to and with ye proceedings of ye mans meeting concerning ye default of Cornelius Empson & we do likewise disown having any unity with his wife in our meeting untill she clear the Truth & acknowledge her error. The meeting appoints the first day and fourth day meeting to be in course from Valentines to Morgan Drets and go to Valentines again. Ann Grise, Ann Hollingsworth, Mary Sharply, Jane Calvert, Lydia Hollingsworth, Mary Connoway, Hannah Stockdale, rose Dixon, Dinah Dixon.

New Castle Co. DE
Newark/Kennett Monthly Meeting records 1693 to 1704

1699 ___ day 3td mo. The Mo Meeting held at Valentine Hollingsworths appoints Valentine Hollingsworth & George Robinson to speak to Michael Harlan and John gregg, to know their reason why they absent themselves from this monthly meeting.

1699 ___ day 5th mo. The Mo Meeting held at Valentine Hollingsworths, this meeting orders those two ffrds afore nominated to continue their care & speak again to Michael Harlan & John Gregg, & return their answer to ye next meeting.

Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania
Description:
This richly detailed database contains information regarding Quaker immigrants from Ireland to Pennsylvania. Compiled by Albert Myers, a member of the Pennsylvania Historical Society, this work narrates the general history of immigration from Ireland focusing on Quakers who came to the United States. In addition to the historical narrative, biographies of many immigrants, often containing birth and death dates, as well as some wills and probate records are included. For the researcher looking for Irish who immigrated to North America, this can be a tool of great value.
Source Information:
Myers, Albert Cook. Immigration of Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania. Swarthmore, PA: 1902

Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania
Of Chester County, Pa., and New Castle County, Delaware.
Established in 1686.
page 322
Children of Michael and Dinah (Dixson) Harlan:
George, b. 10 Mo. 4, 1690, m. Mary, widow of Alexander Stewart, and
daughter of Joel and Ann Baily;
Abigail, b. 9 Mo. 23, 1692, m. Richard Flower, 12 Mo. 17, 1724-5;
Thomas, b. 4 Mo. 24, 1694, m. Mary Carter, in 1720;
Stephen, b. 2 Mo., 1697, m. Hannah Carter, 7 Mo. 26, 1723;
Michael, b. 2 Mo. 7, 1699, m. Hannah Maris;
Solomon, b. 10 Mo. 7, 1701;
James, b. 1703, m. Susanna Oborn, 10 Mo. 19, 1733;
Dinah b. 8 Mo. 23, 1707, m. Thomas Gregg, 2 Mo. 20, 1729.
-See Hist. Chester County, 587.

Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania
PLACES OF SETTLEMENT
page 122
Centre Meeting
About 1687, the brothers George and Michael Harlan, from Parish of Donnahlong, County Down; Thomas Hollingsworth, son of Valentine Hollingsworth; Alphonsus Kirk, from Lurgan, County Armagh; William Gregg, probably from the north of Ireland; William Dixon or Dixson, from Parish of Segoe, County Armagh; and other Friends settled on the west side of Brandywine Creek, in Christiana Hundred, New Castle County, near the present village of Centerville, and became the founders of what later was known as Centre Meeting.

Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania
PLACES OF SETTLEMENT
page 130
Of the forty-three persons taxed in Kennett, in 1715, there were nine Irish Friends, as follows: Gayen Miller, 8s. 6d.; Michael Harlan, 5s. 6d.; Ezekiel Harlan, 12s. 6d.; Aaron Harlan, 5s. 6d.; Moses Harlan, 4s. 2d.; Valentine Hollingsworth, 2s. 9d.; James Harlan, 2s. 6d.; Joshua Harlan, [p.130] 2s. 6d.; John Gregg, 3s. 4d. In 1716, Benjamin Fred, originally from Carlow Meeting, Ireland, purchased 200 acres in the Township.

Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania
PLACES OF SETTLEMENT
page 143
Of the forty-two taxable persons in London Grove in 1724 there were ten Irish Friends: John Allen, 8s.; Joseph Sharp, 13s.; Jeremiah Starr, 4s. [p.143] 6d.; James Lindley, 19s.; Robert Cane, 4s.; John Cane, 7s.; Moses Harlan, 4s.; Michael Harlan, Sr., 13s. 4d.; Michael Harlan, Jr., 2s. 4d.; Joseph Garnett, Is. 8d.

Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania
Of Chester County, Pa., and New Castle County, Delaware. Established in 1686.
page 320
This, no doubt, is the same family that came over to New Castle Co., prior to 1690. Henry Dixson, it is said, kept an inn at New Castle and had three children:
(I.) William was married about 1690 to Ann Gregg, daughter of William Gregg, who, it is believed, also came from the north of Ireland. William was a weaver by trade and settled on Red Clay Creek, in Christiana Hundred, New Castle County. He made his will 1 Mo. 31, 1708, and it was probated Sept. 20, 1708. He mentions his wife Ann, and appoints his brothers, Michael Harlan and John Gregg, [p.320] as advisors. The widow, Ann Dixson, then married John Houghton, of New Castle County.
(II.) Dinah married Michael Harlan, 1 Mo., 1690, at Newark Mtg.
(III.) Rose married in 1690, Thomas Pierson, widower, Deputy Surveyer of New Castle County. (See account of Thomas Pierson by the writer in Penna, Mag., XXI., 506-7.)

Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania
Of Chester County, Pa., and New Castle County, Delaware. Established in 1686.

GEORGE AND MICHAEL HARLAN.-

"George Harlan ye Sone of James Harlan of Monkwearmouth was baptized at Monkwearmouth [Co. Durham] in old England ye 11th day of 1 Mo. 1650."
"Michael Harlan came from the north of Ireland with his Brother George, about the year 1687-and ye beginning of the year 1690 he married Dinah ye Daughter of Henry Dixon and Settled first Near ye Center, Meeting house in Christiana Hundred & County of New Castle on Delaware and afterwards removed into Kennett in Chester County, where they lived Many years."- Records of Kennett or Newark Mo. Mtg.

Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania
Of Chester County, Pa., and New Castle County, Delaware. Established in 1686.
George Harlan settled at first about where the village of Centreville, New Castle Co., Delaware, now is, and the early meetings were held at his home. Later he removed farther up Brandywine Creek, and purchased 474 acres of land in Kennett, now Pennsbury, Township, Chester County. While living here he had for his neighbors over the creek, in a great bend, a settlement of Indians. After they had gone away he obtained, in 1701, a warrant for 200 acres of land in the bend of the creek, granted "in regard of the great trouble and charge he has bore in fencing and maintaining the same for the said Indians while living thereon." He died in 1714, and was buried by the side of his wife at Centre Meeting House.
In his will, dated 2 Mo. 21, 1714, probated 8 Mo. 2, 1714, George Harlan mentions his brother Michael Harlan, his servant Mary Mathews, and directs that his body be interred in the new burying ground on Alphonsus Kirk's land.
-Hist. Chester Co., p. 587; Chester County Wills.

Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy Volume 6: Virginia
Loudon County, Virginia
page 495
GREGG FAMILY (from Albert Cook Myers' Immigration of Irish Quakers pp 122/339, etc.) Since so many Gregg families settled within the verge of Fairfax monthly meeting, Loudon Co., Va. it seems needful to give their background, as far as known. According to A. C. Myers, "Wm. & Ann Gregg came to America with the Dixon, Hollingsworth, Sharpley, etc. families, who came from the North of Ireland, probably County Armagh; William Gregg settled on a tract of 400 acres of land in Christiana Hundred, New Castle Co., Delaware, surveyed to him 11-3-1685. He died ye 1st of ye 7th mo and was buried on his own plantation 1687.
Ch:
Richard
Ann (marry about 1690 Henry DIXON)
John born circa 1668 died 1738 marry 11mo1694 to Elizabeth COOKE (John Gregg of Christiana Hundred, New Castle Co., yeoman, aged about
[p.496] 67 years, made a deposition about 1735 "that he has dwelt in said County about 51 yrs")

The HARLAN Family, p 26, shows that
Thomas GREGG son of John & Elizabeth (COOKE) Gregg of Christiana Hundred, New Castle Co., Del marry 10-2-1729
Dinah HARLAN daughter of Michael & Dinah (DIXON) Harlan
(Dinah DIXON being the daughter of Henry & Ann (GREGG) Dixon mentioned above) Thomas & Dinah (Harlan) Gregg and George and Sarah (HOGG) Gregg appear to have been the progenitors of most of the Greggs who came to Fairfax monthly meeting, Va. during the 18th Century.
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Wm. Wade Hinshaw

 

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