Fifth Generation (Continued)
Family of Adrian DAWES Jr. (31) & Hannah COATE

51. Joseph DAWES.18 Born on 6 December 1779.26 Joseph died in 1861. Occupation: millright at Easton, PA.2

Birth date had been 12 June 1779 in Dawes literature.

Children:
68 i. Charles
69 ii. Francis
70 iii. John

52. Francis DAWES. Born on 3 April 1781.26

53. John Wilkinson DAWES. Born on 27 October 1783 in Elizabeth, NJ.27 John Wilkinson died in Leon, Waushara Co. WI on 7 March 1864; he was 80.28 Buried in 1864 in Burr Oak Cemetery, Waushara Co., WI.28 Occupation: carpenter. Religion: Presbyterian/Methodist.

John Wilkinson Dawes was born at Elizabeth, New Jersey, 27 October 1783. He was first married to Susan Crance and had a daughter named Sarah who was born 5 February 1808 and who later married Jake Depew. It is not known if he had other children by Susan Crance. It is unclear what the final dissolution of this marriage involved, but John W. Dawes later married Elizabeth Patterson and their first son Adrian was born 27 February 1810 in Orange County, New York. It appears that John W. Dawes left New Jersey at an early age and settled in New York, and was living there by 1810 although he does not appear in the 1810 Census records. John W. Dawes and Elizabeth Patterson lived on a small farm near Lock Berlin, New York, two miles east of Lyons. They arrived there about 1810 and lived there until 1837 when they moved to Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Lock Berlin is on the Erie Canal which was begun in 1817 and completed in 1825. John W. Dawes was a carpenter and was employed in construction of the locks and served as a foreman. Income was supplemented by his skill as a cabinet maker. A bureau was made by John W. Dawes on the occasion of the wedding of his son Samuel in the 1830s. A century later Richard Marion Dawes' aunt, Mildred Dawes Natwick, bought it from Samuel's granddaughter, Chloe Dawes Huddle, and presented it to Richard Marion Dawes.

John W. Dawes and family later joined the Presbyterian Church of Sodus (later of Lyons) on 4 January 1817. By the time the family reached Wisconsin in the 1850s they were Methodist, and son John Roy Dawes later became a Baptist minister.

Daughters Lorenza and Phoebe are buried on the farm near Lock Berlin. It is believed they were twins born 7 June 1817.

While living in Wayne County, New York, near Lock Berlin, John W. Dawes and wife bought and sold several tracts of land. Later, living in Mercer County, Pennsylvania from about 1837 to about 1853, John W. Dawes was a builder of houses, barns and windmills.

A total of twelve children were born to John W. and Elizabeth Dawes between 1810 and 1827. The last eleven were born in Wayne County, New York near Lock Berlin. Most of the sons not married in New York, were married in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and the family had become quite large by the time they arrived in Wisconsin in the early 1850s. The school established in the district where they lived in Wisconsin was still called the "Dawes School" in 1950.

There were no specific reasons for moving to Wisconsin. Richard Marion Dawes speculates that the younger generation required no incentive for a move as in those days no reason was needed for going West. The older generation could recapture the adventure of their youth by returning to an environment similar to their childhood and young adult life where the frontier provided virgin forests, plenty of game and perhaps the danger of living closer to the Indians. For some years prior to the move in the 1850s the Daweses had considered going to Kansas, but that territory was involved in conflict preliminary to the Civil War and became known as "Bloody Kansas" and the Daweses decided to come to Wisconsin instead.

The Dawes' home in Pennsylvania was in Pymatuning Township near the Ohio state line. Some of the family, Adrian for instance, lived on the Ohio side, near Orangeville in Trumbull County. Adrian (1810-1881) went from Ohio to Iowa in the 1850s, then to Michigan and later back to Iowa where most of his children had settled. Jeremiah (1811-1849) had died, leaving a son, William Parry Dawes (1832-1864), to be reared by his grandparents and he accompanied them to Wisconsin. Samuel (1813-1900) and Francis (1815-1889) were back in Wayne Co., NY. George M (1822-1900) is believed to have accompanied the family to Wisconsin but then he went on to Iowa soon after. Joseph (1826-1906) went to Wisconsin about 1853 but returned to Pennsylvania before 1860. Ananias (1827-1896) served in the Civil War and then moved from Wisconsin to Kansas.

In Mercer Co., Pennsylvania, the family used the post office at Transfer, eight miles north of Sharon. In Waushara Co., Wisconsin, they used the one at Pine River.

John W. Dawes died 7 March 1864 and is buried in Burr Oak Cemetery, Waushara Co., Wisconsin.

John Wilkinson first married Susan CRANCE.

They had one child:
71 i. Sarah (1808-)

John Wilkinson second married Elizabeth PATTERSON. Born on 12 June 1787 in NY.29 Elizabeth died in Lyons/Lock Berlin, Wayne Co., NY on 29 July 1866; she was 79.29 Buried in 1866 in South Lyons, NY.29

They had the following children:
72 i. Adrian (1810-1881)
73 ii. Jeremiah (1811-<1849)
74 iii. Samuel (1813-1900)
75 iv. Francis (1815-1889)
76 v. Phoebe (1817-~1817)
77 vi. Lorenza (1817-~1817)
78 vii. John Roy (1819-1891)
79 viii. George M. (1822-1900)
80 ix. William M. (1824-~1824)
81 x. Daniel M. (1824-~1824)
82 xi. Joseph (1826-1906)
83 xii. Ananias Wells (1827-1896)

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