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Along with two brothers, Walter Carson Dickson and James Dickson, enlisted in the company formed by Mr. Alexander Moorhead and went to fight Indians under Jackson in Alabama territory.
We, Matthew and Martha Dickson for $228 sold to Matthew Dickson, Sr. 440 acres on 26 Mile Creek of Seneca River, part of 640 acres....granted James Patterson and by John Edwaters and William Hort, Esqs., Treasurers of the State to Capt. James Martin of North Carolina and by Capt. Martin to Matthew Dickson, Sr. Signed: Matthew Dickson, Martha Dickson. Wit" ____Dickson, Walter C. Dickson, Walter Dickson made oath (unreadable). Rec: 16 Aug. 1801 Pages 316-318
Source: Pendleton District, S.C. Deeds 1790-1806 Compiled by Betty Willie, page 251
Note: Matthew Dickson, Jr. had bought this same land from James Martin for L 100 in April of 1799, page 199 of same source.
Mathew Dickson who bore his father's name, was doubtless born before the family left Pennsylvania, as has been intimated. The date of his birth is 1769. He grew up on his father's farm, and learned the tailor's trade. When he was some twenty-five years of age he went to Kentucky, where he worked at his trade for several years, laying up a good deal of money. About the year 1799 he returned home on a visit, fully intending to go back to Kentucky, but his father induced him to buy a portion of the old homestead. This he did, and in the year 1800 married Martha Anderson, a sister of his brother's wife. Martha Anderson used to tell of the appearance of the Cowpens battlefield in 1791 as her father's family passed through it as they came from maryland to South Carolina, eleven years after this memorable battle. She was born in 1780; was a member of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church, and was withal one of the bestr woman that ever lived. It was her wont to go to the relief of the sick and suffering everywhere around her, and her daughter inherited this trait. She died in July, 1869, having survived her husband just eleven years, and passed out of this world at his age, 89 years. She was buried at Nazareth Beaverdam church in Anderson County, beside her husband.
Nine children were born to Mathew Dickson and Martha Anderson. Permelia, the eldest, who never married, was born September 18, 1801, and died in June, 1867, of erysipelas. She was a memeber of the Presbyterian church and was a strong-minded woman, possessing many excellent traits of character.
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