Elizabeth DOXSEE and John Dickson
Of Long Island, NY, late 1700s

I have an Elizabeth Doxsee in my line, born 7/12/1780 in Merrick, Long Island, New York. She married a Scottish immigrant to New York, John Dickson, and they had several children before his early death in 1815. I have neither the date of her death nor her parentage, but I suspect that she's somehow connected to the Long Island Doxsee clam-chowder family because of the spelling of the name and the geographical proximity. It's of course possible that she married again at some time, since she was still a relatively young woman when she lost her husband.
Here's the sum total of the information I have on her:

Descendants of Elizabeth DOXSEE

    1   Elizabeth DOXSEE  Source: "Dickson Family Record"   b: July 12, 1780 
in Merrick, Nassau County, NY   d: Unknown                      
..      +John DICKSON, Sr.  Source: "Dickson Family Record" b: June 02, 1774 
in Dalkeith, Scotland   d: August 04, 1815                      m: February 
04, 1800 in near Merrick, Long Island, NY
....    2   Johanna DICKSON  Source: "Dickson Family Record"    b: March 02, 
1801 in New York, NY    d: Unknown                      
........        +John NALD  Source: "Dickson Family Record" b: January 09, 
1793    d: Unknown                      m: August 16, 1818
....    2   William Nesbit DICKSON  Source: "Dickson Family Record" b: July 
22, 1803    d: May 30, 1804                     
....    2   John DICKSON, Jr.  Source: "Dickson Family Record"  b: May 03, 
1805                            
....    2   George DICKSON  Source: "Dickson Family Record" b: September 15, 
1807                            
....    2   Catherine DICKSON  Source1: "Goman Family Record", Source2: 
"Dickson Family Record" b: November 27, 1809 in New York, NY    d: Unknown      
                
........        +John GOMAN, Sr.  Source: "Goman Family Record" b: 1802 in 
Fishkill, Dutchess County, NY   d: Unknown  Father: Jesse GOMAN Mother: Sarah 
HALEY               m: August 11, 1827
..........  3   John GOMAN, Jr.  Source: "Goman Family Record"  b: September 
11, 1828 in Hempstead, NY   d: October 12, 1913 in Montclair, Essex County, 
NJ                      
..............      +Susan A. TAYLOR  Source1: "Goman Family Record", 
Source2: "Taylor Family Record" b: September 30, 1831 in Newark, Essex 
County, NJ  d: December 13, 1909    Father: Calvin TAYLOR   Mother: Harriet 
B. HAYES                m: January 01, 1852 in Montclair, Essex County, NJ
..........  3   William H. GOMAN  Source: "Goman Family Record" b: July 03, 
1831 in Hempstead, Long Island, NY  d: Unknown                      
..........  3   Sarah E. GOMAN  Source: "Goman Family Record"   b: Unknown in 
New York, NY    d: Unknown                      
..........  3   Frederick Mason GOMAN  Source1: "Goman Family Record", 
Source2: World Family Tree Vol. 8, Ed. 1    b: December 02, 1842 in New York, 
NY  d: 1926                     
..............      +Abigail KETCHUM  Source: World Family Tree Vol. 8, Ed. 1   
b: 1846 d: 1907                     m: WFT Est. 1861-1889
....    2   Elizabeth DICKSON  Source: "Dickson Family Record"  b: December 
07, 1811                            

One possible clue: the Dicksons' second son, William Nesbit Dickson, had a middle name that I haven't been able to trace. I think it probably came from the Scottish side of the family, since it's a Scottish name; but there's always the possibility of it having come from the Doxsees. Does anyone know of a Doxsee in the earlier 1700s who married a Nesbit?

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