DEDMAN.
Samuel Dedman came to Albemarle from Louisa in 1768.
He settled in the Ragged Mountains, about a mile below
the Reservoir, where he purchased two hundred acres from
William T. Lewis. He died in 1800. He and his wife
Mary had a large family, John, Samuel, Richmond, Bartlett,
Nathan, who married Elizabeth, daughter of William
Gooch, and from whom are descended Rev. Neander Woods,
of Memphis, and Rev. William H. Woods, of Baltimore,
Dixon, Sarah, the second wife of John Everett, Susan, Nancy,
the wife of Moses Clack, and Mary, the wife of John Simms.
They all eventually emigrated to the West, some to southwest
Virginia, and others to Kentucky. Bartlett lived for a
few years in Charlottesville. He built a dwelling on a lot
he purchased from John Nicholas at the foot of Fourth
Street east, which he sold in 1801 to William Waller Hening.
Dixon was the last to remain in the county. He succeeded
to the property below the Reservoir. He was twice married,
first to Sarah, daughter of John Buster, and secondly to
Sarah Drumheller. He finally sold out about 1828, and
went West.
