Need help connecting three Dawson families that I know are connected

Question

I am a DNA match with two other Dawsons, but I haven't been able to connect their family trees.  The first is:

William Dawson, born ~1700 in Maryland, married Catherine Hollingsworth 4 Jun 1716 in Pennsylvania, died 3 Mar 1761 in Talbot County, Maryland.

Nathaniel Dawson, born ~1809 in Ohio, married Susannah Level 22 Aug 1830 in Butler County, Ohio, died (unknown)

John Dawson, born Apr 1797 in Kentucky, married Helen Russell 26 Apr 1819 in Williamson, Tennessee, died 24 May 1850 in Davidson County, Tennessee.

Can anyone help or provide any pointers on where to look?  Thank you very much!

Comments

All the profiles I see are unsourced.  Therein lies the problem.  As you work on sources, there will be the collateral family members included or mentioned in the sources and once that happens they should fall like dominoes (until you hit brick walls of course, but that's another story).  

Good luck with sourcing!

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Hi! I don't know if you've had any luck but, I am a Dawson & live in Ohio! I don't know who these people are or if they're related to me but maybe I can help you as I move on...maybe they are my relatives!!! :)

I'm just getting started on Wiki Tree but I've done a little bit on other programs...getting ready to import now! Maybe check my tree in a couple weeks??? :)

Answer 1

Nathaniel Dawson was born in Ohio and moved to PA which boarders on MD. 

Nathaniel Dawson

United States Census, 1860

Name	Nathaniel Dawson
Event Type	Census
Event Date	1860
Event Place	Riley Township, Butler, Ohio, United States
Gender	Male
Age	51
Race	White
Race (Original)	[Blank]
Birth Year (Estimated)	1809
Birthplace	Ohio
Page	51

Household	Role	Sex	Age	Birthplace
Nathaniel Dawson		M	51	Ohio
Susan Dawson		F	51	Pennsylvania
Thomas Dawson		M	18	Pennsylvania
Isaac Dawson		M	16	Pennsylvania
Joseph Dawson		M	12	Pennsylvania
David Dawson		M	10	Pennsylvania
Alex Dawson		M	4	Pennsylvania

Citing this Record

"United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCLS-BYX : 30 December 2015), Nathaniel Dawson, 1860.

Answer 2

I have spent quite a bit of time researching the Dawson families.  I believe you will find members of one of the Dawson families first shows up in the United States in Maryland.

[https://archive.org/details/collectionoffami1874daws]

The above book is a great guideline for the Dawson family research.  The Dawson family members, for the most part, have been well educated and have served in a number of positions of responsibilities in their respective communites.  

You will also find references to the Dawson families of Maryland and Pennsylvania in the following book.

[https://archive.org/details/historybeaverco00goog]

The Maryland Archives are also an excellent resource for research concerning Maryland families and have a large number of online resources.  

Archives of Maryland Online

[http://aomol.msa.maryland.gov/html/index.html]

Diligent attention to any clues will lead you to good primary sources.

Judith