Ambrose Dixon

Ambrose Dixon (1619 – April 12, 1687) was an early American Quaker pioneer who was born in England and emigrated to America at an early age where he lived in the Virginia Colony before moving to Maryland.

Background Dixon married Mary, the widow of Henry Peddington, between July 4, and October 28, 1647.

He was a Quaker and had moved to Somerset County, Maryland, by January 4, 1663, to escape religious persecution. His home became the first Quaker meeting house in Maryland.

On January 4, 1666, he was appointed Surveyor for Highways. He was elected on March 3, 1671, he was elected a delegate in the Maryland Assembly representing Annemessex, Maryland. He never attended.

He died in 1687 at his plantation, Dixon's Choice. He is the immigrant ancestor to thousands of Americans including the Indiana blacksmith Noah Beauchamp who murdered his neighbor in the 1840s.