{"id":3175,"date":"2015-02-05T12:56:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T18:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/?p=3175"},"modified":"2015-02-21T13:40:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T19:40:48","slug":"james-dicksons-home-site-of-perry-countys-first-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/james-dicksons-home-site-of-perry-countys-first-court\/","title":{"rendered":"James Dickson&#8217;s home, site of Perry County&#8217;s first court"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3177\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3177\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/James-Dicksons-home-site-of-Perry-Countys-first-court.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3177 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/James-Dicksons-home-site-of-Perry-Countys-first-court.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/James-Dicksons-home-site-of-Perry-Countys-first-court.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/James-Dicksons-home-site-of-Perry-Countys-first-court-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The house built by James Dickson in 1818. Besides being the family living quarters the front room was used to convene the first court in Perry county and for a period thereafter. It is said that Andrew Jackson was one of the lawyers to have argued cases here during the time it was being used for court. &#8230;.copy of the land grant, signed by the governor, showing James Dickson, being granted ownership of, 170 acres, along Lick Creek, signed on June 11, 1821 &#8230; since the Dickson House was built in 1818, I can only assume that James already owned the land where the house is located, and that this grant in 1821, extended his property another 170 acres &#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3178\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3178\" style=\"width: 136px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/James-Dickson-his-wife-Margaret-Ann-Wilson-Dickson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3178 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/James-Dickson-his-wife-Margaret-Ann-Wilson-Dickson.jpg\" alt=\"Here is a picture of James Dickson &amp; his wife, Margaret Ann Wilson Dickson ... the Dickson House is visible in the background ...\" width=\"136\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/James-Dickson-his-wife-Margaret-Ann-Wilson-Dickson.jpg 136w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/James-Dickson-his-wife-Margaret-Ann-Wilson-Dickson-128x300.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 136px) 100vw, 136px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry McKendree (Mack) Ledbetter and his first or second wife with the Dickson House in the background. Mack Ledbetter was a later owner of the Dickson House.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6,18],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-3175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-families","category-yesterdays","tag-dickson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3523,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions\/3523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}