John Dalton
d. 1777
Alexandria merchant; partner of John Carlyle John Carlyle b. 1720 · d. 1780 Scottish-descent merchant born in Carlisle, England, in 1720; one of the eleven founding trustees of Alexandria in 1749, and builder of the stone Carlyle House at the head of what … in the firm Carlyle & Dalton from c. 1755 until his death in 1777.
John Dalton partnered with John Carlyle John Carlyle b. 1720 · d. 1780 Scottish-descent merchant born in Carlisle, England, in 1720; one of the eleven founding trustees of Alexandria in 1749, and builder of the stone Carlyle House at the head of what … in the mercantile and shipping firm Carlyle & Dalton for “nearly twenty-five years,” beginning around the time Carlyle returned from his service as commissary on the Braddock expedition. Spencer (1910) records that the partnership “was only dissolved by the death of Mr. Dalton in 1777” [1] R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book .
Documentary detail about Dalton’s birth, family, and personal life is sparse in the readily available sources; this entity is a research scaffold for the Alexandria merchant-records archives. Beyond the twenty-five-year partnership with Carlyle, Dalton appears in the early-Alexandria deed and account books in the same merchant-trustee circle that produced the 1749 town plan.
Sources
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Richard Henry Spencer, "The Carlyle Family," William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Volume 18, No. 3 (January 1910), pp. 201-212; expanded as Carlyle Family and Descendants of John and Sarah (Fairfax) Carlyle. The Carlyle House and Its Associations (Richmond: Whittet & Shepperson, 1910). The foundational Carlyle genealogy.
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