...sufficient for building and sustaining his dwelling house on the land aforesaid. It would seem by these facts that the house was of wood. Its name, Dixe's house, might refer to a house built by Anthony Dixe , or Dicks, carpenter, who is mentioned as an inhabitant of Charlestown in 1641. Josiah Dawston, or Duston, was in Reading in 1647, where he died January 16, 1671-2. His widow, a woman of eighty i...