Dr. John Dixwell (1777-1834)
John (Samuel Hunt) Dixwell M.D., Physician, of Boston, Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Historical Society reports that in 1804, Samuel Hunt, taking his mother's maiden surname and altering his given name as well," changed his name to John Dixwell to avoid confusion with another Boston physician named Samuel Hunt." The following year, he married Esther Sargent and they had three sons.
