His second marriage, in 1677, was to Bathsheba (or Bathshua) Howe, with whom he had a son, John, and two daughters (Elizabeth, who died in infancy, and Mary, who married John Collins of Middletown in 1707).. A Harvard College Class of 1796 graduate and a maternal descendant of Dixwell named John Hunt legally changed his name to that of his ancestor John Dixwell in 1804.