Person:Samuel Wilson (38)

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Samuel Wilson, Sr.

Source1 Sex: M Born: 1710 in ____, ____, Ireland, UK1 Died: 13 MAR 1778 in ____, Iredell Co., NC1 Buried: AFT 13 MAR 1778 in Center Church, Mecklenburg Co., NC Notes: Samuel Wilson Sr. was of Scotch-Irish descent and came to America from the north of Ireland about 1735. He first settled in Pennsylvania, and afterwards came with others to Mecklenburg where he purchased a large body of land in the vicinity of Hopewell Church.

Father: Matthew Wilson Mother: Mary Yeats

Family 1: Mary Osborne Winslow, b. 1713 Married: ABT 1740 Violet Winslow Wilson, b. 13 AUG 1742 in ____, Mecklenburg Co., NC Samuel Wilson, Jr., b. 2 JUN 1750 David Wilson, b. ABT 1747 Benjamin Wilson, b. ABT 1749 Rebecca Wilson, b. ABT 1750 Mary Wilson, b. ABT 1751

Family 2: Margaret Potts Married: ABT 1760 Margaret Wilson, b. 15 MAR 1752 in ____, Augusta Co., VA

Family 3: Margaret Jack, b. 1741 Married: AFT 1761 Charity Wilson William Jack Wilson Robert Wilson, b. ABT 1765 Sarah Wilson, b. 1768 Lillis "Lillie" Wilson, b. 1 APR 1773 in ____, Mecklenburg Co., NC

Sources:

Title: World Family Tree Vol. 4, Ed. 1 Author: Brøderbund Software, Inc. Publication: Release date: August 23, 1996 Note: Customer pedigree. REPO CALN Media: Family Archive CD Page: Tree #0883 Text: Date of Import: 15 Mar 1998

http://www.northcarolinagenealogy.org/mecklenburg/samuel_wilson.htm

Genealogy of Samuel Wilson, Senator Samuel Wilson, Sr., was one of the earliest settlers of Mecklenburg county, and the patriarchal ancestor of numerous descendants, who performed important civil and military services in the Revolutionary war. He emigrated from Pennsylvania about 1745, and purchased a large body of valuable lands in the bounds of Hopewell church, in Mecklenburg county. He was of Scotch-Irish descent, and inherited the peculiar traits of that liberty-loving, people. He was married three times, and was the father of thirteen children. His first wife was Mary Winslow, a sister of Moses Winslow, one of the early and leading patriots of Rowan county, who died on the 1st of October, 1813, in the eighty-third year of his age, and is buried in the graveyard of Center Church.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bruckner/knox/profiles/samuel_wilson_1841.htm

Samuel Wilson who d. 1778 in Mecklenburg Co, NC, and Mary Winslow.

Note: References to Samuel Wilson SR AFTER 1778 are presumed to be Samuel Wilson who was b. 1750, VA and d. 1843, Mecklenburg Co, NC, and is buried with his wife, Hannah Knox, in unmarked graves at Hopewell. Death date of 10 Feb 1843 comes from Charlotte Journal, dated Feb 23, 1843: Revolutionary Soldier, died 10 Feb 1843, 92 years, 8 months.

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Ray, Worth Stickley. "The Mecklenburg Signers and Their Neighbors". 1946.

Reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1975. p. 503.

According to Worth S. Ray, the wives of Samuel Wilson Sr were:

(1) Mary Winslow, sister of Moses WInslow who m. Jean Osborne

(2) Mrs. Howard, [widow] a sister of John and William Potts

(3) Margaret Jack, a daughter of Patrick Jack and Lillis McAdoo

Issue of Mary Winslow were:

(1) Major David Wilson m. Sarah McConnell

(2) Benjamin Wilson, never married

(3) Samuel Wilson Jr, m. Hannah Knox, a daughter of Capt Patrick Knox

(4) Sarah Wilson, m. Benj. McConnell

(5) Violet Wilson, m. Maj John Davidson [the Signer]

(6) Mary Wilson m. Ezekiel Polk

(7) Rebecca Wilson m. John Henderson

Issue of Widow [Margaret] Howard:

(1) Margaret Wilson m. John Davidson of SC

Issue of Margaret Jack:

(1) Robert Wilson m. Margaret Alexander, a dau of Thomas Alexander

(2) William Jack Wilson m. Rocinda Winslow

(3) Lillis [Lilly] Wilson m. James Connor

(4) Sally Wilson m. Latta McConnell *

(5) Charity Wilson d. at the age of 16

[PRB note: * this is a mistake – only one Sarah/Sally. Sarah m. Benj Latta McConnell. Believe she was the daughter of Mary Winslow, not Margaret Jack...]

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MARRIAGE RECORD

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No marriage bond, church record or family bible records the event; however, sources that preserve the fact of Samuel Wilson's marriage to Hannah Knox, daughter of Capt. Patrick Knox, include:

[1] "Miss Hannah Knox, daughter of Captain Patrick Knox, killed at the battle of Ramsour's Mill, who married Samuel Wilson, a solder of the Revolution."

Source: Sketches of Western North Carolina; C. L. Hunter; first published 1877; digital document source: Genealogy.com; Family Archive CD 524; page 146

[2] " Hannah Knox, the wife of Samuel Wilson, Jr., was a daughter of Capt. Patrick Knox, who was killed at Ramseur's Mill, in Lincoln Co, during the Revolution. Samuel WIlson Jr, and his wife Hannah raised a large family, among whom was Polly Wilson, who married her cousin, Benjamin Wilson, a son of Maj. David Wilson. Jeff Wilson, the only son, left no issue, and the daughter Patsy Wilson became the wife of Hugh McKnight, according to the Sommerville account*." *Note: Sommerville's History of Hopewell, pp 195-199 outlines the family, but apparently gives no dates.

Source: Ray, Worth Stickley. "The Mecklenburg Signers and Their Neighbors". first published 1946. Reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1975. p. 503