> ---- Original Message ----- > From: "Butch & Sher" <robinson@clarityconnect.com> > To: <NJSUSSEX-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 1:14 PM > Subject: [NJSUSSEX-L] WILSON > > > > Anyone researching Sussex Co. WILSONs from the 1700's? > > Sheryl Gunderman Robinson > > Below is information on a Wilson family of Wantage. > > J. Kelsey Jones > montrose@ptdprolog.net > > Andrew Wilson is related to have been b. 30 Nov 1726 Scotland, emigrating to > this country from Ireland. He is related to have served in the French and > Indian War, being wounded at the Battle of Ticonderoga and was perhaps a > prisoner for a period of time. Andrew m. 29 Aug 1750 Martha Ferguson b. 5 > Mar 1731 perhaps a daughter of Benjamin and Hannah Ferguson. They are > related to have been among the first six people who formed a Methodist class > in Wantage Township, Sussex County, New Jersey. Martha d. 16 Feb 1802. Will > of Andrew dated 29 Mar 1802 Wantage Township bequeathing all land to son, > Abiah; Abiah to pay my daughter, Martha Titsworth $50; daughters, Mary > Westbrook, Catherine Elston, Hope Decker, Margaret DeWitt, and Martha > Titsworth, the proceeds of household furniture; sons, Joseph, Benjamin, > Andrew, Adda, Neri, Hiram, and Ferguson, the proceeds of sale of remainder > of moveable estate, son Andrew's share to be held in hands of executor. > Executors, sons, Joseph and Abiah and son-in-law, Richard Westbrook. > Inventory filed 10 Nov 1802 and Will proved 17 Nov 1802 (Liber 40:186). > Andrew d. 6 Nov 1802 believed to be buried in a cemetery on their farm that > no longer exists. In the Wantage Recorder newspaper of August 12, 1910 is > made mention of this cemetery. The land upon which the cemetery was located > passed to their son, Abiah and in turn to his son, Philetus which was owned > by Charles G. Wilson in 1910, a grandson of Philetus. > > 1. Mary Wilson b. 13 Aug 1751. > 2. Joseph Wilson b. 29 Oct 1752. > 3. Benjamin Wilson b. 24 May 1754. > 4. Andrew Wilson b. 27 Nov 1755. > 5. Catherine Wilson b. 15 Sept 1757. > 6. Hope Wilson b. 1 Jan 1760. > 7. Jacob Wilson b. 23 May 1761. > 8. Margaret Wilson b. 17 July 1763. > 9. Addi Wilson (twin) b. 24 May 1765. > 10. Neri Wilson (twin) b. 24 May 1765. > 11. Martha Wilson b. 14 Feb 1767. > 12. Hiram Wilson b. 4 Mar 1769. > 13. Ferguson Wilson b. 2 May 1771. > 14. Abiah Wilson b. 9 Mar 1773. > > 1. Mary Wilson b. 13 Aug 1751 m. 20 Apr 1770 (Machackemeck Church) Richard > Westbrook b. 1 June 1743 son of Johannes Dirckse and Sara Tack. Members of > Clove Dutch Reformed Church, Clove Valley, Wantage Township, Sussex County, > New Jersey, Richard an elder. Richard d. 13 Mar 1807 82y 9m 12d (ts) and > Mary d. 20 Jan 1808 56y 5m 7d (ts) Old Clove Cemetery, Wantage Township, > Sussex County, New Jersey. > > 15. Naoma Westbrook b. 14 June 1772 m. Bowdewin Decker. > 16. Mary Westbrook b. 22 Feb 1774 m. Nathaniel VanAuken. > 17. Sarah Westbrook b. c. 1776 m. Stephen Decker. > 18. Permelia Westbrook b. c. 1778/80 m. Solomon Westfall. > 19. Charlotte Westbrook b. 20/30 Nov 1782 m. Obadiah Pellet. > 20. Margery Westbrook b. 1785 m. Peter Hoppaugh. > 21. Frederick Westbrook b. 6 June 1789. > 22. Richard Westbrook b. 16 Dec 1790 m. Mahala Titsworth. > 23. Abiah Westbrook b. 13 June 1796 (Clove Church) Asenath Pellet. > > 14. Abiah Wilson b. 9 Mar 1773 m. Mary Lobden. Abiah d. 15 Nov 1827 and Mary > d. 9 Feb 1855. > > 24. son b. 26 Jan 1794. > 25. Andrew Wilson b. 15 Apr 1797. > 26. Eliza Wilson b. 18 July 1798. > 27. Julia Wilson b. 17 Nov 1800. > 28. Matthias Wilson b. 25 Oct 1801. > 29. Eliza Wilson b. 4 July 1804 m. William Stoddard d. 4 July 1847. > 30. Samuel Wilson b. 6 Feb 1806. > 31. Augustus Wilson b. 2 July 1807. > 32. Philetus Wilson b. 11 Mar 1809 m. Clarissa Wilson. > 33. James Wilson b. 9 July 1810. > 34. daughter b. 1 Apr 1811. > 35. Mary Wilson b. 18 May 1812 m. John Fuller d. 16 Aug 1844. > 36. Abiah Wilson b. 23 Apr 1814. > 37. Lebeus Wilson b. 17 Aug 1817 d. 8 Apr 1846. > 38. Lida Wilson b. 1 Mar 1819 m. James Coe. > > >