Vee, thank you so much for the history of Wilson. I really appreciate the bits of history. I wonder what the attraction to so may NY people to Michigan was! In the early 1840's my Wilkinson line seemed to came to Michigan along with a Benedict family and a Packard family all from NY. Packard family was Simeon Packard m: to Julia Roaker and F. Hudson Benedict and wife Caroline. They settled very near each other in Ionia county, MI. Pat Wilson Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: Vee L. Housman <housman@adelphia.net> To: Pat Scott <pmscott@voyager.net>; <NYNIAGAR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 11:36 PM Subject: Re: Reuben Wilson > Dear Pat, > > Wilson is a village in the Town of Wilson on the shores of Lake Ontario in > Niagara Co. It's east of Town of Porter and west of Town of Newfane. It > was named after Reuben Wilson Before Wilson became a town of its own in > 1818, Reuben was elected as supervisor of the Town of Porter in 1815. In > the book "Landmarks of Niagara County" edited by William Pool, 1897, it says > that Reuben Wilson settled here in 1810 and that he (and others) "left the