Thomas Wilson and Elizabeth Hays
Husband Thomas Wilson 1 2 3 4 5 6
Born: 1724 - Cootehill, County Cavan, Ireland 1 5 6 7 Christened: Died: 25 Feb 1799 - Buffalo Valley, Union Co, PA 5 6 7 Buried:
Father: Hugh Wilson (1689-1773) 3 5 6 8 9 10 11 Mother: Sarah Craig ( - ) 3 6 8 9 10 11
Marriage: 1760 1 5 6 7
Wife Elizabeth Hays 1 5 6 12 13
AKA: Elizabeth Hayes 2 14 Born: Abt 1737 - Pennsylvania Christened: Died: Dec 1812 - Beaver Co, PA 7 15 Buried:
Father: John Hays (Abt 1705-1789) 1 12 13 Mother: Jane Love (Abt 1712-1806) 1 2 13
Children
1 M Hugh Wilson 5 6 7 14 15 16
Born: 21 Oct 1761 - Allen Twp, Northampton Co, PA 5 6 7 14 15 16 Christened: Died: 9 Oct 1845 - near Lewisburg, Union Co, PA 5 6 7 16 Buried:Spouse: Catherine Irvine (1758-1835) 5 6 7 15 16 17 Marr: 17 Feb 1790 5 6 16 18
2 F Sarah Wilson 14 15 19
Born: Christened: Died: 1844 - Mercer Co, PA 15 20 Buried:Spouse: Richard Fruit ( -1822) 15 19
3 F Elizabeth Wilson 7 14 15 21
Born: 1769 7 15 Christened: Died: 8 Feb 1797 - Aaronsburg, Haines Twp, Centre Co, PA 15 21 Buried:Spouse: James Duncan (1758-1843) 7 15 22
4 M William Wilson 7 14 23
Born: 1772 7 23 Christened: Died: 6 Nov 1840 - Beaver Co, PA 7 23 Buried:Spouse: Anna White ( -1865) 7 Marr: 1810
5 M Thomas Wilson 7 14 23
AKA: John Wilson 24 Born: 17 Jun 1775 - Allen Twp, Northampton Co, PA 7 23 Christened: Died: 7 Jul 1860 - Beaver Co, PA 7 Buried:Spouse: Agnes Joseph Hemphill (1783-1867) 23 25 26 Marr: 7 Oct 1806 25 26
6 F Mary Wilson 7 14
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Jonathan Coulter, Esq. ( - ) 7 23
7 F Jane Wilson 7
Born: Christened: Died: in childhood - Northampton Co, PA Cause of Death: Drowning Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
8 M James Wilson, Esq. 7 23
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
9 F Margaret Wilson 7 23
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: John Thomas ( - ) 7 23
General Notes: Husband - Thomas Wilson
When he attained the age of twenty-one years, he erected a flouring mill, with his father, and, by contract, furnished flour for the continental army; he received his pay in continental money, and in doing so lost almost his entire property. Selling what little remained, he took the proceeds and, with his family, located in Buffalo Valley, Union County, Pennsylvania, in 1792. There he purchased a tract of forest land, and cleared some in order to cultivate the soil. This was about one mile from Lewisburg, where the county fair grounds and buildings were later situated. [BOBBC, 19]
He was about twelve years of age when his parents came to Pennsylvania, locating at the "Irish Settlement" in Northampton County, where he became a landowner and farmer and miller of Allen township. During the Revolution he sold large quantities of flour to the government for the army, receiving his pay in continental money, losing largely through its depreciation in value. In consequence he sold his land in Allen township and moved to the Buffalo Valley, in what is now Union County, in 1792. He there purchased a farm, later the site of the Union County fair buildings, about one mile west of Lewisburg on the turnpike, where he lived until his death.
General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Hays
She survived her husband and in 1803 moved with her sons, William and Thomas, to Beaver County, Pennsylvania, where she died.
She died August 30, 1812. [CBRCP-CCUS, 793]
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19 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 906.
20 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 925.
21 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 302.
22 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 289, 302.
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24 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 323.
25 —, Book of Biographies, Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 20.
26
John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 115.
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