Robert Wilkins

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Husband Robert Wilkins ¹

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1 M John Wilkins ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Wilkins

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He was an early settler on Chiques creek, [Pennsylvania?]

The emigrant ancestor of this family, he emigrated from Bradenoch, Wales, where his family had been seated since the conquest of that country by Edward III, of England. He was descended from Robert de Wintonia, which modernized is Robert of Winchester, and his son John, first bore the name of Wilcolyne or Wilkyn. Early in the eighteenth century, the Welsh family resumed by legal process the name of their ancestor de Winton. The arms of the Wilkins family are thus emblazoned: per pale or and argent, a wyvern vert. Crest: a wyvern proper; mottoes; Estote prudents, and Syn ar dy Hun. Of Robert the emigrant, Captain John Wilkins says in a manuscript biography he left, dated 1807:
"My grandfather, a native of Wales, in Great Britain, came early to this country (America); he landed in Pennsylvania, then a wilderness, he took up and settled a tract of land where the City of Philadelphia now stands. After living there some time, he sold his title for a beaver hat, then took up and improved the tract of land where the sign of the buck now is, ten miles from Philadelphia, on the Lancaster road. He sold out there and moved further on, taking the course of what is now called Hawes Ferry, taking up and selling tract after tract, until he settled on a tract about fourteen miles northward of where Lancaster now stands. There he lived some time, then left that tract to my father, he moved on, settling several tracts until he settled a tract where Carlisle now stands. Gave that tract to another of his sons then moved on in the old way towards Patomick and died in Virginia."

1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 588.