Thomas Wilson

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Husband Thomas Wilson ^{1 2 3 4}

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            AKA: Hugh Wilson 5
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1 M Hugh Wilson ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7}

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           Born: 1689 - Cootehill, County Cavan, Ireland 1 2 3 4 5 7
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           Died: Autumn, 1773 - "Irish Settlement", Allen Twp, Northampton Co, PA 2 7
         Buried:  - Allen Twp, Northampton Co, PA

         Spouse: Sarah Craig (      -      ) 1 2 3 5 6 7
           Marr: Ireland

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Wilson

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He was an officer in King William's army, and was one of the three men who crossed the River Boyne, July 1, 1690, facing great danger. For this act of heroism, he was rewarded with a tract of land containing one hundred and sixty acres at Cootehill, County Cavan, Ireland, where he established a country seat.

A search for the earliest known ancestor of this Wilson family leads one across the seas to the North of Ireland and to the historic battle of the Boyne-originally a Scotch family, the Wilsons had prior to 1690 settled in county Cavan, Ireland, where Thomas Wilson, an officer in King William's army, had a residence and an extensive bleaching green within a mile of Coote Hill not far from the county town. Thomas Wilson at the head of his command was one of the first to cross the river Boyne on the morning of July 1, 1690, and rendered his king important military service there and elsewhere. He married and had an only son, Hugh. [GPHWP, 112]

He was . . . a soldier within the walls of Londonderry during the siege, whose name was either John or Hugh Wilson. [BC, 327]

1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 740.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 112.

3 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 6.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 859.

5 —, Book of Biographies, Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 18.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 51.

7 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 327.