Hugh Wilson and Hannah Frampton

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Husband Hugh Wilson ¹

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           Born: 16 Oct 1773 - Gray Abbey, County Down, Ireland 1
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           Died: 28 Jul 1851 - Union City, Erie Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Wilson (      -1799) 2
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Hannah Frampton ³

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           Born: 22 Jul 1774 - Kishacoquillas, Mifflin Co, PA 4
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           Died: Feb 1852 - ? Union Twp, Erie Co, PA 4
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Children

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1 F Martha Wilson ¹

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           Born: 18 Aug 1800 - Union Twp, Erie Co, PA 5
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           Died: Bef 1884
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2 M David Wilson ⁴

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           Born: 30 Mar 1812 - Union Twp, Erie Co, PA 4
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           Died: Aft 1884
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         Spouse: Eliza Jane Thompson (1821-1876) 4
           Marr: 21 Nov 1839 4

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3 F Rachel Wilson ³

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           Born: 31 May 1813 or 1814 6
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           Died: 30 Dec 1906 - Union City, Erie Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: John Smiley (1814-1894) 3

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4 M Nathaniel Wilson ⁴

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           Born: 
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           Died: Aft 1884
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         Spouse: Catherine Wethington (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Hugh Wilson

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He was educated in Belfast, Ire­land, and emigrated to America in 1792, land­ing at Wilmington, Delaware. Later he joined at Bedford, Pennsylvania, the army under General Washington, then on its way to quell the Whiskey Rebellion at Pittsburgh, Pennsyl­vania. He returned to Centre County, Penn­sylvania, and in 1797 settled permanently in Union township, Erie County, Pennsylvania. He was commissioned a justice of the peace by Governor Thomas Mifflin, which office he re­signed in 1817. In 1813 he was one of the troops who protected the building of Commo­dore Perry's fleet at Erie, Pennsylvania. He was a man of prodigious strength, and once, when attacked by a full grown bear, he fought the animal single-handed and killed it with no other weapon except a small ax. It is also said of him that he could lift a full barrel of whiskey by the chines, raise it to his breast and drink out of the bung. He was a Presbyterian in religion. He and his wife were the parents of 9 chil­dren; three were still living in 1884.

He was a grand-­nephew of James Wilson, who was born in St. Andrews, Scotland, September 14, 1742, died in Edenton, North Carolina, in 1798, and who was educated at Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland, and emigrated to America in 1763, practicing law in Philadelphia, Carlisle and Reading, Pennsylvania, until the breaking out of the revolutionary war, in which he was a conspicuous figure, being one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and tak­ing a prominent part in the framing of the Constitution of the United States, and likewise being one of the first justices of the United States supreme court.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 732.

2 Editor, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884), Pg 686.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 730.

4 Editor, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884), Bios, 182.

5 Editor, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884), Pg 689.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 192, 730.