Maj. James Armstrong Wilson and Margaret Miller

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Husband Maj. James Armstrong Wilson ^{1 2}

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           Born: Abt 1752 - Cumberland Co, PA
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           Died: 17 Mar 1788 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 2
         Buried: 

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         Father: Thomas Wilson (      -      ) 2
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Margaret Miller ^{2 3 4}

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           Born: Abt 1759 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 16 Apr 1841 4
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         Father: Robert Miller (      -      ) 2 5
         Mother: Elizabeth Calhoon (      -      ) 5

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   Other Spouse: Matthew Henderson (Abt 1766-1836) 2 4

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Children

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1 F Rebecca Wilson ¹

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         Spouse: Andrew McDowell (      -      ) 1
           Marr: Perry Co, PA

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General Notes: Husband - Maj. James Armstrong Wilson

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He was a major in the Revolutionary war. A graduate of the Princeton College, he was admitted to the bar at Easton, Pennsylvania, where he afterward practiced. He was a large land owner and farmer of Cumberland County, where he was born.

He was educated at Princeton, and read law with Richard Stockton. He was admitted to the Bar of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, on motion of James Wilson, in 1774, and died at the early age of thirty-six years, a victim of mob violence.

1 Editor, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 387.

2 Editor, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 6.

3 Editor, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 380, 387.

4 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 597.

5 Editor, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 388.