Benjamin Wilson and Mary [Unk]

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Husband Benjamin Wilson ¹

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           Born: 25 Jun 1751 - New Jersey 1
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           Died: 24 May 1839 2
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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Esther Correll (1750-1782) 1 - 1770 1

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   Other Spouse: Barbara Orr (      -1855) 2

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Wife Mary [Unk] ²

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           Born: 
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           Died: 16 Feb 1811 1
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Children

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1 M Benjamin Wilson ¹

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           Born: 11 Jan 1788 - New Jersey 2
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         Spouse: Mary Pruden (1782-1828) 2
           Marr: 8 Mar 1810 2

         Spouse: Mary Dewberry (      -      ) 2
           Marr: 4 Mar 1832 - Greene Co, PA 2

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2 M Samuel Wilson ²

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           Born: 9 Jul 1790 - New Jersey 2
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           Died: 14 Jun 1818 2
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3 F Elizabeth Wilson ²

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           Born: 18 Sep 1794 - Morris Twp, Washington Co, PA 2
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           Died: 27 Dec 1859 2
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4 M Jeremiah Wilson ²

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           Born: 11 Dec 1797 - Morris Twp, Washington Co, PA 2
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           Died: 8 Nov 1804 2
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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5 M Jacob Wilson ²

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           Born: 4 Aug 1800 - Morris Twp, Washington Co, PA 2
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6 M William B. Wilson ²

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           Born: 24 Apr 1803 - Morris Twp, Washington Co, PA 2
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           Died: 11 Nov 1804 2
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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7 F Esther Wilson ²

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           Born: 19 May 1805 - Morris Twp, Washington Co, PA 2
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           Died: 19 Jan 1889 2
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8 M Nathan Wilson ²

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           Born: 7 Jul 1807 - Morris Twp, Washington Co, PA 2
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           Died: 8 Mar 1853 2
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9 M John Wilson ²

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           Born: 23 Feb 1810 - Morris Twp, Washington Co, PA 2
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           Died: 10 Apr 1811 2
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - Benjamin Wilson

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He was the youngest of five brothers.

In 1793 he and his second wife came with their children to Washington County, Pennsylvania, then a vast wilderness, and entered land about one and a half miles east of Prosperity, in Morris township, where they set about to prepare themselves a comfortable home. He was a weaver by trade, which he followed in conjunction with attending to his farm, though the number of inhabitants in the area at that time was not sufficient to give him steady employment in that line.
He made three trips to New Jersey, after locating in Pennsylvania, each trip requiring about twenty-one days, the last being made about 1810. On one occasion he brought back from New Jersey, in the old-fashioned saddle bags, the nails to roof a dwelling which he constructed shortly afterward; they were of the old flat-jointed variety of wrought nails.
He was bed-ridden for the five years prior to his death.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 487.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 488.