Benjamin Wilson and Esther Correll

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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: 1770 1

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   Other Spouse: Mary [Unk] (      -1811) 2

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   Other Spouse: Barbara Orr (      -1855) 2

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Wife Esther Correll ¹

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           Born: 29 Jun 1750 - New Jersey 1
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           Died: 16 Dec 1782 1
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Children

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1 M Joseph M. Wilson ¹

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           Born: 9 Mar 1771 - ? New Jersey 1
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2 F Sarah Wilson ¹

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           Born: 10 Mar 1774 - ? New Jersey 1
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           Died: 1 Mar 1846 1
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         Spouse: [Unk] Giles (      -      ) 1

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3 F Margaret Wilson ¹

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           Born: 14 Sep 1778 - ? New Jersey 1
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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.