Husband Peter Wilson 1 2
Born: Abt 1764 - Ireland
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Died: 23 Jan 1843 1 2
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Wife Margaret Robinson 1 2
Born: Abt 1769 - Ireland
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Died: 6 Apr 1846 1 2
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Children
1 M George Wilson 1 3
Born: 1792 - Allegheny Co, PA 1 3
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Died: 18 Jan 1878 1 2
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Spouse: Mary McFetridge (1796-1870/1871) 1 3
Marr: 1815 4
2 M James Wilson 5
Born: 1794 - Allegheny Co, PA 6
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Died: 1876 6
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Spouse: Nancy McFetridge (Abt 1802-1826) 6
Spouse: Marry Holmes ( -1830) 6
Spouse: Sarah Carmichael ( -Aft 1888) 5
3 F Mary Wilson 1 7
Born: Abt 1799 - Worth Twp, Mercer Co, PA
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Died: Bef 1877 - Indiana
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Spouse: Homer McFetridge ( - ) 6
4 F Jane (Margaret?) Wilson 1 2
Born:
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Died: Bef 1877 - California
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Spouse: Hugh Todd ( - ) 6
5 M John Wilson 1 8
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Spouse: Clarissa Turner (1807-1848) 8 9
Marr: 1827 8
Spouse: Sarah A. Porteagle ( - ) 10
Marr: Abt 1854
General Notes: Husband - Peter Wilson
He immigrated to America in 1777 and first located in Allegheny County, PA. He was a Revolutionary soldier and owned 160 acres of land on which the city of Allegheny later stood. In 1796 he and his family, which consisted of two sons, George and James, and one daughter, Mary, went to Mercer county and located in what became Jackson Township. He engaged in farming and built the first grist-mill on the Neshannock Creek just below where Jackson Station stood. At this place two more children were born to them, John and Jane. He sold this farm and grist-mill and located in another portion of Jackson Township, which he afterward sold, and located 600 acres in became Worth Township, where he lived until his death. [HMC 1888, 1082]
The ancestors of this family left Scotland at the time of the siege against the Christians and settled in the north of Ireland. The first of the family to come to America was Peter, who emigrated from Ireland with his family in 1792, landed at Philadelphia, pushed to the banks of the Allegheny River and bought one hundred and sixty acres of state land including the site where Allegheny City was later established. Upon this tract he built a log cabin, in which he lived until 1796, when he again moved westward and settled in what became Jackson Township, Mercer County. In this locality he bought a squatter's claim to two hundred acres of timber land, soon after improved a water power on Mill creek near where Jackson station was later located, and there erected one of the first grist mills in the county. He made the mill stones himself from the flinty bowlders collected from his land. There were then but few white settlers in the locality, but the three Indian villages within the limits of the present county furnished him with quite a custom. The natives were in the habit of bringing their corn to his mill in sacks made of skins. After a few years Peter Wilson sold his property on Mill creek and commenced to buy land in Worth Township, building a double log house on his first purchase. Later he became the owner of other tracts and eventually was one of the largest land proprietors in the county. [HMC 1909, 1096]
Date of death Jan 20.[HMC 1888, 1082]