Loyalist Institute: West Jersey Volunteers, Mantua Creek, 1778
Sevil [Savil ]Wilson m Susanah Chew, Dec 1,1756 at Woodbury,NJ .Son of
Edward,and
father of Elizabeth-Mrs Rev Jesse Justice. We've long heard he was
jailed by the British
in the Rev War [Chew book]. Here is the proof. He already was in a debate
with his Loyalist
Chew brother-in-law over Jeffery Chew's estate. 1805 Rev Jesse Justice,
who had ridden
s Jersey Methodist circuts,sold farms on Mantua and Raccoon
Creeks,Gloucester Co,NJ
and bought 540 acres here at Bethel,Ohio east of Cincinnati.
1820 census of Tate Twnsp shows Rev Jesse Justice,and Jesse Jr,and a
Savil Wilson ,Sr,and
a Savil Wilson Jr, and a Reuben Wilson. Likely Josiah Wilson in
Williamsburg township was another.
John Iler m 1818 Ann Wainwright Wilson,by Andrew Pinkham,JP at
Bantam,Ohio,and their son,
Savil Wilson Iler made it to Oregon in the 1840's. 1826 one of the Savil
Wilson's was JP
OF Union township,Clermont Co,Ohio
Aileen Whitt,will you print this Email,and add it to the Beech Forest
D.A.R. chapter files.
About 1754,Sevil Wilson was one of the Woodbury creek,NJ DAM BREAKERS.
I live where the grandson,Savil Justice,settled in 1824. His wife had
Blackman and Champion blood.
West Jersey Volunteers
Skirmish at Mantua Creek
Yesterday about twenty West Jersey loyalists crossed the Delaware,
from
this city, in order to assist some of their friends, who had
expressed a
desire of taking refuge here, to avoid the horrid tyranny and
implacable
persecution of the rebels.
At the mouth of Mantua creek, they fell in with a party of the
enemy in
ambuscade, whom they soon repulsed, advanced into the country, and
took
one Wilson prisoner, who was a committee man, and, it is said, very
active
in distressing the friends of government.
They returned this day with the prisoner, and their friends.
The loyalists had one man killed, but what the rebels suffered is
not
known.
Wilson is in confinement
The Pennsylvania Evening Post, (Philadelphia), February 3, 1778.
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Loyalist Institute: West Jersey Volunteers, Mantua Creek, 1778
West Jersey Volunteers
Skirmish at Mantua Creek
Yesterday a number of the virtuous inhabitants of NewJersey, tired
of the
oppression of their new government, gave a proof of their loyalty
and
attachment to his Majesty, by seizing the person of one WILSON,
Collector
of the substitute fines in that province, and bringing him in to
the
British Head Quarters:
This example, it is hoped, will be followed by the injured and
distressed
people of Pennsylvania and NewJersey, and they cannot doubt but
their
loyalty will meet with every reasonable encouragement.
The Pennsylvania Ledger, (Philadelphia), February 4, 1778.
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