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Well I'm getting places. I now have the 3 Wilson boys
William R. Wilson b. 1765 m. Jane King d/o Phillip King and I believe maybe Susan Kearney/Kerney. Jane died 10 Dec. 1843 White Co. IL. Was living with her son Judge William Wilson and wife Mary S. Davidson Wilson. They had another son John Knox Wilson b. 1792
John Wilson b. 1772 m. Elizabeth Chinn
Jacob Wilson b. 1774 Chester Co. PA. (so odds are that is where they were from) m. Margaret King b. 1771 (cemetery listing says Union Co. Va. 1850 census says PA.) She is the younger sister to Jane (above) Family information says her mother was a Kerney.
John and Jacob's oldest brother, William R. Wilson died most likely in Loudoun Co. That is where we know his son, William was born in 1794. He later became Illinois Supreme Court Justice. His brother John Knox Wilson had a daughter Susan Chaplain Wilson that married Burr Powell Noland and all those Powell/Noland lines in Virginia.
We know John died in Loudoun Co. and Jacob went on to White Co. IL after his nephew, Judge William Wilson and wife Mary Davidson went there. Judge Wilson took his mother with him and she is buried in the Old Carmi Cemetery along with sister Margaret and Jacob, their son Oliver and Judge Wilson.
So I'm exhausted. Anyone want to venture into Chester Pa and I'll catch up to you!.
Pardon my unfamiliarity with this "Chinn Book"., I know very little (as my
line descends from the British lineage - my grt grandfather came to the states
in the late 1890's).
I have found that my Chinn/Chin/Ching line shows a Philip Ching
(grandfather to my grt grand father ) living in Manaccan Cornwall England in 1841
with the children: Elizabeth Ching (wife), b.@ 1811; Jane Ching b. @ 1826;
Mary ann Ching b. @1833; Philip Ching b. @ 1837 and Michael Chinn b.@ 1839 ( my
grt grandfather, which I have confirmation of his birth date).
I have no knowledge if any other member of his family came to the US
prior to My grt grand Dad John Chinn (son of Michael Chinn/Ching).
There's a Jane listed in this line if that is of any help... I know
Names are repeated through the generations - her name came from somewhere. The
information I have on my Chinn's is that every generation the same names are
repeated over and over again.
Sorry if I intruded, but I haven't been working very hard on these lines
lately as I've been working on my Dad's line in the dark pit of New York history.
Janice in Washington state
Hi all
Well, I think I just made a HUGE stride to discovering John Wilson's (Elizabeth Chinn) family.
Those of you who know me also know I'm obsessed with this project. I've always believed that John's father was William and his mother was either Lucy or Jane. I've also believed that Judge William Wilson of Illinois was his nephew. Those of you familiar with the Chinn Book and the Wilson Story know that Ruth Wilson Dillon (author of the Chinn Book) knew there was a relationship with John Wilson and Jg. Wilson and also that there was a Jacob Wilson who married a King in White Co. IL but no relationship had yet been established to John Wilson. Well I've believed that Jacob was John's brother and Jg. William's father was their brother also. Well I just found Jg. Wilson's parents.
William R. Wilson b. 1765 m. Jane King b. 1768 d/o Phillip King. w/children:
William Wilson b. 1794 m. 1820 Mary S. Davidson
John Knox Wilson b. 1792-1841 to Martinsburg W.Va. merchant
Now Jacob Wilson b. 1774 m. Margaret King (who's mother was a Kearney related to Gen Phillip Kearney.
So we should have Phillip King m. Unknown Kearney w/daug's
Margaret b. 1771 m. Jacob Wilson
Jane b. 1768 m. William Wilson
Now, in a letter from Eliz (Chinn) Wilson to her son William, (who I believe was in Illinois at the time) refers to "your Uncle Jacob) and also to "remember me to your Aunt Jane"
Well I have never had an Aunt Jane on the Chinn side so it HAD to be on John Wilson's side. Which now makes sense. JANE KING WILSON. This would be Elizabeth Chinn's sister in law. I was told that Jg. William Wilson was born in Loudoun Co. and his father died when he was young leaving a wife and two young boys. Well that would be William and John. So my guess is that Williams mother Jane King Wilson went to Illinois with him. This makes sense because then Aunt Jane would have been 64 when Elizabeth wrote the letter in 1832 and referred to her "old friend Mrs. Channel"
I know this all needs confirmed but if we collectively track down William R. Wilson and wife Jane King and look for her father Phillip King with possible wife Kearney I bet we can find the parents or at least the father of the Wilson boys:
William b. 1765
John b. 1772
Jacob b. 1774
There could be a brother Silas also and IF Jacob is their brother then their father fought in the Rev'n War and wounded at Paoli and captured. Jacob had a brother Silas that fought at Brandywine. Jacob was at Harper's Ferry in 1798 and served at the White House in the War of 1812 under Col. William Washington.
In 1811 Jacob and Margaret were living in Prince Wn Co. Va near Bull Run as that is where son John M. Wilson was born. In 1824 they moved from PWC to Jefferson Co. va. (W.Va.) and in October 1828 they moved to Illinois reaching White Co. in December of the same year, where they passed the winter at the home of a cousin Justice William Wilson who married Mary Davidson.
White Co. Probate Journal Vol. B. 1822-1844 page 165 has the following:
William K. Wilson - (who is this - William KING Wilson - Jg. Wilson's wife was a Davidson - Jacob's was a King.)
Administrator: William H. Davidson
9 Nov. 1836
Settle Distribution: Jacob & Margaret Wilson $50.78; Heirs of Eliza Boyd, Dec'd, John M. Wilson, James L. Wilson, Oliver H.P. Wilson, R. Adaline Wilson, Mary Shelby, Jane Wilson $25.35.
The above are Jacob and Margaret's children but who is this Eliza Boyd, dec'd?
Jacob's daughter Mary m. William B. Shelby lived in Indiana
Collectively we can crack this! Janean