Descendants of John Hugh Wilson by Mary H. Ash

1 Descendants of john hugh Wilson byMary H. AshDescendants of john hugh Wilson1 Descendants of john hugh WilsonGeneration No. 11. john HUGH1 Wilson was born 1689 in Londonderry, Ireland, and died July 09, 1773 in Letterkenny Twp,Cumberland, for john hugh Wilson :From "Scotch-Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America" Early settlers of Londonderry comprised many whoremained but a short time and moved on to new plantations. In July and August, 1718, from five to sevenhundred Protestant immigrants from Ireland entered the Port of Boston. Several followers of the Rev. set out early in autumn for Andover where they spent the winter. In 1719 there were seventy families atNutfield, Mass.

2 Though not all of Scotch-Irish connection. Wilsons that were on this list included BENJAMINWILLSON, ELIZABETH WILLSON, MARY WILLSON, THOMAS WILLSON, WILLIAM WILLSON,JAMES Wilson and ROBERT Wilson . The immigrants were given a 10 mile square tract of land for a townof their own. A list of proprietors of Londonderry in 1722 records about 100 Schotch-Irish land Shepherd in Wilson -BAIRD HISTORY states this john is john hugh Wilson , and born about 1675 following account is from OUR WILSONS, GASTONS, AND HUTTONS, Herman Wilson Craven,Washington 1926 The first Wilson of our family of whom we have positive information was one of the defenders of Londonderry,northern Ireland, in 1689.

3 According to uncertain tradition as it came down to Martha Wilson , her sister Lucinda,and her brother Joseph, his name was john . The Protestant forces, loyal to William and Mary, were shut up in thetown by an army commanded by the deposed King James who soon departed leaving the command to was fierce fighting. Famine and pestilence threatened to wipe out the entire population within the walls;but the defenders successfully withstood the siege lasting one hundred and five days. Macaulay in his History ofEngland gives a vivid account of this Wilson , son of the defender of Londonderry, came to America and married Nancy Brackenridge, whocame to this country from Londonderry when she was twelve years of age with her brother, her parents dying onthe voyage over.

4 (See john Wilson for more)From: Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and AmericaAuthor: Charles BoltonCall Number: 575 This is a study of the emigration from Northern Ireland of persons of Scottish and English descent. Chapters aredevoted to the Scotch-Irish settlements in Pennsylvania, Maryland, South Carolina, and Massachusetts andinclude valuable lists of early pioneers. In addition, considerable space is devoted to the redoubtable settlers ofLondonderry, New Hampshire. The book's extensive appendices contain lists of great genealogical importance,including (1) petitioners for transport from Northern Ireland (1718); (2) hometowns of Ulster families, withnames of the Scotch-Irish in New England from presbytery and synod records (1691-1718); (3) members of theCharitable Irish Society in Boston (1737-1743); (4) names of fathers in the Presbyterian baptismal records inBoston (1730-1736); and (5) names of ships carrying passengers from Ireland to New England (1714-1720).

5 Biographical information, which is to be met with throughout the volume, is rendered instantly accessible byreference to the formidable Information: Bolton, Charles Knowles, Scotch Irish Pioneers In Ulster and America, 1910, Reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1967 IXDescendants of john hugh Wilson2 THE WINTER OF 1718-19 IN BOSTONIn July and August, 1718, from five to seven hundred Protestant immigrants from Ireland entered the port ofBoston. Several followers of the Rev. Mr. McGregor set out early in the autumn for Andover where they spent thewinter. Others as we have seen went to Casco Bay and the Kennebec ties no doubt drew some into the neighboring towns, although all trace of these influences have been the early emigrants who came probably from the north of Ireland many were scattered through towns notknown thereafter as distinctly Scotch Irish settlements.

6 Where we find one family others are almost certainly to befound, disguised it may be by an English name. The following names are given as an indication of the widedistribution of the emigrants. Some families are merely known to be Scotch, others are Presbyterians who broughttheir babies to the Rev. Mr. Moorhead in Boston for baptism, while in still other instances the home town inIreland has been or can be found by reference to Page 154the local church James Long was in Charlestown, john Tom in Cambridge, Thomas Karr or Carr, JohnPike, James Lindsay, James Taggart and john Brownlie in Roxbury, Robert Burns and James Aull in Medford,James Moor in Chelsea, Jeremiah Smith and john Longhead in Milton, Archibald Thompson and Thomas Henryin Bridgewater, and john Kennedy, with Abraham Hunter, at Braintree.

7 At Concord lived Samuel Henderson;ROBERT Wilson was at Malden, Alexander Smith at Billerica, Thomas Little, Charles Richards, john Moorand James Gordon at Shirley, Daniel Ritter and Thomas Harkness at Lunenburg, Thomas Bogle at Sudbury, JohnMcClure at Woburn and JAMES Wilson at Lexington. Dugall McCombs was at Western, john McAllister atWestboro, David McClure at Brookfield, Andrew McElwain at Bolton, James Cargill at Mendon, Walter Beath atLunenburg and at Boothbay in Maine, William Leman at Wiscasset, and Mrs. James at Annapolis. john Nicholslived at Freetown, john Wood and James Henry at Providence, and Archibald MacKaye at Pomfret James Glasford at Leicester was Matthew Watson who came from Coleraine in Ireland.

8 James Smith ofNeedham brought a letter from the church1 I am indebted to my sons Stanwood and Geoffrey for many references to Scotch Irish in country an Irish port with one of Ireland's Presbyterian ministers on board, and arrived at Charleston, probably inthe summer of the year there were a few Scotch Irish in and near Charleston, and on the rich lands between Philadelphia andWilmington, at an early date. In New York also they held a place, and in the Presbyterian churches on LongIsland. But in no case did the migrations before 1718 have great influence. They were, it is true, responses to aspirit of discontent and unrest in Ulster, but low rates of transportation on account of trade in tobacco had theirforce as were the conditions at the opening of the year 1718.

9 Yet we shall see that in less than a decade after Boydand McGregor had set foot in New England, the ports of Philadelphia, Newcastle and Charleston were swarmingwith the Scotch Irish. James Logan of Pennsylvania reported in 1727 the arrival of eight or nine emigrant shipsthat autumn, and in 1729 six vessels in a single week came into the year 1718 the growth of Scotch Irish influence and numbers cannot safely be measured by the spreadof Presbyterianism, yet its early ecclesiastical history is of contributive value. In the year 1704 or 1705 theministers who gathered in Philadelphia to ordain and install the Rev. JedediahPage 35 Andrews of Boston agreed to form a General Presbytery.

10 These men were:Francis Makemie, Taylor, Upper Wilson , McNish, Hampton, Snow Davis, Andrews, the Scotch Irish have their full share in this list of ministers, the people who listened to their sermonswere very largely of Scotch and English ancestry; and in the next decade their growing families and the arrival oftheir friends from abroad so increased the number of Presbyterians that in 1717 the General Presbytery became aSynod with four presbyteries, Philadelphia, Newcastle, Snow Hill, and Long Island,1 and twenty-nine years later the number of ministers had trebled,2 for the great tide of migration which was identified withNew England in 1718 soon turned toward See Hodge's Presbyterian Church, 1839, pp.