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- Hugh L. is the son of his first wife Sarah Savage & John WILLSON.
. The infant Hugh was left in Ireland with his Uncle Hugh, & eventually joined his father in American where his father John Willson had remarried Katherine B Kuhn.
Hugh had been destined for the Presbyterian ministry, but the economic disruption of the Seven Years' War he (1756-1763) had led to a downturn in the family fortunes & put an end to Hugh's schooling.
. 1775, Hugh followed his brother John Willson to America, bringing with him John's son, Hugh L., who went to live with his father & stepmother, Katherine Kuhn Willson.
UCLPetition 28, W Bundle 7, C2952, p21
. To Lt. Gov. Peter Hunter, In Council
Petition of John Willson, East Gwillimbury, yeoman. Petitioner has been upwards of 16 months [Nov 1803] in the Province, subscribed the Oath of Allegiances; sufficient ability to cultivate land & is desirous to occupy & improve a vacant lot of Crown land:
Signed, John Wilson, York, 12 Mar, 1805.
. Receipt #44, John Wilson has paid in this office £5 19s, 4p. for a Patent Grant of 200 Acres, also £1 6s for surveying fees there on. Peter Russell, Survey General.
. Yonge Street, 7 days 3rd month 1805. To the governor Council to look upon this long man to be a friendly man, a good farmer, very honest worth $300 & wishes to settle with Friends in the corner of Uxbridge, His name is John Wilson, late of from New York Sate, Signed, Timothy Rogers, His mother is a widow & moved in with him.
Hugh L. Willson was born in County Down while the family had been living in Carrickfergus County Antrim leads me to think that John’s wife was living on her brother in law’s farm at the time of Hugh L Willson’s birth.
He met & married Catherine in New York & they had a rented farm 12 miles east of Poughkeepsie near the Connecticut border.
Carolyn Mann found in ancient documents from Poughkeepsie that John had little sympathy for the “rebels”, & that before & after the actual declaration of war, he had been arrested several times, bound over to keep the peace, fined & even served a term of imprisonment for defending sometimes with his fist!
Hugh was the son of John's first wife who died shortly after his birth. Sometime between 1768 & 1775 his father emigrated to America leaving Hugh in the care of his Uncle Hugh Willson until the entire family left for America. On the death of his father John, Hugh took over the rented family farm near Poughkeepsie, New York. In 1790 he married Mary Titus, eldest daughter of Austin Titus, a Quaker minister & blacksmith, & Waite Giddley, a "Dutch" woman. In 1798 Hugh moved to New York City where purchased a share in the sloop, "The Farmer", a trade ship which ran between New York & the West Indies. In the Spring of 1800, he sold his share in The Farmer & moved to upper Canada.
Ref: Ian David Roberts, Scarborough, Ontario, 2006, Rootsweb.
. 1804 Dec 18 - To be sold, the Place Whereon the Subscriber Now Lives
Situated in Clinton town, one mile north of where Judge Bloom lived, at the end of the Large Bridge over Wappenger's creek, 1 mile forth of Friends Meeting House, on the great road to Albany - the place contains 12 acres of land, of superior quality, one half of the best of meadows the other an orchard of 100 bearing apple trees, a good house with 3 rooms & 3 fire places, a bard of good garden containing a great variety of fruit, such as currents, pears, plumbs of different kinds & cherries - there is 2 never failing springs of water at the back & front door - but a few rods from a grist, saw & fulling mill & a store & is every ay suited for cooper, blacksmith, shoemaker, weaver, tanner or any other mechanic; it has been rented at £30 a yer for several years, payment made easy. For terms apply to the subscriber on the premises, by whom an indisputable title will be given.
Signed, Hugh Wilson.
N.B. If not sold by the first of April, to be rented.
Ref: Pouhkeepsie Journal Newspaper, New York, published variously 1805.3.12 - 1805.3.26.
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. 1809 Sep 20 - For Sale, The Farm on which the subscriber now lives, situated in the town of Washington, one & an half miles north of Philip Hart's on the road leading to Bangall & 17 miles from Pougkeepsie. The farm contains about 84 acres of land, which is divided into meadow, arable & timberland; has a tolerably good dwelling house, barn, blacksmith shop & a number of other out houses, is well watered & has a good orchard & a variety of other fruit trees. The situation is a good one for an industrious blacksmith or any other kind of mechanical business Enquire on the premises of Richard Titus, Jun.
Ref: Pouhkeepsie Journal Newspaper, New York.
. 1806 Aug 12 - Broke into the inclosure of the subscriber on the 7th inst., a bay Mare, with a small star in her forehead, about 14 hands high, 3 or 4 yers old. The owner is requested to all, prove property, pay charges & take her away.
Signed, Richard Titus, Washington, NY.
Ref: Pougkeepsie Journal Newspaper. - - -
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