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- Of the ancestry of this family nothing is known back of the grandfather, John Wilson, who was of Scotch parentage, and who’s father and mother dying when he was an infant placed him under the care of a guardian who came with him to America., when he was but four years of age, and located in Washington County, New York. He died in that county in Oct. 1813. His wife’s name was Anna Maria Switzer. Their children were: John, George, Christopher, Peter, James, William, Elinor, Nancy, Catherine and Sarah.
-from “History of Lewis County” pages 215 & 216
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