Cuthbert Wiggins (1770 - 1865)

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Cuthbert was born in 1770. He passed away in 1865.

Colonel Cuthbert Wiggins was a native of Bucks county, Penna, where he married Miss Margaret Bunting, daughter of Emanuel and Septema Bunting, "on the 13th day of the third month," 1799, according to the Quaker marriage certificate in possession of Joseph Harrison Wiggins. Colonel Wiggins came to Fayette county, Penna, in about 1809 and served under General George Mason in the War of 1812 in which he commanded a militia regiment and helped launch Commodore Perry's immortal fleet on Lake Erie. Entering the army he relinquished the Quaker faith and afterwards united with the Cumberland Presbyterian church. Leaving the army, he removed to Uniontown, kept a hotel for four years, and thence to Wharton township and erected the Fayette Springs Hotel. His family consisted of three sons and five daughters, of whom three are living: Hannah Wiggins, widow of William McMullen; Anna Wiggins and Joseph Harrison Wiggins. Colonel Wiggins was a great admirer of Henry Clay and General William Henry Harrison. He was a gentleman of the "old school" and a man of commanding personal appearance. His father was a native of Philadelphia.

Mentioned inThe Project Gutenberg EBook of The Old Pike, by Thomas B. Searight:

He hauled goods from Baltimore to points west. His outfit, team and wagon, were owned by himself and his father, Cuthbert Wiggins. Harrison Wiggins was born in the old Gribble house, two miles east of Brownsville, on the 30th of April, 1812. About the year 1817 his father moved to Uniontown, and kept a tavern in a frame building which stood on the lot adjoining the residence of P. S. Morrow, Esq. He remained here until 1821, when he went to the stone house at the eastern base of Chalk Hill, and was its first occupant. His house at Uniontown numbered among its patrons, Hon. Nathaniel Ewing, Samuel Cleavenger, Mr. Bouvier, John A. Sangston, John Kennedy, John Lyon, and other eminent men of that period.

Mentioned in his granfather's Will:

5.396. Bezaleel Wiggins of Upper Makefield Twp., yeoman. April 2, 1794. Proved July 24, 1794. Exrs. son Benjamin and son-in-law John Eastburn. Ch. Benjamin Wiggins, Elizabeth Eastburn, Mary Hayhurst, Isaac Wiggins; gdsn. Cuthbert Wiggins; Benajah Hayhurst. Lands adj. Joseph Smith, John Stockdale, Timothy Balderston and Heston's tract. Wits: Zebulon Heston, Titus Heston and Joseph Atkinson.

Marriage Mentioned in Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol II:

1799 , 3 , 13 . Margaret , dt Samuel & Septima , Bucks Co ., m Cuthbert Wiggins , Bucks Co .,s Joseph & Sarah , Hartford Co ., Md ., at Falls MH

Sources

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KN6W-759

• https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41799/41799-h/41799-h.htm

• https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WF-RJBD?from=lynx1UIV8&treeref=KN6W-759

• http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/fayette/bios/gresham/wzbios.txt

• https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015038929710&view=1up&seq=989&q1=wiggins