Robert Wilson (1760 - 1819)

Born 1760 in Mecklenburg, North Carolina

Ancestors

Husband of Jane (McDowell) Wilson — married about Feb 1783 in Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States

Died 10 Jun 1819 at about age 59 in Williamson, Tennessee, United States

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Research Notes

Seperating fact from fiction. Everything I add will be sourced and by verbatim.

Added Revolutionary War service, which includes his spouse, from the DAR database and sourced with DAR approved citation. Added the 1776 sticker. Added who his father was, where his father lived, who he married, when and where, and by whom. Where they moved a year after they married which was lincoln County, Georgia. Created a profile for Jane McDowell (spouse) and added. Eileen Bradley

Biography

Private Robert Wilson served with Mecklenburg County Regiment, North Carolina Militia during the American Revolution.

Robert Wilson is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A127795.

WILSON, ROBERT JR Ancestor #: A127795
Service: NORTH CAROLINA - SOUTH CAROLINA
Rank(s): PRIVATE
Birth: 1760 MECKLENBURG CO NORTH CAROLINA
Death: A 10- -1819 WILLIAMSON CO TENNESSEE
Pension Number: *W216
Service Description: 1) CAPT ROBERT IRWIN,COL ALEXANDER
2) GEN.THOMAS SUMTER
SPOUSE JANE MCDOWELL ^[1]

Robert Wilson Junior was the son of Robert Wilson Senior who lived before during and after Revolutionary war at Steele Creek in the County of Mecklenburg State of North Carolina.

Married Jane McDowell at her fathers house on the (blank) day of February (the second or third Thursday of said month) in the year 1783 or 1784 by the Revd James McRee in Mecklenburg.

The year after their marriage, they removed to Lincoln County, State of Georgia, where they lived five or six years. ^[2]Eileen Bradley

Sources

1. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed November 6, 2019), "Record of Robert Wilson", Ancestor # A127795.
2. ↑ Pension application of Jane Wilson, widow of Robert Wilson W216 Transcribed by Paulette Haynes Jane Wilson Declaration & Exhibits Act 7 June 1838 State of Tennessee Williamson County http://revwarapps.org/w216.pdf

• Widow's Revolutionary War Pension Application (Transcribed) http://www.revwarapps.org/w216.pdf

• Will for Robert Wilson executed January 1819 in Williamson County, Tennessee. Mentions wife Jane and many daughters and grandchildren. (Entire document image posted here.) https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9176/images/004750394_01763?usePUB=true&_phsrc=lOR31&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=3681371

• http://wilsonfamilygenealogy.weebly.com/history.html

• Revolutionary War Soldiers for NC and SC, Data provided by the website Carolana. (accessed 28 Mar 2022)

Notes

Rev. War pension W216

Wife Jane

1790 was living in Lincoln Co. GA

Bros: Moses, Josiah

Father, Robert Wilson, had 6 sons in Ref: Joseph, Aaron, John, JamesRobert & Samuel

Joseph born about 1749

Aaron born about 1751 and died about 1833

John born about 1753

James born about 1755 and died about 1845

Robert "the claimant"

Samuel born about 1762

Only bro. that red'd pension was James Wilson who lived in Bedford Co. TN when he applied.

brother Zaccheus was a small boy in 1780

Uncle was Zaccheus Wilson, Sr. signer of Declaration

Our Valiant Men, Louise Lynch, page 189

"About 1792, the sons of Robert and Eleanor (Wilson) moved to Tennessee. Robert Wilson II was said to have been the first man to cross the Cumberland Mountains with a wagon. He married Jane McDowell, daughter of William and Ellen McDowell of York County, South Carolina. Both Jane and her mother went to King's Mountain after the battle and remained several days caring for the wounded soldier. It was said that William McDowell gave his only daughter in marriage because of the bravery that Robert Wilson displayed at King's Mountain. Jane McDowell was a very courageous woman, also molding bullets for Gen. McDowell and his men for the Battle of King's Mountain. Robert Wilson #2 , was born in 1760 and died in1819. Jane Wilson was born in 1761 and died in 1853. They are buried in a family graveyard in the part of the county that is now Rutherford County, between Allisona and Eagleville. Their children were (8):Eleanor, Jane, Mary, Asenath, Cynthia, Martha, Louise, Matilda.

Moved to Cumberland Valley in 1795, Williamson Co. in 1800

Robert Wilson was one of the eleven sons of Robert and Eleanor(Carothers) Wilson, of whom seven served in the American Revolution.

Copy of Robert Wilson's will in Haynes Family Papers micro-film

Williamson Co. Will Bk. 3, page 95, probated October Session 1819

Wife: Jane

Daus: Eleanor, Jane, Mary Jane, Asenath, Sinthy, Patsey, Louisa and Matilda.

Grandson, Robert Wilson Calhoun (his father Charles Calhoun)

Grandson, Thomas Wilson Haynes

Exr. Jacob Shaver?, Charles Calhoun, Adam Miller

Long court case involving Jane Wilson, his widow; the farm, children and depositions made by several people.

Marshall Co. TN

Deed Bk. B-70

29 Apr 1836, Jane Patterson sold Thomas B. Favor 1/8 interest part of 56 acres.

Deed Bk. C-235

7 Dec 1838 Charles & Mary Calhoun deed their 1/8 interest, to Thomas B. Favor being part that came to the heirs of Robert Wilson from the estate of Aaron A. Wilson.

Deeb Bk. G-72

27 Feb 1840 Thomas B. Favor, John Wall and wife Martha Wall sold to Susannah Wilson their 3/8 interest in 56 acres. (Martha Wilson Wall is dau. of Robert Wilson Jr.)