Benjamin Willson (1741 - 1809)

Born 6 May 1741 in Rye, Westchester County, New York

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Died 7 Jul 1809 at age 68 in Oxford, Chenango County, New York, USA

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Biography

Benjamin Willson was born in 1741. He passed away in 1809. He married Polly Kniffen in 1761.^[1]
Benjamin's Lieutenant in French & Indian War
Rev War Veteran
Son of Samuel Willson & Phebe Lyon

Copies of Page from the Seventeenth report of the NSDAR (1913) which includes Pierce's Register -- "Register of the certificates issued by John Pierce, Esquire, Paymaster General and Commission of Army Accounting for the United States" to officers and soldiers of the continental Army by act of July 4, 1783. 3 Payments - one for $46.60 one for $80.00 and one for $62.55

Certified Copy of Last Will of Benjamin Wilson, City of Oxford, County of Chenango, State of New York. It was written 14 June 1809, one month before his death, several months after the death of his daughter Gertrude Wilson, Who married Hubby Adee. The will was submitted to probate July 15, 1809, a week after his death. Other persons named in will:Benjamin Willson (son), Kniffin Willson, Daniel Willson, Mary Willson my beloved wife, Daughter Phebe Leggett, Susanna Wilson, Charity Lyon

DAR's New York State Committee's 1920 report on "Graves of Revolutionary War Soldiers Buried in New York: Ten Broeck Cemetery, Town of Oxford, County of Chenango, New York: Benjamin Willson Died 1809, July 7. Aged 68 and Mary (wife) Died 1835, February 11, Aged 93.

Occupation Teamster American Revolutionary Service

Sources

1. ↑ Mead, Spencer P., Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut: With Genealogical Notes, published 1911 Reference pages 683-4

• Benjamin Willson; Find A Grave: Memorial #44035930; Created by: Donald Martell; Record added: 7 Nov 2009; date accessed: 14 Jan 2019
  • Headstone photo: [1]; Added by Diane Branham, 22 Apr 2014

• DAR Application of Florence Willson Saltzer. 566848

• Willson, Benamin. [[Everitt Family Bible, New Illustrated Devotional and Practical Polyglot Family Bible: Old and New Testaments, Apocrypha, Concordance, and Psalms in Metre (The National Publishing Company, Ziegler and McCurdy, Jones Brothers and Co., 1870); original owned and used in his sermons in the 1870's by Rev. Isaac Everitt (Westfield, Tioga Co., Pa.)|Everitt Family Bible]]. Date unknown. Passed from Rev. Isaac Everitt to his son Carlos Gould Everitt to his daughter Minnie Floss Everitt to her son Edward Everitt Eberle to his daughter Ruth Eberle to her son Michael Spinelli Jr. Currently in possession of Michael Spinelli Jr. . Includes names, birth, marriage and death dates of family members from 1823 to 1940.

• Baird, Charles W. History of Rye; Westchester County, New York. Anson D.F. Randolph and Company; First Edition edition (1871), pp 497.

• Spark-Watson, M.L. The Willsonn Family. Cortland County Historical Society New York. pp 178-179.

• Lyon memorial. New York families descended from the immigrant Thomas Lyon of Rye, editor, Robert B. Miller ; associate editor, A.B. Lyons Reference page 109 Shows daughter Charity's birth and marriage information to spouse David Lyon