Eunice (Northrup) Wilson (1761 - 1788)

Born 5 Feb 1761 in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Wilson — married 27 Jan 1779 in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 4 Sep 1788 at age 27 in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

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Eunice Wilson was a United Empire Loyalist.
UEL Status:Undetermined
Date: undated

Biography

Eunice was born in 1761. She was the daughter of Moses Northrup and Patience Beardsley. She passed away in 1788.^[1][2][3]

Moses, Patience and Eunice were Torries during the American Revolution and were jailed in Litchfield in 1778.

"In February, 1778, "upon the memorial of Moses Northrup, Patience his wife, and Eunice Northrup his daughter, all of New Milford, showing to this Assembly that the said Patience and Eunice are confined in Litchfield goal upon suspicion of treason against this state, that no court proper to try them will sit in said county till August next and that their services are greatly needed at home," praying to be admitted to bail as they could not be under the law. This petition was granted." ^[4]

Thomas Wilson and Eunice Northrup were married on 27 Jan 1779 in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut . ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Beardsley Genealogy: The Family of William Beardsley, One of the First Settlers of Connecticut. Compiled and edited by Nellie Beardsley Holt and Charles Eleazer Holt. Published at West Hartford, Connecticut, 1951. Holt Record #32, Pg. 23
2. ↑ Genealogical History of the Beardsley-lee Family in America by Rev. Isaac Haight Beardsley - Published 1902. Pg. 232-233
3. ↑ The Northrup-Northrop genealogy : A Record of the Known Descendants of Joseph Northrup, Who Came From England in 1637, And Was One of the Original Settlers of Milford, Conn., in 1639 ; With Lists of Northrups and Northrops in the Revolution by Northrup, A. Judd (Ansel Judd), 1833-1919, Published c1908 Page 23
4. ↑ "Torries in Connecticut" by James Shepard, Published in the Connecticut Quarterly, Vol. 1 No. 2 April, May and June, 1895.
5. ↑ "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPS1-NQWM : 15 April 2022), Thomas Wilson, ; citing Marriage, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 008100622.

• Rockwell, Kenneth W., The Family of Benjamin Wilson of Ridgefield, Connecticut, Connecticut Ancestry (Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc., Stamford, Conn., Feb 2012) Vol. 54, No. 3, Page 107-8.
  • Eunice died 12 Sep 1812, citing Ridgefield vital records, 2:216.