James Cunningham Wilson (1618 - 1672)

Born 11 Sep 1618 in Canongate, Edinburghshire, Scotland

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret Mary (Kidd) Wilson — married 1660 in Calvert, Maryland, British Colonial America

Descendants

Died May 1672 at age 53 in Calvert, Cecil, Maryland

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Biography

James Wilson was born in Scotland.

This profile is part of the Wilson Name Study.

James Wilson was an early settler in Maryland.

James Wilson, born 11 Sep 1618 in Canongate, Edinburgh, Scotland. The son of George Wilsone Sr b.1590 Scotland d. September 11, 1634 and Alisoun Cunninghame b.1595 Scotland^{[1] [2]}He married Margaret Kidd, born Abt. 1648 in Scotland. She was the daughter of William Kidd and Margaret Deare. James Wilson Emigrated to the British colonies of North America in 1652^[3]. James died in the early part of May 1672 in Calvert County, Maryland.

Birth

Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 Name: James Wilsone Gender: Male Baptism Date: 11 Sep 1618 Baptism Place: Canongate, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Father: George Wilsone Mother: Alisoun Cuninghame FHL Film Number: 1067739, 0103085

Children of James Wilson and Margaret Kidd

1. James Wilson, born 1660 in Calvert County, Maryland.
2. John Wilson, born 1663 in Calvert County, Maryland.
3. Joseph Wilson, born 1665 in Calvert County, Maryland; died 1716 in Calvert County, Maryland; married Frances Hilleary Abt. 1690 in Calvert County, Maryland.
4. Josiah Wilson, born 1670 in Calvert County, Maryland.
5. Elizabeth (Wilson) Thornburg

WILL

Wilson, James, Calvert Co., 3rd May 1670; 29th May 1672. To wife Margaret, execx., all lands during life. To eld. son James and son John, home plantation at death of sd. wife, their mother. To son Joseph, 40 A. at the death of (his) mother. Test: Robt. Rider, Mary Tilly, Henry Cole. 1. 489.^{[4] [5] [6]}

Research Notes

Birth: Dunbar, Haddingtonshire, Scotland?

Major Josiah Wilson, son of James (Wilson) of Dunbar, Haddingtonshire, Scotland, whose will was probated May 29th, 1672, was an ancestor of distinguished lineage and himself one of the most prominent men of the day in Maryland; he in 1688-9 signed “Address from the Protestant Inhabitants of Calvert County” to the Sovereigns, William and Mary; Captain in Calvert County, 1698; Justice of Peace, 1700; Major in Prince George’s County, 1702; High Sheriff of Anne Arundel County, 1706-8; was an Alderman and Incorporator of Annapolis under the first charter granted by Queen Anne through Governor Seymour, 22 November, 1708; Sergeant of Arms of Maryland Council, 1707; was a Delegate from Prince George’s County to the Lower House of General Assembly in 1715-17; at his death, 1717, he owned the largest personal estate and was one of the largest landowners in Prince George’s County, with extensive holdings there and in other counties of Maryland; married Martha Lingan, daughter of George and Ann ((Hardesty) Lingan, prominent among the early Protestant inhabitants of Maryland, to which he emigrated 1664. Amongst other ancestors who helped develop and colonize the new country, to which they had come in its early stage, maybe mentioned Basil Crawford, Mary Suit, a French Huguenot, Priscilla Taylor of English ancestry, and Emily Beall, the latter related to the Brooke, Wade, Magruder, Claggett, Hamilton and many of the other Colonial families of Maryland.^[7]

James Wilson, of Calvert County, Maryland, whose ancestors are supposed to have come from England, or Scotland, about 1660, and first settled in Virginia.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/alisoun-cunninghame_378283
2. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F31L-VBK
3. ↑ http://aomol.msa.maryland.gov/000001/000426/html/am426--899.html
4. ↑ https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I091901&tree=tree1
5. ↑ The Maryland Calendar of Wills, Volume I Wills from 1635 (Earliest Probated) to 1685 Pages 55-68 (p.68)
6. ↑ Originally Compiled by Jane Baldwin (1904) Edited and Annotated by USGenNet Patrons Rhoda Fone & Carole Hammett (2001) http://www.usgennet.org/usa/md/state/wills/01/055.html
7. ↑ https://www.gengophers.com/book.html#/book/56303?page=83&given=George&surname=Lingan
8. ↑ https://www.gengophers.com/book.html#/book/69993?page=167&given=George&surname=Lingan

• Published Works of Glenn L. Head "Wilson Family Records of Maryland"
• Will in Upper Marlboro, Prince George County, Maryland (dated 3 May 1670) and Probated on 29 May 1672 in Prince George County, Maryland

• Index from the manuscript by Arthur Trader, Chief Clerk in the Maryland Land Commission, 1917. And see nos. 4507-4511, Land Notes.
• Source Bibliography: SKORDAS, GUST, editor. The Early Settlers of Maryland: an Index to Names of Immigrants, Compiled from Records of Land Patents, 1633-1680, in the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1968. 525p. Repr. 1986.
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/KFL3-4H5
• Marriage record to Margaret Kidd
• "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTR4-P4T : 8 December 2014), Alisoun Cuninghame in the entry for James Wilsone, ; citing Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, reference 2:17SGGG7; FHL microfilm 1,067,739.

Acknowledgements

Notes of Mrs. Ethel Close Buckley