Thomas Wilson II (1740 - 1824)

Born 5 Apr 1740 in Prince George County, Maryland

Husband of Elizabeth Elliott (Hayes) Wilson — married 17 Jun 1776 in Taneytown, Frederick County, Maryland

Descendants

Died 1824 at about age 83 in Cresaptown (Garrett County), Maryland, United States

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Biography

Revolutionary War Patriot

Thomas Wilson II was born in Maryland.

Private Thomas Wilson II served with 4th Maryland Regiment (1776), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Thomas Wilson II is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A127842.

Thomas Wilson II is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: 322192
Rank: Private

Thomas Wilson II was born April 5, 1740 at the family homestead on the Monocracy River in Frederick (now Carroll) County, Maryland. His father, a Scotsman who married an Irish girl, had emigrated to America sometime after 1700 and was established at this homestead by 1733. ^[2] He married June 17, 1776, Elizabeth Hays, who was born Nov., 15, 1755.

He served in the 4th Company, Frederick Detachment of the 4th Battalion of Maryland troops during the American Revolution. After the American Revolution, and sometime before 1790 Thomas Wilson II moved to Black Oak Bottom near Rawlings, Maryland. He lived here for a number of years and then removed, about the year 1800, to what is now called the Kitzmiller area in what is now Garrett County. He lived here for a number of years, sold his property to his son Thomas Wilson III and removed to the Altamont area in what is now Garrett County. He made this move in 1813 at the age of seventy-three. This was his last home. He died here in the year of 1824. His grave was unmarked until 1972, when a committee of the Harvey-Wilson Reunion placed an appropriate grave marker in the family cemetery. The log house which he built is still being used as a residence.

The children of Thomas II and Elizabeth Hays Wilson were: Thomas III, Joseph, James W., Jonathan Hays I, Mary, Michael, Elizabeth, Esther and William. ( By Marshall G. Brown ) Genealogy of the Harvey Family of Garrett County, Md. by Marshall G. Brown

Thomas Wilson ll located to Garret County, Maryland, on the Summit of the Allegheny mountains about 8 miles east of Oakland, Md., now known as Wilson Station. Post Office, called Altamont, located on Baltimore & Ohio Railroad between Cumberland, Md. and Grafton, W.Va. Owned a large tract of land ---about 800 acres -- and was a slave holder. In 1835, however, these slaves were given their liberty under an agreement that they pay ten (10) dollars each year. This original tract of land was still in the family (c. 1931, title being in the name of Abraham Wilson, grandson, born Jul. 11, 1816 being almost 95 years old (c. April 11, 1911). Over one hundred (100) relatives and friends are buried here.

Thomas Wilson II, was born April 5, 1740, in Frederick County, MD. In middle life he moved to the Black Oak Bottom, near Rawlings, Allegany County, In 1813, Thomas Sr., and his wife, Elizabeth, deeded lots 1835 and 1839 (patented to him in 1801) and lot 2036, for $2400. to Michael Wilson; these deeds to Michael were the last he signed in Allegany County. Thomas Wilson II, in 1776 married Elizabeth Hayes of Frederick County, MD. He was a soldier in the Indian and Revolutionary wars, a captain under General Wayne. He is buried on his farm on the Potomac, now the property of Robert Wilson. While Thomas Wilson II settled on Black Oak Bottom, he must have resided for a time on the Kitzmiller farm, since he was assessed in 1798 with four military lots, five slaves, two horses and twenty-three cattle, and in the census of 1800 he was listed as head of a family of eleven, with six slaves, in Glades Hundred, now part of Garrett County, MD. In 1813 he deeded to Thomas Wilson III military lot 300 for $300; this was the lot at Kitzmiller patented in 1793 to Frederick Bray.

By ( Charles E. Hoye )

Thomas was born in 1740. Thomas Wilson. Revolutionary Soldier fighting for the separation of the United States of America from the British Empire.

He died before April 29, 1824 when his will was probated in Frederick County of the state of Maryland. His son Michael was the administrator of Thomas's estate. He was buried on the family's property at Altamont, Garrett County, Maryland. Aslo known as Wilson Cemetery.

FSFTID LZJD-VCQ.

Buried 1824 Altamont, Garrett, Maryland, United States of America.

Christening: Frederick, Frederick, Colony of Maryland, British Colonial America.

Research Notes

• Noted Garrett County genealogist Charles E. Hoye compiled a booklet titled "The Wilson family : Garrett County history". ^[3] In it he gives many details about the Wilson family but does not specify his sources.

Sources

1. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed November 29, 2020), "Record of Thomas Wilson", Ancestor # A127842.
2. ↑ Maryland Historical Trust. 1981. Inventory Form for State Historic Sites Survey. https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/stagsere/se1/se5/013000/013300/013335/pdf/msa_se5_13335.pdf
3. ↑ Garrett County History Wilson Family The Wilson family : Garrett County history--Wilson family; by Chas. E. Hoye; Washington, D.C. : L.C. Photoduplication Service, 1985; Image 8 of 12 of Family Search digitized copy.

• Genealogy of the Harvey Family of Garrett County, Md. by Marshall G. Brown

• Thomas is mentioned In the Will of his mother Mary Riley Wilson, which was dated October 21, 1805 and on record in Frederick County, Maryland

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 July 2020), memorial page for Thomas Wilson II (5 Apr 1740–1824 Find A Grave: Memorial #38223191, citing Wilson Cemetery, Altamont, Garrett County, Maryland, USA ; Maintained by Nancy Jean {Wolf} Ostrander (contributor 46862375) . https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38223191/thomas-wilson lists death location as Garrett County, Maryland, United States

• Individual # 202 in Chapters One and Two of the book: The Wilson family of western Maryland and West Virginia and associated families Ashby, Cresap, Harvey, Moon, by Merritt Wilson ; Dru Riley Everts, editor. Publication: Athens, Ohio : Lawhead Press, c1971, 560 p. : ill., maps, ports. 929.273 W698

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZJD-VCQ

• https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/stagsere/se1/se5/013000/013300/013335/pdf/msa_se5_13335.pdf