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I suspect the name McGilbra (McGilbry, Magilbra, Magilbry, McGilbery, etc.) is a corruption of the surname MacGillivray. The families of 19 men with this first name came from the area of Edgecombe, Martin, Beaufort and Pitt Counties, NC. There are 15 males with a form of this first name on the 1850 Pitt Co census. The surname was rare in NC and SC. Alexander McGillivray was a leader of the Cherokees, and much respected by both whites and native Americans. The first parents to give their sons this name may have been honoring him. Some of his letters are at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cmamcrk4/mgvltrs1.html .
The first name Messer may be a form of the name Mercer. There may have been a connection between the Wilsons and the Mercer family that intermarried with the Biggses in Virginia. All three families may have been connected there before coming down into NC.
One Amariah Biggs in NC at the time Seth Wilson wrote his will was a minister. The bequest to him may have been made for the furtherance of the Gospel. This Amariah was most likely a cousin of Kedar Biggs, father of Asa. Asa's brother Reuben's wife Sally was the granddaughter of Thomas Williams, possibly the man by that name mentioned in Seth's will. Reuben and Sally had a son named Amariah, born ca 1802.
Researchers, seeing the names Amariah Biggs and Winny Biggs in the same will, apparently just assumed they were husband and wife. Skewarkey Church records, family tradition and naming pattern suggest Winny married Asa.
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