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Mecklenburg Signers & Their Neighbors, by Worth S. Ray, 1946, p. 419
Zacheus Wilson & his brothers (known) Robert & David, were prob. the sons of
Robert Wilson, who died in Augusta Co. VA, in 1745, one whose estate, Col.
John Wilson, who was first member of the House of Burgesses from that
section, was administered. They are believed to have been nephews of this
Col. John Wilson, of that county, and descendants of Thomas Wilson, of York
& Princess Anne Co. VA, master of the good ship Desire before 1650.Peter
Wilson, of Pittsylvania Co., who lived on the Dan River in an early day, may
have been their uncle also. This Peter Wilson also had a son known during
the Rev. as Col. John Wilson. When Zacheus, Robert & David came to
Mecklenburg Co., about 1755, with part of the Augusta Congregation of Rev.
Alexander Craighead, it is believed that their mother, the widow Wilson,
accompanied them. Their coming at this time, with the pastor of their old
flock followed the defeat of Braddock's army in the North which had unloosed
a hysteria of fear among the settlers on the Little Calf Pasture & Hays
Creek, in Augusta Co. At least one sister also came along who afterwards
became the wife of Captain Stephen Alexander, but whose first name is not
known to the writer. As stated by Hunter, the brother Robert lived within
the bounds of Steele Creek Church in the southeast part Mecklenburg, where
he died, leaving a will in 1793, and had eleven sons, seven of whom are said
to have served in the revolution; David Wilson moved to Sumner Co.
Tennessee, of James Wilson, the eldest son there appears to be no record,
while Zaccheus Wilson, the signer, married a Mrs. Ross, widow with two
daughters, one of whom married a Morgan. The Zaccheus Wilson, Dr. Alexander
says was a surveyor, and a Captain at King's Mountain, where among the
plunder taken was an English surveyor's compass and platting instrument,
which were assigned to him in the divide and yet preserved by one of his
descendants. He was a member of the Mecklenburg Convention and of the
Provincial Congress of November 1776, for making laws and forming a
Constitution. In 1788 he was also a member of the North Carolina Convention
for the -----of the Federal Constitution and was among the large number
that refused to give the draft their approval, as wanting in a proper
protection of the rights of the people.
In 1796 Captain Zaccheus Wilson, having lost his wife, followed his brother
Major David Wilson to Sumner Co. Tennessee who had settled there some nine
years previously. His home in Sumner Co. was a mile northeast of the town
of Gallatin, and 26 miles north of Nashville, where he died in 1824. Little
is known of his immediate descendants.
Craighead is a major street in the old Tobacco Warehouse section of
Danville. It is still cobblestone.
Another source
http://www.victorianvilla.com/sims-mitchell/local/clement/mc/abb/05.htm
has:
A numerous settlement had been made in the Dan Valley at this early date.
Peter Wilson was ordered to cut the road from Bean's to Sandy River (near
Danville
< http://www.victorianvilla.com/sims-mitchell/virginia/danville/index.htm>; );
William Hogan from Sandy River to Double Creek; William Wynn from Banister
River to North River at Cargill's. This road led in the same direction of
the road that leads today from the Oak Hill Plantation to Danville, where
turning northeast it continued across Halifax.
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