Re: Draper's Manuscript again
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Re: Three impossible marriages for Zacheus Wilson
Wilburn D Wright 3/30/13
Mr. Wright-
You wrote-
"...well how in HELL did you quoto and post PART the text than in your posting.....but left out the portion dealing with the widow Elizabeth Conger Nichols, and her 2nd marriage to Zaccheus Wilson who then died in 1796......"
Mr. Wright, I didn't leave out anything..... there is nothing in this manuscript written by Draper regardingElizabeth Conger Nichols and a second marriage to Zaccheus Wilson.The statements were just as I quoted.IF you see otherwise you need to show the exact words written by Draper that proves you are right.
Lyman Draper also wrote that Zacheus Wilson
in 1796 having lost his wife moved to Sumner County, TN to join his brother David Wilson.
How can you intreprete this to mean Zacheus Wilson was married to Elizabeth Conger Nichols and she died in 1796.Draper wrote about Elizabeth Conger ROSS.Are you confused?
It is you who has MADE UP up this story about the widow Elizabeth Conger NICHOLS being the wife of Zacheus Wilson and dying in 1796.IT IS YOU who has changed Draper's manuscript to suit yourself and the story you have invented.Draper NEVER wrote that and I don't understand why keep insisting he did.
I have examined Draper's manuscript for what they are and have found documentation to verify what he wrote.And certainly have found nothing that verifies anything you wrote.
And once again I will post the transcription of the article written by Lyman Draper.What you have claimed was never written, hinted or suggested by Draper.
Draper's Manuscript, 2FF, 2GG, p. 207-212
Chaper XVIII
(page 207)
Capt. Zaccheus Wilson.- The Wilsons were of Scotch-Irish Presbyterian stock, and were among the early settlers of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, where Zaccheus Wilson was born, probably as early as about 1735-40. When he grew to mans' state, he was not "little of stature" as Zaccheus of old; for like nearly all of that numerous connection, his person was of full medium size, rather heavily formed, and possessing great power in the vigor of life. He received but a limited education; and while yet quite young, his parents migrated to the Catawba Valley, and seemed to have settled in the Poplar Tent region, orginally a part of Mecklenburg, now Cabarrus County. This was prior to March, 1753, when a younger sister was born there, subsequently the wife of Capt. Stephen Alexander, who survived (page 208) till the age of ninety, the chronicler of her region. Zaccheus Wilson had three brothers, two of whom were Robert and David and three sisters. Reared on a troublesome frontier, Zaccheus Wilson and brothers, were not the men to have shirked any duty in aiding the defence of the county.
On the Yadkin River, in Rowan County, one Nicholson Ross early settled, marrying Lizzie Conger, daughter of John Conger, one of the pioneers of that region of county. There was then many wild horses running in the woods. Having a fine animal of his own and needing another, Ross went in the spring of the year to the range, and selecting one that he thought would suit his purpose, started to run him down and halter him. But in the race, the horse plunged in a hole, turned a summersault, fell back on and crushed his pursuer who left a widow and two little daughters. * Zaccheus Wilson, in his occupation of a surveyor, was sent for to survey and divide the land for the heirs, saw and admired and married the young widow, and took her to his home in the Steele Creek region.
-----* Ms letter of Rev. Nicholson Ross Morgan, a son of the younger of Mr. Ross's daughters, the older married Mathew Harris, a nephew of Col. Robert and Samuel Harris, of Rockey River.
(page 209) About 1767, we find him one of the Elders of the Steele Creek Church. He had a decided love for mathematical studies, and pursued them with little or no instruction, and became one of the best surveyors of his day. He was a member of the Mecklenburg Convention of May 1775, and of the Provincial Congress of Nov. 1776 for making laws and forming a state constitution. The only military service particularily remembered, though much in the army, was as a Captain at Kings Mountain where among the plunder taken, was an English surveyors compass and platting instruments, which were assigned to him in the division, and are yet preserved by one of his descendants.
He was a member of the North Carolina Convention of 1788, for the consideration of the Federal Constituition, and he was among the full majority that refused to give it their approval, as wanting in a proper protection of the rights of the people. When the county of Cabarrus was set off from Mecklenburg in 1792, Capt. Wilson was a resident of that region, and was chosen County Surveyor.
There is one incident in his life, not at all derogatory of his character, but which served to illustrate one of the phases of the times, and of the people, of his day, in the frontier region (page 210) of Mecklenburg. He had gone to Charlotte on business, and when about to start home, some twelve miles, he called at the bar of the hotel where he had put up, for a glass of liquor, as nearly all good men did in those days. Charles Polk, "Devil Charley", with a crowd of like spirits, gathered around the old gentleman, and urged to drink more, which he refused. They then forced liquor down him till he was quite overcome. Then they mounted him on a cow, and rode him up and down the street; one of the party going so far, as to cut off a piece of the cow's tail, catching the blood, and mingling it with liquor, and compelling the old man to drink it. His stalwart sons, determined to resent this disgraceful treatment of their aged father, went to Charlotte during the court which sat soon after, and stripping themselves for action, walked up and down the streets --- their fists, daring the offenders to come out and manfully and meet them. But they skulked away*
----* Ms letter of Rev. J.S. Wallace, June 8, 1875 who often heard his father, an early settler of Mecklenburg, relate the incident, and which was recently collaberated by a friend who remembered the story.
(page 211) In 1796, Capt. Wilson, having lost his wife, resolved on following his brother, Maj. David Wilson, who had nine years before, removed to Sumner County, Tennessee; and just prior to his departure, he visited his step-daughter, the mother of the venerable Rev. N.R. Morgan. "The last night he spent with us," says Rev. Morgan, "I sept with him, and about midnight the wolves raised a vociferous howling around the cow pen. The old gentleman went out, and chased them away; and I, a mere lad, remember how I trembled lest he should be devoured. In this migration beside his two sons, a goodly number of Wilsons, and some Alexanders accompanied him.
His removal was much regreted by his old friends and neighbors. His education mostly self acquired, was quite liberal, he was very popular; a Presbyterian, spotless in life, a noble worthy man, without a peer or equal in his profession as a surveyor. He settled one mile north east of Gallatin, in Sumner county, twenty six miles above Nashville, where he contiuned to follow the business of surveying land as long as he was able to do so. The last letter he wrote back to his North Carolina friends was about 1820, (page 212) though in a trembling hand, was written by himself. He died in 1823 or 1824, at a venerable age- the last surviving member save one, of the Mecklenburg delegates of May, 1775. The descendants of his two sons, John and Jonathan are scattered in Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas.
His brother, Col Robert Wilson, was active during the Revolution. In August, 1780, while conveying supplies to Sumter's army, he was made a prisoner and --- in Camden jail, where he dressed the wounds of the neglected Gen Rutherford. He had several sons who served under Sumter and other patriot leaders. He survived the war, and his remains rest near those of Gen Davidson, in Hopewell burial gound. Another brother, David Wilson, served with the rank of Major, was particularily active in the defeat of the Tories at Ramsour's Mill, in 1780, and aided in carrying the body of Gen Davidson, when slain at Cowan's Ford, to Hopewell for burial. After representing Mecklenburg seven years in the House of Commons, he removed to Tennessee about the close of 1786, and settled Wilson's Station early the following year, in Sumner County and was a member of the first Legislature of the Territory in 1794, of which he was chosen the Speaker.
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