Re: Draper's Manuscript again
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Re: Draper's Manuscript again
Carole Myers 4/08/13
I will once again layout for the writing of text for you:
The only problem is it does not pick MY Seperste Writings as I have in my book - but I will try and YOU show anyway:
"When he grew to man’s estate, he was not “little of statue” as Zaccheus of old - for like nearly all of that numerous connection, his person was of fullmedium size, rather than heavily framed, and possessing great power in the vigor of life. He received but a limited education, and while yet a young settled with his parents in the Poplar Tent region, originally a part of Mecklenburg, now Cabarrus County. This was prior to 1753. He had a younger sister who married Capt. Stephen Alexander, who survived till the age of 90 - the chronicler of her time.
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Now the writer is speaking of Zaccheus Wilson (Jr.), the son of Captain Zaccheus Wilson (Sr.), as can be seen in his naming the parents prior to 1753 -as noted - the Zaccheus Wilson (Jr.) and his sibling’s especially younger sister Isabelle Wilson who married Captain Stephen Alexander and all occurringprior to the date of 1753.
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Zaccheus Wilson had three brothers two of whom were Robert and David, and three sisters Elizabeth, Isabella and Catherine. Reared on the frontier Zaccheus and his brothers were not the men to have shirked any duty in aiding in the defense of their country.
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The reference made of his brothers’ two named which leaves open the other proven later writing, by these writers a possible fourth and sixth brother-shown but not counted.
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On the Yadkin River, in Rowan County, one Nicholas Ross early settled, marrying Lizzie Conger, daughter of John Conger. There were 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 selected one he thought would suit his purpose, and started to run him down and halter him. But in the race, the horse plunged in a hole, turned a complete summersault, and fell back on and crushed his purser, who a widow and two little daughters."
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Now the writer has become side tracked with yet another Zaccheus Wilson, a cousin to the Zaccheus Wilson (Jr.), by his uncle Robert and Eleanor Wilson or/ his fathers’ brother -the one noted by the writer as Robert Wilson. This Zaccheus Wilson born 1765 is spoken of by his mother Eleanor Wilson when General Cornwallis occupied their home in late 1780.
**(MS. Letter of Rev. Nicholson Ross Morgan, a son of the younger Mr. Ross’s daughters. The elder Matthew Harris, a nephew to Col. Robert and Samuel Harris, of Rocky River)
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Now this letter referred to is speaking and referring to this Zaccheus Wilson the son of Robert and Eleanor Wilson who married 1st Elizabeth Conger Nichols, the widow of Joseph Nichols that was killed in the horse racing incident, then described as one Nicholas Ross …..This is due in part because the Ross household does accept the girls Hannah and Jean Nichols, after their mother Elizabeth Conger (Nichols) Wilson or/ Zaccheus Wilson b-1765 wife died in 1796 in Mecklenburg County (Recorded)
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Zaccheus Wilson in his occupation of a surveyor, was sent for a survey and divide the land for the heirs; saw, admired, and married the young widow, and took her to his home in the Steele Creek region. About 1767 we find him one of the elders of Steele Creek Church. He had a decided love for mathematical studies, which he pursued with little or no instruction, and became one of the best surveyors of his day.
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Now the writer again has regressed and is speaking on the Zaccheus Wilson (Jr.) as opposed to his cousin Zaccheus Wilson born 1765, one can tell by the date the writer has related that Zaccheus Wilson was an elder at the Steele Creek Church in 1767, so that the younger Zaccheus Wilson would be only two years of age and the one referred too. One has to keep in their mind that all three Zaccheus Wilsons’ were noted surveyors this only added to the confusion aside from having their own name the same. Captain Zaccheus Wilson (Sr.) who was the first surveyor in fact played a strong role in his being made a Captain during the Revolutionary War. Then his son Zaccheus Wilson (Jr.) following in his fathers’ footsteps was also a surveyor. Then we have his cousin Zaccheus Wilson born 1765 the son of Robert and Eleanor took to surveying also helps to add more confusion.
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He was a member of the Mecklenburg Convention in May, 1775, and of the Provincial Congress of November, 1776 for making laws and forming a Constitution.
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The only military service particularly remembered, though much in the army, was as a Captain at King’s Mountain, where among plunder taken was an English surveyor’s 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 Constitution, and he was among the large majority that refused to give their approval, as wanting in a proper protection of the rights of the people.
The writer/author is now speaking of both the (Sr.) and his son (Jr.) and can be definite by the Captain who served at King’s Mountain battle was the senior’ and the surveying instruments where assigned to him by the military. While his son (Jr.), never served in the military as can be seen by no records for him while his father does, with Military Rooster at King’s Mountain etc..When he speaks of his membership of the Conventional Congress in 1788 that is his son (Jr.), as he has already left North Carolina in 1784, as seen of record and Land Warrant #1671 Grant #522 for middle Tennessee with his brother Major David Wilson Grant #3, Book 7 in Greene County both in 1784. (Recorded as such) His son Zaccheus (Jr.) is the person working for the people of Mecklenburg County writing laws / regulation etc.. While and the signer to the Mecklenburg Declaration as stated.
When the county of Cabarrus was set off from Mecklenburg, in 1792, Captain Wilson was a resident of that region, and was chosen county surveyor.
Again the writer has to be referring to his son Zaccheus Wilson (Jr.) as stated earlier the Captain is no longer a resident of Mecklenburg having left with his brother Major David Wilson to receive their Land Grants in western middle District North Carolina (now Tennessee) in 1784. (Recorded) Then his son, and not a Captain, is still living North Carolina.
In 1796 Captain Wilson having lost his wife, resolved on following his brother Major David Wilson, who had nine years before moved to Sumner County, Tennessee; and just prior to his departure he visited his step-daughter, the mother of the venerable Rev. N. H. Morgan. ”The last night he spent with us,” says Mr. Morgan, I slept with him, and about midnight the wolves raised a furious howling around the cow pen. The old gentleman went out and chased them away, and I as a mere lad remembered how I trembled lest he should be devoured.” In this migration, beside his two sons, a goodly number of Wilsons and some Alexander accompanied him.His removal was much regretted 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 an equal in his profession as a surveyor. He settled one mile northeast of Gallatin, in Sumner County, twenty-six miles above Nashville, where he followed his profession as long as he was able to do so. He died in 1824.
But it does not matter TO YOU READ IT ANYWAY YOU CARE TO, but we will see in the end ....it being the same as now.
NO Y-DNA ........I will now wager my OWN life on.
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