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This family traces descent KNIGHT from Walter Knight, who with Thomas Gray and John Gray settled at Nantasket, Massachusetts, in 1622. These names appear in original papers of Salem, among those who comprised the settle- ment when Endicott arrived. In 1629 Walter Knight's name appears on a patent obtained from Charles I, the patent reciting the grant of the Council of Plymouth. It is supposed that Walter Knight was a son of Isaac Knight, referred to by Annie Venn, daughter of Cap- tain John Venn, in a book written in London in 1658, in which she mentions Isaac Knight as a prominent divine.
(I) Captain George Knight was born in Portland, Maine, December 3, 1796. For many years he was commander of vessels of the Portland Steam Packet Company. He married (first) Pamelia Dyer, born March 21,
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1800; (second) Judith, daughter of The- ophilus Dyer. Children: 1. Judith S., born July 21, 1822. 2. George H., see forward. 3. Child, August 25, 1827.
(11) George Henry, son of Captain George Knight, was born on Franklin street, Port- land, near where Lincoln Park now is, May 22, 1826, and died September 18, 1899. He had such educational advantages as were avail- able in Portland at that time. He became a clerk in the wholesale dry goods store of John and Jeremiah Dow, and continued with them for some time. Later he was in the woolen business for himself. He then engaged in the dry goods business, being located on Middle street, where the Standard Clothing Company's store now stands. After several years Mr. Knight started the manufacture of bungs, in which he continued until about six years before his death, when he retired from business. He was a well known citizen of Portland, and died after a lingering illness, at his home on State street. He married (first), May 14, 1856, Helen Burnside, of Lancaster, New Hampshire, who died about 1860, leaving one daughter Helen, who mar- ried Herbert Winslow, of Philadelphia, and had a son Burnside, who married Helen Car- rington. He married (second) October II, 1866, Harriet S. Moses, of Bath, who was born February 5, 1838, daughter of Oliver and Lydia Clapp Moses. Five children were born of this marriage: I. George M., born Octo- ber 13, 1867, died, unmarried, November 28, 1902. 2. Marcia Bowman, born October II, 1869, married Dr. William H. Bradford. (See Bradford.) 3-4, Lydia Clapp and Pamelia Dyer (twins), born July 31, 1871. Lydia Clapp died March, 1872. Pamelia Dyer mar- ried, October 6, 1897, Philip J. Deering, and had two children; Margaret Knight, born Au- gust 22, 1898; and Philip Chilton, July 16, 1902. 5. Annie Louise, born 1873, died 1874. 6. Anna Putnam, born May 12, 1875; mar- ried, December 20, 1905, Lucius H. Bingham, of New York. 7. Dorothea Clapp, December 10, 1883, married, September 8, 1906, Hay- ward Wilson. (See Wilson.)
The Puritans of New England WILSON find in the name of John Wil- son (1588-1667) first minister of the First Church of Boston, a name that marks the laying of the corner stone of Puri- tan Congregationalism in America. Born in Windsor, England, graduated at the Univer- sity of Cambridge in 1606, a fellow and stu-
dent at law in that famous institution 1606-09, ordained a priest in the Church of England, chaplain to Lady Scadamore, rector at Moot- lake, Kenley, Bumsted Stoke and Candish rec- tor of the parish of Sudbury, Essex, suspended and finally dismissed by the Bishop's court by reason of his Puritan sympathies, he was passed through the fires of persecution and came out a full-fledged Puritan. He there- upon joined Governor John Winthrop in the project of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The two great minds having freed themselves from the tramals of the Established Church about the same time, and being of the same age, their sympathizers were coexistent and their partnership in the enterprise mutual. The London proprietors having determined to transfer the seat of government to the New World, the great lawyer and the great divine became leaders in the affairs of state and church as modified by the Puritan system of government decided upon. On October 30, 1629, John Winthrop was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in America, and by June 22, 1635, his fleet of eleven ships had reached Salem, then the favored New England port. They had fitted out at the Isle of Wight and had a propitious voyage, but not finding suitable conditions at Salem they proceeded to Charlestown, where on August 23, 1630, John Wilson organized a church and thence they proceeded to Tri-mountain in September and then on September 30, 1630, he estab- lished the church and town of Boston, of which church John Wilson became the first minister, and the church the first church of Boston. His ordination as teacher of this church was performed by the members them- selves, who laid their hands on the chosen leader and proclaimed him their pastor. This ceremony, however, was not performed until 1632. In 1634 he visited England, returning in 1635 with his wife, and bringing as his assistant Hugh Peters, who had been com- pelled to leave England for non-conformity. Wilson, like Winthrop, opposed the doctrine taught by the Antinomians through their leader, Ann Hutchinson, and her brother-in- law, John Wheelwright. He went out as chaplain of the New England troop set against the Pequot Indians of Connecticut in 1636, and subsequently became associated with John Eliot in his missionary labors among the In- dians. He wrote a Latin poem to the memory of John Harrad in 1647, twenty years before his death, an account of his experience in teaching the Indians, under the title "The Day
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Breaking if Not the Sun Rising of the Gos- pel," which was republished in New York in 1865.
The Pilgrims, the early martyrs who found refuge from the intolerance of the Church of England as early as 1608 on the farther shore of the North Sea at Leyden, Holland, so beautifully situated on the Old Rhine river, had their hero in another Wilson bearing the surname of Roger, who had much to do with the establishment of the Pilgrim band, im- mortalized by having been the first to land from the "Mayflower" on New England terri- tory, December 21, 1620. If he was not a pas- senger on that historic ship, he was the chief instigator and supporter of the movement that led to the undertaking of that eventful adventure and stood as bondsman for William Bradford, Isaac Allerton, and Digerie Priest. Thirty-one years after he was represented in the New England Colony, of which he was a founder and liberal promoter, but to whose shores he never came, in the person of his son John Rogers (1631-91) the immigrant of Woburn, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1651. It is of this son of the bondsman of Governor Bradford that the line of Wilsons now make this John Wilson their first American an- cestor.
(I) Roger Wilson, the promoter of the en- terprise that laid the foundation of the Ply- mouth Colony, the cornerstone of the Ameri- can Republic, was born in Scrooby, Notting- hamshire, England, about 1588. He was a member of Rev. John Robinson's church, whose minister was suspended for non-con- formity in 1603 and became the pastoral care of his flock, driven from their church and their country, at Amsterdam, Holland, in 1608, and at Leyden, to which place they regathered in May, 1609. Roger Wilson was one of the three friends who provided a house for the comfort and convenience of the growing Sep- aratist congregation and co-operated with Cushman, Bradford, Brember and others in organizing the movement that led to the re- moval of the majority of the able-bodied mem- bers of his congregation to America in 1620. He was among the wealthier of the congrega- tion, was a prosperous woolen and silk draper in Leyden, and a member of the first stock company that fitted out the "Mayflower." He remained in Leyden with the pastor, probably intending to join the colony at a later day, but in 1625, when John Robinson died, the congregation remaining at Leyden, including Roger Wilson, met a loss that it could not withstand, and persecution of the Separatists
having subsided in England, the remainder re- turned home or became abandoned in the Dutch population. Roger Wilson's death is not recorded in Leyden, and he evidently re- turned to England and continued there his worship of God according to the faith of the Brownests, also known as Separatists, or Con- gregationalists, as they came to be called. His wife Mary was the daughter of Dr. Samuel Fuller, the physician and surgeon of the "Mayflower," 1620, who was a deacon of Mas- ter Robinson's church, and died in the Ply- mouth Colony, Massachusetts, in 1633, and John, their youngest child, was the only one to remove from England, or possibly from Leyden, Holland, to America.
(II) John, youngest son of Roger and Mary (Fuller) Wilson, was born in Leyden, Holland, or in Scrooby, Nottingham, England (if his father returned to his old home after the death of the Rev. John Robinson in Ley- den in 1625, which is highly probable), in 1631, and he died in Woburn, Massachusetts Bay Colony, July 2, 1687. Inheriting the spirit of liberty that cost his father banish- ment and great loss of property, he was true to his heritage, and when he arrived at the age of manhood he sought greater freedom in the New England colonies, the unreached Mecca of his father. He appears in Woburn, Massachusetts Bay Colony, after 1655, with his wife and two children-John Jr. and Dor- cas. The name of his wife (or possibly wives, if John Jr. and Dorcas were his children by a first wife) does not appear in any record of the early history of Woburn, and the only in- timation of a wife on the official records of the town give the birth of a son to John Wil- son and wife-Samuel, December 29, 1658. On the tax lists of Woburn, in the rate for the county of Middlesex, assessed August 26, 1666, John Wilson Sr. is mentioned as among those who had right in the common lands of the town. He probably was one of the immi- grants in 1651. He was a lieutenant in the Indian war. His children were born in the order following: I. John, 1653. 2. Dorcas, 1655; married Adam Cleveland, September 26, 1775, then in Woburn. 3. Samuel, Decem- ber 29, 1658. 4. Abigail, August 8, 1666. 5. Elizabeth, August 6, 1668. 6. Benjamin (q. v.), October 15, 1670. 7. Hannah, May 31, 1672; married Jonathan Pierce, 1689.
(III) Benjamin, youngest son and sixth child of Lieutenant John Wilson, was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, October 15, 1670. He removed to Rehoboth after his father's death in 1687, and was a resident of the neighbor-
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hood of Palmer's river, where a meeting-house was built in 1718 and seated December 23 of that year, when first dignity, second, age, third, public charge in building the house and in town affairs, was observed. Benjamin Wil- son's name appears as sixth on the list of persons who bound themselves to an agree- ment that if the town and community voted £50 towards the expense of the building, the subscribers would clear the town of all further expense in relation to their house. He had eighteen children by his two wives Elizabeth, but we find no record of their family names. His children : I. Jonathan, December 8, 1698. 2. Rebeckah, January 20, 1701. 3. Hannah, October 7, 1702. 4. Frances, September 7, 1704. 5. Elizabeth, July 8, 1706. 6. Samuel, January 5, 1707. 7. Ruth, April 7, 1710. 8. Bethiah, December 4, 1711. 9. Abijah, Au- gust 30, 1713. 10. Mary, October 17, 1714. By a second wife Elizabeth: II. Sarah, Feb- ruary 23, 1729-30. 12. John (q. v.), October 19, 1733. 13. Lucas, August 10, 1735. 14. Annie, April 26, 1737. 15. Benjamin, April II, 1739. 16. Jonathan, April 7, 1741. 17. Ezekiel, May 1I, 1744. 18. Chloe, June 23, 1746.
(IV) John (2), twelfth child and eldest son of Benjamin Wilson by the second wife, was born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, October 29, 1733. He was a soldier in the French and Indian war, and sergeant in the Rehoboth company, Captain Hix, enlisted for three years' service in the American revolution. He was a man of remarkable size and strength, and in local tests of these gifts and of athletic skill he is said never to have met his equal. He married Abigail -, and their children were born in Rehoboth: I. Molly, December 2, 1764. 2. Sarah, September 15, 1766, died young. 3. Joseph (q. v.), June 25, 1768. 4. Sarah, October 15, 1770. 5. John, January 27, 1775. 6. Miles Shorey, January 27, 1775. 7. Abigail, April 13, 1777. 8. Betsey, Sep- tember 23, 1779. 9. Benjamin, March 23, 1783. 10. Lucretia, April 24, 1785.
(V) Joseph, eldest son and third child of Sergeant John (2) and Abigail Wilson, was born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, January 25, 1768. He removed from Rehoboth to Thom- aston, Maine, and about 1795 married Lydia Major, and later in life removed to Bradford, Maine, where he was a farmer during his later days, and where he died. Joseph and Lydia (Major) Wilson had nine children, born as follows: I. Mary, born 1796. 2. Miles S., born March 4, 1800. 3. John Hines (q. v.), born June 9, 1804. 4. Harvey S. 5. Joseph.
6. Jemima, whose husband's name was Fletch- er. 7. Eliza, whose husband's name was Garey. 8. Daniel.
(VI) John Hines, second son of Joseph and Lydia (Major) Wilson, was born in Thomas- ton, Maine, June 9, 1804. He was brought up on his father's farm in Bradford, Penobscot county, Maine, and attended school during the winter season. He was a Democrat, like a large majority of the voters of Maine at the time he reached his majority, and he remained an active worker in that party up to the for- mation of the Republican party in 1856, when he joined that party as expressing his views upon the question of slavery. He served un- der the Democratic rule as deputy sheriff of Penobscot county, and the Republican party elected him sheriff, and his term in the sher- iff's office in Penobscot county covered a pe- riod of forty years. His affiliations were with the Methodist church, and he was a member of the Masonic fraternity. He was married, at Bradford, Maine, December, 1831, to Rachel Rider Kingsbury, a native of Brewer, Maine, where she was born April 26, 1807. Her husband died January 30, 1893, and she died on August 5, 1893, six months only intervening between their deaths. Chil- dren of John Hines and Rachel Rider (Kings- bury) Wilson: I. Franklin A. (q. v.), No- vember 6, 1832. 2. Walter Kingsbury, born in Orono, Maine, December 22, 1836, died March 16, 1837. 3. Lucinda B., born in Orono, October 15, 1838. 4. Amanda M., born in Orono, September 26, 1842. 5. Henry E., born in Bangor, December 18, 1849, died August 15, 1859.
(VII) Franklin Augustus, eldest child of John Hines and Rachel Rider (Kingsbury) Wilson, was born in Bradford, Maine, No- vember 6, 1832. When he was four years of age his father moved to Orono, and when he was eleven the family moved to Bangor. He received his preparatory educational training in the public schools of Bangor. He was graduated at Bowdoin College A. B., 1854; A. M., 1857 ; studied law in the office of John A. Peters in Bangor, and was admitted to the Penobscot bar in 1857, and soon after was admitted to practice in the courts of Maine and in the United States circuit court. He became the law partner of his law precep- tor, John A. Peters, in 1867, and the law partnership of Peters & Wilson continued up to 1882, when Mr. Peters withdrew to accept the position of judge of the supreme judicial court of Maine, when Charles F. Woodward was admitted and the firm became Wilson &
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Woodward, and so continued up to 1900, when Mr. Wilson retired from active practice after a period of forty-three years. He con- tinued to manage the various trust interests committed to his charge, and served as a director of the Maine Central railroad from December, 1892, and was elected president of the corporation in May, 1894, which position he resigned in 1899, but continued his direc- torship of the road. He was also chosen president of the Penobscot Savings Bank of Bangor in 1888, which position he still holds, and president of the European & North American Railroad from 1900. His director- ship in other corporations include : The Frank- lin Company of Waterville and Boston, deal- ing in real estate and water rights; the Lock- wood Company, manufacturers of cotton goods, and the First National Bank of Bangor. He was also made a trustee of the Bangor Public Library, and overseer of Bowdoin Col- lege, which institution conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL. D. in 1900. His church affiliation is with the Unitarian denom- ination, and his club membership includes the University of Boston; the Cumberland, of Portland; the Tarratine of Bangor, and the Mount Desert Reading Room of Bar Harbor. His political affiliation was with the Demo- cratic party up to 1861 and has been with the Republican party from that time. He served his state as a representative from Bangor in the Maine legislature in 1875 and 1876.
He was married, September 21, 1859, to Mary E., daughter of Joshua Wingate and Hannah (Pearson) Carr, of Bangor, and two children were born of the marriage: 1. Mary Franklin, January 12, 1861 ; married, June 17, 1886, to George C. Cutler ; five sons: John Cutler, May 12, 1887; Elliot Carr Cutler, July 30, 1888; Roger Wilson Cutler, November 3, 1889; George Chalmers Cutler Jr., May 8, 1891, and Robert Cutler, June 12, 1895. 2. Elliot Carr Wilson, twin of Mary Franklin, died November 9, 1864, when three years old. The mother of these two children died Feb- ruary 9, 1867, and Mr. Wilson married (sec- ond), October 12, 1871, Caroline, daughter of Charles and Jane (Pierce) Stetson, of Ban- gor, Maine. Caroline Stetson was born May 30, 1842, and by her marriage with Mr. Wil- son had three children: Charles Stetson (q. v.), John (q. v.), and Hayward (q. v.). Mr. Wilson found his recreation from his law practice and the care of his business interests as a director of corporations in travel, and he has visited and studied the historic countries
of the Old World, including Egypt and the upper Nile, Greece, Rome, and the modern cities of the continent of Europe.
(VIII) Charles Stetson, eldest son of Franklin Augustus and Caroline Pierce (Stet- son) Wilson, was born in Bangor, Maine, June 10, 1873. He was prepared for college at the Roxbury Latin School, and was grad- uated at Harvard A. B., 1897. He was clerk in a banking house in Boston for three years (1897-1900) ; was secretary of the United States legation at Athens, Greece, four years (1900-04) ; secretary of the United States le- gation at Havana, Cuba, one year (1904-05), and has held a similar position at Buenos Ayres, Argentine, S. A., since 1905. He is unmarried.
(VIII) John (3), second son of Franklin Augustus and Caroline Pierce (Stetson) Wil- son, was born in Bangor, Maine, September 26, 1878. He was prepared for college at the Hotchkiss School at Lakeville, Connecticut, and the Roxbury Latin School, and was grad- uated at Harvard A. B., 1900, and at the Harvard University Law School LL. B., 1903. He began the practice of law in Bangor, Maine.
Mr. Wilson married, December 4, 1903, Emma, daughter of John P. and Isabell (Stratton) Otis, of Worcester, Massachusetts, and their first child, Caroline, was born July 26, 1905, their second, John Otis, December 4, 1907. He is a member of the Tarratine, Ken- duskeag Canoe and Country, Meadow Brook Golf Clubs, and secretary of the Haward Club of Bangor. He is a member of the Indepen- dent Congregational (Unitarian) Society.
(VIII) Hayward Wilson, third son and youngest child of Franklin Augustus and Car- oline Pierce (Stetson) Wilson, was born in Bangor, Maine, April 9, 1884. He prepared for college at Phillips Exeter Academy, Ex- eter, New Hampshire, and was graduated at Harvard A. B., 1905. He then engaged as a clerk in the banking house of Lee, Higgin- son & Company, of Boston, and was given a position in the Portland office of that firm. He attends the First Parish (Unitarian) Church of Portland; is a member of the Cum- berland Club and the Country Club of that city and of the Harvard Union of Cambridge. He was married, September 8, 1906, to Dor- othea Clapp, daughter of George Henry and Harriet (Moses) Knight, of Portland, Maine. Dorothea Clapp was born December 10, 1883, and they have one son, born June 4, 1907, Franklin Augustus Wilson (2nd).
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The surname Wilson is one of WILSON the most common and wide- spread in England, Scotland and Ireland. It is derived, of course, from Will and son, in the same way as Johnson, Jackson, Davidson, etc., and like those sur- names there were doubtless hundreds of pro- genitors of unrelated families that assumed the surname when the custom became general in the twelfth eentury or carlier. Many of this name have won distinction. There are numerous coats-of-arms borne by Wilsons of the higher elasses.
In Scotland the Wilsons were numerous in Renfrewshire, Elginshire, Fifeshire, Lanark- shire, and were found in other counties also at an early date. During the frightful perse- eution of the Seotch Presbyterians, one of their family suffered martyrdom. In 1685 James II, an avowed Roman Catholic, became King of England, sworn to maintain the es- tablished church (Episcopal), but his acces- sion brought no relief to the persecuted Cov- enanters in Scotland and Ireland. An Episeo- pal farmer named Gilbert Wilson had two daughters-Margaret, aged eighteen, and Ag- nes, aged thirteen. These girls attended con- venticles and had become Presbyterians. Ar- rested and condemned to death, their father succeeded in procuring the pardon of the younger by paying one hundred pounds ster- ling, but the elder and an old woman named Margaret MacLaughlin were bound to stakes on the seashore that they might be drowned by the rising tide. After the old woman was dead and the water had passed over Mar- garet's head, she was brought out, restored to consciousness and offered life if she would take the abjuration oath. But she said: "I am one of Christ's children, let me go." She was then once more placed in the sea and her sufferings ended by death.
In the north of Ireland the Crown granted to William Willson, of Suffolk, England, two thousand acres of land in the precinet of Lif- fer (Barony of Raphoe), county Donegal, about 1610. In 1611 Willson bought two thousand acres granted to Sir Henry Knight. His residence is given as Clarye, in Suffolk, and his Irish agent was Christopher Parmen- ter. He brought over some English settlers, but may never have lived there himself. In 1689 one of the Scoteh Wilsons living in En- niskillen became famous. July I, Lieutenant MacCarmick, in whose company James Wil- son was a soldier, made a stand against the Duke of Berwick, an illegitimate son of King James, at the head of a detachment of Irish,
six hundred dragoons on foot and two troops of horse. Governor Hamilton, his superior officer, failed to keep his promise to support MaeCarmiek, and his little company was fairly cut to pieces; his son slain at his side and he was taken prisoner. But thirty escaped. "Among them was a brave soldier named James Wilson. Surrounded by a number of dragoons, he was assailed by all at once. Some of them he stabbed, others he struek down with his musket, and several he threw under the feet of their own horses. At last, wounded in twelve places, his cheeks hanging over his chin, he fell into a bush. There a sergeant struek him through the thigh with a halbert; but Wilson, exerting all his strength, pulled it out and ran it through the sergeant's heart. By the aid of this halbert he walked to Enniskillen. He was afterwards cured of his wounds and survived for thirty years." Whether deseended from him or not, the Wil- son family, mentioned below, may well take pride in this exploit.
(I) William Wilson, immigrant ancestor, came to this country from Tyrone, Ireland, in 1737, with his wife, a daughter, and his son Robert, mentioned below. They spent the first winter in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and then removed to Townsend, where many Scoteh-Irish families settled.
(II) Major Robert, son of William Wil- son, was born about 1734 in Tyrone, Ireland, and eame to New England with his parents. He enlisted in the French war in 1755 and was among the company that was with Gen- eral Wolfe, September 12, 1759, at the Heights of Abraham, when Wolfe was killed. He re- turned to Massachusetts and settled in Peter- borough, New Hampshire, and resided on the farm now or lately occupied in part by his grandson, James Wilson, on what used to be ealled Main Street Road. He was a farmer, and kept a tavern. The house stood on the west side of the road, about seventy-five or eighty rods southwest of the house now oeeu- pied by James Wilson, and some forty rods north of the briek school house. The old eellar hole marks the spot. He was in the revolution. He was a lieutenant in the militia in 1771, a captain in 1775. when he answered the Lexington alarm, and a major in 1777. He was under General Stark and was present at the various engagements at Bennington, Saratoga, ete., and was appointed by General Stark to command a guard detailed to escort six hundred Hessian prisoners of war from Bennington to Boston. He was seleetman in 1765-71 ; treasurer in 1786-87-88, and one of
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