INFORMATION NOT VERIFIED BY CURRENT MANAGER OF MEMORIAL.
Matthew Wilson and his wife Charity Smith Wilson married in Ireland in 1740. They came to America in 1745. In 1755, North Carolina Provincial Governor Arthur Dobbs issued to Matthew Wilson a 510-acre land grant.
The couple moved to Catawba County before the French and Indian War, when migration into Catawba County stopped for eight years. "Pioneers either came before or after, and they all came the same way, down the great wagon road from Philadelphia to Lancaster, Pa., down through Winston-Salem, down to alongside the Catawba River.
source:"Wilson-Robinson Cemetery:
A Preservation Challenge" by Derick Hartshorn Newton, NC Observer-News-Enterprise,
August 14, 2001, pages 1,3.
Matthew Wilson and his wife Charity Smith Wilson married in Ireland in 1740. They came to America in 1745. In 1755, North Carolina Provincial Governor Arthur Dobbs issued to Matthew Wilson a 510-acre land grant.
The couple moved to Catawba County before the French and Indian War, when migration into Catawba County stopped for eight years. "Pioneers either came before or after, and they all came the same way, down the great wagon road from Philadelphia to Lancaster, Pa., down through Winston-Salem, down to alongside the Catawba River.
source:"Wilson-Robinson Cemetery:
A Preservation Challenge" by Derick Hartshorn Newton, NC Observer-News-Enterprise,
August 14, 2001, pages 1,3.
INFORMATION NOT VERIFIED BY CURRENT MANAGER OF MEMORIAL.
Matthew Wilson and his wife Charity Smith Wilson married in Ireland in 1740. They came to America in 1745. In 1755, North Carolina Provincial Governor Arthur Dobbs issued to Matthew Wilson a 510-acre land grant.
The couple moved to Catawba County before the French and Indian War, when migration into Catawba County stopped for eight years. "Pioneers either came before or after, and they all came the same way, down the great wagon road from Philadelphia to Lancaster, Pa., down through Winston-Salem, down to alongside the Catawba River.
source:"Wilson-Robinson Cemetery:
A Preservation Challenge" by Derick Hartshorn Newton, NC Observer-News-Enterprise,
August 14, 2001, pages 1,3.
Matthew Wilson and his wife Charity Smith Wilson married in Ireland in 1740. They came to America in 1745. In 1755, North Carolina Provincial Governor Arthur Dobbs issued to Matthew Wilson a 510-acre land grant.
The couple moved to Catawba County before the French and Indian War, when migration into Catawba County stopped for eight years. "Pioneers either came before or after, and they all came the same way, down the great wagon road from Philadelphia to Lancaster, Pa., down through Winston-Salem, down to alongside the Catawba River.
source:"Wilson-Robinson Cemetery:
A Preservation Challenge" by Derick Hartshorn Newton, NC Observer-News-Enterprise,
August 14, 2001, pages 1,3.
Inscription
In Memory of Matthew Wilson and Charity Smith who were married in Ireland 1740 and Came to America 1745 - Parents of Andrew
Wilson, Senior and Grand- parents of Ezekiel Wilson and Progenitors of all the Wilsons Buried Here. (Erected by Great-Grandsons Kerr
Wilson and Andrew Wilson 1912)
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