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- Source: A BRIEF HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY,
WITH SPECIAI. REFERENCE TO THE GROWTH AND DEVEL-
OPMENT OF ITS INSTITUTIONS, DESIGNED
FOR THE SCHOOIv AND HOME.
EV
ISRAEL SMITH CLARE.
EDITED BY
ANNA LYLE,
Teacher of History in the Mulersville State Normal School.
ZUG MEMORIAL LIBRARY
ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE
ELIZABETHTOWN, PENNA.
PUBLISHED BY THE
ARGUS PUBLISHING COMPANY
LAN CASTER, PA.,
1892.
Copyrighted, 1891, by
THE ARGUS PUBI.ISHING COMPANY,
LANCASTER, PA.
P. 34, 35
John Wilkins. - John Wilkins, another son ot
Robert, took up several hundred acres of land
adjoining Gordon Howard's, now in Mount Joy
township, on which Nissley's mill is located. He
was one of the first persons who went with the
sheriff's posse to arrest Colonel Thomas Cresap,
but was himself afterward arrested by Cresap, who
took him to Annapolis, in Maryland, where he was
imprisoned. He traded with the Indians along
the Ohio, and died in 1741, leaving two children,
Rachel and John, the latter of whom was born in
Donegal, in 1733. John was also an Indian trader,
and removed to Carlisle in 1763, where he opened
a store in the Indian trade. He was appointed
county lieutenant for Cumberland county during
the War of the Revolution. In 1788 he removed
to Pittsburg, where he died in 1810.
Then:
Ellis & Evans, History of Lancaster County,Pennsylvania, Vol 2, 1883 and Notes and Queries: Historical and genealogical, Chiefly Relating to Interior Pennsylvania, edited by William Henry Egle. Vol. 11, reprint 1970
John took up, in 1738, land adjoining Gordon Howard's on the north and south, that on which Nissley's mill was situated in 1883. He was a son of Robert Wilkins and brother of Thomas and Peter. He was one of the first to take an active part against the Marylanders, was wounded several times, and the Governor of Maryland offered a reward for his capture. John Hendricks, who lived at Wright's ferry, turned traitor to the Penns and led Wilkins into an ambush by Cresap, and he was taken prisoner to Annapolis, where he lay in a filthy jail for many months. He was an Indian trader and visited the Ohio region as early as 1732. He died in1741, leaving a widow, Rachel, who married Gordon Howard; a son, John,who was born in 1733; and daughters; Rebecca, who married Thomas Anderson; Mary, who married William Poor; Rachel, who married Matthew Laird; and Jean who married John Kirkpatrick.
(Genealogies of Pennsylvania Families, Vol.,III, p. 277).
John Wilkins was an Indian trader and soldier, born in PA, in 1708, possibly in what was afterward Donegal TWP, Lancaster Co, and died in1741, doubtless in the same place, having married Rachel, daughter of Robert and Janet McFarland, also of Donegal, who died at the home of her son in Pittsburgh, aged 84.
Then court records found at on-line family tree site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kenmullins/p147.htm
1750-1754; p. 919. Court appointed John Wilson and Andrew Mays guardians of Mary, Rachel, and John Wilkins - children of John Wilkins, deceased,all above 14 years of age on 4 June 1751. p. 925 - 3 Sep 1751, Guardians of children of John Wilkins, deceased,asked to have the following to be added to the inventory which was omitted - a mare, plush side saddle, bed curtains, bed clothes, gun and kettle. p. 929 - 3 Dec 1751, Settling the account of Gordon Howard and Rachel,his wife, late Rachel Wilkins - balance of 107 pounds, 4 shillings, and 3pence. p, 951- 6 Mar 1753, Andrew Mays, who had been appointed guardian over four of the children, released his guardianship. 1754 -1759, p. 914 - 11 September 1754, John Wilkins, orphan son of John Wilkins, deceased, asked court for Mother Rachel Howard, widow, as his guardian and granted. Why did this happen as he was already 21? 1760-1763, Lancaster Co, PA, Orphan's Court, 1 Feb 1763, p. 222, Petition of John Kirkpatrick, intermarried with Jane Wilkins, daughter of John Wilkins, decd, asked the court to divide equally the tract of 300 acres in Donegal TWP, DB C-321 of 19 Dec 1751. John Wilson and Andrew Mays of Lancaster Co, guardian over, Mary, Rachel, John, and Jennet Wilkins,minors of John Wilkins, decd, for 125 pounds paid by Gordon Howard and wife, Rachel, administrator of John Wilkins, decd, acknowledged being settled as whole of respective shares of said four children of late father, John Wilkins, including appraisement of improvements on west side of Susquehanna River which said Rachel before her marriage to Gordon took a patent and sold, record 3 Mar 1752.
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1708 - 1741 (33 years)
