John Wilkins

1733 - 1810  (77 years)

• Name	John Wilkins  [1]
  Birth	1733	Donegal twn., Lancaster Co., PA
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1767	Carlisle, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA
  Death	1810	Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania
  Person ID	I9667	MacFarlane
  Last Modified	29 May 2024

  
  

  Father	John Wilkins,   b. 1708, Pennsylvania d. 1741, Donegal twn., Lancaster Co., PA (Age 33 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Rachel McFarland, RoM02,   b. 1713, Ireland d. 1797, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania (Age 84 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Abt 1731	Donegal Twn., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania   [2]
  Married	Abt 1731	Lancaster Co., PA
  Family ID	F5840	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Notes and Queries, Vol. II, p. 120, notes about John Wilkins, son of John Wilkins Indian trader and wife Rachel McFarland. "John, b. in 1733; m. 1st, Mary; 2d Catharine. John Wilkins, Jr. became owner of several hundred acres of his father's estate, situated in Mount Joy township, on the north side of the Paxtang and Conestoga road, now owned by the Nisleys, about two miles west of Mount Joy. This land adjoined Gordon Howard, Samuel Smith and John Wilson. In 1761 he moved to Carlisle and became a storekeeper. John Wilson, who owned part of the Wilson tract, also moved to Carlisle, where he carried on carpentering. Colonel Wilkins moved to Pittsburgh, and was the ancestor of that branch of the family in that place." 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. There is a Memoir of John Wilkins Sr. 1733-1809, housed in the Spire Collection at Syracuse University, an autobiographical manuscript, part of the American Revolutionary War papers.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1217] Ancestry.com, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S., Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014, (Name: Name: Name: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.;;;;;). [S1626] William Henry Egle, Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical Chiefly Relating to Interior Pennsylvania, Vol. II, (Name: Name: Name: Name: Name: Genealogical Publishing Company;;;;;), pp.119-122.