Adair County Pioneers Progress

Pioneer Sketches for those with ancestors in Adair County.
Compiled by Carlis B. Wilson
This is my ancestry that came to Adair County, Kentucky.

NATHANIEL WILSON and SUSANNAH STEPHENS
NATHANIEL WILSON SR. Son of Moses Wilson and Elizabeth Bailey; was born ca. 1773 in Henry Co., VA, and died Before December 04, 1848 in Adair Co. , KY.  He married SUSANNAH STEPHENS May 19, 1793 in Henry County, Va, daughter of WILLIAM STEPHENS and SUSANNAH FOX.  She was born About 1773 in Henry Co., VA., and died 1851 in Adair Co., Ky.
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Notes for Reverend Nathaniel Wilson Sr.
He came to Adair Co., Ky. ca. 1805 and in Aug. 1807 he was listed as a charter member of the Wolf Creek United Baptist
Church, as of its organization on the 2nd Saturday in August 1807, in Pulaski Co., Ky. located on the hill between House Fork and Wolf Creeks, at the same location as the New Pleasant Point Baptist Church now occupies.
Nathaniel Wilson was also a Baptist preacher, receiving his license in Virginia. The Church here gave him the same authority and privilege. He later joined a church known as Stephens Baptist Church in Adair Co., Ky. on October 17, 1807. He owned 300 acres of land on Alligator Fork of  Wolf Creek of Pulaski Co., Ky.-- (Wilson  1982,  p.6-7, AFN K3T6-MG).

More About NATHANIEL WILSON SR:
Adair County Kentucky Court Records.  Will Book E-277, Will of Nathaniel Wilson.
Will: April 06, 1848, Adair County, Kentucky.
Will was Probated Monday, December 4, 1848.
Will Book F-154, Settlement of the estate of Nathaniel Wilson by his executors.
Compiled by Carlis B. Wilson

Children of NATHANIEL WILSON and SUSANNAH STEPHENS are:
 i. DORCUS WILSON, m. JOSEPH WHITELY, April 12, 1821, Adair Co, Ky.
 ii. HESTER WILSON, b. Abt. 1814; m. THOMAS M. BRAGG, December 20, 1832, Adair Co, Ky.
 iii. JANE WILSON, m. (1) JOHN HARRELL, February 07, 1825, Adair Co, Ky; m. (2) JOHN Y. ESTES, November 18, 1832.
 iv. MEREDITH WILSON, m. ELIZABETH ANN BULLINGTON, June 26, 1834, Adair Co, Ky.
 v. NANCY WILSON, m. JOSHUA ROBERTSON, February 28, 1814, Adair Co, Ky.
 vi. PARTHENIA WILSON, m. JAMES MCGLOSSAN, August 21, 1824, 06.
 vii. NATHANIEL WILSON, JR., b. Abt. 1804; m. (1) JANE COMPTON, May 22, 1828, Adair Co, Ky; Quality: 06; d. Abt. 1850; m. (2) SARAH ANN YORK, Abt. 1845, Adair Co, Ky; b. Abt. 1806.
 viii. LETTY WILSON, b. Abt. 1817; m. JOHN HAMILTON, February 28, 1837, Adair Co, Ky; b. Abt. 1805.
 ix. MOSES HARKNESS WILSON, b. November 01, 1807, Adair Co, Ky.; d. January 17, 1862, Adair Co, Ky.; m. MELISSA HOPPER, September 09, 1825, Wayne Co., KY; b. 1810, Adair Co, Ky.; d. 1870, Russell Co KY.