I had hopes that Fairfax County, VA might be the “origin” of James, Sr. before moving to what was then Halifax County (to become Pittsylvania County, and then Henry County).\u00a0 Starting with the connection to the Brashears who lived in Fairfax (see the post about James’ wife Martha), there were a couple of deeds granted to a Thomas Wilson, and powers of attorney from a James Wilson Sr. and Jr. in 1773.\u00a0 My thinking was that if James had moved from Fairfax in the mid-1760’s he might have granted a power-of-attorney to a friend back in Fairfax to deal with unsettled issuess, such as disposing of land.\u00a0 However, after receiving microfilm records from the Library of Virginia, I found that the James Wilson Sr. and Jr, as well as a Robert Wilson alias Montgomery were actually residents of Ireland that granted a POA to Adam Stuart to deal with legal issues surrounding a store they owned in Fairfax (perhaps as previous residents).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I had hopes that Fairfax County, VA might be the “origin” of James, Sr. before moving to what was then Halifax County (to become Pittsylvania County, and then Henry County).\u00a0 Starting with the connection to the Brashears who lived in Fairfax (see the post about James’ wife Martha), there were a couple of deeds granted … Continue reading “Fairfax County, VA”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9qs8v-14","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswilson.family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswilson.family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswilson.family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswilson.family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswilson.family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jameswilson.family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/jameswilson.family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswilson.family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswilson.family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswilson.family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}