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The Whitson Family |
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William Whitson was born about 1706 in Surry County, Virginia. William's children may have included: Sarah Whitson (1725, married John Nelson), William left the eastern Virginia area for the Shenandoah Valley in search of farm land some time after 1750. In 1783, William Whitson died in Washington County, Tennessee. His estate was inherited by Jesse Whitson and named daughters Susannah Eagen, Lydia McKay. Sons Joseph and Jesse were executors and witnesses were Henry Nelson, Jr., William Wood, and Reuben Rider. In 1795, Jesse Whitson was an executor of Isaac Denton's will.
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William Whitson, Jr. Lezeanah Whitson (1760), About 2 miles northeast, south of the mouth of Cosby’s Creek, William Whitson, Jr., established a fort on the east bank of Pigeon River in 1783. It was an important frontier outpost, since there was a ford there, and the west bank of the river was then Indian territory. In 1786, William Whitson [Jr.] and Abraham McKay were elected to meet with the Primitive Baptist church association held at Kendrick's Creek, (Sullivan county) to petition for permission to establish a church at Big Pigeon. The Witsons were original members of the Primitive Baptist church in Pig Pigeon in 1786. William built a fort on the Big Pigeon river near the big spring on Campbell McNabb's place below the Denton Mill. William, Jr. moved with his father to Washington County, Tennessee |
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