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State of Service: CT
Qualifying Service: Captain / Patriotic Service
Birth: 12 Feb 1716 Windsor / Hartford / CT Death: 09 Mar 1796 Torrington / Litchfield / CT
Additional References:
Rev War Graves Register. Clovis H. Brakebill, compiler. 672pp. SAR. 1993
SAR Rev War Graves Register CD. Progeny Publishing Co: Buffalo, NY. 1998
Spouse: Ann Cook/Cooke Children: Abijah;
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Author: Justin Lewis Ankerman
Son of Deacon John Wilson, of Windsor, was born in 1715, and married in Windsor, Ann, daughter of William Cook, one of the original proprietors of Torrington lands. Noah received from his father about fifty acres of land and his wife about as much more from her father, from the first division and probably more afterwards. He and his wife joined the Torrington church in the spring of 1742, or about two years after Deacon John Cook, and was probably the first settler between Deacon Cook's and the pine timber, now Wolcottville. His brother Amos probably lived with him ten or more years before marriage. Amos bought the mill privileges, but soon after Noah took one-fourth of the property, Amos retaining the same amount and others the rest. Noah seems to have attended more to his farm and farm work, and buying land, and his sons bought land, almost everywhere, in the town but specially in Mast swamp, and his daughter Ann bought land and sold land in various parts of Mast swamp, with her husband, Joseph Taylor.
Noah Wilson was not a speculator in lands; he bought to keep, and it would not have hurt his feelings much if he had owned half of the town. Not that he would wish others driven away, but he liked land, and liked to clear it, and see it improved, and let Amos do the work of the merchant. He was probably the first military captain in the town, but resigned and his brother Amos was elected to fill his place before the Revolution. Noah Wilson was a true blue puritan in principles and character; steady on the same track; so much so that it almost takes one's breath to think of it. True to the pilgrims' idea of the Bible, so that anyone in the town knew just what principles he held in religion, and what he would do when those principles should be put to the test as well as he himself knew. He was so sedate, so regular in all his doings, so strict in religious principles, that the youngsters called him "His Majesty."
Under such circumstances, it may easily be seen how afflictive it was to him when his son Abijah became a Methodist, and one of the first Methodists in the state, probably about 1776 or 7. But the devoted Christian life of Abijah and his noted good wife, somewhat modified the old gentlemen's opinions of the Methodists, and their doctrines.
He closed his earthly career March 9th, 1796, aged 81 years. Such is an outline of the life of one of many of the early settlers and the strict followers of the doctrines of the Bible as taught and received by the New England people during the first century and a half after its settlement. Whatever notions may be entertained as to the errors of interpretation given to Bible statements in those days, or any errors of practical life, there is certainly great pleasure arising from the consideration of such fidelity, integrity, and nobleness of character as was produced in those times. In this respect the present age does not surpass that of a hundred years ago.
1This biography is taken, almost verbatim, with nominal punctuation and spelling modernization, from Samuel Orcutt, History of Torrington 619-20 (1878).
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