William Wilkerson (c1720-1801)

William Wilkerson moved his family from Virginia to Granville County North Carolina sometime around 1760. His two known sons were born about 1749 and 1752. He is on the 1761 tax list. His only known Granville land purchase was dated 9 Feb 1763 when he bought 253 acres on the south side of the Tar River north of the present community of Wilton. He sold some of this land before he died. His son Hammon sold the last 53 acres in 1783, possibly as de facto administrator of William's estate. When a man died intestate, that duty usually fell on the oldest son. William shows on the Granville tax lists from 1761 through 1780, during which time his sons Hammon and William, Jr. can be seen to reach the age of 16 which was the age at which free men were first listed, then set up their own households several years later. When the Revolution War began William was one of many Granville residents in debt to British merchants. Investigators, who were trying to resolve these debts about 1800, said William had died leaving his property to his children. They said his son William Jr. had been solvent and living in Granville at the end of the War and another son, Harmon (Hammon), was living in Wilks County, Georgia in good circumstances. Other investigators said a son named Thomas was living in Wilkes County, Georgia in good circumstances. No other trace of a son called Thomas has been found. In fact it would be difficult to fit another son into Williams Sr.'s tax and property records, so it is believed Thomas was actually Hammon. Some researchers have linked William Wilkerson to be the first son of Francis Wilkinson of St Peters New Kent Virginia but the link has not been proven.

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