WILSON in PA and ULSTER
                             by Dan Wilson
                            Sun Jun 28 1992
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Surely with all you WILSONs active on the baord at the moment, some of you 
have traced your ancestors to the so-called "Irish Settlements" in PA. Two 
major ones were around Pittsburg and Northampton/Lehigh Counties, PA. I'm 
researching the Irish Settlement in Northampton and Lehigh counties, as 
this is where my WILSONs first settled in the US. It also appears this may 
have been one of the first such settlements in PA and in the US. It was 
founded c. 1723, not long after the well known    "Five ships" from the 
Bann Valley, Ulster, landed at Boston, 1718. In fact there is some evidence 
that the Northampton Co. Settlement was begun by those original settlers 
who were rejected by the Puritans, and were forced to move on, some to New 
Hampshire, others to PA.
 
HUGH WILSON was one of the first to arrive at the Northampton Co. 
Settlement, and was one of the first 5 commissioners appointed to select 
the site of EASTON, PA. His family were also instrumental in founding the 
Settlement School, a supposed forerunner on Lafayette College in Easton.
 
If any of you are interested in this area and wish to share research notes, 
give me a yell....
 
 * Origin: Rare Readers BBS Tempe, Az. (602)756-2855 (1:114/22.0)

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