Joseph WILSON

                   5/14/1822 - OC/N - 374-375.Tempest was discharged as guardian of Elizabeth Wilton and her husband Richard Wilton was made her guardian.

1830 - lived in Hellam - he had:
Males:
1 who was  5  - 10  ???George
1 who was 10 - 15  ???Francis
1 who was 15 - 20  ???John
2 who were 50 - 60   Tempest and ???

Females:
1 who was under 5  Sarah
1 who was 5 - 10  ??? Fanny
1 who was 10 - 15    ???Martha
1 was was 15 - 20     ???Mary
1 who was 20 - 30   Probably Elizabeth
1 40 - 50     Probably Anna Mary
*** There is a William Wilson, Esq on the same page with lots of kids. There is a William B. Wilson, on the RR board in 1851 and 1853 also.
There is also a Henry WIlson - who lived next to William.

1840 - lived in Wrightsville - he had:
Males:
1 who was 10 - 15  ???George
1 who was 15 - 20  ???Frances
1 who was 20 - 30   ???John
1 who was 50 - 60   Tempest

Females:
1 who was 10 - 15    ???Sarah
1 was was 15 - 20     ???Fanny, confliciting dates but if she died in 1959 @39, she would have been born in about 1920.
2 who were 20 - 30   Probably Martha and mary
1 40 - 50     Probably Anna Mary

Documentation stated that he kept a tavern in Martic township, from which place he removed to Wright's Ferry, and rented the tavern and ferry upon the western side of the river.
Tempest Wilson and his son-in-law, Joseph Graff, went together and ran a hotel in Abbottstown. It was called the Altland Hotel in recent history.
I saw the headstone in 2005. Its right in front of the parking lot, but the inscription is facing into the Cemetery.
It says, Tempest Wilson, died Feb 15, 1855, aged 73 years, 7 months, 25 days.

1855 May 31 - partition & sale of real estate   David E. Hollinger & Joseph Wilson, the administrators of the estate of Tempest Wilson, report that the tavern property located in Wrightsville and offered at public auction remains unsold forwant of bidders. In addition the document indicates that Tempest Wilson, late of Abbottstown, died intestate leaving the following nine children:
Joseph Wilson, oldest son & heir, .....

Lived in Wrightsville for years, which was a village just opposite Wrights Ferry, as Columbia was then called, with the broad Susquehanna River flowing between them. in 1797 the Wrights Ferry right was disposed of, and sublet to Frederick Stump and Tempest Wilson. As I have said, Wilson lived on the Wrightsville shore,while Stump lived at Columbia, and an extensive business was done there. Some days as many as 200 wagons were there in line waiting their turn to be ferried over, and in order to keep these in their order of precedence, numbers were chalked on the vehicles, which insured their turn on the boats. The Wilsons later removed to Abbottstown, Adams County, where they both died.   pg 196; "Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia", Vol XVI, publ. 1905.

Adams Census: 1850
Berwick, Berwick Township
31 31 Wilson, Tempest  68 M               $1200     PA
                              Fanny    20 F
                              Sarah    22 F
I wonder if this is supposed to be 30 for Fanny?? Listed first, usually the oldest, and her death records had her born about 1920.

He bought lot #16 in Wrightsville  on 23 Oct 1812. He was listed as an innkeeper. Wife not mentioned.
1823, he and William Wilson (?? brother) are trustees for a burying ground in Wrightsville.

Lived for years in Wrightsville, which was a village just opposite of Wrights Ferry, as Columbia was then called.
The Wilsons later removed to Abbottstown, Adams County - where they both died.

Called General Tempest Wilson in 1845 Feb Adams Sentinel. Lived in Paradise Township, York, PA.
The paper also stated that he was from Paradise (1845) when his daughter Mary got married.

Republican Compiler (Getttysburg) 28 Jun 1831 -  Col. Tempest Wilson, of York county, has been elected Major General of the 5th Division Pennsylvania Milita.  In the first Brigade Col. Wilson received 9 votes. In the 2nd brigade, on the last ballot the votes were , for S.E. Hall, 4, A.G. Miller, 1, and J. Barnitz 1.

Was on the Central Executive RR committee in Berwick in 1851.
He was vice president on the RR board in 1853. He lived in Abbottstown.

He had a lot in the Borough of Berwick, Adams County fronting on the York and Gettysburg Turnpike, and running back to Fleet street, and adjoining lots of Tempest Wilson and David Hollinger.

He was elected assistant burgess of Wrightsville in 1834.

Earliest signing of a petition for a bar license in Abbottstown is in 1851.
I have the Physician's return of death for him.

As his father was still in Paradise in 1788, he may not have been born in York (as our tradition has said), possibly York County.

History of York County, PA. pg 597.
Incorporation.
Wrightsville was incorporated as a borough, April 11, 1834, and the first election was held on the 9th of May, following. At this election Henry Snyder was elected chief burgess. William Wilson, assistant burgess, Tempest Wilson, Michael Clopper, Samuel Sheaffer, George Green and RObert W. Smith, members of the town council, and Jacob Harris, Constable........
A writer described Wrightsville a few years later (1844). "It contains between sixty and seventy dwellings, several stores and taverns. Population about 800/ A good turnpike leads from this place through York to Gettysburg, in Adams County.This place may, before many years, become of some note and distinction."

NOTE: William Wilson was also a justice of the peace, and there was a Henry WIlson who was the Supervisor.

WRIGHTSVILLE BOOK OF FACTS, pg 41, 51
War of 1812
The outstanding locakl character of this was who attained national celebrity wasGeneral Tempest Wilson.

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY - Providence Township, Taxables for 1807 (including Providence Township)
Tempest Wilson was an innkeeper.


THE GETTYSBURG TIMES  30 Mar 1939-
Sheriff's sale: All of these lots of ground situated lying and being in the Bourough of Abbottstown, Adams County, PA., and more particularly bounded and described as follows, to-wit:-
Lot No. 1. Fronting on Main or King Street and running back to Fleet Street adjoining lot formerly of David E. Hollinger, deceased, on the East and lot formerlyof John Hoffman on the West, and known on the general pla of the Town as Lot No. 38; it being the same lot of ground, the righr of which was vested in Tempest Wilson; who being seized thereof died intestate, and whereas George A. Wilson, ason and lawful heir of the said deceased, accepted the above house and lot of ground at the apprasiement thereof, and the said George W. Wilson and Louisa, hiswife, by their indenture duly executed and bearing date the 11th day f April, A.D. 1856, did grant, convey, and confirm the same lot of ground no 38 to MichaelHoffman and to his heirs and assigns forever;............

Republican Compiler 24 Mar 1856 - 126 -  The first account of Joseph Wilson and David E. Hollinger, Administrators of Tempest Wilson, deceased.