Individual Details

Biography

History of Aroostook on the desktop has a couple of brief mentions – says he had a son William

Son William is first permanent settler of Haynesville – he came there from Somerset County, Maine – will look there – A Jonathan Wilson there in 1830 and 1820 and has about 6 children
https://maineanencyclopedia.com/haynesville/

the Aroostook County deed books online start in 1865

Jonathan and Isabel’s son William was the first settler in Haynesville, Aroostook County, Maine arriving there in 1828 from Somerset County. His father Jonathan and mother Isabel followed him there, and Jonathan and Isabel both died there. William Wilson and his father developed a farm property. After arriving, the Wilsons opened a house of entertainment1

1 Wiggin, History of Aroostook, Volume 1, pp 74-75

Property

On 2 February 1818, Jonathan Wilson gentleman of Camden, Lincoln County purchased 130 acres in Fairfield from John Todd of Ripley for payment of four hundred dollars. On the same day, Jonathan Wilson of Fairfield described as a husbandman sold this same 130-acre parcel to William Wilson of Fairfield for payment of four hundred dollars.1


Somerset County Maine land index
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3J-KS3C-C?i=651&cat=73208
21:92 – 1818, Jonathan Wilson of Fairfield sells to William
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVL-D985-T?i=51&cat=73208
Jonathan – 7:472 – 1818 – buying the property he then sells to William – Jonathan is in Camden, Lincoln, Maine in 1818
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSR4-XS92-X?i=269&cat=73208


1 Maine Land Records, Somerset County, 7:472, 21:92

On 7 July 1819, Jonathan Wilson, gentleman of Fairfield, sold a parcel with house and barn in Hope, Lincoln County to Eliphalet Cotton, laborer for payment of one hundred dollars.1

Lincoln County deeds – 85:102, 110:223
110:223
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSR4-X3LK-Z?i=257&cat=352440
85:102 – 1815, described as in Hope
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSR4-VS4S-8?i=373&cat=352440

1 Maine Land Records, Lincoln County, 110:223