These families were neighbors, and about the year 1788 Samuel Spray was united in marriage to Mary, the eldest child of John and Dinah Wilson, the former at the age of thirty-one, the latter, twenty-eight years. They left soon after for Union County, S. C. , where on the 15th of February, 1790, their first child was born to them. They remained here until the year 1805, when with their five children, born as follows: John, 15th day, 2d month, 1790; James, 17th, 8th, 1793; Samuel, 30th, 4th, 1796; Mary, 30th, 6th, 1798; and Dinah, 3d, 10th, 1804, they started on their journey through Tennessee and Kentucky for Ohio, coming by the way of Cincinnati, and stopping at the great central point, Waynesville, where they remained until, having purchased, in the year 1806, of Isaac Webb, of Bourbon County, Ky., for a consideration of £1,000, current funds of that State, the 1,000 acres referred to, he removed his family that year, and settled upon it. This survey is now partly in Clinton, but at the time of purchase was wholly within the province of Warren County. History does not say in what year John and Dinah Wilson left Pennsylvania and settled in South Carolina, but it does record them as living there.
-- The History of Clinton Co., Ohio, page 653-654, Pliny A. Durant, 1882
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These families were neighbors, and about the year 1788 Samuel Spray was united in marriage to Mary, the eldest child of John and Dinah Wilson, the former at the age of thirty-one, the latter, twenty-eight years. They left soon after for Union County, S. C. , where on the 15th of February, 1790, their first child was born to them. They remained here until the year 1805, when with their five children, born as follows: John, 15th day, 2d month, 1790; James, 17th, 8th, 1793; Samuel, 30th, 4th, 1796; Mary, 30th, 6th, 1798; and Dinah, 3d, 10th, 1804, they started on their journey through Tennessee and Kentucky for Ohio, coming by the way of Cincinnati, and stopping at the great central point, Waynesville, where they remained until, having purchased, in the year 1806, of Isaac Webb, of Bourbon County, Ky., for a consideration of £1,000, current funds of that State, the 1,000 acres referred to, he removed his family that year, and settled upon it. This survey is now partly in Clinton, but at the time of purchase was wholly within the province of Warren County. History does not say in what year John and Dinah Wilson left Pennsylvania and settled in South Carolina, but it does record them as living there.
-- The History of Clinton Co., Ohio, page 653-654, Pliny A. Durant, 1882
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