Captain Willis Wilson

Willis Wilson

• Son of Col. William Wilson and Anne Jane Milner
• Willis was Justice of the Peace, Captain of the Militia, elected Burgess in 1692, but was unable to serve being under age
• Death: November 19, 1701 (29) in Hampton, Virginia, Colonial America
• Place of Burial: 1st person to be buried at St Johns Churchyard Hampton, Virginia, Colonial America

Sources

• Genealogies of Virginia Families: From the William and Mary College, By College Quarterly, page 825 - https://books.google.com/books?id=-omPLYeCtsQC&pg=PA828&lpg=PA828&d...

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https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I1087...

Burgess for Elizabeth City, Virginia, in 1692.

WILSON. Elizabeth City.

Arms: Sable on a cross engrailed between four cherubims or, a human heart of the first, wounded on the left side ppr. and crowned with a crown of thistles vert. Capt, Willis Wilson, Burgess for Elizabeth City in 1692 and died 19 Nov., 1701, aged 28 years, was the son of Col. William Wilson and Jane, his wife. Col. Wilson died 17 June 1713, aged 67 years, and his wife 5 May, 1713, aged 53 years, and left an only surviving daughter. The tomb of Col. Wilson bearing above arms was formerly in the churchyard at Hampton, but was destroyed by Federal vandals during the War.

http://www.reynoldspatova.org/histories/virginiaheraldic00croz.pdf

"Virginia heraldica : being a registry of Virginia gentry entitled to coat armor, with genealogical notes of the families"; Vol V of the Virginia County Record Series, edited by William Armstrong Crozier (c.1908)