William Wise

THIS PROFILE MAY BE CONFLATED WITH William Wise, of Bulloch County

William Wise was a Patriot of the American Revolution for SOUTH CAROLINA (Soldier).DAR Ancestor # A126831 DAR shows as born 31 December 1755 in Virginia, died after 13 May 1816 in Bulloch County, Georgia. They describe his wife as “Margaret X.”

Please refer to Gedcom Note below:

Military

There are multiple William Wise in SC and it is easy to confuse the Wises from Maryculter from the Wises from Accomack Virginia. We need more research to match the correct William Wise to the right record. Is there another record for the one that settled in Bulloch County, GA?

GEDCOM Note

FROM: 12-29-2019 https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/117599/I8400/-/individual

A Profile from Rootsweb was added to William Wise from Bulloch County without support. I am copying Georgian information to the other William Wise so we can correctly add information belonging to Accomack. Perhaps Margaret Douglas belongs here? I advise whoever is managing this profile re-evaluate it and reword it to show it to be a theory - not a fact and not allow it to interfere with discovery for this William Wise of Accomack.

• Name: William Wise
• Sex: M
• Birth: 29 Jan 1744 in Bogfon, near Maryculter, which seems to be is in Aberdeen [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryculter] though records show it to be in Kincardineshire. William's Grandparents were David Wyse and Jean Wyse (Younge) were apparently from Arbuthnott Kincardineshire. Maryculter and Arbuthnott is a little over 20 miles from each other near the northeastern coast by the Northern Sea. This is a reasonable distance for people to bond together especially both being close to the shores of the Northern Sea. [https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=how+far+is+arb...]

Kincardineshire,Scotland

• Death: 13 May 1816 in Wise Plantation, Old Mill Rd., Bulloch Co., GA
• Burial: Wise Family Cemetery, Statesboro, Bulloch, Georgia [Destroyed].
• Person Id: I8400
• Tree Id: 117599

Parents:

• Father: John Wise: Death: Sep 1780 in English Prison Ship, Charleston, SC is not substantiated'. See Project Torbay, Ship of Prisoners Revolutionary War Date: 18 May 1781 Location: Charleston, South Carolina, United States.
• Mother: Margaret Tait: Death: DEAD in Horse Creek, Edgefield Co,, SC

Married:

• Sarah Margaret Denmark on ABT 1778 at Beaufort Co./Orangeburgh Dist., SC.
• Sarah Margaret Denmark: Birth: ABT 1762 in Hyde or Craven Co., NC. Death: AFT 1821 in Statesboro, Bulloch Co., GA

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Children:

• Henry Wise: Birth: ABT 1777/1779 in Orangeburgh Dist., Barnwell, SC. Death: ABT 1828 in Clarke's Station, Wilkes, GA [Not Proven]
• Margaret Elizabeth Wise: Birth: ABT 1780 in Barnwell, SC. Death: 1855
• Susannah Wise: Birth: ABT 1784 in Barnwell, SC. Death: DEAD in Washington, AL
• Preston Wise: Birth: 1785 in Barnwell Co., SC. Death: 1868 in Bryan Co., GA
• Lavinia Wise: Birth: 1786 in Orangeburgh/Barnwell, SC or Effingham Co., GA. Death: 1857 in Lowndes Co., GA
• Rebecca Wise: Birth: 1788 in Barnwell Co., SC. Death: ABT 1855 in Bulloch Co., GA
• John Wise: Birth: Sep 1792 in Ironmonger Creek, Effingham Co., GA. Death: ABT 1835 in Bulloch Co., GA
• Zilpha Wise: Birth: 1793 in Orangeburg Dist., Barnwell, SC. Death: BEF 1850 in Jefferson Co., FL
• Jane Wise: Birth: 1795 in Screven Co., GA. Death: ABT 1863 in Bulloch Co., GA

BURIAL

Will of William Wise (dtd 1816): https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L93G-67DL

RESEARCH

The Church Registers through Scotland's People at least partially Tracks as follows:

a. Note: http://www.statesboroherald.com/news/archive/3557/ Bulloch Genealogy with Roger Allen By ROGER ALLEN Posted: May 4, 2007 6:04 p.m. Updated: May 19, 2007 5 a.m. Note: Local lover of history Roger Allen continues a monthly column looking at the genealogy of a longtime Bulloch County family.

The Wise family is truly one of the founding families of Bulloch County, but it does not stop there: the family line has extended all the way to Bryan and other surrounding counties as well. Their ancestral heritage can be traced back to a time long ago in Europe when the ancient warrior chieftains Gewiss, Woden, and Wyt held sway.

These kings, in turn, trace their own family lines back to the Trojan and Thrace kingdoms, which controlled large areas of what is now Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece. The current family name has undergone many changes over the passage of time, starting with Wyse or Wyseman for the Scottish lines, and Wise for their English cousins. Most of the Bulloch clan is linked to the patriarch Alexander Wyse of Bogton Farms. He married matriarch Martha Low of Maryculter Parish, located also in Kincardineshire (in the modern day city of Aberdeen, Scotland). Hence began the Wise family. "

Born in 1620, Alexander had a son named George (born in 1648). George married Kathleen Dollace. They, in turn had a son named David. David married Jean Young, and they had a son John who was born on July 25, 1721. John Wise Sr. (as he became known) married Margaret Tait in Arbuthnot in 1740. At least one expert genealogist disagrees with the way the lineage goes from here, choosing instead to believe that John actually comes from the line descending from the English House of Sydenham, and that his son William was born in Clifton, Accomack County of the English Province of Virginia.

Nevertheless, most believe that John Wise Sr. and Margaret Tait did indeed have three sons: *
John Jr, born in 1742; William, born in 1744. The first two were born in Old Bladen County in the English Province of North Carolina. Their third son, Jacob, was born in 1753 in the Old Craven County in the English Province of South Carolina. John Jr. had two children: Elizabeth and Lewis. Jacob had one son: Jared William, on the other hand, married twice, first to Sarah Margaret Denmark, and then to Elizabeth Cade, and had a total of nine children. They were: Henry, Elizabeth, Susannah, Preston, Lavinia, Rebecca, John, Zilpha, and Jane, who was also called Jincy. William raised his children at first in the Scottish settlement on the Great Pee Dee River in Old Craven County (now Marion) South Carolina.

He and his family moved twice more. At first they moved to the Beaufort District, also in South Carolina. After a while, William and his family moved for the last time, this time to what he referred to as his Beulah Land in Northeastern Georgia. Once this area was divided up into counties, it fell into the area first known as Effingham County, pieces of which were then divided up further into Scriven (later changed to Screven), Burke, and then into Bulloch Counties. William served very proudly with the forces under the command of General Elijah Clarke of the new American Continental Army fighting the British regulars at the Battles of Kettle Creek, Augusta, and many more.

William died on the family plantation near Belcher, on Mill Creek, on the Old Mill Road in Bulloch County on May 15, 1816. Here, his children started the Wise clan. His oldest son Henry married Elizabeth Groover, and they had an unknown number of children; Elizabeth married Solomon Groover and had five children. Susannah married twice, first to James Denmark and then to Willoughby Williams. Their children are apparently unknown. Preston married twice, first to Margaret Lee and then to Mary Ann Jones. They had a total of nine children. His daughter Lavinia married twice, first to Redden Moye (his last name was changed to Denmark) and then to William McNealy. She had a total of eight children. His son John married Rachel Jones, and they had eight children. Daughter Zilpha married twice, first to Aaron Everett and then to Jesse Goodman. She had a total of 13 children. Daughter Jane married Malachi Moye (his last name was changed to Denmark). They had 11 children. His youngest child, daughter Rebecca, married twice, first to Berry Nobel Jones and then to James H. Wilkinson. She had a total of 12 children. William's children had given him a total of (at least) 66 grandchildren, ensuring that the Wise family would be in Bulloch County to stay.

• And this is where genealogies are thrown off when common names confuse family history. Recent discovery has shown there is a trail between the Scottish Wises that came from Kincardineshire and the English Wises in Accomack County and the Isle of Wight.

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William Wise, RS-SC Militia was born 29 January 1744 at Bogfon, near Maryculter, Kincardineshire, Scotland. He immigrated to the American Colonies about 1750 with his parents, into Prince Frederick's Parish (location now in Marion County, SC), English Province of SC.

His will was signed on 17 May 1816, so he probably died soon after at his home, the William Wise Plantation, on Old Mill Road, in Bulloch County, GA.

He married Sarah Margaret Denmark about 1778 in Orangeburgh District, English Province of SC (part became Barnwell County, SC).

Information taken from http://bellsouthpwp.net/j/f/jfwise/wise01.htm on April 7, 2003.

William moved from SC to Screven Co. GA in 1794 and bought 100 acres on Mill Creek from Joseph Cone, 9 Jun 1794, on 11 Sep 1795 he bought 350 acres on Ironmonger Creek from Rev. John Martin (the Rev having already moved to Bryan Co. GA.) He later sold this tract of land to John Huffman 14 Dec 1799.

William's son John and his friend Johnathan Robinson were executors to his estate.

William Wise served as a Revolutionary Soldier from SC, and Screven Co. GA. He held rank of Major in Accomack Co. Militia. Had a Plantation in Statesboro, on Old Mill Rd. Bulloch Co. GA.

Will of William Wise: will book B: Bulloch Co. Georgia.

In the name of God, Amen. I William Wise of the county and state aforementioned knowing that it is appointed that all men must die, and being infirm in body, but in perfect mind and memory, do make this my last will and testament.

1st. I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Margaret Wise, all the property, both real and personal that I posess to hold and enjoy without molestation, during her natural life. If she survives longer than myself, and at her death to be divided in the following manner.

2nd. I give and bequeath to my son-in-law, Soloman Groover, the sum of five dollars to be paid out of my monies belonging to my estate that may come into the hands of the executors.

3rd. I give and bequeath to my son Henry Wise, one negro woman named Eady, and one feather bed.

4th. I give and bequeath to my daughter Viney Denmark, one negro woman named Sarah, and one feather bed.

5th. I give and bequeath to my daughter Susanah Denmark, one negro man named Denmark, and one feather bed.

6th. I give and bequeath to my son Preston Wise, one negro man named Guy.

7th. I give and bequeath to my daughter Rebecca Jones, one negro woman named Teaner.

8th. I give and bequeath to my daughter Zilphia Goodman, one negro man named John.

9th. I give and bequeath to my son John Wise, one negro man named Jack, and my land and improvements lying on Mill Creek, where I now live, together with 100 acres and two town lots lying at Bullock County Court House, also all my stock of sheep, hogs, horses, and poultry of every kind together with all my household and kitchen furniture.

10th. I give and bequeath to my daughter Jincy Denmark, one negro woman named Easter.

11th. I will and desire that my stock of cattle be equally divided between the following heirs: Henry Wise, Viney Denmark, Susannah Denmark, Preston Wise, Rebecca Jones, Zilphia Goodman, John Wise, Jincy Denmark, and Jared Wise.

And I do hereby constitute and appoint Jonathan Robinson, Esq. sole executor to this, my last will and testament.

Signed and sealed this 13th day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred, sixteen.

Revolutionary War Soldier, Patriotic Service in South Carolina and Georgia.Owned a Plantation on Old Mill Road in Bulloch Co. Georgia.

Marriage: 1799, Barnwell Co. South Carolina

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Feb 25 2018, 10:21:47 UTC

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William Wise, RS-SC Militia
U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
Military Service •
1775
Captain, Continental Army
Reason This Information Is Correct:
Name: William Wise
Military Place: USA
State or Army Served: Continental Troops
Rank: Captain
Military Service •
from 1747 to 1816
Revolutionary War, William Wise, RS SC
Reason This Information Is Correct:
(1) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lcowen/civil_war_ancestors...
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/180085344/william-wise
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LWFW-NBG
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/LWFW-NBG
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/collaborate/LWFW-NBG
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/memories/LWFW-NBG
https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/default.cfm...