Wilson was born October 20, 1805 East Nottingham, Chester Co. Pennsylvania and died November 24, 1866 West Nottingham, Cecil Co., Maryland. Between 1852/60, he married Rachel (?) Brown, the widow of James Brown who had died 1852 in Cecil Co., Maryland. Rachel had 4 children at the time - 1) Simeon Allen Brown born 1842 2) Margaret E. Brown born1847 3) Samuel James Brown born 1844 and 4) Ruth Ellen Brown born 1848. Three of these children were mentioned in their father's will in 1852 Cecil Co., Maryland. Of interest is that Rachel's son, Samuel James Brown married Emily Jane Kirk, the daughter of Reuben Haines Kirk and Hannah C. Brown, on Decmeber 31, 1863 Cecil Co., Maryland. Samuel and Emily were the parents of Carrie R. Brown who married Haines Job, the son of Jacob Job and Rachel Kirk and grandson of Daniel Job Jr and Rachel Haines and great grandson of Daniel Job and Mary Brown. As you can see there is a lot of intermarriges with this group.

Maryland, Cecil County Probate Estate Files 1851 -1940
Actual File consists of 21 images

1. Estate of Wilson Sidwell - Petition Cover
   ----Transcribed by Margaret Jobe
   

   Petition

   James Fulton Sidwell

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   Job Sidwell Brown

   Estate of Wilson Sidwell
   (dec )

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   Rachel Sidwell

   Filed May 7, 1887

2. Estate of Wilson Sidwell - Petition

   To The Honorable - The Judges of the Orphans Court for Cecil County - The Petition of James Fulton Sidwell and Job Sidwell Brown of Cecil County State of Maryland humbly represent unto your Honor that a certain Wilson Sidwell - late of Chester County in the State of Pennsylvania and by his last Will and Testament constituted and appointed your Petitioner his Executor= that the said Wilson Sidwell departed his life on the Twenty fourth day of November Eighteen hundred & Sissty Six without revoking or annulling his said Last Will and Testament : That you Petitioneer on the Eleventh day of December in the year Eighteen hundred and sixty Six obtained letters (_ _ amentary) upon the Estate of the said Wilson Sidwell (deceased) from the office of the Probate of Wills in West Chester, Chester County Pennsylvania and that they have duly entered upon the discharge of their duty. Your Petitioners further allege that there is personal property of great value situate in this County over which they should have legal control in order to close the Estate of their decedent within the time limited by law - And Your Petitioners further allege that the fact of the said Last Will and Testament being in existence having been concealed from your Honor. this Honorable Court on the tenth day of March, Eighteen hundred and Sixty Seven granted unto a certain Rachel Sidwell a resident of Chester County Pennsylvania letter of administration upon the personal Estate of the said Wilson Sidwell situate in Cecil County aforesaid - upon the Petition of the said Rachel Sidwell You Petitioners avow that they are now ready to produce said Last Will and testament to be probated according to law. And they therefore pray Your Honor to pass an order revoking the letters of administration heretofore granted unto the said Rachel Sidwell and to grant(? celter) testamentary unto your Petitioner the Execution of the Last Will and testament of Wilson Sidwell - deceased. ______ duty. &c

   John A J Crunell} atty for
   Reubens Saines} Petitioner

3. Estate of Wilson Sidwell - Petition 2

   On the foregoing Petition it is ordered this fourteenth day of January 1868 that the certified copy of the Last will and testament of Wilson Sidwell (deceased) therewith filed be and the same hereby is admitted to Record as the last Will and Testament of the said Wilson Sidwell (deceased) therewith filed be and the same hereby is admitted to Record as the last Will and Testament of the said Wilson Sidwell (deceased) and that letters Testamentary according to law be and they are hereby granted to Thomas Fulton Sidwell and Job Sidwell Brown the Executors named in said Will. That Rachel Sidwell, to whom letters of administration upon the person Estate of said deceased here heretofore granted by this court be and She is hereby required on or before the Eleventh Day of February next to to settle an account of the monies, goods chattels and all other the personal effects of said deceased which have come unto her hands and of her receipts and disbursements as administratrix of said Wilson Sidwell (deceased) meet the usual allowance for commissions, expenses and costs and counsel fee of Thirty Dollars. That she shall immediately on the passage of said account by this court pay over to the said James Fulton Sidwell and Job Sidwell Brown the balance which shall be shown to remain in her hands by the said account and also deliver to them all books, papers property and effects of every Kind belonging to said intestate the receipt of said James Fuller Sidwell and Job Sidwell Brown Executors as aforesaid for said balance and the books papers property and effects aforesaid shall be a full and Sufficient release of all matters included in said account, and that from and after the passage of the order the authority of said Rachel Sidwell as administratrix aforesaid Except for the purpose of raising said account and paying over the money and delivering the property or as aforesaid and _____

4. Estate of Wilson Sidwell - Actual Will, page 1

   In the name of God, Amen. I Wilson Sidwell of Cecil County in the State of Maryland being in perfect health of Body and of sound and desposing mind memory and understanding considering the certainty of Death and the uncertainty of the time thereof and being desireous to Settle my Worldly affairs and thereby be the better prepared to leave this world when it Shall please God to call me hence do therefore make and publish my last Will and testament in manner and form following that is to Say.

   First and principally I commit my Soul into the hand of Almighty God and my body to the Earth to be decently buried at the descresion of my Exicutors hereinafter named and after debts and funeral charges are paid I devise and bequeath as follows:

   I Give and bequeath unto Rachel Sidwell My Loving wife Fifty dollars in money. Two fether beds bedding and bedsteads her choise, the Interest of one thousand Dollars during her Widdowhood or Natural Lifetime at Either Mariage or death the Thousand dollars I bequeath to Thomas F. Sidwell my Nephew of Chester County Pennsylvania, Wilson N. Brown and Job S. Brown my Nephews of Cecil County Maryland and Levina Sidwell my Sister of Chester County Pennsylvania to be Eqully devided between them Shere and Shere about,

   I also give and bequeath to my Nephew Thomas F Sidwell of chester County Pennsylvania Five Hundred Dollars in Money

   I also give and bequeath to Wilson N. Brown and Job S. Brown my Nephews of Cecil County.....

5. Estate of Wilson Sidwell - actual will, page 2

   Maryland Two Hundred Dollars a pease in Money

   I also give and bequeath to my Sister Ester Shepperd of Belmont Ohio the Interest of five Hundred Dollars during her Natural Lifetime, and at her death the Five Hundred Dollars to be Eqully divided Shere and Shere about...between Thomas F. Sidwell my Nephew of Chester County Pennsylvania, Wilson N. Brown, Job S. Brown both of Cecil County Maryland my Nephews and Levina Sidwell My Sister of Chester County Pennsylvania

   I also give and bequath to my Nephew Wilson N. Brown of Cecil County Maryland My Desk that belonged to my Mother and my Book case. If any of the within named heirs should depart this life before my death their shares of my Estate to fall to the surviving Heirs that is named in the within Shere and Shere about:

   I also autheris My Executors to Sell all my Real and personal propierty within one year after my Death and when sold do hereby autherise them to make a good and Suffitient deed to the purchaser or purchasers thereof. I futher autherise My Executors after my Debts funeral Expences and Legacys are paid the ballance to be Eqully devided between Thomas F. Sidwell My Nephew of Chester County Pennsylvania Wilson N. Brown and Job S. Brown My Two Nephews of Cecil County Maryland and Levina Sidwell of Chester County Pennsylvania My sister and whereas I do hereby constitute and appoint Thomas fulton Sidwell my Nephew of Chester County Pennsylvania and Job sidwell Brown My Nephew of Cecil County Maryland to be Sole Executors of my said

   Will In testemony whereof I hereunto Set my hand and affexed my Seal this Twenty Eighth day of August in Eighteen Hundred and sixty one

   Wilson Sidwell (Seal)

   Signed Sealed published and declared by Wilson Sidwell the above named testator to his last will and Testament in the presence of us..

   Azariah Rittenhouse
   Job Haines
   Jacob Reynolds
   

6. Estate of Wilson Sidewell - Witnesses Statement and acceptance

   West Chester December 11. A.D. 1866 there personally appeared Azariah Rittenhouse and Job Haines who as there solumn affirmation did declare and say that they were personally present and did see and hear Wilson Sidwell the Testator in the forgoing instrument of writing hairred Sign Seal publish pronounce and declare the Same as and for his last Will and testament and at the time of So doing he was of a sound and well disposing mind and memory is the best of their Skill and judgment.

   Affirmed before me.

   H.S. Thomas Reg.r

   The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Chester County, ss:

   By the tenor of these presents, I, H. S. Thomas Register for the Probate of Wills and granting Letters of Administration in and for the said County, unto all men send GREETING:

   WHEREAS, Wilson Sidwell late of the township of West Nottingham in the said county, deceased, had, while he lived, and at the time of his death, divers goods and chattels, rights and credits, in sundry places, within the said county, by reason whereof, and by the laws and customs of the said Commonwealth, the approbation and the commision of administration of all and singular his goods and chattels, rights and credits, and also the auditing the accounts, calculations and reckonings of the said administration, and the final discharge, and dismission therefrom, unto the Register aforesaid, do belong:

   NOW KNOW YE, that on the Eleventh day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Sixty Six at West Chester, in the county aforesaid, before me, the Register aforesaid, duly appointed, commissioned and constituted, was proved, approved and insinuated, the last will and testament of the said Wilson Sidwell deceased, a true copy whereof is to these presents annexed, and the administration of all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits of the said deceased by his last will and testament, in any....