Bird Wilson (1777–1859)
In 1822 Wilson and Bushrod Washington exchanged letters regarding the relationship between Wilson's father (under whom Washington had studied law) and George Washington.
Bird Wilson, son of James Wilson and Rachel Bird Wilson, was born on 8 January 1777 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. A graduate of what is now the University of Pennsylvania, he practiced law and served as president of the Court of Common Pleas (1802–17). Wilson resigned from the bench to study for the ministry, taking orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1820. For nearly thirty years he was professor of systematic divinity at the General Theological Seminary in New York City.
"Bird Wilson." Dictionary of American Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/BT2310000497/UHIC?u=viva_uva&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=764a0af8. Accessed 18 Dec. 2023.
John Hill Martin, Martin’s Bench and Bar of Philadelphia; Together with Other Lists of Persons Appointed to Administer the Laws in the City and County of Philadelphia, and the Province and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Rees Welsh & Co., 1883), 324.
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