1716
An Article: Smith, Clifford Neal, Transported Jacobite Rebels, 1716, in the
National Genealogical Society Quarterly, vl. 64, March 1976, #1, pp. 27-34.
Mr. Smith wrote:
"Among the persons transported to the American colonies in 1716 were 637
Scottish rebels captured at Preston, Lancashire, on 14 November 1715. The rebels
were supporters of the exiled James II of England and his heirs. There were
many such adherents among the Roman Catholics of Scotland, and some in Ireland,
and among the Nonjurors, a dissident group within the Church of England.
"During the rebellion of 1715 the rebel forces entered Preston on 9 November
and, after proclaiming as their king the chevalier of St. George, remained there
for several days, during which the government forces advanced upon them. The
town was assaulted, and on 14 November the rebel general Thomas Forster surrendered
his army to the King's forces. Persons sent to the American colonies the following
spring as indentured servants for a seven-year period. Those who refused to
be voluntarily indentured were forced into that condition upon arrival in the
colonies."
A James Wilkie was among those sent on the ship Wakefield, of Captain Thomas
Beck, bound for South Carolina from Liverpool, 21 April, 1716, with 81 prisoners.
1719
Another John Wilkey arrived in Maryland in 1719 on a convict ship from Middlesex,
England. Another record notes that he was sentenced in February of 1719, and
transported from Worshester to Maryland the same month.
1765
A Thomas Wilkey of Boston, 1765.
1767
South Carolina
In Probate Records of South Carolina, Vol. #1: Index to Inventories 1746-1785
(Source by Brent H. Holcomb, Southern Historical Press, p. 68). A listing-
Wilkey, James 10 June 1767 Charles Town Vol W. pp. 443, 444.
In Probate Records of South Carolina, Volume 3: Journal of the Court of Ordinary
1764-1771 (Holcomb, p. 39 appears to refer to the James Wilkey cited above).
"Citation granted to Mary Willkye of St. Michls parish [lower part of Charles
Town-kjw] to Administer on the Estate and Effects of James Willkye late of the
same place deceased as nearest of Kin to be published and returned Certified.
4 April 1767.
1773
Frances Wilkey held land in South Carolina as early as 15 March 1773 as seen
by the fact that one John Hindman had 100 acres surveyed upon his arrival from
Ireland on the ship Lord Dunluce. The notation is from Jean Stephenson, Scotch-Irish
Migration to South Carolina, 1772 (Strasburg, Va.: Shenandoah Publishing House,
1971), pp. 55-56. It reads:
(b) Pl. Bk. vol. 17, p.d0; 8 Jan. 1773; in Craven Co., on Londonbridge Creek,
on south side of Broad River; bd.d. Frances Wilkey, vacant land; sur. 15 March
1773. [I have only found a Craven County in North County-kjw]
1775
Wilkey, Samuel from document DD:288, 289, [document from March 24, 1775-December
5, 1775; August 30, 1776-November 13, 1778; November 20, 1784-August 1798] as
found in An Index to Georgia Colonial Conveyances and Confiscated Land Records
1750-1804, edited by R.J. Taylor Jr. Foundation, Atlanta, GA, 1981.
1785