James Wilson
BIRTH
Sep 14, 1742
Fife, Scotland
DEATH
August 21, 1798
Edenton, North Carolina
Delegate to the Constitutional Convention (PA)
1787
FAMILY
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Wilson, James
(1742-1798)
James Wilson was a Scottish-born lawyer, delegate to the Continental Congress, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. He advised the revolutionary government, became a leading voice at the Constitutional Convention, and later served on the United States Supreme Court.
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WIFE
Hannah Gray Wilson Bartlett
(1776-1808)
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DIED:
Edenton, North Carolina
Aug 21, 1798
James Wilson was born on Sep 14, 1742 in Fife, Scotland. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies James Wilson with work or public activity as a lawyer, statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. James Wilson died on Aug 21, 1798 in Edenton, North Carolina. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.