A Matthew Wilson was #64 of 72 who signed a petition in 1787 to have a new Huntingdon county formed. The ancestral Mathew Wilson would have been age 10 when Huntingdon was formed in 1787. See https://www.huntingdonhistoryresearchnetwork.net/historic-documents/petitions-for-the-formation-of-huntingdon-county/ county-petitions-from-huntingdon-barree-hopewell-dublin-shirley-townships/ [W__0573]
