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M John Wigle

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1861 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, 3-12:
Wigle John Sen, M, Widowed, 83, born United States, Methodist W;
Susan, born United States, Methodist W.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 61-64:
Wigle. The prominent and numerous family of this name in the County of Essex, Ont., is descended from John Wendel Wigle, who was born in Germany in the year 1763. Being left an orphan at an early age, he was obliged to shift for himself, and was a mere boy when he made his way to the seacoast, where, having neither means nor friends, he hid himself on board a sailing vessel which was about to leave for America. He was discovered after the ship sailed by the captain, who proved himself a most cruel man, and immediately upon arrival in America bound young Wigle out to service for seven years, it is said, to pay for his passage. To what trade he was apprenticed during this time is not definitely known, but as his occupation in later life was weaving, it is most probable that his knowledge of the business was acquired during that period.
     At the age of twenty-one years John Wendel Wigle made his home at York, Pennsylvania, where in 1776 he was married to Julianna Rommer. He did not bear arms in the Revolution, though he was undoubtedly a British sympathizer, as we find that he decided to leave soon after the war closed. In 1786, along with a number of other families, he and his family started for Canada, making the journey to Detroit through Ohio, with pack-horses, driving their cattle before them. They spent several years near Detroit, probably on Grosse Ile, as the government had not yet acquired the land from the Indians, but about 1792, when government grants were thrown open to settlers, John W. Wigle and his family settled in Gosfield township, County of Essex, on Lot 6, Eastern Division. Here he passed the remainder of his life, dying in the home he established there, and he was buried in Lot 6, as is also his wife, who passed away in May 1824. In spite of the hardships and trails they had to contend with in making a home in the wilderness, these good people prospered, and John Wendel Wigle acquired possesion of some 3,000 acres before he died. Thus he was able to leave his children in comfortable circumstances, and as his family was a large one he had ample use for his numerous acres.
     We have the following record of the eleven children born to this pioneer couple: John, born in Pennsylvania Dec. 21, 1778, died in Gosfield Jan. 28, 1871; he married Susanna Scratch, and they had a family of fifteen children. Wendel, born in Pennsylvania, Dec. 17, 1781, married Isabella Scratch, and died April 6, 1860. Kate, born in Pennsylvania, married Theodore Malott, who settled on Lot 13, in Gosfield, East Divison. Elizabeth, born in Pennsylvania, became the wife of Michael Fox. Julianna, born in Colchester April 4, 1789, married George Fox, and died on Pelee Island July 3, 1879. Joseph, born March 22, 1792, died July 23, 1864; he married Euphemia Miller, and they had eleven children (they were the grandparents of William R. Wigle, who is mentioned elsewhere.) Mary, born in Gosfield June 29, 1793, married Peter Scratch, and died June 3, 1872. Sarah, born in Gosfield Aug. 26, 1798, married Solomon Shepley, and had eight children. Maudlin married Jacob Fox, and had seven children. Christopher married Mary Wilkinson. Michael married Julianna Tofflemire, and for his second wife, Prudence Chapman...

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 407-408:
Thomas H. Wigle, a prosperous farmer of Gosfield South township, County of Essex, located on the 3rd Concession, belongs to the prominent old pioneer family of that name, the early ancestral data of which will be found elsewhere.
     John Wigle, grandfather of our subject, was the oldest child of John Wigle, the pioneer settler of that name in Gosfield, and he was born Dec. 21, 1778, at York, Pennsylvania, and died Jan. 28, 1871, aged ninety-two years, in Gosfield. At Amherstburg, Feb. 9, 1802, he married Susanna Scratch, born July 23, 1785, on Hog Island, and died Jan. 29, 1860, aged seventy-four years, in Gosfield. They had the following children: Mary, born Feb. 10, 1803, married John Roe, and died Dec. 4, 1827; Leonard, born March 14, 1804, married Jane Hairsine, and died in Mersea, Feb. 27, 1878; Julianna, born June 4, 1805, married Peter Malott; Wendel, father of Thomas H. Wigle, born Sept. 9, 1806, married Hannah Hairsine; Isabella, born June 2, 1808, married Thomas Williams; Joseph, born Oct. 8, 1809, married (first) Miss McKenzie, and (second) Sarah Stewart; Peter, born Aug. 25, 1811, married Mary Augustine; Susanna, born Nov. 18, 1813, married John Iler; John, born Sept. 19, 1815, married Ann Randall; Sarah, born Sept. 8, 1818, married Joseph Coatsworth; Robert, born May 24, 1820, married Elizabeth Williams; Solomon, born May 14, 1822, married Ann Iler; Adam, born June 14, 1824, married Lucinda Buchanan; Nancy Jane, born June 1, 1828, married Louis Jasperson, and they are parents of George Jasperson, of Kingsville; Michael, born March 15, 1831, married Jane Crow, and is the only surviving member of this large family, and now resides in Kingsville.
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John Wigle 1778-1871