Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson was published in Volume 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91 offers some corrections to the profiles of the John Cunningham outlined in History of Buffalo Presbyterian Church and Her People by Rev. S.M. Rankin, published about 1934.
John Cunningham Sr. made a will on 8 March 1762 that was probated in Rowan County Court in July 1762. In it he left property to his wife Isabelle Cunningham and his daughters Margaret Cunningham and Jane Cunningham except for his clothing which he left to George Finley. He mentioned that if his wife, Isabelle, was with child and it be a son, he would inherit all lands, tenements and one-fourth of his moveable estate. If it be a daughter, she would have one-fourth of all his goods, chattels, lands and tnements. Executors were his wife, Isabelle, Thomas Donnell and William Denny. The will was witnessed by Robert Erving, Francis Tharp & Adam Beard.
The court of Rowan County, North Carolina ordered that Thomas Donnell, William Denny, Hugh Brawley and George Hamilton identify one acre belonging to the orphans on 13 July 1763. The land was located on the South Fork of the Haw River, to Boyd's Mill located on the Reedy Fork.
The documented children of John Cunningham Sr. are
1. Jane Cunningham born about 1756, married to William Wilson bond 16 Aug. 1774, Guilford County.
2. Margaret Cunningham born about 1754-57, married first to John Work, probably about 1770-75 and married second to Patrick McGibboney, bond 16 Sept. 1783 Guilford County
3 John Cunningham Jr. born about 1762, died 24 Jan. 1821 Guilford County and married first to Margaret Donnell, bond 20 Mrach 1786, Guilford County, married second to Mary (McMurray) Mitchell, bond 13 March 1797 Guilford County and married third to Mary Finley bond 28 Dec. 1818 Guilford County.
William and Jane (Cunningham) Wilson may have moved to Pendleton Co., South Carolina
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