Biographical Directory of the Tennessee General Assembly, Volume - 1796-1861 by Robert M. McBride and Dan M. Robison, edited by Robert M. McBride, Nashville: The Tennessee State Library and Archives and Tennessee Historical Commission, 1975, pp. 805-806:

"Wilson, David (1852-1803 or 1804

House of Commons, North Carolina General Assembly, 1789; representing Sumner county, later included in Tennessee; member and speaker, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, representing Sumner County, in Territorial Assembly, Southwest Territory, 1794. Born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, 1752; exact date of birth, names of parents, and extent of schooling not determined. Concerning his marriage, Dixon Merritt states, "There have been statements that David Wilson's wife was Sallie McConnell but, in his wife, he refers to her as 'my beloved wife Jean' "; the eight children, presumably of David and Jean Wilson, were-Elizabeth, James, William, Mary, David, Jr., Narcissus, Zachariah Wilson, and one who name is not indicated, but who was married to William Street. David Wilson received from North Carolina a grant of 20,000 acres of land on Duck River in what is now Marshall County; he acquired other land; Sumner County tax lists for 1787-88 show that he owned 10,325 acres. Appointed justice of the peace or Sumner County, 1787; member of two North Carolina conventions-that of 1788, called to consider U.S. Constitution, and that of 1789, called to ratify U.S. Constitution; register for Sumner County at time of death. Home two miles east of Gallatin, Sumner County. Served in North Carolina Militia from Salisbury District during Revolutionary War. Died in Sumner County at end of 1803 or beginning of 1804; buried in unmarked grave near Gallatin. Wilson County named in his honor.

Sources: Merritt, History of Wilson County, 47-47; Cisco, Historic Sumner, 305-306; Roster of Soldiers of North Carolina in the Revolutionary War, 401, 402."

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The Great Leap Westward, a history of Sumner County, Tennessee from its beginnings to 1805 by Walter T. Durham:

p. 57: "The first court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Sumner County met on the second Monday of April, 1787, at the designated house of John Hamilton, near Station Camp Creek, about five miles west of what is now Gallatin…The magistrates attending the first court meeting were...David Wilson…."

p. 63: "In 1788, James Winchester, William Stokes, David Wilson, Edward Douglass and Daniel Smith were elected to represent Sumner county at a state convention at Hillsborough called by North Carolina to consider ratification of the Constitution of the United States."

p. 64: "Before the end of the year, however, the Constitution of the United States was ratified…This county was represented at the ratification Convention in Fayetteville by David Wilson…."

p. 68: "In 1790, Governor Blount commissioned David Shelby clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in Sumner County. The following justices of the peace were commissioned: David Wilson…."

p. 71: "The Territorial General Assembly was convened in Knoxville in February, 1794, and David Wilson of Sumner was elected its first speaker." p. 72: "David Wilson was appointed register of Sumner County by Governor Blount, September 27, 1794."