sentences:  After fighting Native Americans, in 1774 Col. Wilson moved across the Allegheny Mountains, settled in the Tygart valley and founded "Wilson's Fort" (which he defended during the American Revolutionary War) and later represented what was then Monongelia Countyin the Virginia General Assembly and became first clerk of the Harrison County court.This Benjamin Wilson's maternal grandfather, William Martin (1763-1851), has been a patriot as well, serving as commissary for New Jersey troops before settling in Harrison County.Although Benjamin Wilson did not own slaves, his father Josiah Wilson owned seven or eight slaves in 1850, and ten slaves in 1860.