Hugh Wilson, with his brothers-in-law, the Craigs, came to America about 1720, and ultimately founded what was known as the Irish settlement, near Bath, in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. This settlement was among the earliest in the Forks of the Delaware, and has sent its lines of descent throughout the United States, and numbers in those lines many noted personages, including President Wilson, several governors of the States, judges, etc. Hugh Wilson, Francis McHenry's father-in-law, was appointed a commissioner to establish the county seat at Easton and to erect the original courthouse. He was also appointed king's justice upon the organization of the county, and served in that capacity until the time of his death, just prior to the Revolutionary War.