John Wilkinson (American colonist)
John Wilkinson was born in Rhode Island, United States. He was a direct descendant of Lawrence Wilkinson who fled the oppression of Oliver Cromwell in 1652 and settled in America and the son of Roger Wilkinson, an early colonist, who settled in Rhode Island where Roger Williams promoted the concept of freedom of religion.
John Wilkinson settled in Troy, New York and seventeen years later moved his family to Skaneateles, New York.
