As far as known, the children of Godfrey Wilkin were:

1/1	Mathias Wilkin
1/2	Elizabeth Wilkin
1/3	Henry Wilkin
1/4	Philip Wilkin, Sr
1/5	Godfrey Wilkin, Jr
1/6	John Wilkin
1/7	George Wilkin

1/1 Mathias Wilkin b about 1747 d 12 Oct 1803 m Margaret Keller daughter of George Keller and Barbara "Anne" Hottell Keller moved to Hardy County W. Va. The Census of 1784 shows he had 9 children. In 1788 he deeded one hundred and sixty acres of original Wilkin farm to his brother Godfrey, Jr and at the same time three hundred and thirteen acres to his brother Philip, Sr. Records at Woodstock, Virginia.

2/1	George Wilkin	b. 10 Jun 1771
2/2	Godfrey Wilkin	b. 22 Apr 1773
2/3	Barbara Wilkin	b. 06 Sept 1775
2/4	Jacob Wilkin	b. 21 Jan 1778
2/5	John Henry Wilkin	b. 23 May 1780
2/6	David Wilkin	b. 20 Dec 1783
2/7	Daniel Wilkin	b. 11 Apr 1785
2/8	Rebecca Wilkin	b. 10 Feb 1788
2/9	Joseph Wilkin	b. 15 May 1790

1/2 Elizabeth Wilkin m 5 Oct 1784 John Haas of Shenandoah Valley

1/3 Henry Wilkin, son of Godfrey Wilkin the first, b 1756 m 1782 Rachel Silket of Chilcet b 1763. Henry and Rachel Wilkin came from Shenandoah County, Virginia on horseback and located on a farm near New Market, Ohio in the fall of 1802. He bought six hundred acres of land on White Oak creek recorded in Chillicothe, Ohio on 3 Jan 1803. Henry died soon after his arrival in Highland County leaving his wife to raise the 9 children.

2/1	Godfrey Wilkin	b 21 Sept 1784
2/2	Leah Wilkin	b Aug 1786-87 m 10 Nov 1806 Frederick Gibler
2/3	Abraham Wilkin	b 24 May 1789
2/4	Margaret Wilkin	b 25 Mar 1791 m John Strain
2/5	John Wilkin	b 11 Feb 1794 moved to Indiana - Illinois
2/6	Isaac Wilkin	b moved to Indiana - Illinois
2/7	Milly Wilkin	b 10 Dec 1797 m 09 Oct 1817 George Parret
2/8	Henry Wilkin	b Feb 1800
2/9	Mary Ann Wilkin	b 06 Apr 1802 m Henry Brouse

1/4 Philip Wilkin Sr: b 1758 d 02 Sept 1832 m 29 Apr 1788 Anna Layman, daughter of Benjamin Layman of Boughman whose farm joined that of Godfrey Wilkin. Their children were:

On 12 July 1802 he sold his farm and together with his brother Henry brought their families to Highland County, New Market Township, Ohio settling four miles west of Hillsboro.

To give you an idea of the difficulty encountered by Philip and Henry in their journey to Highland County I will give you an account by Col. Wm Keyes of his trip to New Market. He says:

"We took our journey from the valley of the Old Dominion in September, A.D. 1805, with a strong team, large wagon and a heavy load. We proceeded on our way over the Alleghany mountains, Greenbrier hills, Sewell and Gauley mountains, Kanawha rivers and backwater creeks, often impassable by the rising of the river, and arrived at Point Pleasant, where we crossed the Ohio and left most of our troubles behind us. Our Company consisted of the two family connectons, each of which were sub-divided into one or two smaller families: and to give promise of a fair beginning, each of them had an infant specimen of young America to carry on the knee, and numbering twenty-three grown men. We often had to exert all our united strength and skill to prevent our wagons from upsetting, and had often to double team in order to ascend the mountain sides. None of our company met with any accident, but not so with all the emigrants who preceded us on the same route; we sometimes passed the fragments of broken wagon beds, broken furniture and remnants of broken boxes and other marks of damage by upsetting on the mountain side, where the wagon, team and all had rolled over and over down the steep declivity, for some rods, until stopped by the intervention of some trees too stout to be prostrated by the mass of broken fragments. By doubling teams, we could reach the mountain top, but to get safely down again called for other contrivances. One expedient frequently tried was to fasten a pretty stout pine tree to the axletree of the wagon with chains, so as retard the downward course upon the horses. At the foot of such hills and mountains could be seen sundry such trees that had been dragged down for the purpose above named. We arrived at our Highland home in about eight weeks, constant travel, Sundays excepted."

Philip bought 1100 acres of land at $1.50 an acre upon his arrival in Highland County.

The first public record of the county for the year 1806 is that of a term of the Court of Common Pleas held at New Market on the 24 of February 1806. Philip, Sr was one of the grand jurors. The summer term of court was held on the 11th day of June 1806 and Philip Wilkin Sr's name appears again in the names of the grand jury.

In October 1806, the First Supreme Court for Highland County was held in New Market by Judge Ethan Allen, and Philip Wilkin, Sr was one of the Jurors.

The first census was taken in the year of 1807 of all the free male inhabitants above the age of 21, and Philip Wilkin Sr and Godfrey Wilkin, son of Henry Wilkin, were on this list, as Henry had died in 1803. The total number was 776 males 21 years and older in Highland County.

The first distillery was established in Highland County by Lewis Gibler in 1803. Philip had brought apple and peach seedlings with him from Virginia with which he established an orchard. He made apple jack and peach brandy. He established the second distillery in 1804 at his residence in the present township of Hamer. One bushel shelled corn was exchanged for one gallon of whiskey.

In 1807 at the session of the commissioners it was ordered that Morgan Vanmeter, Esq., George W. Barrere Esq., and Philip Wilkin Sr. be appointed to view a road from New Market to Morgan Vanmeter's and David Hay was appointed surveyer.

In October, election in 1809, New Market gave 87 votes and James Morrow, Philip Wilkin Sr. and William Boatman were the Judges and John Davidson and Eli Berryman, clerks.

In 1817 the Lutheran and German Reform Society joined in the work of erecting a house of worship. It was a log house built on the edge of New Market Township near the Graveyard of Noah Fawley's. The early Lutheran families were Andrew Shaffer and his family, Philip Wilkin Sr and his family, John and Henry Roush and their families, Isaac Lemon and George Caley and their families. The first preachers were far and few between in some cases peculiar. A Rev. Mr. Myers from Cincinnati induced the congregation to buy him a horse to travel with. Once in his possession he bade them goodbye and never returned. About 1855 there arose some dispute and dissatisfaction among the congregation and Philip Wilkin Jr with some others built the Mt. Zion Church on the Danville pike. The others built the present Lutheran church in Danville and the members were George Shaffer, Philip Roush, John Fawley, Daniel Miller, Andrew Roller, John Kesler and George Carr.

Philip Wilkin progenitor of the large family in Highland County served his country during the Revolution, as did so many of our forebears who lived in the Shenandoah Valley of Va. Philip's will can be found under #691 in the Highland County Courthouse.

At his death his personal property was appraised at $564.433/4. This included such items as:

He had a thousand plus acres of land he divided among his 5 children and their heirs.

Philip and his wife and some of his family are buried in the graveyard between the Whistler and Griffith farms. When Nellie Finley and Charlene Tarr visited the cemetery in October 1985 the only evidence found was a fieldstone the name Wilkin and another one beside bearing the date 1822. Eli Wilkin's grandmother, Lydia Roush Rhoades, is also buried there in the Wilkin's Cemetery or Old Dutch Cemetery. We found a stone saying Lydia, wife of Joseph Rhoades, also a stone sayng Samuel, son of L. & J. W. Rhoades. The Mt. Zion cemetery, a part of these acres, is the resting place of Eli and Catherine Wilkin. The land for both these cemeteries was donated by Philip Wilkin. Many descendants of this family are buried here as is Stanley H. Bennington.

1/5 Godfrey Wilkin Jr married to Catherine Layman, daughter of Benjamin Layman on June 13, 1786. They stayed in the Shenandoah Valley, where Godfrey died in 1810.

1/6 John Wilkin, born in 1762, married Hannah Graybill. They sold their farm on Sept. 9, 1811, and moved to Licking County, Ohio.

2/1	Levi Wilkin
2/2	Samuel Wilkin
2/3	Daniel Wilkin
2/4	John Wilkin
2/5	David Wilkin
2/6	Jacob Wilkin
2/7	Hannah Wilkin

1/7 George Wilkin was married to Barbara, daughter of Henry and Anna (Keller) Dravel, moved to Lost River, West Virginia, with his brother Mathias.

2/1 Henry Wilkin

Note: The name has been spelled Wilkin, Wilkins, Wilkey, Wilchen, Wilcki, Wilcke, and Wilckens. The reason for this being many of our forefathers could neither read or write hence the spelling was left to the discretion of the writer.