Jane "Jenny" Wiley, daughter of Thomas and Jean (Sellards) WIley and granddaughter of Hezekiah Sellards, was born ca 1791 at Walkers Creek, Virginia. She married in Floyd County, Kentucky on October 10, 1810 one Richard Williamson, born ca 1786 in the Clinch River Valley of Virginia, the youngest son of Alden Williamson, Sr. and Isabel (Thompson) Williamson.

In some records Jane is spelled Jain, but this may be a phonetic spelling of the name.

Floyd County, Kentucky records contain two documents on the marriage of this couple. First their marriage bond. The following excerpt shows the type of bond required at this period of time, the parties to the bond or the groom and his bondsman who was usually a relative or a very good friend of the couple, and the date of the application for marriage.

Known by all these men presents that we, Richard Williamson and Shadrack Ward of Floyd County are held and firmly bound unto the commonwealth of Kentucky in the penal sum of fifty pounds for the payment whereof we bind ourselves, our heirs and firmly by these presents sealed with our seals and dated this 9th day of October, 1810.

The other document is the permission slip or consent slip by Jane's father, Thomas Wiley. Permission slips were common when either of the parents, and often the parties to the marriage were unable to make the journey to the courthouse.

To mr. Mayhoe, clerk sur, I wold request the favor of you that you wold grant lisense of marriage as all parties are satisfied to the same covenant of merrege between Richard Williamson and Jane Wiley, Given under my hand Thomas Wiley. Attest; Hezekiah Wiley and Shadrack Ward.

As Thomas Wiley died in 1810 he may have been too ill to make the trip to the courthouse. you will note the similarity of this permission slip with the one he wrote for his nephew Michael Borders.

Tradition is that Richard Williamson's mother died shortly after his birth and that he and his brother, Hammond, were raised by his maternal grandmother.

Richard Williamson sold in 1830, per Floyd County records, fifty acres on Levisa Raver, below Road Branch. In 1834 he bought 25 acres on Tom's Creek. Thus it appears Richard and Jane lived in Kentucky about 24 years before moving to Wayne County, Virginia (now West Virginia). Probably most their children were born in Kentucky.