John Wilkinson Jr. was only five - months old in 1799 .
John Wilkinson Jr. was still being nursed by his mother when the family settled about a mile from Skaneateles Lake in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York where they built a farm .
John Wilkinson Jr. was only five - months old in 1799 and was still being nursed by his mother when the family settled about a mile from Skaneateles Lake in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York where they built a farm .