 In 1658 Bray Wilkins, the future grandfather-in law of John, had teamed up with the father of his daughter-in-law, a tailor named John Gengell, to purchase, on credit, a 700 acre tract of land around Will's Hill.Soon Wilkins and Gengell put up houses and moved their entire families to the remote region.Wilkins and Gengell soon began logging and timber-processing operations.