I believe Wilmington was a town started right across the river from Bryans Ford, both in Campbell Co. at that time (1793).  I think it was started by John Grant on 50 acres of his land.  He had hoped the county seat would be located there. The Grants Lick History on Campbell Co rootsweb site states "The county's interior residents argued that the government offices should be located at a central location and by that criteria, Wilmington was the leading place", so apparently many Co. residents also wanted the county seat at Wilmington. Campbell County justices of peace held their first meeting there on June 1, 1795.   Also from the Grants Lick history, it states "The Kentucky legislature designated Newport as the county seat on December 14, 1796, and even though John Grant fought against it until 1802  when a panel reaffirmed Newport's claim for the county seat, he then watched his property decline until Wilmington was extinct". 

I do not think there was any connection at all between Wilmington and Williamstown in Grant Co.  In one of your sub files on your site, it does talk about the Wilmington (Baptist, I think) Church being moved to Fiskburg, now in Kenton Co.  Kenton became a county in 1840.  I am sure they mean the basic congregation moved and not the church building.

     The article on Early German Settlers in Campbell Co states "who met at Wilmington (now Williamstown the capital of Grant County)".  I believe the words in the parenthesis are completely wrong.  Wilmington just became defunct and nothing else was named after Wilmington.  Certainly it was not at the same location.  Williamstown and the site where Wilmington was located was at least 25 miles apart, I would guess. 

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