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⚫ | '''Edmund Winston Sr.''' (b. 1745 – d. August 18, 1818) was a [[lawyer]], politician, jurist, and [[Patriot (American Revolution)|patriot]] |
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| office1 = Member of the [[Virginia Senate]] |
| office1 = Member of the [[Virginia Senate]] |
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| constituency1 = Bedford, Campbell, Henry, and Pittsylvania Counties |
| constituency1 = Bedford, Campbell, Henry, and Pittsylvania Counties |
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| term_start1 = 1782 |
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| term_end1 = 1783 |
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|successor1 =Charles Lynch |
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| constituency2 = Bedford, [[Henry County, Virginia|Henry]], and Pittsylvania Counties |
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| term_start2 = 1777 |
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| term_end2 = 1781 |
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| constituency3 = Bedford and Pittsylvania Counties |
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| term_start3 = 1776 |
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| term_end3 = 1776 |
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| birth_date = 1745 |
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| birth_place = [[Hanover County, Virginia|Hanover County]], [[Colony of Virginia|Virginia]], [[British America]] |
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⚫ | '''Edmund Winston Sr.''' (b. 1745 – d. August 18, 1818) was a [[lawyer]], politician, jurist, and [[Patriot (American Revolution)|patriot]] who represented south central Virginia in the [[Virginia Senate]] (1776-1783) then became a judge of the general court of Virginia (now the [[Virginia Supreme Court]]).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=DAR Genealogical Research Databases |url=https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A128884 |access-date=2022-10-27 |website=services.dar.org}}</ref><ref name=Tyler>{{cite book|last1=Tyler|first1=Lyon G.|title="Edmund Winston" in Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography |volume= 2| page= 362|year= 1915|publisher= Lewis Historical Publishing Co.}} available at hathitrust.org </ref> |
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== Early life and education == |
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⚫ | Winston was born in 1745 in [[Hanover County, Virginia]], the son of Lt. William Winston and Sarah Dabney.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Dabney |first=William H. (William Henry) |url=http://archive.org/details/sketchofdabneyso00dabn |title=Sketch of the Dabneys of Virginia, with some of their family records |date=1888 |publisher=Chicago, Press of S. D. Childs & Co. |others=Boston Public Library}}</ref> In 1704 his grandfather had sailed to the Virginia Colony from Yorkshire, England with his young family.<ref name="Tyler" /> Several sons (now this man's uncles) had settled further south in the colony, including Judge [[Anthony Winston]] of [[Buckingham County, Virginia|Buckingham County]], whose daughter this man would marry, as discussed below. Edmund was his father's only son, and had two sisters. |
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==Career== |
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Winston moved westward along the [[James River]] as a young man and settled near [[Lynchburg, Virginia|Lynchburg]], where he became a planter in several nearby counties, as well as owned a wharf named for his family. Winston also was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1767 and supported the American Revolution, furnishing supplies in support of the cause of independence.<ref name=":0" /> He was a first cousin of patriot firebrand and later Virginia governor [[Patrick Henry]], who after his governmental service became a planter in [[Charlotte County, Virginia]] at its border with what became Campbell County, which as discussed below, Winston represented in the Virginia Senate, before (as also discussed below) becoming Henry's executor and marrying his widow.<ref name="Tyler" /> |
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⚫ | Winston was born in 1745 in [[Hanover County, Virginia]], the son of Lt. William Winston and Sarah Dabney.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Dabney |first=William H. (William Henry) |url=http://archive.org/details/sketchofdabneyso00dabn |title=Sketch of the Dabneys of Virginia, with some of their family records |date=1888 |publisher=Chicago, Press of S. D. Childs & Co. |others=Boston Public Library}}</ref> |
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Meanwhile, voters from then-large [[Bedford County, Virginia|Bedford]] and [[Pittsylvania County, Virginia|Pittsylvania]] Counties elected Winston as their representative in the [[Senate of Virginia]] in 1776, and he continued to win-re-election and serve until 1783, when he was replaced by [[Charles Lynch (judge)|Charles Lynch]]. However, Winston was not seated in the new legislature's first session because the Bedford County clerk had not been sworn, and the names of the counties in his district increased with the creation of [[Henry County, Virginia|Henry]] and later [[Campbell County, Virginia|Campbell]] from Pittsylvania and Bedford Counties.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b9oBAAAAMAAJ&dq=Edmund+Winston+Virginia&pg=PA76 |title=Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, Virginia |date=1900 |publisher=R.T. Green |language=en}}</ref><ref>Cynthia Miller Leonard, The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619-January 11, 1978: A Bicentennial Register of Members (Richmond: [[Library of Virginia]] 1978) {{isbn|978-0-88490-008-5}} at pages 124, 128, 132, 136, 140, 144, 148, 152</ref> |
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By 1781, [[Thomas Jefferson]] recorded in his book, [[Notes on the State of Virginia]], that [[lead]] from [[western Virginia]] was loaded on the boats at "Lynch's ferry, or Winston's, on [the] [[James River]]."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-02-21 |title=Notes on the State of Virginia |url=http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=JefVirg.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=all |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110221130550/http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=JefVirg.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=all |archive-date=2011-02-21 |access-date=2022-10-27 |page=151}}</ref> In the 1787 Virginia tax census, Winston (or his son of the same name) was listed as non-resident and non-titheable but the owner of on five enslaved teenagers and six enslaved adults in Bedford County, as well as two horses and nine cattle. He was taxed on eleven enslaved teenagers as well as six adult slaves, seven horses and sixteen cattle in Campbell County, and eleven teenage slaves, eight adult slaves, nine horses and twelve cattle in Henry County.<ref>Netti Schreiner-Yantis and Florene Speakman Love, The 1787 Census of Virginia (Springfield, Genealogical Books in Print 1987) pp. 199, 266, 667</ref> Because his court sat in Richmond, the new Commonwealth's capital city, he may also be the "Edmd. Wilson" listed on the Richmond census, as related to George Winston whose paid the city tax for him as well as eight teenage slaves, three enslaved adults and a horse.<ref>Schreiner-Yantis and Speakman Love p. 1087</ref><ref>In that census, the estate of this man's deceased father in law, Anthony Winston, was non-titheable in Buckingham County, but listed as owning nine teenage slaves, one adult slave, seven horses and 17 cattle. Schreiner-Yantis and Speakman Love p. 685</ref> |
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⚫ | Winston served as [[prosecuting attorney|Commonwealth attorney]] in Campbell County during 1787-88. He and Campbell County clerk [[Robert Alexander (Virginia patriot)|Robert Alexander]] became the county's representatives to the [[Virginia Ratifying Convention]] of 1788, which ultimately ratified the U. S. Constitution, although Winston, like his cousin Patrick Henry and fellow delegate Alexander, voted against ratification.<ref>''The History of the Virginia Federal Convention of 1788'', by H B Grigsby, p 369</ref> <ref>Leonard p. 172</ref> |
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In 1788,<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Virginia |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009790023 |title=Virginia cases; or, Decisions of the General Court of Virginia,: chiefly on the criminal law of the Commonwealth commencing June term, 1815, and ending June term, 1826. Vol. II.: With an index of the principal matters in this and the preceding volume. |last2=Brockenbrough |first2=William |date=1826 |publisher=Published by Peter Cottom, and for sale at his law and miscellaneous book store |series=Virginia reports.Vol. 4 |location=Richmond |pages=19}}</ref> Winston was elected by the [[Virginia General Assembly]] to the [[General Court of Virginia (colonial)|General Court of Virginia]], which heard appeals from the [[County court|county courts]], and served in the role until 1813.<ref>Hening, ed. (1821), "October Session, 1778 ch. XVII", The Statutes at Large, vol. 9, pp. 401–419.</ref> During his first two weeks on the bench, from December 11 to December 24 of 1788, he was also an [[Ex officio member|ex officio]] member of the [[Supreme Court of Virginia]] until it became a separate body with five judges.<ref>Hening, William Waller, ed. (1823), "October Session, 1788 ch. LXVIII", The Statutes at Large, vol. 12, Richmond, Virginia: George Cochran, pp. 764–766. This statute was superseded in 1791, Hening, William Waller, ed. (1823), "October Session, 1792 ch. XI", The Statutes at Large, vol. 13, Philadelphia: Thomas Desilver, p. 405, and 1818, Leigh, Benjamin Watkins, ed. (1819), "ch. 64", Revised Code of 1819, vol. 1, Richmond, Virginia: Thomas Richie, p. 184, but the material provisions were unchanged.</ref> |
In 1788,<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Virginia |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009790023 |title=Virginia cases; or, Decisions of the General Court of Virginia,: chiefly on the criminal law of the Commonwealth commencing June term, 1815, and ending June term, 1826. Vol. II.: With an index of the principal matters in this and the preceding volume. |last2=Brockenbrough |first2=William |date=1826 |publisher=Published by Peter Cottom, and for sale at his law and miscellaneous book store |series=Virginia reports.Vol. 4 |location=Richmond |pages=19}}</ref> Winston was elected by the [[Virginia General Assembly]] to the [[General Court of Virginia (colonial)|General Court of Virginia]], which heard appeals from the [[County court|county courts]], and served in the role until 1813.<ref>Hening, ed. (1821), "October Session, 1778 ch. XVII", The Statutes at Large, vol. 9, pp. 401–419.</ref> During his first two weeks on the bench, from December 11 to December 24 of 1788, he was also an [[Ex officio member|ex officio]] member of the [[Supreme Court of Virginia]] until it became a separate body with five judges.<ref>Hening, William Waller, ed. (1823), "October Session, 1788 ch. LXVIII", The Statutes at Large, vol. 12, Richmond, Virginia: George Cochran, pp. 764–766. This statute was superseded in 1791, Hening, William Waller, ed. (1823), "October Session, 1792 ch. XI", The Statutes at Large, vol. 13, Philadelphia: Thomas Desilver, p. 405, and 1818, Leigh, Benjamin Watkins, ed. (1819), "ch. 64", Revised Code of 1819, vol. 1, Richmond, Virginia: Thomas Richie, p. 184, but the material provisions were unchanged.</ref> |
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Winston was a friend of Thomas Jefferson, and, according to the [[The Papers of Thomas Jefferson|Jefferson Papers]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Volume 24 {{!}} The Papers of Thomas Jefferson |url=https://jeffersonpapers.princeton.edu/volumes/volume-24 |access-date=2022-10-27 |website=jeffersonpapers.princeton.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Founders Online: From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Winston, 19 August 1792 |url=http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-24-02-0295 |access-date=2022-10-27 |website=founders.archives.gov |language=en}}</ref> visited him at [[Monticello]] on multiple occasions.<ref>From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Winston, 19 August 1792,” ''Founders Online,'' National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-24-02-0295 . [Original source: ''The Papers of Thomas Jefferson'', vol. 24, ''1 June–31 December 1792'', ed. John Catanzariti. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990, p. 311.]</ref> |
Winston was a friend of Thomas Jefferson, and, according to the [[The Papers of Thomas Jefferson|Jefferson Papers]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Volume 24 {{!}} The Papers of Thomas Jefferson |url=https://jeffersonpapers.princeton.edu/volumes/volume-24 |access-date=2022-10-27 |website=jeffersonpapers.princeton.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Founders Online: From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Winston, 19 August 1792 |url=http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-24-02-0295 |access-date=2022-10-27 |website=founders.archives.gov |language=en}}</ref> visited him at [[Monticello]] on multiple occasions.<ref>From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Winston, 19 August 1792,” ''Founders Online,'' National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-24-02-0295 . [Original source: ''The Papers of Thomas Jefferson'', vol. 24, ''1 June–31 December 1792'', ed. John Catanzariti. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990, p. 311.]</ref> |
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== Family and |
== Family and children == |
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In October 1771, |
In October 1771, Winston married his cousin Alice Taylor Winston, a daughter of his uncle, Judge (and former burgess) [[Anthony Winston]], of downriver [[Buckingham County, Virginia|Buckingham County]].<ref>''Mosby Family Bible Records'', 1765-1896. Powhatan County</ref> They had six children, George Dabney, Sarah, Alice, Mary, Edmund Jr., and Elizabeth. Alice died in 1784, leaving him with six children ages 1-10.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Winston |first=Alfred Sumner |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ysdfAAAAMAAJ |title=The Winstons of Hanover County, Virginia and Related Families, 1666-1992 |date=1992 |publisher=Gateway Press |language=en}}</ref> Their daughter Sarah married [[George Cabell (physician)|George Cabell]], prominent surgeon and builder of [[Point of Honor]], a manor house now owned by the city of Lynchburg.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Cabell Family Papers {{!}} Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library |url=https://small.library.virginia.edu/collections/featured/the-cabell-family-papers-2/ |access-date=2022-10-27 |website=small.library.virginia.edu}}</ref> Their son Edmund Winston Jr. lived in Amherst County, Virginia outside Lynchburg and married Caroline Jordan.<ref>John Frederick Dorman, Adventures of Purse and Person (4th ed. 2005; Genealogical Publishing Co.) vol 2, p. 408</ref> |
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Winston was a first cousin and long-time friend of [[Patrick Henry|Governor Patrick Henry]], who appointed him as an executor of his [[Will and testament|will]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hill |first=Patrick Henry's Red |title=Henry's Will |url=https://www.redhill.org/patrick-henry/henrys-will/ |access-date=2022-10-27 |website=Patrick Henry's Red Hill |language=en-US}}</ref> After Henry's death in 1799, Winston was active in the settlement of the [[Red hill plantation|Red Hill]] estate and various tracts of land. This process involved frequent communication with Henry’s widow, [[Dorothea Dandridge Henry]].<ref name=":1" /><ref>Meade, Robert. ''Judge Edmund Winston's Memoir of Patrick Henry,'' The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 69, No. 1, Part One (Jan. 1961), pp. 28-41</ref> |
This Edmund Winston was a first cousin and long-time friend of [[Patrick Henry|Governor Patrick Henry]], who appointed him as an executor of his [[Will and testament|will]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hill |first=Patrick Henry's Red |title=Henry's Will |url=https://www.redhill.org/patrick-henry/henrys-will/ |access-date=2022-10-27 |website=Patrick Henry's Red Hill |language=en-US}}</ref> After Henry's death in 1799, Winston was active in the settlement of the [[Red hill plantation|Red Hill]] estate and various tracts of land. This process involved frequent communication with Henry’s widow, [[Dorothea Dandridge Henry]].<ref name=":1" /><ref>Meade, Robert. ''Judge Edmund Winston's Memoir of Patrick Henry,'' The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 69, No. 1, Part One (Jan. 1961), pp. 28-41</ref> |
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In June 1802, |
In June 1802, Winston married Dorothea in [[Charlotte County, Virginia|Charlotte County]]. Dorothea bore no additional children with Winston, but he helped support her children from Patrick Henry (including Edward Winston Henry 1794-1866), as well as Henry's and Winston's children from earlier wives. In total, they had 21 children in their [[Stepfamily|blended family]]; many of whom were adults at the time of this late marriage.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Some Winston families of Virginia and North Carolina |url=https://en.geneanet.org/library/doc/5938657/some-winston-families-of-virginia-and-north-carolina |access-date=2022-10-27 |website=Geneanet |language=en}}</ref> They lived at the Huntingtour Estate in [[Buckingham County, Virginia|Buckingham County]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hill |first=Patrick Henry's Red |title=Patrick Henry's Family |url=https://www.redhill.org/patrick-henry/patrick-henrys-family/ |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=Patrick Henry's Red Hill |language=en-US}}</ref> |
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== Death == |
== Death == |
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Edmund Winston | |
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Judge of the General Court of Virginia | |
In office December 11, 1788 – February 6, 1813 | |
Preceded by | Peter Lyons |
Succeeded by | John Dabney |
Member of the Virginia Senate | |
In office 1782–1783 | |
Succeeded by | Charles Lynch |
Constituency | Bedford, Campbell, Henry, and Pittsylvania Counties |
In office 1777–1781 | |
Constituency | Bedford, Henry, and Pittsylvania Counties |
In office 1776–1776 | |
Constituency | Bedford and Pittsylvania Counties |
Personal details | |
Born | 1745 Hanover County, Virginia, British America |
Died | August 18, 1818 Lynchburg, Virginia, U.S. | (aged 72–73)
Spouse(s) | Alice Taylor (m. 1771; died 1784) Dorothea Dandridge (m. 1802) |
Children | 6 |
Occupation | Lawyer, politician, judge |
Profession | Law |
Edmund Winston Sr. (b. 1745 – d. August 18, 1818) was a lawyer, politician, jurist, and patriot who represented south central Virginia in the Virginia Senate (1776-1783) then became a judge of the general court of Virginia (now the Virginia Supreme Court).[1][2]
Early life and education
[edit]Winston was born in 1745 in Hanover County, Virginia, the son of Lt. William Winston and Sarah Dabney.[3] In 1704 his grandfather had sailed to the Virginia Colony from Yorkshire, England with his young family.[2] Several sons (now this man's uncles) had settled further south in the colony, including Judge Anthony Winston of Buckingham County, whose daughter this man would marry, as discussed below. Edmund was his father's only son, and had two sisters.
Career
[edit]Winston moved westward along the James River as a young man and settled near Lynchburg, where he became a planter in several nearby counties, as well as owned a wharf named for his family. Winston also was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1767 and supported the American Revolution, furnishing supplies in support of the cause of independence.[1] He was a first cousin of patriot firebrand and later Virginia governor Patrick Henry, who after his governmental service became a planter in Charlotte County, Virginia at its border with what became Campbell County, which as discussed below, Winston represented in the Virginia Senate, before (as also discussed below) becoming Henry's executor and marrying his widow.[2]
Meanwhile, voters from then-large Bedford and Pittsylvania Counties elected Winston as their representative in the Senate of Virginia in 1776, and he continued to win-re-election and serve until 1783, when he was replaced by Charles Lynch. However, Winston was not seated in the new legislature's first session because the Bedford County clerk had not been sworn, and the names of the counties in his district increased with the creation of Henry and later Campbell from Pittsylvania and Bedford Counties.[4][5]
By 1781, Thomas Jefferson recorded in his book, Notes on the State of Virginia, that lead from western Virginia was loaded on the boats at "Lynch's ferry, or Winston's, on [the] James River."[6] In the 1787 Virginia tax census, Winston (or his son of the same name) was listed as non-resident and non-titheable but the owner of on five enslaved teenagers and six enslaved adults in Bedford County, as well as two horses and nine cattle. He was taxed on eleven enslaved teenagers as well as six adult slaves, seven horses and sixteen cattle in Campbell County, and eleven teenage slaves, eight adult slaves, nine horses and twelve cattle in Henry County.[7] Because his court sat in Richmond, the new Commonwealth's capital city, he may also be the "Edmd. Wilson" listed on the Richmond census, as related to George Winston whose paid the city tax for him as well as eight teenage slaves, three enslaved adults and a horse.[8][9]
Winston served as Commonwealth attorney in Campbell County during 1787-88. He and Campbell County clerk Robert Alexander became the county's representatives to the Virginia Ratifying Convention of 1788, which ultimately ratified the U. S. Constitution, although Winston, like his cousin Patrick Henry and fellow delegate Alexander, voted against ratification.[10] [11]
In 1788,[12] Winston was elected by the Virginia General Assembly to the General Court of Virginia, which heard appeals from the county courts, and served in the role until 1813.[13] During his first two weeks on the bench, from December 11 to December 24 of 1788, he was also an ex officio member of the Supreme Court of Virginia until it became a separate body with five judges.[14]
Winston was a friend of Thomas Jefferson, and, according to the Jefferson Papers,[15][16] visited him at Monticello on multiple occasions.[17]
Family and children
[edit]In October 1771, Winston married his cousin Alice Taylor Winston, a daughter of his uncle, Judge (and former burgess) Anthony Winston, of downriver Buckingham County.[18] They had six children, George Dabney, Sarah, Alice, Mary, Edmund Jr., and Elizabeth. Alice died in 1784, leaving him with six children ages 1-10.[19] Their daughter Sarah married George Cabell, prominent surgeon and builder of Point of Honor, a manor house now owned by the city of Lynchburg.[20] Their son Edmund Winston Jr. lived in Amherst County, Virginia outside Lynchburg and married Caroline Jordan.[21]
This Edmund Winston was a first cousin and long-time friend of Governor Patrick Henry, who appointed him as an executor of his will.[22] After Henry's death in 1799, Winston was active in the settlement of the Red Hill estate and various tracts of land. This process involved frequent communication with Henry’s widow, Dorothea Dandridge Henry.[3][23]
In June 1802, Winston married Dorothea in Charlotte County. Dorothea bore no additional children with Winston, but he helped support her children from Patrick Henry (including Edward Winston Henry 1794-1866), as well as Henry's and Winston's children from earlier wives. In total, they had 21 children in their blended family; many of whom were adults at the time of this late marriage.[24] They lived at the Huntingtour Estate in Buckingham County.[25]
Death
[edit]Winston died on August 18, 1818, in Lynchburg, Virginia.[26]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "DAR Genealogical Research Databases". services.dar.org. Retrieved 2022-10-27.
- ^ a b c Tyler, Lyon G. (1915). "Edmund Winston" in Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Vol. 2. Lewis Historical Publishing Co. p. 362. available at hathitrust.org
- ^ a b Dabney, William H. (William Henry) (1888). Sketch of the Dabneys of Virginia, with some of their family records. Boston Public Library. Chicago, Press of S. D. Childs & Co.
- ^ Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, Virginia. R.T. Green. 1900.
- ^ Cynthia Miller Leonard, The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619-January 11, 1978: A Bicentennial Register of Members (Richmond: Library of Virginia 1978) ISBN 978-0-88490-008-5 at pages 124, 128, 132, 136, 140, 144, 148, 152
- ^ "Notes on the State of Virginia". 2011-02-21. p. 151. Archived from the original on 2011-02-21. Retrieved 2022-10-27.
- ^ Netti Schreiner-Yantis and Florene Speakman Love, The 1787 Census of Virginia (Springfield, Genealogical Books in Print 1987) pp. 199, 266, 667
- ^ Schreiner-Yantis and Speakman Love p. 1087
- ^ In that census, the estate of this man's deceased father in law, Anthony Winston, was non-titheable in Buckingham County, but listed as owning nine teenage slaves, one adult slave, seven horses and 17 cattle. Schreiner-Yantis and Speakman Love p. 685
- ^ The History of the Virginia Federal Convention of 1788, by H B Grigsby, p 369
- ^ Leonard p. 172
- ^ Virginia; Brockenbrough, William (1826). Virginia cases; or, Decisions of the General Court of Virginia,: chiefly on the criminal law of the Commonwealth commencing June term, 1815, and ending June term, 1826. Vol. II.: With an index of the principal matters in this and the preceding volume. Virginia reports.Vol. 4. Richmond: Published by Peter Cottom, and for sale at his law and miscellaneous book store. p. 19.
- ^ Hening, ed. (1821), "October Session, 1778 ch. XVII", The Statutes at Large, vol. 9, pp. 401–419.
- ^ Hening, William Waller, ed. (1823), "October Session, 1788 ch. LXVIII", The Statutes at Large, vol. 12, Richmond, Virginia: George Cochran, pp. 764–766. This statute was superseded in 1791, Hening, William Waller, ed. (1823), "October Session, 1792 ch. XI", The Statutes at Large, vol. 13, Philadelphia: Thomas Desilver, p. 405, and 1818, Leigh, Benjamin Watkins, ed. (1819), "ch. 64", Revised Code of 1819, vol. 1, Richmond, Virginia: Thomas Richie, p. 184, but the material provisions were unchanged.
- ^ "Volume 24 | The Papers of Thomas Jefferson". jeffersonpapers.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-27.
- ^ "Founders Online: From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Winston, 19 August 1792". founders.archives.gov. Retrieved 2022-10-27.
- ^ From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Winston, 19 August 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-24-02-0295 . [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 24, 1 June–31 December 1792, ed. John Catanzariti. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990, p. 311.]
- ^ Mosby Family Bible Records, 1765-1896. Powhatan County
- ^ Winston, Alfred Sumner (1992). The Winstons of Hanover County, Virginia and Related Families, 1666-1992. Gateway Press.
- ^ "The Cabell Family Papers | Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library". small.library.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-27.
- ^ John Frederick Dorman, Adventures of Purse and Person (4th ed. 2005; Genealogical Publishing Co.) vol 2, p. 408
- ^ Hill, Patrick Henry's Red. "Henry's Will". Patrick Henry's Red Hill. Retrieved 2022-10-27.
- ^ Meade, Robert. Judge Edmund Winston's Memoir of Patrick Henry, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 69, No. 1, Part One (Jan. 1961), pp. 28-41
- ^ "Some Winston families of Virginia and North Carolina". Geneanet. Retrieved 2022-10-27.
- ^ Hill, Patrick Henry's Red. "Patrick Henry's Family". Patrick Henry's Red Hill. Retrieved 2024-07-01.
- ^ "Edmund Winston Obituary". Richmond Enquirer. 8 Sep 1818. p. 3.