Sarah Dabney

Abt 1704 -

• Name	Sarah Dabney  [1]
  Born	Abt 1704	King William County, Virginia
  Gender	Female
  Person ID	I193	Dabneys of Virginia
  Last Modified	19 Jan 2017

  
  

  Father	George Dabney, I,   b. Abt 1670, New Kent County, Virginia ,   d. 1729-34, King William County, Virginia
  Mother	Elizabeth (Eliza) (__),   d. Aft 1729
  Married	C1693/94
  Family ID	F81	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	William Winston,   b. Aft 1710, Hanover County, Virginia ,   d. Aft 1760, Hanover County, Virginia  (Age > 50 years)
  Married	Abt 1730  [1]
  Children	1. Elizabeth Louise Winston,   d. 1810, Hanover County, Virginia   2. Mary Ann Winston,   b. Hanover County, Virginia   3. Judge Edmund Winston,   b. ca 1745/50, Hanover County, Virginia ,   d. 18 Aug 1818, Lynchburg, Virginia  (Age ~ 68 years)
  Last Modified	27 Nov 2013
  Family ID	F499	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  Sarah Dabney was born to George Dabney I and Elizabeth (Eliza) his wife circa 1704 in King William County, Virginia. She married William Winston about 1730. He was born about 1710/11 to Capt. Isaac and Sarah (Dabney) Winston of Hanover County. He was sometimes called “Langaloo Billy” after the farm where he was born, called Llangollau from a locale in Wales near the place of the Winstons’ origin. They had three children: Elizabeth Louise, Edmund, and Mary Ann. William was a lieutenant in the militia in the French and Indian War and led his troops into Indian country. He had a high reputation as an orator and one traditional family report described how he encountered a group of soldiers disaffected by the hardships of their service in the wilderness and used his eloquence to persuade and inspire them to renew their efforts. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in Hanover County by the Council in 1737, 1741, 1744, and 1752. He was appointed sheriff by the Governor in 1746. In May and November, 1743, he and William Burrus were authorized by the Council to claim two patents of 5,000 acres each in Brunswick County on the Stocken and Dan Rivers in Brunswick County. These patent authorizations do not appear to have been carried into effect because they cannot be found in the Land Office Grants index at the Library of Virginia or in the Cavaliers and Pioneers abstracts. There are three listings of a William Winston in the Hanover County Quit Rent Rolls for 1753, 1762, and 1763 with 1076 acres, 441 acres, and 750 acres, respectively. He was the William Winston. son and heir of the deceased Sarah (Dabney) Winston, who transferred the 179.5 acre tract she patented in 1701 to his sister Lucy’s husband, Cornelius Dabney of King William County in 1732. He was evidently managing the property as early as 1704, when he was charged in the King William County Quit Rent Rolls with 170 acres, rounded down from 179.5 acres to the preceding multiple of 10, as was customary. At the time of the deed, he was “of King and Queen County.” As a brother of Sarah (Winston) Syme Henry, he was an uncle of Patrick Henry and as a brother of Lucy (Winston)Dabney Coles, he was a great uncle of Dolly Madison. He died after 1763, when he was listed in the 1763 Rent Roll for Hanover County. No information has been found concerning Sarah’s death. [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

  
  

• Sources

  [S265] p. 293.. [S1572] [S265] p. 293-295.. [S265] 293-295. [S155] v. 4, p. 391; v.5, p. 56, 153, 213, 391.. [S1573] p. 137.. [S1586] [S276] [S265] p, 293-295..