William Winston

Aft 1710 - Aft 1760  (> 50 years)

• Name	William Winston  [1]
  Born	Aft 1710	Hanover County, Virginia   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	Aft 1760	Hanover County, Virginia   [3]
  Person ID	I715	Dabneys of Virginia
  Last Modified	18 Oct 2018

  
  

  Father	Isaac Winston, Sr.,   b. Abt 1680, New Kent County, Virginia ,   d. 1760, Hanover County, Virginia  (Age ~ 80 years)
  Mother	Sarah Dabney,   b. Abt 1670-80, New Kent County, Virginia ,   d. Bef 1732, Hanover County, Virginia  (Age ~ 165 years)
  Family ID	F83	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Sarah Dabney,   b. Abt 1704, King William County, Virginia
  Married	Abt 1730  [2]
  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

  William Winston was born to Isaac and Sarah (Dabney) Winston about 1710 in Hanover County. He married Sarah Dabney, a daughter of George Dabney I about 1730. They had three children: Elizabeth Louise, Edmund, and Mary Ann. He 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 sometimes called “Langaloo,” which has been reported to be a corruption of the name of his plantation, derived from a locale in Wales. He was the William Winston, son and heir of the deceased Sarah (Dabney) Winston, who transferred the tract she patented in 1701 to his sister Lucy’s husband, Cornelius Dabney of King William County in 1732. 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 Dolley/Dolly Madison. He died after 1763, when he was listed in the Quit Rent Rolls. [2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

  
  

• Sources

  [S265] p. 115.. [S265] p. 293.. [S274] [S265] p. 295.. [S155] v. 4, p. 391; v.5, p. 56, 153, 213, 391.. [S276] [S283] [S265] [S200]