Samuel (Gwin) Gwinn Sr. (abt. 1754 - 1839)

Born about 1754 in Highland, Augusta, Virginia Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Speece) Gwinn — married 1770 in Albermarle, Virginia

Husband of Elizabeth (Lockridge) Gwinn — married 20 Jun 1775 in Augusta County, Virginia (West Virginia in 1863)

Descendants

Died 23 Mar 1839 at about age 85 in Green Sulphur, Greenbrier, Virginia (West Virginia in 1863), United States

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Biography

Samuel (Gwin) Gwinn Sr. is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A048733.

Samuel was born in 1745-1754 (many different death dates in records). He was the son of Robert Gwin. He passed away in 1839.

The History of Summers County, WV by James H. Miller 1908

"Samuel was the first person of that name to settle in this county [Summers Co], and the evidence seems to show that he, with the Gwinns and Grahams, came together from the same section in Ireland to Calf Pasture River, in Virginia, from thence moving across the Alleghenies on to the Greenbrier, near Lowell, his emigration gradually proceeded West after the danger from the Indian depredations had partially disappeared, and at the termination of the Revolutionary War of 1776. Samuel Gwinn, Sr. was the original ancestor of all the Gwinns in this section of the country. The name seems to have been originally Gyn, and the Gwinn ancestor was evidently Irish. The name has since been spelled Guin, Gwin, sometimes Gwinn, and Mr. Walter M. Gwynn now and has been for a number of years spelling the name Gwynn, and claims to have some authority that that was the original proper spelling of the name; however, the records in this country do not bear it out. The patents or grants of lands from the Commonwealth of Virginia to Samuel Gwinn, the founder of the family in this country, spelled his name Guin, as I have examined his signature to the last deeds executed, when he was ninety odd years old. The first grant of land to Samuel Gwinn was by the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the year 1796, and was for a tract of land on Greenbrier River, on which Andrew Gwinn, with his son James, now resides. ...Samuel Gwinn was the father of a number of sons, the oldest of whose name was Samuel, who also settled at Lowell, but afterward removed to Lick Creek, purchasing the old Claypole and other patented lands at Green Sulphur Springs, and surrounding lands."

He married first Elizabeth Speece, then about 1777 in Monroe County, Virginia he married Elizabeth Lockridge Graham. He had nine children by the first marriage and seven by the second. Samuel moved from Lowell to Lick Creek in 1800. He was 94 years old when he died in 1837.^[1]

Samuel was born in 1745. He passed away in 1839. A son of Robert Gwin 1725–1785 and Jean Jane Kinkead Gwin 1718–1800. Samuel Sr. married twice. He 1st married Elizabeth Speece. He 2nd married Elizabeth Lockridge Graham Gwinn 1759–1832.

Children

1. Moses Gwinn 1760–1822
2. Ruth Lockridge Gwinn Jarrett 1783–1862
3. Andrew Gwinn 1788-1863
4. John Gwinn 1789–1870
5. Ephraim J Gwinn 1799–1887

Daughters of the American Revolution information:

• GWINN, SAMUEL
• Ancestor #: A048733
• Service: VIRGINIA
• Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE, SOLDIER
• Birth: 1752 AUGUSTA CO VIRGINIA
• Death: 3-25-1839 GREENBRIER CO VIRGINIA
• Pension Number: *S17992
• Service Source: *S17992
• Service Description: (1) RANGER IN CAPT ANDREW LOCKRIDGE'S CO AT THE BATTLE OF POINT PLEASANT; (2) ALSO SCOUT & SPY UNDER CAPT GLASS
• COMMENTS; (Overview): Created: 2014-07-07 14:17:58.0, Updated: 2014-07-07 14:17:58.0, By: 1) SOLDIER WAS PENSIONED, BUT LATER DROPPED FROM THE ROLLS WHEN THE WAR DEPT; Created: 2014-07-07 14:17:58.0, Updated: 2017-02-18 12:31:31.0, By: 1518289 2) DETERMINED THE SERVICE DID NOT MEET THE MILITARY REQS OF THE ACT.
• RESIDENCE: Created: 2014-07-07 14:17:58.0, Updated: 2014-07-07 14:17:58.0, By: 1) County: AUGUSTA CO - State: VIRGINIA Created: 2014-07-07 14:17:58.0, Updated: 2014-07-07 14:17:58.0, By: 2) County: GREENBRIER CO - State: VIRGINIA
• SPOUSE: ELIZABETH LOCKRIDGE GRAHAM; Created: 2002-03-27 23:17:13.16, Updated: 2002-03-27 23:17:13.16, By: Conversion 1)
• Child daughter: RUTH GWINN, [Spouse #] Spouse: [1] JAMES JARRETT
• Child daughter: ISABELLE GWINN, [Spouse #] Spouse: [1] THOMAS BUSBY
• Child son: JOHN GWINN, [Spouse #] Spouse: [1] SARAH/SALLIE GEORGE
• Child son: SAMUEL GWINN, [Spouse #] Spouse: [1] ELIZABETH TAYLOR
• Child son: MOSES GWINN, [Spouse #] Spouse: [1] ELIZABETH/ELIZA WILSON
• Child son: ANDREW GWINN, [Spouse #] Spouse: [1] MARY NEWSOME
• Child daughter: ELIZABETH GWINN, [Spouse #] Spouse: [1] ROBERT NUSOM

History of the Gwin family (Gwin, Gwinn, Gwyn, Gwynn, Gwynne, Guin, Guinn, Wynn, Wynne)

by Gwin, Jesse Blaine, 1882-

Publication date 1961

Topics Gwyn family, Gwin, Mills, Guinn, Gwinn, Gwyn, Gwynne, Wynn

Publisher Fairfax, Va.

Collection allen_county; americana

Digitizing sponsor Internet Archive

Contributor Allen County Public Library Genealogy CenterLanguage English

• https://archive.org/details/historyofgwinfam00gwin_0/page/14/mode/2up

Samuel Gwinn, b. 1751, married first Elizabeth Speece and second Elizabeth Lockridge Graham. He had nine children by the first marriage and seven by the  second. Samuel moved from Lowell to Lick Creek in 1800. He was 94 years old when he died in 1837.

From: The Gwinns of Round Bottom by Leona Gwinn Brown; (From an unpublished manuscript written by Laban Gwinn, son of George Loomis Gwinn and Rosa Spade Gwinn) By Leona Gwinn Brown:

II. Samuel Gwinn, b. ca 1745, d. 1839, m. 1774 Elizabeth Lockridge Graham, b. ca 1759(?), d. 1832, dau. of James Lockridge and Isabella Kincaid, was first married to Robert Graham Children of Samuel Gwinn:

1. Samuel m. 1803 Elizabeth Taylor

2. Jane m. David Withrow

3. Ruth m. 1802 James Jarrett

4. Moses b. 1774 m. 1805 Elizabeth Wilson d.1822

5. Isabella m. Thomas Busby

6. Ephraim m. Rachel Keller

7. Andrew m. Mary Newsome

8. Betsy m. Robert Newsome

9. John b. Feb. 2, 1790, d. July 27, 1873

On findagrave.com:

Samuel Gwinn BIRTH 1754 Augusta County, Virginia, USA DEATH 25 Mar 1839 (aged 84–85) Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA BURIAL Gwinn Cemetery Green Sulphur Springs, Summers County, West Virginia, USA MEMORIAL ID 18554348 ·

Husband of Elizabeth Lockridge Graham Gwinn .

Siblings: David Gwin

From: The Gwinns of Round Bottom by Leona Gwinn Brown; (From an unpublished manuscript written by Laban Gwinn, son of George Loomis Gwinn and Rosa Spade Gwinn):

A record in an Augusta County Court Order Book shows that by June 20, 1775, Elizabeth was married to Samuel Gwinn. By 1780 they had moved to what is now Monroe County, West Virginia. Their first home was near the present town of Lowell. They lived here until 1799, when they moved to land Samuel had acquired near Green Sulphur Springs, in present-day Summers County.

The dates on the tombstones in the old Gwinn cemetery at Green Sulphur Springs, and on John Gwinn's grave at Meadow Bridge, do not agree with some of the documented facts. The stone on Elizabeth's grave reads "who died January the 25th 1832 in the 73rd year of her age". This would make her only fifteen years of age in 1774 when she married Samuel Gwinn, and all records indicate that by that year she was a widow with three children. Beside the graves of Samuel and Elizabeth is a gravestone reading "Sacred to the memory of Moses Gwinn who died December 28, 1822 in the 62nd year of his age". In his will, Samuel Gwinn refers to Moses as his oldest son, but if he was the son of Samuel and Elizabeth he could not have been born earlier than 1774.

Thank you to Darrel Salisbury for the following information: Elizabeth married Robert Graham, 24 Jun 1763, Augusta Co., VA. Robert's will, dated 19 Aug 1773, was proved 16 Mar 1774. Elizabeth was a widow on 30 Apr 1775, as indicated in an entry in Augusta Co. records related to Robert's estate. Another record entry on 20 Jun 1775, for Andrew Lockridge, says Elizabeth is "now" married to Samuel Guin.

Thank you to Brenda Black Watson for the following information:

DAR

GWINN, SAMUEL

Ancestor #: A048733

Service: VIRGINIA Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE, SOLDIER

Birth: 1752 AUGUSTA CO VIRGINIA

Death: 3-25-1839 GREENBRIER CO VIRGINIA

Pension Number: *S17992

Service Source: *S17992

Service Description: 1) RANGER IN CAPT ANDREW LOCKRIDGE'S CO AT THE BATTLE OF POINT PLEASANT;

2) ALSO SCOUT & SPY UNDER CAPT GLASS

Comments (Overview)

1) SOLDIER WAS PENSIONED, BUT LATER DROPPED FROM THE ROLLS WHEN THE WAR DEPT

2) DETERMINED THE SERVICE DID NOT MEET THE MILITARY REQS OF THE ACT.

Residence

1) County: AUGUSTA CO - State: VIRGINIA

2) County: GREENBRIER CO - State: VIRGINIA

Spouse Number Name

1) ELIZABETH LOCKRIDGE GRAHAM

Descendants of Robert Gwin of Augusta Co, Virginia 9 M v. Simon GWIN was born from 1740 to 1760 in (probably) Augusta Co, Virginia.

Notes: Married Elizabeth Lockridge Gay, dau. of Andrew Lockridge and Jean Graham and widow of Robert Gay. [Cleek p.96] 10 M vi. James GWIN was born from 1740 to 1760 in (probably) Augusta Co, Virginia.

Sources

1. ↑ History of the Gwin Family, by Jesse Blaine Gwinn, pub. Fairfax, VA, 1961. Available at https://archive.org/stream/historyofgwinfam00gwin.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18554348/samuel-gwinn: accessed 08 January 2023), memorial page for Samuel Gwinn (1754–25 Mar 1839), Find a Grave Memorial ID 18554348, citing Gwinn Cemetery, Green Sulphur Springs, Summers County, West Virginia, USA; Maintained by Elizabeth Lankford (contributor 46861388).
• http://www.gwinnreunion.org/book/
• http://www.gwinnreunion.org/book/part2.html
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18554348/samuel-gwinn
• https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A048733
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LCV5-QVR

See also:

• Book Title: Lineage Book : NSDAR : Volume 166 : 1921; Ancestry.com. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.

• 1820 U S Census; Census Place: Lewisburg, Greenbrier, Virginia; Page: 173; NARA Roll: M33_132; Image: 149; Ancestry.com. 1820 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

• Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011, Volume 341; Ancestry.com. Original data: Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls.

• Tombstone - Samuel Gwinn (MAR 7 1876-DEC 1. 1913), WV Cemetery Preservation Association, Gwinn Cemetery, Green Sulphur, Summers Co, WV "Sacred to the Memory of Samuel Gwinn, who died March 25 1839 in the 94th year of his life"[1]

• Samuel Gwinn

BIRTH 1745 Augusta County, Virginia,

DEATH 25 Mar 1839 (aged 84–85) Greenbrier County, West Virginia

BURIAL Gwinn Cemetery, Green Sulphur Springs, Summers County, West Virginia

MEMORIAL ID Find A Grave: Memorial #18554348

Has a photo of gravestone.

Research Notes

Elizabeth married Robert Graham, 24 Jun 1763, Augusta Co., VA. Robert's will, dated 19 Aug 1773, was proved 16 Mar 1774. Elizabeth was a widow on 30 Apr 1775, as indicated in an entry in Augusta Co. records related to Robert's estate.

Another record entry on 20 Jun 1775, for Andrew Lockridge, says Elizabeth is "now" married to Samuel Guin.