Minor Winn Jr (1733 - 1813)

Born 1733 in Virginia [uncertain]

Husband of Elizabeth Frances (Withers) Winn — married 17 Oct 1766 in Warrenton, Fauquier, Virginia

Descendants

Died 20 Aug 1813 at about age 80 in Fauquier, Virginia, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Minor Winn Jr was a Virginia colonist.

Minor was born in 1730 in Laurel, Kentucky or possibly Virginia. He was the son of Minor Winn^[1] and Margaret (O'Conner) Winn.

Minor Winn married Mary Elizabeth Withers on 17 Oct 1765 in Warrenton, Fauquier, Virginia.^[2] The couple had 10 children:

1. Mary Polly (Winn) O'Bannon^[3]
2. Nancy Withers (Winn) Singleton, who married Joshua Singleton in 1786^[2][4]
3. Sarah Sally (Winn) Gibson, who married William Gibson 17 Dec 1791 in Fauquier, Virginia^[5]
4. Susannah (Winn) Simpson, who married Edward Simpson in Fauquier, Virginia 8 Feb 1803
5. John W Winn, who married Jemima Priest in Fauquier, Virginia 13 Nov 1804^[6]
6. Hannah Withers (Winn) Neale Fairfield - note that FamilySearch shows for Hannah a first husband of Richard Neale (married 1803),^[7] and at least two children by Micaih Fairfield, with no marriage date, however. No Singleton marriage record has been located, yet.
7. Minor Winn - unsourced
8. Thomas Winn, who married Sary/Sarah Johnson in Winchester, Clark, Kentucky, 14 Aug 1796^[8]
9. James Winn - not named as a child on FamilySearch
10. Margaret C (Winn) Neale, who married Thomas Neale in Fauquier, Virginia 13 Oct 1794^[9]
11. Elizabeth Betty (Wynn) Gibson, who married Moses Gibson in Virginia, 1795^[10]

More about their children: The following narrative places this Minor Winn's children cited below, which names the daughters by their husband's name, and only includes one of the son's marriages (the names of the daughters and son are to be reconciled):^[1] Confirmation of marriages are annotated for the children below footnoted, where available.

1. Moses Gibson of Rappahannock County
2. William Gibson of Fauquier
3. Neal of Clarksburg (ancestors of Stonewall Jackson)
4. Neal of Parkersburg (ancestors of Gen. Lucius Fairchild)
5. Simpson, who moved near Gallipolis, Ohio
6. O'Bannon of Kentucky: Isham O'Bannon married Polly Winn, 23 Nov 1798, Fauquier, Virginia^[3]
7. One son married Miss Todd, first cousin of Mrs Abraham Lincoln [Mary (Todd) Lincoln]
8. Singleton, who moved to Kentucky, settling near Paducah (ancestors of Hon. Otho R Singleton of Mississippi)
9. Singleton, settled near Winchester (ancestors of Hon Washington G Singleton)

• Joshua Singleton and Nancy Withers Winn, 19 Feb 1785

Military Service: Oct 1779, 1st Lieutenant^[11]

A possible census match [back-matching to Ancestry on FamilySearch, and poorly cited ($ Search URL for Ancestry) for Fairfield, South Carolina in 1800 is reported, indicating also a son Minor Jr.^{[citation needed]} By 1810, he appears to be back in Fauquier, Virginia.^[12]

Minor died at the age of about 80 on 20 August 1813 in Warrenton, Fauquier, Virginia. A will is yet to be transcribed or indexed.^[13]

Research Notes

Sources with no fact or date

• Additional source with no facts or date:
  • Marriage Author: Dodd, Jordan Title: Virginia, Marriages, 1660-1800, [Citation needs to be reproducible.] Page: Database online. Record for Minor Jr. Winn.

Ancestry Trees Used in the Development of This Profile

It is unknown if any of these citations of trees actually include primary or secondary sources.

• Ancestry Profile
• Ancestry Profile

Birth: Author: Yates Publishing Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data - This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases (FGSEs). Originally, the information was derived, (Compiled FGSEs may or may not have origins in an actual source citation; often, they are from family tree inputs without sources.)

Other Issues to be Checked

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• There is more than one birth fact. They have different locations. Using birth date of 1730 and location of Colony, Laurel, Kentucky,
  • Date: 1730, Location: Colony, Laurel, Kentucky, USA
  • Date: 1730, Location: Fauquier, Virginia, USA
• There is more than one death fact. They have different dates and locations. Using death date of 20 August 1813 and location of Warrenton, Fauquier, Virginia, USA
  • Date: 20 August 1813, Location: Warrenton, Fauquier, Virginia, USA
  • Date: 3 April 1814, Location: Fauquier, Virginia, USA

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Curry, J L M. The Wynne or Winn Family. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Vol. 6, No. 2. Oct., 1898, p. 203-205. Virginia Historical Society.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Crozier, William Armstrong. Early Virginia Marriages. Part I. Virginia County Record Series. Vol. IV. 1907, p. 10, 16. New York: The Genealogical Association.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940", database, FamilySearch: 6 Aug 2020, Polly Winn in entry for Isham O'Bannon, 1798.
4. ↑ "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940", database, FamilySearch: 6 Aug 2020, Nancy Withers Winn in entry for Joshua Singleton, 1786.
5. ↑ "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRDJ-GYK : 6 August 2020), Sally Winn in entry for William Gibson, 1791.
6. ↑ "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRDJ-R9K : 6 August 2020), John W Winn, 1804.
7. ↑ "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRDJ-L9N : 6 August 2020), Hannah Winn in entry for Richard Neale, 1803.
8. ↑ "Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FW1S-HJZ : 11 May 2022), Thomas Winn, 1796.
9. ↑ "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRDV-SBS : 6 August 2020), Margaret C. Winn in entry for Thomas Neale, 1794.
10. ↑ "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRDJ-4H9 : 6 August 2020), Betty Winn in entry for Moses Gibson, 1795.
11. ↑ "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch: 1 Mar 2021, Minor Winn, Oct 1779; citing Military Service. Citing various published state rosters, United States; FHL microfilm 101711079.
12. ↑ "United States Census, 1810," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH25-1VY : accessed 25 October 2022), Minor Winn, Fauquier, Virginia, United States; citing p. 259, NARA microfilm publication M252 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 68; FHL microfilm 181,428.
13. ↑ Fauquier Co., VA. 1813. Will books, 1759-1912, 1966-1967; index, 1759-1924.

See also:

• "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XR8X-LHV : 6 August 2020), Minor Winn, 1766.
• Records in possession of Robert H. Barbor, Reid file

JF Reid: quality of this citation is unknown: does it contain sources?