Frederick Wintour (abt. 1600 - bef. 1638)

Born about 1600 in Lorton, Cumberland, England

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Name: Frederick Wintour Arrival Year: 1633 Arrival Place: Maryland Source Publication Code: 6157.12 Primary Immigrant: Wintour, Frederick Annotation: Date and place of immigration, or date and place of first mention in the New World. Birth place, date of birth, biographical information, occupation, land ownership and other information provided. Source Bibliography: NEWMAN, HARRY WRIGHT. The Flowering of the Maryland Palatinate, An Intimate and Objective History of the Province of Maryland to the Overthrow of Proprietary Rule in 1654, with Accounts of Lord Baltimore's Settlement at Avalon. Washington, D.C.: Harry Wright Newman, 1961. Reprinted for Clearfield Co., by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1984, 1985, 1998, 2001. Page: 271

Beginnings of Maryland, 1631-1639; By Bernard Christian Steiner The son of Sir Thomas Gerard, two sons of the Lady Anne Wintour, the son of Sir Thomas Wiseman, and nine other gentlemen are named as being in the expedition. Some of the lesser emigrants were lodged by Gabriel Hawley, Baltimore's deputy, with certain inn-keepers, while the vessels were preparing to sail, and a suit for their entertainment was brought" when the voyage was about to begin and may have been one cause of Lord Baltimore's detention in England. He wrote that there were about three hundred laboring" men and handicraftsmen in the vessel. We have no exact information concerning the religion of the party. It is certain that most of the gentlemen were Roman Catholics and that many of the yeomen and servants were Protestants."

• Richard Gerard, who went back to England in about a year, Edward and Frederick Wintour, Henry Wiseman. Relation of I635. 65. Frederick Wintour died before 1638, and Edward shortly after him. Neill, Founders of Md. 49, 64; Brown, Genesis of the U. S. 1056.

pg 51 Calvert And Claiborne; Claiborne's greatest trouble was caused, however, by the arrival of the Maryland party. He tells us that, by proclamation m of April 8, 1634, they interdicted trade and surprised boats, some of which were out of their limits, which probably means they were near Kent Island. We have no other record of the proclamation, but it is probable enough. Probably about this time, Captain Fleet talked with Claiborne,"" and "trading without leave got about 200 skins," and, as Lord Baltimore's men " feared, incensed the Indians against us." Because of the accusation brought against Claiborne of having told the Indians that Calvert's party were Spaniards,108 and on June 20, at Patuxent, there was a meeting of four of the Virginia 103a Council, with Claiborne, George Calvert and Frederick Wintour being present on the part of Maryland, to question the Indian chiefs as to the origin of the rumor. They admitted they had thought Calvert's party were "Waspaines," but denied that Claiborne had told them so, or that Fleet had truthfully interpreted what the werowance had said in the cabin of the Ark.

The Winders of Lorton, in "Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society" Vol.XII.pp.439-57: Vol.XIV, pp 198-207: VolXv, pp 229-38. Lieutenant Colonel John Winder, believed to have been a descendant of the Winders of Lorton,Cumberland, England, died a resident of Somerset County, Maryland, between May 24,1698, the date of his will, and September 23,1698, when it was proved. He bequeathed to his son John three hundred acres of land, "Keckatan Close on the west side of Kickawaxen," land "binding on Thomas Winde's plantation," and another seventy-five acre tract ,unnamed: while to his son William he left land called "Pemberton's Good Will." It is asserted that he first settled in the Northern Neck of Virginia, but the earliest authentic records of him are those of his appointments as justice of the peace August 28,1665: again, for Somerset County at the time of its erection, August 22, 1666, and again in 1669. On February 23, 1665-66, he was made commissioner of the Eastern Shore Of Maryland. John Winder was granted, July 10,1665, two hundred acres of land on the back creek of Manokin River, to which was given the name "Winder"s Purchase". The warrant for this was made in the rights of John Winder, Bridgett Winder, Suzanne Winder, Daniel Heast, Martin Moore, John Okey, Richard Price, John Daw, and Mary Gore. In November,1672, John Winder, of Somerset County, Maryland, proved his rights to two hundred acres of land for transporting to that province four persons:Thomas Relfe* (note below), Thomas Quarteman, William Walter,and Ann Boyden. *Thomas Relfe, of Cockermouth,"who married in 1711-12, Barbara, daughter of William Williams of Johnby Hall. whose sister Lettice married John Winder, Esq., Barrister-at law(eldest son of John Winder, gent.of Lorton, who died 1696.)"

Papers Relating to the Early History of Maryland, Volumes 9-12 By Sebastian Ferris Streeter. Capt. Robert Wintour came into the province, January 12th, 1637 or 8, bringing with him five men servants, and a boy aged fifteen years. According to the "Relation of Maryland, published in September, 1635, there were in the first expedition, Edward and Frederick Wintour, sons of the Lady Anne Wintour," but whether this Robert was a brother or a relative, I do not know. The name of neither of them appears on the list of members. Perhaps the author of the Relation was mistaken in the name of one of them. Capt. Wintour resided in St. George's hundred. He was ill during the session, and died soon after its close. Secretary Lewger administered on his estate, Sept. 4th, 1638.

Sources

• U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010), Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com, Place: Maryland; Year: 1633; Page Number: 271. Record for Frederick Wintour. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pili354&h=1330944&indiv=try.
• Beginnings of Maryland, 1631-1639; By Bernard Christian Steiner' Google Books [1]
• Sketches of the Early History of Maryland By Thomas Waters Griffith pg 4 [2]
• Papers Relating to the Early History of Maryland, Volumes 9-12 By Sebastian Ferris Streeter pg 63 [3]