Minor Hampton Winn (b. January 12, 1775, d. Aft. 1840)
Minor Hampton Winn (son of William Winn and Rosamond "Rosa" Hampton) was born January 12, 1775 in Winnsboro, Fairfield Co., SC, and died Aft. 1840 in Winns Corner, Washingtn Co., Ar.. He married Dicey Matilda Bedford on 1796 in South Carolina.
Notes for Minor Hampton Winn: Major General Richard Winn Maj. Gen. Richard Winn was perhaps the highest-ranking officer of the Revolutionary War to settle in Tennessee. Of Welsh origin, his family migrated to America in about 1740 and settled in Faquier County, VA. Richard and his brother John later became land owners in South Carolina, where Winnsborough was named for the family.
Richard Winn was a farmer, merchant, surveyer and Justice of the Peace in South Carolina. He entered the Revolutionary War out of that state and served until the close of the war. Afterwards, he was a State Senator and Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the Southern Department, where he succeeded James White of Nashville, TN. From 1793-1797, he was a Representative in Congress from South Carolina and Lieutenant General of the state from 1800-1803, returning to Congress from 1803-1813.
In the Fall of 1812, before his Congressional term ended, Winn moved his family to Maury County, TN to a 5000-acre tract of land on Duck River, one mile north of Williams Ferry, which became Williamsport. (His brother John had settled in Rutherford County , TN about 1808).
Winn married Priscilla McKinney in South Carolina and had eleven children. His daughter Priscilla married a Blocker. Christine married Dr. William Bratton. Margaret married David R. Evans. Sons Thomas and William served in the War of 1812. His oldest son, Minor, came to Tennessee in 1798 and read law in the offices of Gen. Andrew Jackson. It is said that Minor Winn lived and died in Jackson's home and is buried in the Jackson graveyard.
Gen. Richard Winn died on 18 December 1818 near the Sawdust community in western Maury County. The exact location of his grave is unknown.
Source: History of Maury County, Tennessee by Turner
More About Minor Hampton Winn and Dicey Matilda Bedford: Unknown-Begin: 1796, South Carolina.
Children of Minor Hampton Winn and Dicey Matilda Bedford are:
+Zedrick Zodok Winn, b. Abt. 1799, Fairfield Co., SC, d. 1852, Washington Co., Ar..
Minor Hampton Winn (b. January 12, 1775, d. Aft. 1840)
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