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Benjamin Wynns 1716 -
1777
| his parents
& Catherine Baker -
| her parents
& 2nd 1755 Margaret Pugh
| her parents
of Winton Area, Bertie Co, (Hertford Co,) NC
This is my working hypothesis - the way I see it as of
this moment!!
1716 Benjamin Wynns born son of
George Wynns and Rose Bush
1744 Deputy Surveyor under the Surveyor-General of the Crown
1751 father George Wynns died
1751/3 brother John Wynns died
ca 1755 married 2nd wife Margaret Pugh
1758 brother William Wynns died
[naming his nephew George son of brother
Benjamin in his will]
1760 first clerk of the Court of Hertford County 1760-1764
Children of Benjamin Wynns 1716 - 1777 and Catherine Baker:
lived where the town of Winton is now (named for the Wynns)
Bertie Deed Book I page 274: Deposition of Benjamin Wynns, age 43, of Bertie Co. He stated that
Robert Warrin late of sd county is heir to William Warrin dec'd of sd county & in possession of land on Wiccacon Creek joining Horse
Swamp, James Harris, James Sparkman, John Early; that sd. William Warrin
possessed the land 20 years before he died. Aprl. Ct. 1759. Ordered to be registered. cc:
Benjn. Wynns.
1. Maj. George Wynns (named in uncle
William's will 1757) dec 1792
first made Major in 1764 in the Colonial Militia
member of
the State Convention of 1788
lived on the farm where Will, Ruth & Mary Thomas lived
2. Col. Benjamin Wynns he and wife died young
leaving four orphans
"Col. of regiment in 1776 that marched to Great Bridge and Norfolk
to
help expel Lord Dunmore"
Winborne's Hertford Co
married a Miss Dean
whose family resided in the
West Indies
a. Capt. Benjamin Wynns 1790
Bermuda - bef
1880 FL
raised in Bermuda by
the Deans eldest
"long a sailor and resided in Murfreesboro" moved 1834 to Fl
descendants in FL 1906
[ married first unknown in GA
i. Jardine Wynn 1810 GA - ]
married in Gates Co 1817 Margaret M Baker
21 Mar 1781 - 11 Aug 1827 Hertford Co
dau of William Baker and Judith Norfleet
in 1824 bought the home of Howell Jones in Murfreesboro and on 12 Feb 1824
settled in that town.
i. Thomas Wynns 5 Nov 1822 - 6 Sept 1823 ts
ii.
daughter who died young
iii. William
Baker Wynn 1818/27 - 1864 Elmira NY
married 1st unknown
married 2nd Susan Clarke of Huntsville Ala
"who was in his day one of the most prominent men of his State, filling
many places of public trust. Mr. W. B. Wynns Jr was married twice. He had no
issue by his first marriage. He had the letter s eliminated from his surname
by an act of the Florida Legislature. His second wife was Susan Clarke of
Huntsville Ala the daughter of William Clarke and wife Susan of Virginia
descent. He was a brave Confederate soldier and died in prison in Elmira NY
in 1864. He left two sons, Judge Calvert Wynn of Florida and Wm. B. Wynn of
Marianna in the same State." BB Winborne "The Colonial and State
History of Hertford County, NC"
1. Judge Calvet Wynn of Florida
2. William B Wynn of Marianna
[ married 2nd Caroline Baker 1809 GA -
i. Colbert Baker Wynns 1842 FL - 1899 Jackson Co, FL
married 25 April 1866 Arabella
Bush
( Jackson Co., Florida Marriages 1848 - 1900, Jackson Co. web
site.
"Wynn Colbert B. 4/25/1866 Bush Arabilla B 179.")
1. Colbert Wynns 1867 -
2. James D Wynns 1869 -
3. Clara Rebecca Wynns 27 July 1871 - 31 Mar 1905
married 31 Jan 1894 Chambers Alexander 6 June 1861 - 5 Mar 1949
a. Elizabeth Lane Alexander 1894 -
married Eugene Henderson 4 children
? b. Mary Ward Alexander 7 Mar 1895 - 21 July 1895
c. William Chester Alexander 29 Apr 1895 FL - 22 July 1981 TN
married 18 Aug 1927 Mary Elma Goza 2 Nov 1904 -15 Mar 1995 AL
grandparents of Alex
who supplied this info. on Benj Wynns desc in Florida
d. Arabella Wynns Alexander 19 Jan 1901 - 28 Aug 1953 AL
e. Colbert Wynns Alexander 7 Nov 1902 - 14 Oct 1903
f. Clara Alexander 24 April 1904 - TN
married 1st George Lowe
married 1934 Francis Dunbar Willis 1894 - 21 Nov 1959
married 13 Dec 1876
Mary Ward Barnes 1844 NC - 1938 FL
(Jackson Co., Florida Marriages 1848 -
1900, Jackson Co. web site.
"Wynns Colbert B 12/13/1876 Barnes Mary W D 572.")
Mary is listed as Colberts wife in the pension application
(Colbert B. Wynns, FL. Confederate Pension # A00776).
4. Sally D Wynns 1878 -
5. Chris Baker Wynns 1884 - 1966
ii. Arabella Wynns 1846 -
iii. Caroline Wynns 1846 - [could she be
identical with Arabella] ]
b. Thomas Wynns 2nd eldest
raised in Bermuda by the Deans
long time consul at Turk's Island
lived Bermuda, Jamaica, and died in Brooklyn, NY
Thomas Wynns . . . was the father of
my great grandmother, Charlotte Arthur Wynn Wynns, who became on marriage
Charlotte Arthur Wynn-Mackenzie. Charlotte was married in 1869,
by which time her father was dead. Her marriage certificate
simply calls him "Thomas Wynns, gentleman". Charlotte
was 35 years old at the 1881 census, which gives her place of birth as
"Turk Islands". e-mail from Ann Harrison
i. Charlotte Arthur Wynn Wynns ca 1845 Turk Islands -
married 1869 Mackenzie
c. William B. Wynns 1796 -
1840 Marianna, FL [will Hertford Co]
married 21 Jan 1830 Mary A Pipkin ca 1811 - 22 March 1900
Edenton Gazette, 30 Jan
1830 - - -"Married- - On the 21st inst in Murfreesboro, N. C. by the
Rev. Mr. Niell, William B Wynne, Esq. of Hertford County, to Miss Mary
Pittkin, of the former place." NCGSJ Nov 1996 p 387.
i. Col. James Madison Wynn(s) 12
Oct 1831 - aft 1906
born in Barfields on the Chowan later lived in Murfreesboro
married 21 Feb 1865 Jennie Brown ca 1847 -
dau of S J S Brown of King George Co, VA
James & Jennie Wynns
Winborne's Hertford Co
1. Mary W Wynns ca 1866 -
2. Jennie B Wynns ca 1867 -
3. Thomas B Wynns ca 1868 -
4. Lucy D Wynns ca 1871 -
5. John S Wynns ca 1874 -
6. William D Wynns ca 1875 -
7. Maud L Wynns ca 1877 -
ii. Thomas P Wynns ca 1832 - bef 1894 Harrellsville twsp
married Sallie A Cowper ca 1835 - 21 Sept 1894
dau of R. G. Cowper
1. James Wynns ca 1860 [pilot on boat 1880]
2. William B Wynns ca 1867 -
3. Richard C Wynns ca 1870 -
4. Mary Wynns ca 1878 -
MORPHINE FOR QUININE. -- It is with much regret
we learn the sad death of a child of Thomas Wynns,
Esq., of Harrellsville, which was caused by a dose of Morphine being
administered by mistake for Quinine.
"The Murfreesboro
Enquirer", E. L. C. Ward, ed., Murfreesboro, [Hertford County],
N.C.
Thursday, January 25, 1877 [Vol. II, No. 13]Mrs.
Sallie A. Wynns, wife of the late Thomas Wynns, died last Friday at the
residence of her brother, Mr. George Cowper, at Winton. She leaves several
children. She was a member of the Episcopal church. The burial took place at
the Southall burying ground here on Saturday afternoon, and the services
were conducted by Dr. S. S. Daniel.
"Murfreesboro Index", John
W. Hicks, ed., Murfreesboro, [Hertford County], N.C.
Friday, September 28, 1894 [Vol. X, No. 4]
[excerpt from "From Time into Eternity" CD-ROM by David Powell,
Winton NC: Liberty Shield Press ©2004]
Mary A Pipkin Wynns married 2nd 4 March 1842
John Wesley
Southall 28 July 1797 - July 1873
of Murfreesboro, NC as his second wife
i. Susan E Southall
married Capt. Lewis C Lawrence
ii. Mary Williams Southall dy
d. (Gen.) James Dean Wynns ca 1799 - 1866 [will Chowan
Co]
(raised by Uncle Tom Wynns)
youngest died during the Civil War lived in Edenton
"member of House of Commons Hertford 1821"
Hertford County Justice 1833
1830 census Hertford Co: James D Wynns: 1m 15-20, 1m 30-40, 27 slaves, 10
free col.
married Sallie Johnston died 1850
dau of John S. Johnston & Elizabeth Cotten
James Dean Wynns
Winborne's Hertford Co
3. William Baker Wynns 1747 - dec by Apr ct 1797
"member of the provincial House of Burgesses in 1768"
a. Benjamin J Wynns of Union
1789 - 1857
1830 census Hertford Co Benjamin Wynns: 1m 0-5,
1m5-10, 1m 10-15, 1m 40-50, 1f 0-5, 1f 5-10, 1f 30-40, 1f slave 10-24,
married ca 1818 (Polly) Mary
A Carter ca 1795 - aft 1860
i. George Washington Wynns Mar 1818 - 1903
dry goods merchant Winton King Street 1880
Left to right: Uncle Henry Wynns, Mr. Riddick - Coke Hayes
grandfather, Grandpa George Washington Wynns, Grandpa's wife - Miss Mitt?,
Estelle Celestrial Wynns [Dunn], Mr. Pruden, Aunt Dell Pruden [Big Mama's
sister], Baby is Lolla Pruden, Aunt Nina Wynns [Dukes], Mr. Joe Dukes.
photo compliments of Billy and
Paula Rogerson.
married
ca 1841 Mary S ca 1818 - ca 1859
1.
Mary A Wynns 1842 -
2. Georgianna A Wynns 1845 -
3. Sarah W Wynns 1847 -
4. Thomas T Wynns June 1851 -
a. Eva Wynns Nov 1881 -
b. Bettie Wynns Sept 1882 -
married 1886 Armitta Oct 1851 -
c. Mary Wynns Mar 1889 -
d. Lucie Wynns June 1894 -
5. James B Wynns 1853 - lived Powellsville
1930 census give middle initial as C - occupation Builder
married ca 1905 May ca 1881 -
a. Clara E Wynns ca 1906 -
b. Bonnie B Wynns ca 1908 -
c. Frannie C Wynns ca 1910 -
d. Susie M Wynns ca 1913 -
e. June Wynns ca 1917 -
f. Bryan Wynns ca 1922 -
6. B W Wynns [m] 1859 -
a. Ola Wynns ca 1887 - Oct 1895
UNION: We feel sad to have to
chronicle the death of Miss Ola Wynns, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Wynns,
which occurred very suddenly last Friday evening. Ola was a bright little
girl about 8 years old, the pride of both mother and father . . .
X. L.
October 14, 1895.
"The Patron and Gleaner",
Andrew J. Conner, ed., Lasker, Northampton County, N.C.
Thursday, October 17, 1895 [Vol. 4, No. 42] [excerpt from "From Time into Eternity" CD-ROM by David Powell,
Winton NC: Liberty Shield Press ©2004]
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married ca 1861 Ilavenia Haroiva? 1814 - 1867
7. Ugene S Wynns ca 1863
m -
8. Robert A Wynns ca 1865
m-
9. Ile H Wynns [f] ca 1867
f -
married
ca 1867 Marie E ? ca 1825 - ca 1877
10.
George W Wynns 2 April 1868
11. Lycugus Wynns
27 Jan 1869 -
12.
Martha I [Mattie]Wynns ca 1872 f - no issue
married 1893 John H Knight ca 1856 - bef 1920
13. Blanche Fentress Wynns
17 Nov 1875 -
14.
Irma Delta [Dell] Wynns 17 February 1876 -
married Joseph Pruden Oct 1862 - bef 1910
a. Laura R [Lolla] Pruden Sept 1896 -
b. Mary C Pruden Aug 1898 -
c. [Beavis] Jenny R Pruden April 1900 -
married ca 1877 Mary Elizabeth
Brett 1844 - 4 June 1898 age 53
15. Virginia
W Wynns 28 February 1878 -
16.
Henry C Wynns 6 Jan 1880 -
married ca 1905
Elvelyn [Elva] Parker ca 1882 - aft 1910
a. Ruby Wynns ca 1906 -
married Foy Lassiter
i. Delores Lassiter
ii. Al Lassiter
iii. Elva Lou Lassiter
iv. F M Lassiter
17. Estelle Celester [Cellie] [Big Mama] Wynns 22 July 1882 -
married Zebulon Vance Dunn 10 Dec 1879 -
son of Frank Dunn and wife Sarah Jane
Parker
a. Sarah [Sallie] Wynns Dunn 2 Aug 1906 - 14 Nov 2004 Greenville Hosp.
married Bruce Johnson Dukes 3 Dec 1897 - 4 Jan 1974 Ahoskie Hosp.
son of Hugh Fonda [Fond] Dukes and wife Fedrica Snowfeather Porter
i. Katherine Louise Dukes
married Shackelford
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Hugh Fonda Dukes
of Hertford Co
NC
married 23 Nov 1881 Fedrica Snowfeather Porter 18 Jan 1860 - 9 Aug
1950
of Hertford Co NC
the 23rd day Nov 1881 at the residence of her father
by Geo A Brown JP - Wit: Geo Dunn, NE Jouner
Children of HF & FSP Dukes
Nora Dukes 3 Oct 1883 [a daughter]
married Curtis
Mary E Dukes 24 Oct 1884 -
married Clements
Addis Dukes 23 Oct 1887 - 3 April 1888
Hugh F Dukes 5 Nov 1889 - 24 Dec 1964
Paul E Dukes 18 May 1894 -
Bruce Johnson Dukes 3 Dec 1897 - 4 Jan 1974
Claude Dukes 18 Aug 1899 -
Hilda Dukes 30 June 1904 - |
b. Katherine Elizabeth Dunn 18 April 1908 -
married Chester Wilton Rogerson
c. Harry Frank Dunn 28 July 1911 -
d. Edna Earle Dunn 22 Oct 1913 -
married Coates Hayes
e. David George Dunn 3 July 1916 -
f. Florence James Dunn 23 December 1918 -
g. Jack Standfast Dunn 25 April 1921 -
h. Buck Dean Dunn 12 June 1923 -
18. Nina Lloyd Wynns 27 February 1884 - 1974
married Brode Dukes 1882 -1948
a. Grace Spencer Duke 1912 - 1971
married John Wilmer Parker 1907 - 1954
19. Ruth Wynns 17 April 1887 -
ii. James Thomas Wynns June 1823 - aft 1900
married Mary Dunn
1. Annie Wynns
married Dr Sears
Children of Benjamin Wynns and Margaret Pugh:
1.Gen. (of the militia) Thomas Wynns ca 1758/9 - 3
June 1825 age
66 yrs
"born, lived, and died in Hertford. He was a planter
by profession, of active energetic mind, unspotted integrity and great
personal worth. He lived near Winton, at the ferry called Barfield's. As
early as 1787, he was member of the House of Commons, and for many years
after a member of the Senate. He was elected in 1802 a member of Congress
from the Edenton District, in which capacity he served until 1807. He left
no children." J H Wheeler
married Susanna Manney 1766 - 5 Jan 1822
first cousin
no issue
dau. of James Manney and Elizabeth Baker
first cousin
poem re their romance by J W
Moore
2. Mary Wynns
married James Gregory 10
March 1752 - 1802 Gates Co
a. Ann
Gregory 1782 -
married Dr. Charles Worth Harvey
b.
Margaret Gregory 1785 -
married Gen Joseph F Dickinson ca 1775 - 1822 [47th yr]
married 2nd Dr Isaac Pipkin 20 Nov 1797 - 21 Jan 1850 Murfreesboro
i. Anne Marie Pipkin 8 Oct 1831 - 7 July 1848
ii. Mary Eleanor Pipkin 21 Aug 1827 - 23 May 1855 Baltimore, MD
married Capt William B Muse US Navy
c. Mary
Wynne Gregory 1787 -
married Dr John Burgess Baker of Gates Co
aft 1780 - 1837
d. Thomas Wynns Gregory 1796 - 1869
married Mary
Tillery 1799 - 1836
i. Caspar
Wistar Gregory 1836 -
3. Margaret Wynns ca 1759 - bef 1797
married General Isaac Pipkins 1759
- 1838 Gates Co
from Vol II HSF by
Boddie with ref given to Winslow's Hist. of Perqui. Co p360
[ he married 2 Aug 1797 Mary Goodman]
Tom Parramore reports in"Murfreesboro, North
Carolina and the Founding of the American Republic 1608 - 1781" this
account: "In the summer of 1780, for example, builders at Hare's Mill
launched a 180-ton brig, owned in part by brothers George and William Wynns
of Wiccacon. The eighteen-gun Fair American took on its cargo of
tobacco and other goods at Edenton and sailed for Bordeaux in early
September. On board was young Thomas Wynns, a nephew of the co-owners, [rather
he was their half-brother], "on his pleasure to see
France." On October 7, however, the ship was run down and captured in
the Atlantic by a British frigate, the only shot fired being over the Fair
American's bow. The Wynns were major victims of the loss, but Thomas
himself, a twenty-year-old civilian soon released in London by his captors,
elected to resume the trip he had planned and found passage across the
channel. Not long afterward, some of the crew of the Fair American
joined a mass-breakout from an English prison and, in time, made their own
way home."
"In 1768 an act was passed by the
General Assembly at New Berne which established the town of Winton upon the
lands of Benjamin Wynns, on the Chowan River. It is beyond question that it
was named in honor of the Wynns family. They had been long seated in our
limits and prominent for wealth and influence. As early as 1723 George Wynns
was citizen of that portion of Bertie afterwards erected into the county of
Hertford.
Col. Ben Wynns was one of four brothers all of whom bore their
full share of the honors then within the gift of our people. His brother
William was a member of the provincial House of Burgesses, the year Winton
was ordered to be laid out. In 1776 the Congress at Halifax made him
the colonel of a regiment. With his command he marched to Great Bridge
and Norfolk where he assisted in the expulsion of Lord Dunmore. He married a
lady whose maiden name was Dean, whose family was resident of the West
Indies.
For several generations, the Wynns family were much
given to sea faring life; and as late as the emancipation of the slaves by
Great Britain some of them generally resided at Bermuda and Turks Islands
while others commanded vessels that sailed between Hertford County and these
places. Col. Wynns left four sons. The eldest Capt. Ben Wynns was long a
sailor and resided in Murfreesboro until his removal to Florida where he
died. His second son Thomas Wynns never lived in Hertford County after
manhood. William B Wynns was wealthy and influential and for years the
sheriff of Hertford county. James Dean Wynns the youngest of Col. Benjamin
Wynns sons was a member of the House of Commons from Hertford in 1821."
Moore, JW "Historical Sketches of Hertford
County" p 14
17 December 2009
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