Moses WINDER

1745 - Aft 1783  (38 years)

• Name	Moses WINDER
  Birth	19 Nov 1745	, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Tax List	1778	Lower Makefield, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA
  Tax List	1782	Lower Makefield, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA
  Tax List	1783	Lower Makefield, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA
  Residence	, , New Brunswick, Canada   [2]
  	Loyalist
  _UID	749B557EE82B47B88C4E51A399556A39535F
  Death	Aft 1783	, , Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I289	WinderWonderland
  Last Modified	14 Oct 2013

  
  

  Father	John Iden WINDER,   b. 1707, Amwell, Somerset, New Jersey, USA d. 9 Aug 1770, Lower Makefield, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 63 years)
  Mother	Rebecca RICHARDS,   b. 19 Sep 1714   d. 19 Jan 1788, Lower Makefield, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	1732	, , Pennsylvania, USA
  Family ID	F4857	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  From The Bonner-Smith Circle by Ruth E. Bonner: Moses Winder -- a Tory; had to leave the country; returned; hid; escaped again. According to Winders of America: On Seventh month 4, 1781, Thomas and Moses Winder were dealt with by Falls Monthly Meeting for "having paid several fines for not associating to learn the Art of War and going out as soldiers." As they were not prepared to make the required acknowledgment at the next Monthly Meeting, the cases were carried over. Thomas Winder acknowledged his "wrong-doing", Twelfth month 5, 1781, which acknowledgment the meeting accepted. Also according to Winders of America: It was reported to Makefield Meeting, on Sixth month 12, 1775, that Moses Winder had joined the Associators (militia) "to learn the Military Art." He admitted that he had been in the practice, but had given it up from a dislike he had to some of the members. He finally expressed his sorrow for what he had done, and his acknowledgment was accepted. We have seen that on Seventh month 4, 1781, Thomas and Moses Winder were dealt with by the Meeting for having paid fines in lieu of military service. Moses Winder informed the committee of Friends who visited him that he had accepted an office to collect a tax for war purposes, and not appearing sorry either for this or the other matters which they discussed, he was disowned, Seventh month 11, 1781. He eventually went to New Brunswick to live, where his nephew Aaron Linton joined him. [footnote: According to tradition, Moses Winder sympathized with the English during the war of the Revolution, and became so obnoxious to the American party that at one time soldiers were sent to arrest him. His escape was due to his having been hidden by his brother Aaron in a cask in the cellar. The soldiers tapped upon the cask, but judged from the sound that it was empty, and made no further examination. The story runs that because of his Tory principles he was compelled to leave the country.] Falls MM notes: 1/9/1773 Moses Winder acknowledges suffering one of his creatures to run several races and attended some of them himself. 6/12/1775 Makefield reports that Moses Winder hath joined the Association to learn the Military Discipline. 4/7/1781 Makefield reports that Thomas Winder, Moses Winder, David Johnston, Thomas Merrick (for his son), Robert Socher and Joseph Smith have paid several fines for not associating to learn the art of war and giving out as soldiers, and Joseph Whitacre had paid several fines for the same purpose and had suffered his horse to run at a race. According to Robert L. Winder (Sep 2000): Moses Winder, believed to have died unmarried and without issue. He evidently was a firm Quaker, and there is some indication that he moved to Canada after the Revolution, with other Loyalists.. [3, 4, 5, 6]

  
  

• Sources

  [S60] Robert Winder Johnson, Winders of America, (Lippincott Co, Philadelphia, 1902), pg. 69 (Reliability: 3). [S800] Genealogical Research Library, Canadian Genealogy Index, 1600s-1900s. [S60] Robert Winder Johnson, Winders of America, (Lippincott Co, Philadelphia, 1902), pg. 72 (Reliability: 3). [S60] Robert Winder Johnson, Winders of America, (Lippincott Co, Philadelphia, 1902), pg. 73-74 (Reliability: 3). [S60] Robert Winder Johnson, Winders of America, (Lippincott Co, Philadelphia, 1902), pg. 73-75 (Reliability: 3). [S76] Church Records of Selected Areas of Pennsylvania, (Broderbund).