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- According to Robert L. Winder
(Sep 2000) Thomas Winder, who was living in Amwell , Hunterdon County, NJ in 1736. It is believed that Thomas moved from New Jersey to Bucks County before his death. The will of his older brother, John, which was proved in 1770, makes mention of "land that my brother now lives on" in describing boundaries of his real estate holdings in Bucks County.
(Jun 2005) In 1736 he deeded his interest in his father's land in Bucks County to his older brother John Winder. At that time he was identified in the deed as "of Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey". He must have moved to Bucks County before 1770, as John Winder's deed, in describing his land in Bucks County, made mention of the "land on which my brother Thomas lives". Thomas, therefore, was living when John wrote his will. in 1770. It is not known when Thomas Winder moved from New Jersey to Bucks County, Pennsylvania..
By Larry Palmer, 6 Nov 2009 on ancestry.com:
John Winder was the older brother of my 6x great grandfather James Winder. According to local records and Winder family stories, their father Thomas died in a "small boat accident" on the Delaware River as he embarked on what was planned to be his last business trip downriver.* John and James' mother died in 1731 and Thomas soon married Rebecca Gregory. The family was living in Amwell Township, New Jersey, near what is now Lambertville, when Thomas took his fateful trip in 1734. Rebecca was charged 2 pounds to have his body recovered from the river. We were visiting relatives in New Jersey recently when they offered to take us to the twin tourist towns of New Hope, PA, and Lambertville, NJ, which are connected by a busy bridge about 10 miles above the spot where George Washington and his army crossed the Delaware. On a sunny summer weekend, both towns were bustling with visitors eating ice cream cones and wandering through art galleries, antique stores, and souvenir shops. I told our hosts the story of Thomas Winder and we set out to see just where he could have drowned in such a lazy river. In Thomas' time, Lambertville was known as Coryell's Ferry after the ferry operator Emanuel Coryell. (An "Immanuel Correl" is mentioned in the Hunterdon County Court proceedings of 4 Jun 1734 regarding Thomas Winder's will.) The ferry was the Delaware River crossing point for the York Road between colonial Philadelphia and Manhattan Island. A mile downriver from this crossing are the Lambertville Rapids where the ridges of the Appalachian Highlands squeeze the stream into a narrower channel, with just under a 2-foot drop (looking south, New Jersey on the left, Pennsylvania on the right). A boat taking colonial travelers downriver to Trenton could not get upriver past this point. Travelers from the York Road at Coryell's Ferry would have had to take a small rowboat or dinghy to catch the larger vessel. The American Whitewater Association classifies the Lambertville Rapids as a Class 2, Medium, experience. ("Rapids of moderate difficulty with passages clear. Requires experience plus suitable outfit and boat.") From the "Newsletter of the Kayaker and Canoe Club of New York": "The Lambertville section of the Delaware River is affectionately known to locals as the Wing Dam, or sometimes Ding Wam. It is perhaps the best place New Jerseyans and Philadelphians have for a quick mid-summer workout. A worthwhile exercise can be painfully extracted from the forceful current and tricky eddies in river center. There's a friendly hole behind the [natural] dam on river right which gives the boater a chance to practice hole riding antics and will let loose with just a little prodding into a quiet, deep pool. This pool is a good place to try a new roll or squirt move too. An easily accessible rapid like Lambertville is an important resource for the local boating community." A careless or inexperienced colonial boatman could have hit one of those boulders in the river and tipped his passengers into the whitewater. I believe there is a good possibility that my 7x great grandfather, English-born Thomas Winder, drowned here on 23 May 1734. To his oldest son John Winder (1707-1770), Thomas left over 300 acres of land in Lower Makefield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, just over that farthest ridge in the photo. Bowman's Hill Tower in Washington's Crossing, Pennsylvania, on the left side of the ridge offers an elevator ride to a great view. Three hundred years ago, this area was the cradle of what became the extensive Winder/Winders family in America. (*Upriver was the colonial frontier and beyond that were the lands of the Iroquois Confederacy.) -LP
- (Research):According to ancestry.com file in Maryland Census 1772-1890: A Thomas Winder made fidelity oath in 1778, Washington County, Maryland
Washington County, Maryland census for 1790 Thomas Winder head:
2 males 0-15 (1775-1790)
2 males over 16 (before 1775)
4 females
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