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- 1800 Federal Census, Fayette Co, PA pg 615
1 male 16-26 1755-1774 James Winder
1 fem 10-16 1785-1790
1 fem 16-26 1755-1774
In 1810, according to Bill Johns, he appears in Union Twp, Fayette Co, PA.
According to Robert L. Winder (Sep 2000):
James Winder (1775-1861), the eldest son of James Winder and Elizabeth Grable of Redstone Township, apparently remained in Fayette County until after the census of 1800 was taken in Menallen Township, then moved to what was later Bloomfield Township in Crawford County, PA.
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James Winder (1775-1861), the oldest son of James and Elizabeth Grable Winder, born in Fayette County, PA, moved to Crawford County, PA sometime after 1798, and is known to have been living in Bloomfield Township of Crawford County by the year 1805, when a brother-in-law, Abraham Farrington, mentioned in his diary a visit to the James Winder home there, while he (Abraham) was scouting out a new place to settle. The local history of Crawford County, published in 1885, states that James Winder came from Fayette County between 1798 and 1800 along with other folks, including the Joseph Kirk family. These dates of migration from Fayette County do not seem to be verifiable to any close degree, and we can say with certainty only that James Winder was settled in Bloomfield Township by the year 1805, as shown by the contemporary source of Abraham Farrington's diary. James Winder was almost certainly married twice, and probably moved to Crawford County with his first wife, who has not been identified. From the Quaker records of Redstone Meeting, we know that Ann Winder, formerly Kirk, was disowned on 30 November 1804 for marrying out of unity. The Kirk Family Genealogy, a monumental work written by Charles Stubbs in 1872, shows that Ann Kirk's husband was James Winder, and that they lived in Bloomfield Township, Crawford County, PA, during their married life. The census of 1810 for Bloomfield Township lists James Winder as head of a household that included two male children born well before James' marriage to Ann Kirk. These two oldest children in 1810 were Caleb Winder, born in 1796, and his younger brother, whose name may have been Samuel.
James Winder is on record in the National Archives as serving as First Sergeant of Capt. Nathaniel Price's company in the War of 1812. This company was attached to the 135th Regiment, 16th Division, Pennsylvania Militia, with Lt. Col. Andrew Christ commanding. James is shown as present from 14 October 1812 to 31 October 1812. His oldest son, Caleb, is also listed as a Private in the same Company of Militia, serving the same short term. Stubbs' Kirk Family Genealogy gives no marriage date for James Winder and Ann Kirk, but does list the ten children of James and Ann Kirk Winder. Public records have been found confirming the existence of all these children. James Winder apparently lived in Bloomfield Township for most of his life after 1805, with the exception of the years from 1813 to 1819, when he was missing from the tax rolls there. He evidently continued to claim some 400 acres of land there until he finally received a patent for 391 acres from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1839. It is believed that James and Ann lived in Concord Township, Erie County, PA between 1813 and 1819. This supposition fits with the story of the first murder in Crawford County, as related in the History of Crawford County, published by Warner Bros. & Co. in 1885. According to that source the murder took place on 7 February 1817. The victim's wife snatched her baby, managed to escape from the murderer, and then fled for some two miles northward through a February blizzard until she found refuge in "the cabin of James Winder, in Concord Township, Erie County, PA, to whom she told her tale of woe". James Winder and Ann Kirk apparently sold off practically all of land they owned before his death in 1861. James had acquired title to the "400 acres" that he consistently claimed in Bloomfield Township by a patent issued by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on 29 March 1837. This land adjoined the Eighth Donation District lots 1701 and 1700 to the west, and lay immediately north of Donation District lot 1605, which bounded it to the south. This patent is recorded in Pennsylvania Patent Book H, volume 37, page 169, and shows the land to be 391 acres and 11 perches, plus allowances. The purchase price of this land, as listed on the patent, was $78.30. By deed of 6 February 1840 (recorded 10 August 1842), some 76 acres of the northeast corner of this land was sold by James and Ann to their son, James Winder, Jr., who, with his wife Polly, resold the 76-acre portion by deed of 6 July 1834, which deed was not recorded until 8 February 1867. Earlier, by deed of 25 June 1838, recorded in Crawford County Deed Book T-1, page 198, James Winder and Ann had sold the southern half of the 391-acre patent to John Reynolds. Then on 1 October James and Ann sold 110 acres in the northern part of the land to Charles Shreve, presumably their son-in-law. This deed was witnessed by Lemuel Swena, also a son-in-law of James and Ann. James and Ann also sold about eight acres from this patent to Stephen Bloomfield, Jedidiah Smith, and Aaron Taylor, and so it appears that for the last few years of their lives James and Ann lived on a small (approximately one acre) plot that was all that was left from the original patent. An inventory of James' estate filed by the administrator, his youngest son, showed assets of only $80.66. James Winder died 3 February 1861. His wife, Ann Kirk Winder, who was born 4 May 1779, died on 2 November 1860.
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1775 - 1861 (86 years)
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