Epenetus WINDERS

Abt 1763 - 1820  (~ 57 years)

• Name	Epenetus WINDERS
  Birth	Abt 1763	, Halifax, Virginia, USA
  Gender	Male
  Legal Document	1787	, Halifax, Virginia, USA   [1]
  	Reference to Epenetus Winders
  	Returned 16 Jan 1789. Estate of Andrew BOYD, accounts current, 1780-1788, Sarah BOYD now DAMERON, administratrix, filed, Halifax Co., VA. Items include: Paid to: clothing 3 grwon negroes & 3 children.... Thomas HUNT pd for schooling 2 children... Signed Theo. CARTER, Thos. DAVENPORT, Wm. McCRAW Jr. Also filed was accounts current 1785-1788, by George DAMERSON who married Sarah BOYD, administratrix. Items include: George WILEY tax 1784; Rilliam ROYALL bal. tax 1783, Vincent DEGRAFFENRIEDT tax 1785, George WILEY tax do., David CLARK tax 1786; pd Epenitus WINDERS part for schooling children 1 yr., David BOYD for corn & clerks tickets; Mr. J. BALL certificate tax for 1786; Epenetus WINDERS in full schooling children 1787. Mentions a claim to be settled with Mr. Thomas WATKINS. Signed Theo. CARTER, Thos. DAVENPORT, Wm. McCRAW, 7 Nov 1788, returned 26 Jan 1789.
  Property	22 Nov 1788	, Halifax, Virginia, USA   [2]
  	Witness to Traylor Land Transaction
  	22 Nov 1788 Halifax Co. VA deed bk.13 p.445 William TRAYLOR, Sr. of Wilkes Co. GA to William BRADSHAW of Halifax for 75£ about 192 ac. in Halifax on Butrom Creek fork of Lawson Creek bounded by the mouth of Bradshaw's Spring Branch, POYNOR, John WEST & SLOE's line. signed: William (his + mark) TRAYLOR wit: Randolph BUCKLEY, William TRAYLOR, Thomas TRAYLOR & Epinetus WINDERS. recorded 22 Jun 1789
  Census	1800	Hillsborough, Person, North Carolina, USA
  	Federal
  	2 males < 10 (1790-1800) John P, Adam 1 male 10-15 (1785-1790) Henry 1 male 26-44 (1756-1775) Epenetus 1 female 16-25 (1775-1785) Betsey 1 female 26-44 (1756-1775) Fanny sr
  Property	3 Dec 1807	, Rowan, North Carolina, USA
  	Witness to Chapman Land Transaction
  	Rowan County, NC 3 Dec 1807, Book 21, page 506: JOHN A CHAPMAN - no wife signs - lets Casper Freedie (both of Rowan Co NC) have 150 acres on both sides of Swearing Creek next the tract of 310 acresfor $785.00, witnessed by Ep.Winders and John Thomas and proved by the latter in May 1809. (This is land of deceased Joseph Cunningham Sr.)
  Census	1810	, Rowan, North Carolina, USA
  	Federal
  	Indexed as Eppeneten Windos 2 males < 10 (1800-1810) Adam, 1 male 10-15 (1795-1800) Henry 1 male > 45 (bef 1765) Epenetus 3 females < 10 (1800-1810) Jane 1 female 10-15 (1795-1800) Martha 1 female 16-25 (1785-1794) Betsey 1 female 26-44 (1766-1784) Fanny jr 1 female > 45 (bef 1765) Frances
  Death	1820	Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, USA   [3]
  Legal Document	23 Nov 1821	, Rowan, North Carolina, USA   [4]
  	Estate Accounting of Epenetus Winders
  	George Parks Administrator
  _UID	67458297547F4E63B0B893C642FB9D03E73C
  Person ID	I24722	WinderWonderland
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2014

  
  

  Father	Adam WINDERS,   b. Abt 1730   d. Abt 1802, , Rockingham, North Carolina, USA (Age ~ 72 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth CHANDLER BILBO,   b. 17 Oct 1723   d. Bef 1788, , Halifax, Virginia, USA (Age 64 years)
  Marriage	1752	, Halifax, Virginia, USA   [5]
  Family ID	F8697	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Frances CHAMBERS,   b. Abt 1771-1780   d. 1846, , Rowan, North Carolina, USA (Age ~ 66 years)
  Marriage	28 Jun 1789	, Halifax, Virginia, USA   [6]
  Children	1. John Patton WINDERS,   b. 1790, , Halifax, Virginia, USA d. Bef 1850 (Age 59 years)   2. Henry C. WINDERS,   b. Between 1791 and 1800   d. Between 1845 and 1849, , Rowan, North Carolina, USA (Age ~ 54 years)   3. Betsy WINDERS,   b. Abt 1792   d. Abt 1848, , Rutherford, Tennessee, USA (Age ~ 56 years)   4. Martha Locke WINDERS,   b. Abt 1800, , , North Carolina, USA d. Yes, date unknown   5. Adam Chambers WINDERS,   b. Between 1801 and 1810   d. Bef 1850 (Age ~ 48 years)   6. Jane WINDERS,   b. 1807, , , Virginia, USA d. Bef 1870 (Age 62 years)   7. Fanny WINDERS,   b. Abt 1817, , Rowan, North Carolina, USA d. Bef 1846 (Age ~ 28 years)   8. Lucy Ann WINDERS,   b. 1824, , Rowan, North Carolina, USA d. Bef 1859, , Rowan, North Carolina, USA (Age 34 years)
  Family ID	F8696	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Oct 2012

  
  

• Event Map

  Death - 1820 - Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  (Research):1800 census: males 2 1791-1800 1 1785-1790 1 1756-1774 Epenetus females 1 1775-1784 1 1756-1774 From Deven 9/15/2012 There were a number of Winders in Rowan in the early records and the cross overs in the records with the names Park, Dent, Gibbens make it appear the Winders there in Rowan are all related in some way. But I've tracked one Winders back who might be the oldest in the Rowan records - an Epenetus Winders. His estate was probated in Rowan County, NC - there's an accounting of his estate dated November 23, 1821. A George "Parke" was the administrator (he may be the same George Parke who married Betsy Winders there in 1813; their bondsman was Henry C. Winders, who was probaby the same Henry C. Winders who was the administrator of the estate of a Fanny Winders probated in Salisbury in 1846). Because of the unusual name "Epenetus", I'm assuming he is the same Epenetus who shows up in Halifax Co., VA records in 1787, apparently moved just over the line into Person Co., NC by the 1800 census, and then on to Rowan sometime before his death in 1821. Based on the 1800 census, Epenetus was born 1756 to 1774, but considering the record I found from 1787, my guess is he was born closer to 1756 - 1765. Deven 9/17/2012 First, I found a marriage record in Halifax: «b»June 29, 1789 Chambers, Fany and Winders, Ep«/b» I believe this is Fanny Chambers and Epenetus Winders, and I think Fanny is the Fanny Winders in the 1820 census for Rowan Co., NC, i.e., Epenetus may have died in 1820, estate accounting I found was recorded in 1821, George Parke administrator. Probably the same Epenetus in Person Co., NC in 1800 census, then apparently in Rowan Co., NC before 1810: Rowan County, NC 3 Dec 1807, Book 21, page 506: JOHN A CHAPMAN - no wife signs - lets Casper Freedie (both of Rowan Co NC) have 150 acres on both sides of Swearing Creek next the tract of 310 acres for $785.00, witnessed by «b»Ep.Winders«/b» and John Thomas and proved by the latter in May 1809. (This is land of deceased Joseph Cunningham Sr.) Epenetus MIGHT have been related to, maybe a son of, an Adam Winders who apparently married widow Elizabeth Chandler Bilbo c. 1752. I figure Epenetus to have been born between 1756 and 1765. I found a marriage record for Adam and Elizabeth's daughter Reform Winders to Henry Boyd on Aug 14, 1786, says bride's mother was Elizabeth Winders and bride's father was Adam Winders. This is corroborated by an accounting of John Peter Bilbo's estate: http://www.spiers.net/mstree/note_1217.htm: "John Peter Bilbo November 15, 1750. An account current of the estate of John Peter Bilbo, deceased, was returned by Elizabeth Bilbo Winders, administratrix and recorded on November 8, 1752. Elizabeth Bilbo had married Adam Winders shortly before November 8, 1752. Remember Elizabeth Bilbo married Adam Winders withen the year after John Peter Bilbo's death. The following deed transaction in Mecklenburg County Virginia is found in Book 4, page 398. Adam Winders of Halifax County, Virginia, Planter, and Elizabeth, his wife, relict of John Peter Bilbo, convey to Joseph Bilbo of Mecklenburg County the life estate in land left to Elizabeth by John Peter Bilbo, being right and dower of Elizabeth Winders." Apparently Elizabeth died before 1788 and Adam married Mary Douglass, Dec. 6, 1788, Halifax Co., VA. This all comes together in the following record: 0581DB 1784-17901788Halifax17-MayByrdlinesReed CreekWilliam Douglas Sr and Thomas Douglas Sr of H to John Douglas of H for 100# 2 tracts on the n side of Dan on branches of Reed Creek adj each other. William «b»Doughass's«/b» tract contains 92 acres and Thomas about 42 acres and jointly bounded by Thomas «b»Douglass,«/b» David Boyd, William Younger, Byrd's old line, Adam Winders, containing 132 acres. signed, wit «b»Adam Winders«/b», «b»Hope Winders«/b», Henry Boyd, Faith Winders. rec «b»Oct 26 1789.«/b» What was astounding was seeing the name «b»Faith Winders«/b» in this record. Could she be «b»Faithy Winders«/b»? Remember, John P. Winders (father of Elizabeth Ann Winders, Henry Hampton Winders, et al) was the executor of the Faithy Winders will in Rowan Co., NC in 1833. It had been suggested to me that the Faithy Parks of the will might have been first married to a Winders, then to a Park. Faithy was apparently not related to John P. Winders as she refers to him in her Will as her "friend".We may have an Adam Winders namesake in Rowan Co., NC - we have an Adam C. Winders aka A.C. Winders (born NC c. 1801) in Rowan Co., NC with crossover records - he is receipted for a note in the will accounting of «b»Fanny Winders «/b»in 1846 for whom Henry C. Winders was executor and witnessed the Ann Dent will; she was the great grandmother of William Taylor Dent who married Mary E. Winders, apparent daughter of John P. Winders.

  
  

• Sources

  [S871] Virginia. Halifax., Halifax County, Virginia Will Book, 2: 62-63, Andrew Boyd (Reliability: 3). [S870] Halifax County, Virginia, Halifax County Virginia Deed Book, accessed 1 Oct 2012), Reference to Epenetus Winders, Book 13, Pg 445. (Reliability: 3). [S214] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lydieanderson/jjbilbo.htm (Reliability: 3). [S868] North Carolina Estate Files 1663-1979, accessed 1 Oct 2012), Reference Epenetus Winders. (Reliability: 3). [S867] Virginia Marriages 1660-1800, accessed 24 Sep 2012). (Reliability: 3). [S890] Fisher, JoyUSGenweb Archives, USGenweb Archives, (http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/halifax/vitals/marriages/marr-brds-1753-1800.txt), ) (Reliability: 3).