 PART I - DANIEL WINCHESTER Daniel Winchester is the 5th ggranduncle of Kin founder, Barbara Lee Rowe. He was one of the early settlers of Anson County, North Carolina, and neighbor to the Presley/Preslar and Helms families. Daniel was a good friend of Charles Presley, they having served together, and later both moved to Tennessee. Daniel, and brother, Douglas, both served in the American Revolution, along with their father, Thomas. At that time, the family name was spelled "Wynchester," the English spelling of the name. Daniel was 80 years old when his daughter, Zelma Margaret Winchester O' Neal, thought to interview her father so that a detailed record might be kept of his military service. Daniel at the time had quite a memory, though some had faded. He recollected having been born in Virginia around 1752, and that an early ancestor was John Winchester who came from England in 1635 and settled in Massachusetts. A descendant of John, Thomas, went to Scotland before coming to America, and it is this Winchester who arrived in Virginia, in the Norfolk area, and fathered two sons, William Douglas and Daniel. Zelma O' Neals story about her father and three other Revolutionary War Soldiers became a booklet in 1981 put together by the Daughters of the American Revolution entitled, "Three Forefathers: Their Records in the Revolutionary War." An interesting remembrance of the Winchesters is that a son of Douglas, Thomas Winchester, was the largest taxpayer in Union County, formed from Mecklenburg County, NC. Thomas, an attorney, was responsible with one other for founding the town of Monroe, NC. This Thomas also made notarized statements concerning the home of Andrew Jackson, Sr., who lived one and one half miles of the Winchester farm on Twelve Mile Creek. Jackson's son, General Andrew Jackson, and General James Winchester, a cousin to Daniel and Douglas, were two of three men who founded the town of Memphis, Tennessee. SEE THE WINCHESTER LINEAGE CHART>>(under construction) WILLIAM DOUGLAS WINCHESTER LINEAGE CHART>> |
| Daniel Winchester as he told a story of one portion of the Battle
of Brier Creek, in part, to Zelma O' Neal: "When I first volunteered, we marched to the North of Charlotte near the Virginia line, and marched from there to Charlotte and to Salisbury and from Charlotte to Guilford Courthouse." "I was marched thence (from Charlotte, NC) to Purysburg in South Carolina...and remained there for several weeks I suppose five or six, until the South Militia joined the army in which I was. At Purysburg I joined the rifle company under the command of Col. Lytle...From Purysburg the riflemen, of which I was one, and the light infantry marched to the Two Sisters and remained there some days. How long I do not recollect...From the Two Sisters we marched to Augusta in Georgia. Our army encamped on the opposite side of the Savannah River from Augusta, the British then being in Augusta. We remained at the encampment opposite to Augusta until Gen. Lincoln, at which place I suppose that Gen. Lincoln took command of the army. We had no battle at Augusta and while we were encamped on the opposite side of the river from Augusta the British troops left Augusta. Shortly after the British troops evacuated Augusta, our army under the command of General Lincoln marched through Augusta in pursuit of the British until we came to Brier Creek in Georgia. The bridge over said Brier Creek was torn up so that our army encamped near that creek. The riflemen and the light infantry under the immediate command of Col. Lytle camped at the bridge which had been built across Brier Creek. The balance of the army under General Lincoln encamped about a mile in our rear and remained there some weeks. The British having as we understood, crossed Brier Creek above our camp got in our rear and attacked the main army under Lincoln. A battle was there fought. As soon as the detachment of riflemen and light infantry under Col. Lytle heard of the engagement we marched to the assistance of the army and just as we arrived our army was broken and was retreating..." According to the remainder of his account, Daniel Winchester was one of the soldiers who did not retreat and continued on to Stono and participated in the attack of the British fort there. Daniel went on to participate in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse which was his last act of service before returning to Charlotte. |
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