Elizabeth Coutance (Jones) Winstead (abt. 1729 - abt. 1813)

Born about 1729 in Virginia [uncertain]

Ancestors

Descendants

Died about 1813 at about age 84 in Person County, North Carolina, USA

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Biography

NAME

No records or documents show maiden name, middle name, or middle initial.

Possible maiden JONES, per undocumented source.

Possible middle name Cottance, per undocumented source.

Possible middle name Coutance, per undocumented source.

PARENTS

Note: maiden name JONES appears to have originated from the Winstead book (written 1994, by Martha Winstead). The book says her parents are Johnson Jones and Elizabeth Brown, but provides no source or explanation.

(Need to locate Johnson Jones' Will, or Estate, or other document that shows some kind of connection to Samuel and Elizabeth Winstead).

There is no evidence that Elizabeth's mother remarried to TRIPLETT

BIRTH / DEATH

Birth Date: estimated about 1729, based on the following:

1) on/after 1723, assuming same age or younger than husband

2) on/before 1735, assuming age 15+ when child Cottance born

3) about 1729, assuming average 21 when child Cottance born

4) possible birth 23 Jun 1720, per undocumented source

Birth Place: probably Virginia, but no basis for assumption

(need verification of parents, siblings, etc, for a basis of assumption)

Death about 1812/1813, Person Co. NC, based on the following:

1) Inventory of Elizabeth's Estate in Feb-1813.

2) Inventoried by her son Charles B Winstead; returned & recorded May-1813.

3) assume Elizabeth died several weeks or months BEFORE the Inventory.

She did NOT die on 15 Feb 1813. That is when her estate was inventoried.

MARRIAGE

Husband: Samuel Winstead III

Wife: Elizabeth (maiden name unknown)

Married on/before 1749 based on the following:

1) Assume oldest child is Cottance, per on order of children in WILL.

2) The birth of child Cottance is estimated about 1750.

Sources

INVENTORY of ESTATE

Estate of Elizabeth Winstead, dated 15 Feb 1813.

North Carolina, Probate Records, 1735-1970 (FamilySearch.com)

Person County: Wills, Inventories, 1811-1815: Image #174

Photocopy: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/DGS-004770586_00454

An Inventory of the Estate of Elizabeth Winstead taken 15th day of February 1813.

9 Negroes by names as follows. ?Jac, Oliver, Nat, Solomon, Isabella, Lethia, Bill, ?Bet.

3 Horses, 10 Head Cattle, 31 Hogs, 6 Sheep, 3 Beds & furniture, 2 Tables & 2 Chests, 6 Chairs, …

[not transcribed is a page of mostly kitchen items]

The above Inventory contains all the Property belonging to Elizabeth Winstead so far or has come to my knowledge.

/s/ Charles B Winstead ?GP for Eliz Winstead

North Carolina, Person County, May Court 1813, This Inventory was returned to Court and ordered to be recorded.

Test.

Jesse Dickens

Note: Notice that most of the slave names in Elizabeth's Estate, match the 1816 estate document of her husband, that names the 7 heirs of Samuel Winstead III. (Reference husband's profile.)

CHILDREN

Seven children are named in husband Samuel's 1805 Will.

Seven children (including 2 deceased) are named in 1816 division of slaves.

The married names of daughters are included.

Assume children in the Will are listed in order of birth.

Most genealogies include 2 more children; Samuel (b.1748), and William (b.1750). However, their lack of presence in Samuel's Will and division of slaves, indicate otherwise. This is especially true since they appear to be living in close proximity to Samuel III's family.

(More research is required).

Children of Samuel III, listed in St Stephen's Register are Alice & Charles.

Source: Northumberland Co. record of births, 1661-1810 (ancestry.com)

Title: Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Vol III, abstracted by Beverley Fleet, 1961

Register of St. Stephen's Parish, Northumberland Co., Virginia

http://interactive.ancestry.com/29376/dvm_LocHist013208-00069-0

page 128, 108

"Alice Daughter of Samuel & Betty Winstead was born March 9 1767"

"Charles Brown Winsted son of Sammuel Winsted & Elizabeth his wife was born Decembr 30 1769"

UNDOCUMENTED SOURCES

Note: The below sources are references to other people's genealogies, that do not provide documented evidence or explanation for Elizabeth's maiden name, birth, or the reason for connecting Elizabeth to parents Johnson Jones and Elizabeth Brown.

• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/i/n/Jary-D-Winstead/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0020.html
• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/e/b/Susan-E-Webb-TX/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0485.html
• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/i/n/Keith-Winstead-louisville/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0176.html
• http://www.geni.com/people/Elizabeth-Winstead/6000000003796304956
• http://records.ancestry.com/elizabeth_jones_records.ashx?pid=23039833
• http://www.mytrees.com/cgi-bin/yaodoqry?WINSTEAD+MANDLEY++1759+1761+++++++B++All+1+0+1+0+0+0
• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~coxfamily/pdffamilygenealogys/samuel%20winstead.pdf

References

• Source: S313 Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Births Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, United States; Date: 2001;