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wife, at "Yeardley," the Harmanson home in
Northampton County, Virginia. LAND. ca. 600
acres in Northampton County, Virginia.
WINDER, LEVIN (1757-1819). BORN: on Sep-
tember 4, 1757, in Somerset County. NATIVE:
fourth generation. RESIDED: near Rewastico Creek,
Rewastico Hundred, Somerset County, until 1790;
Little Monie Creek near Princess Anne, Somerset
County, 1790-1819. FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER:
William Winder (1714/15-1192). MOTHER: Esther
Gillis (1724-by 1770). STEPMOTHER: by 1770, Mary
(?-1799), widow of Thomas Denwood (?-ca.
1760). AUNT: Leah Gillis (1726-?), who married
William Adams (?-1795). BROTHERS: John Win-
der (1745-1822); William Winder, Jr. (?-1808);
and possibly Thomas, who was lost at sea early
in life. SISTERS: Jane; Leah (ca. 1760-?); Priscilla
(ca. 1740-by 1779); and Esther (?-ca. 1790).
NIECE: Esther Wilson (?-by 1792), who married
William Morris (?-ca. 1799). MARRIED on May 13,
1790, Mary Stoughton (1765-1822), daughter of
Thomas Sloss (?-1797) and wife Mary Stoughton
(1724- ?) . Mary was the granddaughter of William
Stoughton (1692-1759). Her sisters were Ann
Stoughton (1751-?), who married the Rev. Ed-
ward Gantt, M.D. (ca. 1741-1837), son of Thomas
Gantt (ca. 1710-1785); and Sarah Stoughton (1753-
?), who married Levin Wilson (1735-1791). CHIL-
DREN. SONS William Sidney (?-1844), who mar-
ried in 1825 Araminta (?-1845), daughter of Henry
E. Bailey and wife Sarah Rogers of Baltimore;
Edward Stoughton (1798-1840), who married on
June 1, 1820, Elizabeth Tayloe (1800-1880), eld-
est daughter of Hon. Edward Lloyd (1779-1834)
and wife Sally Scott Murray (1775-1854) of Tal-
bot County. DAUGHTER: Mary Ann. PRIVATE CA-
REER. EDUCATION: literate; law student prior to
service in the Revolutionary War. RELIGIOUS AF-
FILIATION: Presbyterian. SOCIAL STATUS AND AC-
TIVITIES: member of Masonic Lodge No. 37 in
Princess Anne from 1782, and represented his
lodge at the conventions in 1783 and 1787 that
organized the Grand Lodge of Maryland; grand
master of Grand Lodge of Maryland, 1814-1815.
OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE, planter. PUBLIC CAREER.
LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Somerset
County, 1789, 1790. 1791-1792 (speaker), 1792
(speaker), 1793 (speaker), 1806, 1807, 1808-1809
(speaker), 1809. OTHER STATE OFFICE: governor,
1812-1816. LOCAL OFFICES: trustee of Washing-
ton Academy, Somerset County, 1797-1819;
Senate elector, Somerset County, 1796, 1801, 1806,
1811. MILITARY SERVICE: 1st lieutenant. Fifth
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Company, Smallwood's Battalion, January 1776;
captain, 1st Maryland Regiment, December 1776;
major, 4th Maryland Regiment, 1777; wounded
and taken prisoner at the Battle of Camden in
1780, exchanged in 1781; lieutenant-colonel, 2nd
Maryland Regiment, 1781; subsequently trans-
fered to 1st Maryland Regiment; discharged, 1783;
major-general, 2nd Division, Maryland Militia,
commissioned 1794. OUT OF STATE SERVICE: pres-
idential elector (for George Washington), 1792.
STANDS ON PUBLIC/PRIVATE ISSUES: subscriber tO
Washington Academy, Somerset County; fa-
vored the adoption of a system of general edu-
cation for all people. While opposed to war with
the British in 1812, Winder pushed for legislation
to outfit the militia to protect Maryland. When
he realized the national government would not
provide these funds, he noted that "if the ex-
penses of a war waged by the national authorities
are to be borne by the States, it is not difficult to
foresee that the state treasury will soon be ex-
hausted, and the annihilation of the state gov-
ernments must soon follow." WEALTH DURING
LIFETIME. PERSONAL PROPERTY, wife received her
father's house on Little Monie Creek, 3 slaves,
one-third of his livestock, and one-third of his
crops at his death, 1797; 37 slaves, 1798; 43 slaves,
1800; 53 slaves, 1810. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION:
112 acres in Somerset County, 2 lots in the Town
of Vienna, Dorchester County, purchased as con-
fiscated British property, and 4 lots (400 acres)
in Washington (later Allegany) County received
for his service in the war. SIGNIFICANT CHANGES
IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH:
wife probably received ca. 500 acres in Somerset
County from her father at his death, 1797; held
409 acres in Monie Hundred and 995 acres in
Rewastico Hundred, both in Somerset County,
1798; purchased an additional 511 acres in Som-
erset County by 1808. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED:
between July 1 and August 3, 1819, of a liver
complaint, in Baltimore, where he had been taken
on medical advice; buried in the First Presbyter-
ian Church graveyard on the corner of Fayette
and Green streets in Baltimore. Later his remains
were removed to the family burying ground on
his estate on Monie Creek near Princess Anne,
Somerset County. PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV,
$17,266.01 current money (including 53 slaves,
84 oz. plate, 26 books, and "the late Gen. Wash-
ington's campaign chest"); FB, $8,715.23. LAND:
at least 2,027 acres in Somerset County, 2 lots in
Vienna Town, Dorchester County, and 4 lots in
Washington (now Allegany) County.
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