Colonel William 'Langloo Billy' Winston

Conard and Hyde, 241; In Memoriam, 13, 84. See also, Katharine Anthony, Dolly Madison: Her Life and Times (New York: Doubleday & Company Inc. 1949) 5; Ralph Ketcham, James Madison: A Biography (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia 1990) 376-377. Like Patrick Henry and James Broadhead, Dolley Madison was a direct descendant of Isaac Winston and Mary Dabney Winston. 'Broadhead’s great-grandfather,' Colonel William “Langloo” Winston, was a brother of Lucy Winston Coles, Dolley Madison’s grandmother. See, “Carrs, Winstons and Barretts”; “The Family of Achilles Broadhead”; “Carr Family” Oct. 1895; “Carr Family” Apr. 1898. http://www.civilwarstlouis.com/History2/broadheadprofile.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

it is Isaac s son William, or " Langloo," whose portrait must now be drawn. He was a fresh type of Virginian not a tidewater man, but a lover of the hills and the wilder ness. At his hunting quarter by the mountains, he camped with the Indians; dressed as one; shot deer. In a word, he was a " buckskin " a " long knife," like Christopher Gist.

Nathaniel Pope,* a gallant light horseman of the Revolution, wrote this about him :

" I have often heard my father, who was intimately ac quainted with William Winston, say that he was the greatest orator whom he had ever heard, Patrick Henry excepted; that during the last French and Indian War, and soon after Brad- dock s defeat, when the militia were marched to the- frontiers of Virginia against the enemy, this William Winston was a lieutenant of a company ; that the men were indifferently clothed, without tents, and exposed to the rigour and inclem ency of the weather, discovered great aversion to the service, and were anxious and even clamorous to return to their families; when this same William Winston, mounting a stump (the common rostrum, you know, of the field orator of Vir ginia), addressed them with such keenness of invective, and declaimed with such force of eloquence on liberty and patriot ism, that when he concluded the general cry was : Let us march on ! Lead us against the enemy ! and they were now willing, nay anxious, to encounter all those difficulties and dan gers which, but a few moments before, had almost produced a mutiny." https://archive.org/stream/truepatrick00morgrich/truepatrick00morgr... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Lt. William "Langloo Billy" was named in the will of his father, Capt. Isaac Winston, in his will of 1760. He fought in the French and Indian War. He was the Uncle of Patrick Henry.

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Col. William "Langloo" Winston 1 was born 12 Apr 1702 in Albemarle Co., VA. He died 1760 in Albemarle Co., VA.

Family

William Winston was born to Isaac and Sarah (Dabney) Winston about 1710 in Hanover County.
He married Sarah Dabney, a daughter of George Dabney I about 1730. They had three children: Elizabeth Louise, Edmund, and Mary Ann.

Biography

Lt. William "Langloo Billy" was named in the will of his father, Capt. Isaac Winston, in his will of 1760. He fought in the French and Indian War. He was the Uncle of Patrick Henry. (See more in the Winstons of Hanover Co. and Related Families by Alfred Winston Sumner III.)

He was a lieutenant in the militia in the French and Indian War and led his troops into Indian country. He had a high reputation as an orator and one traditional family report described how he encountered a group of soldiers disaffected by the hardships of their service in the wilderness and used his eloquence to persuade and inspire them to renew their efforts.

He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in Hanover County by the Council in 1737, 1741, 1744, and 1752. He was appointed sheriff by the Governor in 1746. In May and November, 1743, he and William Burrus were authorized by the Council to claim two patents of 5,000 acres each in Brunswick County on the Stocken and Dan Rivers in Brunswick County. These patent authorizations do not appear to have been carried into effect because they cannot be found in the Land Office Grants index at the Library of Virginia or in the Cavaliers and Pioneers abstracts. There are three listings of a William Winston in the Hanover County Quit Rent Rolls for 1753, 1762, and 1763 with 1076 acres, 441 acres, and 750 acres, respectively.

He was sometimes called “Langaloo,” which has been reported to be a corruption of the name of his plantation, derived from a locale in Wales.

He was the William Winston, son and heir of the deceased Sarah (Dabney) Winston, who transferred the tract she patented in 1701 to his sister Lucy’s husband, Cornelius Dabney of King William County in 1732. At the time of the deed, he was “of King and Queen County.”

As a brother of Sarah (Winston) Syme Henry, he was an uncle of Patrick Henry and as a brother of Lucy (Winston)Dabney Coles, he was a great uncle of Dolley/Dolly Madison. He died after 1763, when he was listed in the Quit Rent Rolls

• Source: http://www.juch.org/myancestors/aqwg13.asp
• http://www.dabney-early-virginia.info/getperson.php?personID=I715&t...