Sgt. Increase Winn, Sr.

Biography

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Increase Winn was born on 5 December 1641 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony. His parents were Edward and Joanna (Unknown) Winn.[1][2][3][4] Increase was the first white child born in the town of Woburn.[5]

Increase married Hannah Sawtell, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (unknown) Sawtell of Watertown, on 13 July 1665 in Woburn.[6][7][8] They had children, all born in Woburn:[1]

Hannah (1666), married Samuel Baker
Edward (1668), married Mary Stratton
Mary (1670), married Nathaniel Wyman, then John Locke
Sarah (1672), married Peter Fowle
Abigail (Jan 1678/9), married John Rogers
Rebecca (1679), married Timothy Spaulding
Jacob (1681), married Prudence Wyman, then Phebe Palfrey
Joanna (1683), married John Russell
Increase (Feb 1685/6), married Mary ____
Increase served in the militia. He was a sergeant in the company of Captain Thomas Brattle of Boston in King Philip's War, as recorded 24 August 1676. [9] He was a prominent citizen of Woburn and was a selectman in 1687-8.

Increase died in Woburn on 14 December 1690.[10][11] Hannah and her son Edward were among the administrators of the estate.[12] Increase has a Find A Grave: Memorial #164787286. He is buried in the First Burial Ground Cemetery at Woburn.

In 1738, his son Edward received a grant of land in Number 6 or Marlborough Canada (now Henniker, New Hampshire) in right of his father, Increase's service in the Expedition to Canada in 1690.[13]

Hannah died on 18 February 1723, in Woburn.[10]. She also has a Find A Grave: Memorial #164787492.

References

1. WikiTree contributors, "Increase Winn Sr (1641-1690)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Winn-377 : accessed 25 March 2024). cites
   1. Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 Woburn, v.1 pp.277 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). NEHGS member site
   2. Vital Records from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, v.7 p.284; Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.) NEHGS member site
   3. Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Early Vital Records of Massachusetts From 1600 to 1850, Town of Woburn Births
   4. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8979-HB8B?cc=2061550&w... : 13 July 2016), Middlesex > Woburn > Births, marriages, deaths 1641-1843 > image 8 of 272; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston.
   5. The New England Ancestry of William Calvin Fortenberry by: Delores Bateman Tousinau, 2004 (Privately Published)
   6. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-9979-HYZC?cc=2061550&w... : 13 July 2016), Middlesex > Woburn > Births, marriages, deaths 1641-1843 > image 130 of 272; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston.
   7. Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 Woburn, v.3 p.247 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). NEHGS member site
   8. New England Marriages to 1700. Torrey, v.3 p.1697 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. NEHGS member site
2. Text: "WINN, Increase (1641-1690) & Hannah SATALL/SAWTELLE (1642-1723); 13 Jul 1665; Woburn {Woburn Hist. 649; Cross Anc. 131; Coxe Anc. (1915) 24; Farr Anc. 237; Bridges Anc. 83}"
   1. Colonial Soldiers and Officers in New England, 1620-1775. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013). NEHGS member site
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   3. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8979-HYKD?cc=2061550&w... : 13 July 2016), Middlesex > Woburn > Births, marriages, deaths 1641-1843 > image 173 of 272; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston.
   4. Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org) NEHGS member site
   5. Watkins, Walter Kendall, Soldiers in the expedition to Canada in 1690 [microform] : and grantees of the Canada townships, Boston, 1898. Page 102, Archive.org (https://archive.org/details/cihm_25428/page/n5/mode/2up) See also:
   6. Sgt. Increase Winn [1]
   7. Historical Homes and Places and genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts by William Richard Cutter
   8. "Genealogical dictionary" Savage vol. 4. p. 597
   9. "History of Woburn MA." p. 649
   10. Hartford times answer.
   11. Early VR Middlesex Co. MA (published), Vital Records of Woburn. [S901]
   12. "The Florence Fox Harrop Papers," Florence Fox Collection of A. Gulbransen.[S27]
3. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/164787286
4. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/164787492/hannah-winn