Judge Edmund Winston

Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA. DAR Ancestor # A128884

Biography

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Edmund Winston was born to William “Langaloo” Winston and Sarah Dabney circa 1745/50 in Lynchburg, Campbell County, Virginia.

He married Alice Winston, a daughter of his uncle, Judge Anthony Winston, of Buckingham County. She was born March 20, 1753 They had six children: George Dabney, Sarah, Alice, Mary, Edmund Jr., born 1778, and Elizabeth, born 1783.

Edmund was a lawyer and ardent patriot during the Revolution. He was elected to represent Bedford, Campbell, Henry, and Pittsylvania Counties in the Virginia Senate from for eight terms from 1776 to 1783. He was a representative to the Virginia Constitutional Convention in 1788, which ratified the U. S. Constitution. He served as prosecuting attorney in Campbell County for a time in 1787-88. He was elected by the assembly to the General Court, which heard appeals from the county courts, in 1788 and served until 1813.

Alice died in 1784, leaving him with six children aged 1-10. He was a first cousin and long-time friend of Patrick Henry, who appointed him an executor of his will. After Patrick’s death in 1799, he was active in the settlement of the estate, which involved considerable consultation with Henry’s widow, Dorothea Spotswood (Dandridge) Henry. In June, 1802, he married Dorothea in Charlotte County. She was born in 1755. He had no additional children with Dorothea, but undertook the support and parenting of her nine children from Patrick.

Edmund died August 18, 1818, at Lynchburg, Campbell County. Dorothea died February 14, 1831, in Halifax County.