Person Sheet

Name Sarah WINSTON Birth 1595, Devonshire, ENGLAND Death 17 Jan 1669/70, Prince George County, Virginia Age: 74 Father Isaac WINSTON (1570-1589) Mother Mary DABNEY
Spouses
1 "Doctor" John WOODSON Sr. Birth 1586, Dorsetshire, ENGLAND Death 18 Apr 1644, Fleur de Hundred, Prince George County, Virginia Age: 58 Education 1604 graduate St. John's College, Oxford, ENGLAND Occupation Medical Doctor/Ship's Surgeon Cause of death Indian Attack Father Alexander WOODESON
Marriage 1619, Dorsetshire, ENGLAND
Children John "Tub" (1632-1700) Robert "Potato Hole" (1634-1707) UNNAMED (1636-) Deborah (1640-1660)
2 John BROWN
Children Jeremiah (-1690)
Notes for Sarah WINSTON
Dr. John Woodson was the emigrant ancestor of this large and influential family which has produced so many worthy citizens. He came over to Virginia in the ship George in 1619, as surgeon to a company of British soldiers, and became one of the founders of the Virginia Colony. This progenitor of a distinguished family was of English origin, the name in Old England being spelled Woodeson, possibly a corruption of the Saxon name of Wodeson. The arms, as preserved in the family, indicate they belonged to the Woodesons seated in Devonshire. Dr. John Woodson was a native of Dorsetshire. He brought his wife with him to America. Her name is not known. They settled at "Fleur de Hundred," where probably their two sons, John and Robert, were born. She was a typical woman of the frontier, of heroic mold. Thrilling battles in the wilderness are related wherein she played the stellar role. One day, during an absence of her husband, assisted by one Robert Ligon (probably an ancestor of the Ligons of Lincoln county, Missouri, and Pike county, Illinois), she resisted an attack by Indians, killing nine. She loaded the gun while Ligon fired. Hearing a noise up the chimney of her cabin, she threw her bed upon the coals in the fireplace. The stifling smoke brought down two Indians. She killed both of them. Her sons, hidden in the potato hole, were saved. The two sons, John and Robert, whose lives were thus preserved, married early, and their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren married into the families of the leading colonists of the day, the Lewises, Porters, Tuckers, Cannons, Randolphs, Jeffersons, Cabells, Turpins, Venables and others. - [1] [1] - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~glendasubyak/ch176.html [2] - http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aihbt/profiles/woodson.html