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Facts and Events
Citations
- http://www.juch.org/gedpages/fam/fam01075.htm
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Brown, Alexander. The Cabells and their kin: a memorial volume of history, biography, and genealogy. (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1895).
p 242 - ... His father, William Winston, noted as a hunter, Indian fighter, and orator, was called "Langaloo Billy," and there are many anecdotes of him. He was the son of Isaac Winston, the emigrant. There are several published pedigrees of the Winstons in books, viz., Slaughter's "St. Mark's Parish," Brock's "Vestry Book of Henrico Parish," Henry's "Life of Henry," etc.
p 243 - ... William Winston (a great hunter, Indiana fighter, and orator, a lieutenant in the French and Indian war, etc.)
- ↑ Colonel William Winston, in Dabney, William H. Sketch of the Dabneys of Virginia: with some of their family records. (Chicago: S.D. Childs, 1888).
p 55 - ... RECORD NO. 5 (Given by the late Rev. Edward Fontaine) Colonel William Winston, of Langaloo, and Elizabeth Dabney, daughter of John d'Aubigne or Dabney. ...
- ↑ William Winston, in Campbell, Charles. History of the colony and ancient dominon of Virginia. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1997).
p 520 - Of these five children, William, the eldest, called Langaloo William, married Alice Taylor, of Caroline. He was a great hunter; had a quarter in Bedford or Albemarle, where he spent much time in hunting deer. He was fond of the Indians, dressed in their costume, and was a favorite with them. He was also distinguished as an Indian-fighter. He is said to have been endowed with that rare kind of magnetic eloquence which rendered his nephew, Patrick Henry, so famous. Indeed it was the opinion of some that he alone excelled him in eloquence. During the French and Indian war, shortly after Braddock's defeat, when the militia were marched to the frontier, this William Winston was a lieutenant of a company, which, being poorly clothed, without tents, and exposed to the rigors of an inclement season, became very much dissatisfied, and were clamorous to return to their homes. At this juncture, Liutenant Winston, mounting a stump, made to them an appeal so patriotic and overpowering that when he concluded, the general cry was, "Let us march on; lead us against the enemy!" This maternal uncle of Patrick Henry, Jr., being so gifted with native eloquence, it may be inferred that he derived his genius from his mother. ...
- Langaloo Billy Winston, in Munford, George Wythe. The two parsons;: Cupid's sports; The dream; and The jewels of Virginia. (Richmond: J. D. K. Sleight, 1884).
p 66 - ... After some time, Geddes [Winston] said, "Uncle Isaac, I wish you would trace out for me the relationship between Patrick Henry and my father."
"Let me see," says Isaac, putting his right forefinger on his left thumb, and moving from finger to finger as he counted; "there is William, Isaac, Anthony, Lucy, Mary and Sarah;" or rather, to tell it as he did, "there is Billy, Ike, Tony, Luly, Molly and Sally." He made no remark about Tony. "I am proud of Billy," he said; "they have nicknamed him Langaloo, and he is pretty nearly, if not quite equal to Patrick; but I think Patrick knocks the black out of him sometimes. Patrick, when he speaks, stirs the boys so that I've seen them jump up and crack their heels together, and slam their caps on the ground and stamp them. I have seen a fellow, under Patrick's inspiration, seize another by the collar and wheel him around off his feet for no other assignable cause than that inspiration, and the other hardly conscious what he was doing. Billy, you see, don't come up to that quite; but I have heard him speak on election days, and he would roll his rich words into the crowd until the very hair would stand on my head, and I would cry like a baby." ...
p 67 - ... [from William Wirt in life of Henry] "William, (Langaloo,) the father of present Judge Winston, is said to have been highly endowed with that peculiar cast of eloquence for which Mr. Henry became afterwards so justly celebrated." Mr. Pope, our old friend Billy Pope, of Powhatan, says; "I have often heard my father, who was intimately acquainted with this Wm. Winston, say, that he was the greatest orator he ever heard - Patrick Henry excepted."
- William Winston, in Wirt, William. Sketches of the life and character of Patrick Henry. (New York).
p 3 - ... Of this gentleman [William Wirt] I have an anecdote from a correspondent,* (*Mr. Pope) which I shall give in his own words. "I have often heard my father who was intimately acquainted with this William Winston, say, that he was the greatest orator whom he ever heard, Patrick Henry excepted; that during the last French and Indian war, and soon after Braddock's defeat, when the militia were marched to the frontiers of Virginia, against the enemy, this William Winston was the lieutenant of a company; that the men, who were indifferently clothed, without tents, and exposed to the rigour and inclemency of the weather, discovered great aversion to the service, and were anxious and even clamorous to return to their families; when this William Winston, mounting a stump, (the common rostrum, you know, of the field orator of Virginia,) addressed them with such keenness of invective, and declaimed with such force of eloquence, on liberty and patriotism, 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 dangers, which, but a few moments before, had almost produced a mutiny."
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[Note of caution: Some historians question the accuracy of the stories in this source.]
- ↑ William Winston, in Moore, J. Staunton. The annals and history of Henrico Parish, Diocese of Virginia: and St. John's P.E. Church. (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1979).
p 174 - "He was a great hunter ; had a quarter in Bedford or Albemarle County ; spent half the year there hunting deer. He was fond of the Indians, and dressed like them, and was a favorite with them. An amour with the daughter of an Indian Chief, who was engaged to another Chief, involved him in difficulties with the savages. They besieged him in a log fort for a week. He defended himself with the aid of three negroes with rifles. Tom, one of the negroes, stood guard every night ; at length the favorite squaw went out and made peace between the belligerents. Langaloo William was a great Indian fighter."* (*Article in the Virginia Standard, 185 -.) He was endowed with those impassioned powers of natural and all-prevailing oratory, which rendered his nephew, Patrick Henry, the patriot, immortal.
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