GREENE COUNTY FOLKS- Samuel Winslett     Greene County GA Archives – Biographies - Caldwell Family ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Gerry Hill genealogyplus@bellsouth.net GREENE COUNTY FOLKS- WINSLETT Samuel Winslett born a 1750 England died 1829 Wrightsboro, Greene, Ga He married Mary Carson born 1754, who died Greene and was the child of Thomas Gibson Carson & Margaret McDowell-also of Greene. Grandchild of Wm. Calvin Carson & Sarah Jane Ferguson of Ireland. Children: John Carson b a 1775 Wrightsboro, Greene, Ga. d aft 1833 Barbour Co Al Married Hattie Ward William 1777 Wrightsboro, Greene, Ga. d 1811 Married Margaret Cahoon Thomas 1779 Wrightsboro, Greene, Ga. Richard b a 1780 d 1828 Married 1818 Greene Perthene Bagley David 1781 Wrightsboro, Greene, Ga d 1820 Greene Married Mary Ann Wootan Mary 1783 Wrightsboro, Greene, Ga Joel 1785 Wrightsboro, Greene, Ga James Samuel 1787 Wrightsboro, Greene, Ga d 1843 Chambers Co Al Married 1808 Greene Dicey McMichael Esther a 1791 Wrightsboro, Greene, Ga. d 1871 Kosciusko, Attala, Ms Dicey Jonathan abt 1797 Greene died 1880 Putnam Co Ga. Married 1818 Greene Gelley D. Bagley Samuel WINSLETT settled on 100 acres in the Quaker town of Wrightsboro, Ga in 1770. He was granted 287 acres on Shoulderbone creek in Washington county in 1784 (became part of Greene County when it was formed in 1786) and was listed as a lieutenant in the 2nd Greene County regiment in 1786. Samuel paid taxes on this land until he died in Greene, Co around 1828. Bonded Passengers to America, Vol. IV, T53:50/92, T1:449 & supplement. Colonial Records of GA 1767-1769, Vol X, Pg 834. Hancock County, GA Index to Deeds & Mortgages. Greene County, GA Deeds, Book 2, pgs 500-501. Greene Co., GA Deeds, Book 2, pgs 521-522. GA Indian Depredation Claims, pg 160. GA Ind. Depr. Claims, pg 777. Offical Register of Land Lottery of GA-1827(5th lottery.)