| Feb 1666 | My 7g-grandfather, John Winans, is one of the "80 associates" who found Elizabethtown.
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| 1665-1800 | For more than a century, the Winans family is among the leading citizens of Elizabethtown...
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| ~1680 | My 6g-grandfather, Conrad Winans, is born to John and Janetje Winans.
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| ~1695 | John Winans dies and most of his children go to Fairfield county, CT, to live with their mother's family.
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| Jul 1710 | My 5g-grandfather, Jonathan Winans, is born to Conrad and Susannah Winans. (It is possible he was born in CT where his parents were married.)
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| May 1731 | Jonathan Winans marries Susannah Mills.
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| Sep 1737 | My 4g-grandmother, Sarah Winans, is born in Elizabethtown to Jonathan and Susannah. Her future husband, and my 4g-grandfather, David Clark, is born at about the same time in the same area.
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| Mar 1746 | My 4g-grandfather, Samuel Winans, is born, also to Jonathan and Susannah.
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| ~1759 | My 3g-grandfather, George Carey, is born.
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| ~1762 | Sarah Winans and David Clark are married.
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| ~1765 | My 3g-grandmother, Phebe Clark, is born to David and Sarah.
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| Mar 1776 | My 3g-grandfather, Stephen Winans, is born to Samuel and Hannah.
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| ~1790 | Phebe and George marry and live in Essex county awhile.
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| Mar 1799 | Stephen Winans marries Charlotte "Lottie" Marsh.
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| Aug 1801 | My 2g-grandfather, Benjamin Carey, is born to Phebe and George.
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| May 1806 | Ben's second cousin and future wife, Mary Hannah Winans, is born nearby to Stephen and Lottie. Neither of them sticks around New Jersey very long because...
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| 1800/1825 | Elizabethtown residents, including many Winans, Careys, Clarks, Frazees, Woodruffs, etc., trek westward to Miami county, OH. One of the last families to move is that of Stephen and Lottie Winans, who may not have left NJ until after the birth of their last child in 1820
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This page was last updated 22 Aug 2009.