Ancestors of David A. Windham

Jane Bartlett Theory – Revised

Who were the mother and father of the wife of John Windham?

Who was the wife of John Windham?

Starting with the most basic information, I think it has to be the Bounty Land application Jane Windham made in Barbour County (but as a resident of Dale Co.) on 18 Sept. 1855. In this application, she states she was 65 years old, the widow of John Windham, that they were married 11 February 1808, in Darlington, SC and that he died in the year 1836 and that she is now a widow. She further states that her maiden name was Bartlett, and that her husband was a private in the Company commanded by Capt. McKeever in the SC or AL Regiment of infantry (militia) commanded by (she forgot) in the war with Great Britain.

This declaration was witnessed by Joseph W. Lowe, the attorney appointed by her, and Anthony Windham. I am quite certain this Anthony Windham was her son, due to her filing in Barbour County, where Anthony was known to reside.

The declaration and affidavit were sworn to by D. A. Bush, J. P. This D. A. Bush further testifies that “Jane Bartlett and John Windham was private married on the 11th day of February A. D. 1808 and that I certify that Jane Windham is a widow that the said husband is now dead. That I extracted the above information from her own family Bible that John Windham died on 4th January A. D. 1836”.

I believe this gives us further confirmation that Jane Windham was nee Bartlett and she was born at or very near 1790, since she, her attorney, her son and the Justice of the Peace agreed she was nee Bartlett and was 65 years old. If this were a mistake, someone (one of the 4 of them) would have caught it. I would also assume applying for a land patent was considered very serious business.

Who was the mother of Jane Bartlett Windham? Minnie Lee Cox

The following letter was written by Minnie Lee Cox of Attapulgus, Ga. Who was a daughter of John Taylor Lee and Sophronie Windham. Ms. Cox was a granddaughter of Samuel Windham. She was 77 years old at the time the letter was written and apparently in good health and sound mind. It was addressed to a Mr. John Brady Judah in Columbus, Ga. who was also working on the Windham/Lee and Mixon connections. Mr. Judah was a great grandson of Samuel Windham (b 1813)

"Dear Brady;

Well Now, for the Windham - Epistle, Now Brady, I Think, In how Dallas Windhams Niece had Things, Mixed-up, about my Old Great-Grandmother, -Not many people knew just how it was, -I guess her name was Virginia as my Dad called her, Aunt Ginny. But, she was step-Daughter of Thomas Andrews. Her Mother was a Bartlett, but Grandmother was 2 or 3 years old, when her mother married Thomas Andrews and she called him Daddy Tommy-But he was not her natural Father for My mother told me so and grandmother tells my mother so. Yes, I think most people called grandmother Ginney Andrews, So Brady, you can help those People clear things up. She Was Virginia Mixon, or Ginny Mixon... Minnie Lee Cox"

In the above letter, Minnie Lee Cox confirms Jane Windham was nee Bartlett, and that Jane’s mother was a Bartlett, but also goes on to say Jane’s mother was a Mixon. There is no hint as to how she arrived at Jane’s mother being a Mixon. This suggests to me that Jane Bartlett’s mother was nee Mixon and had married a Bartlett. Alternatively, Jane Bartlett’s mother could be nee Bartlett and also married a Bartlett. But that leaves out a Mixon connection. The only other option I can think of is that Jane’s mother could have had Jane by a Mixon out of wedlock and kept the name Bartlett for Jane. I find it interesting in dealing with the Andrews side of the family, that there seems to be very little to no data about the Zilpha/Bartlett connection. With the exception of Zilpha, the Andrews family is fairly well documented for many years back. This could suggest the relationship between Zilpha and Thomas is considered somewhat of a skeleton in the closet. At any rate, there does not seem to be any evidence that a Jane Bartlett married one of the Mixon’s prior to her marriage to Thomas Andrews.

In the book, Pea River Trails by Clayton Metcalf, winter 1997, he lists John Windham as marrying Virginia Mixson ….

"John Windham - born 1776 in Darlington Dist., SC. Came to Dale County AL in 1820. He was a son of Amos Windham and Sarah McAnock. He was married to Virginia Mixson - born 1784. She was a daughter of Micah Mixson. They had nine children but little is known of several of them"

Clayton Metcalf does not give sources for this information, so it makes it difficult to digest. We know from the obituary of Samuel Windham that John Windham came to Dale Co. in 1827, not 1820. We also know from the estate settlement of William McHugo in Darlington, that Amos Windham was married to Sarah McHugo. As to Micah Mixon, I have seen no information even suggesting that he had a wife named Virginia or Jane. I tend to discount some of this work.

Who was Thomas Andrew’s wife?

In a deed of land dated 24 Dec.1806 in Darlington, SC from Thomas Andrews to Peter DuBose, for

$500 for 640 acres between Lynches Creek and Newman Swamp, there was a Dower Release by - Zilpha Andrews (her X mark) dated 27 July 1807. This deed was signed by Thomas Andrews and witnessed by Enos Mathis and Moses Mathis (Matthews). The fact that Zilpha Andrews signed the dower release indicates she was most likely a spouse. No maiden name was given.

I believe the Indians take the last name of the mother instead of the father. If true, then that is how the wife of my John, became Jane Bartlett. I am pretty sure Jane's mother was Zilpha Bartlett and she married Thomas Andrews, an Indian agent in SC or NC.93

Here is a rough draft of the Indian connection.

The first Thomas Andrews (a Virginian of Scottish ancestry) was a trader with the Chickasaws and Upper Creeks, especially the "Coosaws" who are the Coushatta (Coosadas), a branch of the Alibamo Indians. These Indians were part of the Upper Creek Confederacy. Napochi was a Coosada town of Alibamo and Shawnee Indians and Thomas was to have a close relationship with this town. Napochi is today's Bessemer, Alabama. (see Swanton's early studies of the Creeks and “Bartrams Travels Among the Creeks” as well as DeJarnette’s archaeological study of the Bessemer Mound site.

Martha Andrews (the first Thomas's wife) was probably a Coosada or a half-breed although she might have been Yamasee. She had been married before and her first husband was most likely a white settler

or a half- breed Creek. there were far fewer white women than men in the west (modern Alabama and Mississippi) and white traders often married Indian women. Many of these Indian women had Christian names and were sometimes listed as the "children" (actually god-children) of the whites who sponsored their baptism.

Indian wives are often simply listed by the Christian name….. Elizabeth, Martha, etc without any reference to family. White women are almost alway listed in colonial era records with maiden name, name of father (and sometimes mother) as well as the name of her husband.*

His grandson's wife Zilpha (Sefaya) was Alibamo Coosada and a daughter of the Napochi Mi'ko. Sefaya (the Alibamo dialect form of Sehoy) was a common Creek name at that time. Even if illiterate, most white women in the Southern Colonies could at least sign their names but she put an "X" in the Indian style. The name Bartlett was borrowed from 'one of the British Indian Agents of the time James Bartlett, a close friend of the Napochi Mi'ko who adopted the name Bartlett (this was a common practice among Creeks). Her older brother was Napochi Hadjo (also known as Tommy Bartlett) who took part in the assault on Fort Mims and was an implacable enemy of US expansion into Creek lands.

He was a red stick (hostile Creek) and a close ally of the British in both the revolution and the War of 1812. After the Creek defeat in 1815 he settled in Broken Arrow (near Talladega). His sister and brother-in-law would later join him in Alabama. During the Creek uprising of the 1830s, Napochie Hadjo (now Nabochi Emarthla)** signed the famous peace letter of the Creeks pledging not to wage war against the US any more and to commit the Creek peoples to peace. During this conflict he was confined to a military reservation in South Alabama (the site where Ft Rucker is today). This was basically a concentration camp for those Indians and half-breeds who refused to move to Oklahoma.

Most of the Alibamos and Coushattas had earlier moved to Texas and Louisiana.

His sister (Zilpha) lived nearby and the soldiers would let them visit each other without interference. In 1839, the three families who refused to leave were released under the proviso that they were subject to the laws of Alabama and could no longer "live like Indians", an amusing provision since this son-in-law had been a wealthy landowner in South Carolina.

The heavy mixed-blood Indian connection to South Carolina may seem strange until you consider that many South Carolina Indians of the Peedee, Yamasee and Shawnee nations moved to the Creek Confederacy after the Yamasee war in the 1730s.

The Indian traders like Thomas Andrews and his half-breed sons would have maintained their wealth and status in the Carolinas by continuing the Indian trade. The famous half-breed Creek leader William Weatherford (Red Eagle) lived with his white father's people in Savannah, Georgia as a child and was related through his father and his third wife to the Mathis family. The Griswold family is also related to Weatherfords.

The last Indian connection is through Martha Thompson, most likely a full blooded Alibamo, but there is little information on her.

* Confusion arises unless you consider that the old Creek inheritance passed to the son of your sister. This means that maternal uncles are considered fathers and paternal first cousins are considered brothers and sisters. Add to this the fact that cousin marriage was common among both whites and Indians at the time, so the husband and wife would often share a set of grandparents. Also many Indians were also polygenous. All this makes a geneological chart a little more complicated.

** These are not proper names but titles. Napochi Mi'ko is the headman of Napochi (a minor chief sometimes called a cacique). Hadjo is the title born by a warrior. It literally means wild or fearless in Alibamo and is usually translated as "a brave". When he was older he was known as Napochi Emathla which means the good leader of Napochi. Emathla means a good or respected teacher and was almost a religious title among the Upper Creeks.

Napochie Emathla's personal name was Tommy and is listed on the 1832 Creek census as Tom Bartlett. Many Creeks had adopted English personal names even at this early stage. Differences m spelling of Indian names and titles are due to the white transcriber trying to write down Muscogean words based on how they sound to him.

Also shared by Harry Windham of Houston, Texas:

SC Darlington 1806 Deed Thomas Andrews to Peter DuBose 24 December 1806-

Thomas Andrews to Peter DuBose.....$500....640 Acres between Lynches Creek and Newman Swamp Witnesses- Enos Matthis, Moses Matthis Signed- Thomas Andrews

Dower Release by - Zilpha Andrews (her X mark) 27 July 1807 (End information from Harry Windham).94

Ancestors of David Anthony Windham

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Intoduction

Generation One

1. David A.1 Windham (Leon Roland, #2).1

Generation Two

2. Leon Roland2 Windham (Woodrow Draten, #3).3

Generation Three

3. Woodrow Draten3 Windham (Leon Roland, #5).6

Generation Four

5. Leon Roland4 Windham (John W., #7).14

Generation Five

7. John W.5 Windham (Eli W., #9).22

Generation Six

9. Eli W.6 Windham (James, #11).

Generation Seven

11. James7 Windham ('Old' John, #13).

Generation Eight

13. 'Old' John8 Windham (Charles, #17).85

Generation Nine

17. Charles9 Windham (Clere Wyndham, #19)

Generation Ten

19. Clere10 Wyndham (Charles, #21)185 was christened on 24 Sep 1663.

Generation Eleven

21. Charles11 Wyndham of Stokesby (Thomas, #23).198

Generation Twelve

23. Thomas12 Wyndham of Stokesby (Thomas Windham, #25).219

Generation Thirteen

25. Thomas13 Windham of Pentney (Henry Wyndham, #28).229

Generation Fourteen

28. Sir Henry14 Wyndham (Thomas, #31).264

Generation Fifteen

31. Sir Thomas15 Wyndham (Thomas, #34).297

Generation Sixteen

34. Sir Thomas16 Wyndham of Felbrigg (John, #36).307

Generation Seventeen

36. Sir John17 Wyndham of Crownthorpe and Felbrigg (John, #39).317

Generation Eighteen

39. John18 Wyndham (John Wymondham, #42).352

Generation Nineteen

42. John19 Wymondham (John de Wymondham, #47).372

Generation Twenty

47. John20 de Wymondham (Thomas, #52).389

Generation Twenty-One

52. Thomas21 de Wymondham (John, #57).407

Generation Twenty-Two

57. Sir John22 de Wymondham (John, #62).424

Generation Twenty-Three

62. John23 de Wymondham (William, #66).446

Generation Twenty-Four

66. William24 de Wymondham (Ralph, #70).459

Generation Twenty-Five

70. Ralph25 de Wymondham (John, #76).479

Generation Twenty-Six

76. John26 de Wymondham (Thomas, #82).506

Generation Twenty-Seven

82. Thomas27 de Wymondham (Eric, #88).534

Generation Twenty-Eight

Eric28 de Wymondham (Richard, #93).558

Generation Twenty-Nine

Richard29 de Wymondham (Ailwardus, #98).580

Generation Thirty

Ailwardus30 de Wymondham.613

Pedigree Doubt

Notes