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Thomas Winch
(1694-1761)
Deborah Gleason
(1703-)
Caleb Drury
(1688-1760)
Elizabeth Eames
(1685-)
Thomas Winch
(1723-After 1766)
Elizabeth Drury
(1721-)
Jason Winch
(1746-1838)

 

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Abigail Howe

Jason Winch 1389,1390

  • Born: 2 Sep 1746, Framingham, Middlesex, MA 509
  • Marriage: Abigail Howe on 13 Dec 1777 in Roxbury, Suffolk, MA 505
  • Died: 2 Jul 1838, Northfield, Vermont aged 91 510
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bullet  General Notes:

[16960.ged] Ancestry.com

An article in the Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society (PVHS Vol. 1X No 4, "THE REVEREND JOEL WINCH - PIONEER MINISTER Selections from His Diaries" edited by Arthur Wallace Peach gives the following text detailing his background and that of his father, Jason Winch. The article introduced a limited amount of punctuation and some paragraphing; otherwise, the text stands as Joel Winch wrote it in 1802.

"I was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in the year Seventeen Hundred Eighty, December Seventeenth. My father by occupation was a tanner. He profest no religion, yet he owned what was called the half way covenant, and so got his children baptised as was the fashion in them Dayes. He determined if possible to have the Riches of this World, and after much labour he obtain'd a decient interest, but he last nearly all by the fall of paper Money. soon after which he was taken sick with a Favor which held or kept him confiend for one year and that with other sickness which he had in his Family difested him of what little Property remaind with him. He then moved to Fittswilliam in new Hampshire whare he set up his Trade again where he lived for a few years. He was then burn't out there which brought him into exceeding low circumstances. He then concluded that he would leave his trade and try Farming. He therefore sold his little seat in Fitzwilliam and mooved to Harland County of Windsor State of Vermont where he purchased a small Farm, and haveing nothing to pay for it with and having a Family of small Children to moove on to an intire new Farm, he was brought to the necesity of labouring verry hard. He was not yet discouraged but was determined to be rich if posible. He frequently would work out the Dayes works, after which he wold come home and work the chief of the Night on his farm. On the Sabbaths he would call us all together and pray, and my mother would lern us the Catecism, and so tell us that God had foreordained whatsoever came to pass. But they both being determined to be rich, they took every lawful method to obtain it. But still the took no pains to lay up tresurs in Heaven, therefore the Lord did not prosper them. They could not bring any creture onto the Farm but what it would die. They having no Cow took on for which they ware to give two at the end of three Years, and in two weeks after she was drove Home she died with the Murrain, but the owner made no alowence for that. They also bought a few Sheep and the chief of them died also and a number of other things which I shall not mention. However, they ware striving for the God of this World but the God of Eturnity was against them. They now began to see that they ware wrong and had been wrong all there Dayes. I one morning heard my father say that he had ought to seek first the Kingdom of Heaven and its righteousness. Jason Winch went to Fitzwilliam, NH in 1782 or '83, and built a tannery on the site of the one later owned by Col. Lyman Wright. he carried on tanning and currying there a few years, but being unfortunate in his business he closed it up and left town. He removed from Fitzwilliam before 1793 (History of Fitzwilliam). After living in Harland he removed to Northfield in 1813 and settled on the farm which was later owned by his grandson, Joel Winch, Esq.

He was christened January 7, 1781 in Roxbury, MA


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Jason married Abigail Howe, daughter of James Howe and Jane Meroth, on 13 Dec 1777 in Roxbury, Suffolk, MA.505 (Abigail Howe was born on 2 Jun 1750 in Dorchester, Suffolk, MA 507 and died on 14 Aug 1824 in Northfield, Vermont 510.)


bullet  Marriage Notes:

marriage to Jason.. see IGI batch 5008392, call #1553369 sheet 51



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