I posted this message last year and would like to post it again: Is anyone doing research on the Winns in Clermont/Brown Co. Ohio? I have good reason to connect my William Winn Jr. to his father William Winn in Clermont Co.: My line goes back through William Winn b.17 May 1803 in KY -> his father William Winn b. 1759 Loudon Co., VA, d.1822 Clermont Co, OH. (His parents, Thomas and Mary Winn, went from Loudoun Co,VA to KY in 1784 when Thomas and his brothers George and Owen each received adjoining land in Fayette Co, KY by treasury warrants #383, 382, & 372: Fayette Co., KY, clerk's office, Old Survey Book No. A, pp. 401-403). I believe my William to be the elder William's son for the following reasons: 1. One of William Jr's sons, Richard Byrd Winn, names William Winn of KY and OH as his grandfather in a letter 21 July 1929. 2. William Sr owned land next to Aaron Osborne in Clermont Co, OH, and William Jr. married Phebe Osborne, Aaron's daughter. 3. William Sr had a sister Frankey who m. Archibald Harris. William Jr. and Phebe had as a witness at their marriage Nancy Harris, a daughter of Archibald and Frankey Harris. 4. William Sr was a gunsmith and William Jr was a gunsmith. When Richard Byrd Winn made a declaration for Civil War Invalid Pension, he stated: "Father residing 8 miles NE of Greenfield, was then engaged in farming but was by trade a gunsmith." The Greene Co, IL Historical and Genealogical Society has the following: "12 Jan 1922, Another O T Remembers: I remember when William Winn and his son George had a gun shop in a log cabin, on what has since been known as the Fred Fishback Farm and they lived in another cabin on the place. They made "hair trigger" rifles, and everybody who could afford it had a Winn rifle." 5. William Jr went to IN with Thomas Winn, Wm Sr's son who was also a gunsmith. 6. William Jr and his son George Washington Winn signed the Civil War widow pension papers of Elizabeth Howard, daughter of Wm Sr's daughter Jane Winn who m. Samford Shipman. I wish, however, that I had a land record or something to tie my William to his father, William Sr. Does anyone have any information on this Winn family? Sincerely yours, Shirley Winn Williams