This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Winn Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FgWBAEB/856 Message Board Post: I'm not of the family just a helper and this is all I have it's just a small lead. Timothy Winn was a Purser in the navy of 1812. He was paid $40. a month and got 2 rations a day. Some time in 1812 he became a navy agent for the district of Columbia. Timothy Winn died before 1840, his Executor was William T. Winn.