Named for his father’s uncle who probably played a major role in Col. Robert Wynne’s life after his father died, Joshua Wynne was born in 1665 in Charles City County, Virginia. When he was thirteen years old his illustrious father, Col. Robert Wynne, died in 1675. By the terms of his father's will, Joshua received property in both England and Virginia. In Canterbury, England, where King Charles II was on the throne, he received one house and "oat meale mill lying in Dover Lane without St. Georges commonly called the Lilly Pott and two houses adjoining." In Charles City County, Virginia he received his father's plantation George's. His quarter (house) in Charles City County was on the south side of Nottoway River about three miles above Monks Neck Creek, which rises in Dinwiddie County and flows into Powanty Creek.
In 1704 Joshua was mentioned as “Major of the Militia” of Prince George County and was also made interpreter to the Indians. In 1704 the Nottoway, Meherren, Nansemond, Paumkey and Chickahominy Indians petitioned the Governor of Virginia to allow some of their chief men to go north to conclude a peace with the Seneca Indians and ransom the Nottoway king who had been taken prisoner the previous summer. They "desired leave" to take with them Captain Joshua Wynne and his brother Captain Thomas Wynne "without whose consent and approbation they were to conclude nothing." Joshua and Thomas "seem to have been fearless adventurers, for this was a far away, difficult journey."
Colonial life in the first half of the seventeenth century was fraught with hardship and danger, and death was ever present from illnesses, childbirth and even murder. Sadly, although Joshua had served his community since he was a very young man in many capacities including working on behalf of issues important to the Indian community, in late 1712 Joshua Wynne, age fifty, was killed by Indians. There is conjecture as to which tribe was responsible; the Five Nations, the Saphony, or the Seneca.
Joshua Wynne I was certainly a credit to the Wynne family as he followed in his father's, grandfather’s, and great grandfather’s footsteps in public service. In England he was the landlord of rental property that he had inherited from his father. In Virginia he was a plantation owner with over eight hundred fifty acres, six hundred sixty of which he inherited from his father. He was also a merchant, attorney, Indian interpreter, overseer of highways, justice of the peace, a representative in the House of Burgesses in the Virginia legislature, a Major in the Virginia Militia, Sheriff of Prince George County, husband, father of seven children and a friend who witnessed many legal documents and served as the administrator of several estates. He was clearly a man of many talents, responsibilities, and capabilities and he was obviously held in high esteem by his fellow countrymen.
NOTE: FG does not have a link to the Merchants Hope Church cemetery, est.1657, which is next door to Merchants Hope Memorial Park.
In 1704 Joshua was mentioned as “Major of the Militia” of Prince George County and was also made interpreter to the Indians. In 1704 the Nottoway, Meherren, Nansemond, Paumkey and Chickahominy Indians petitioned the Governor of Virginia to allow some of their chief men to go north to conclude a peace with the Seneca Indians and ransom the Nottoway king who had been taken prisoner the previous summer. They "desired leave" to take with them Captain Joshua Wynne and his brother Captain Thomas Wynne "without whose consent and approbation they were to conclude nothing." Joshua and Thomas "seem to have been fearless adventurers, for this was a far away, difficult journey."
Colonial life in the first half of the seventeenth century was fraught with hardship and danger, and death was ever present from illnesses, childbirth and even murder. Sadly, although Joshua had served his community since he was a very young man in many capacities including working on behalf of issues important to the Indian community, in late 1712 Joshua Wynne, age fifty, was killed by Indians. There is conjecture as to which tribe was responsible; the Five Nations, the Saphony, or the Seneca.
Joshua Wynne I was certainly a credit to the Wynne family as he followed in his father's, grandfather’s, and great grandfather’s footsteps in public service. In England he was the landlord of rental property that he had inherited from his father. In Virginia he was a plantation owner with over eight hundred fifty acres, six hundred sixty of which he inherited from his father. He was also a merchant, attorney, Indian interpreter, overseer of highways, justice of the peace, a representative in the House of Burgesses in the Virginia legislature, a Major in the Virginia Militia, Sheriff of Prince George County, husband, father of seven children and a friend who witnessed many legal documents and served as the administrator of several estates. He was clearly a man of many talents, responsibilities, and capabilities and he was obviously held in high esteem by his fellow countrymen.
NOTE: FG does not have a link to the Merchants Hope Church cemetery, est.1657, which is next door to Merchants Hope Memorial Park.
Named for his father’s uncle who probably played a major role in Col. Robert Wynne’s life after his father died, Joshua Wynne was born in 1665 in Charles City County, Virginia. When he was thirteen years old his illustrious father, Col. Robert Wynne, died in 1675. By the terms of his father's will, Joshua received property in both England and Virginia. In Canterbury, England, where King Charles II was on the throne, he received one house and "oat meale mill lying in Dover Lane without St. Georges commonly called the Lilly Pott and two houses adjoining." In Charles City County, Virginia he received his father's plantation George's. His quarter (house) in Charles City County was on the south side of Nottoway River about three miles above Monks Neck Creek, which rises in Dinwiddie County and flows into Powanty Creek.
In 1704 Joshua was mentioned as “Major of the Militia” of Prince George County and was also made interpreter to the Indians. In 1704 the Nottoway, Meherren, Nansemond, Paumkey and Chickahominy Indians petitioned the Governor of Virginia to allow some of their chief men to go north to conclude a peace with the Seneca Indians and ransom the Nottoway king who had been taken prisoner the previous summer. They "desired leave" to take with them Captain Joshua Wynne and his brother Captain Thomas Wynne "without whose consent and approbation they were to conclude nothing." Joshua and Thomas "seem to have been fearless adventurers, for this was a far away, difficult journey."
Colonial life in the first half of the seventeenth century was fraught with hardship and danger, and death was ever present from illnesses, childbirth and even murder. Sadly, although Joshua had served his community since he was a very young man in many capacities including working on behalf of issues important to the Indian community, in late 1712 Joshua Wynne, age fifty, was killed by Indians. There is conjecture as to which tribe was responsible; the Five Nations, the Saphony, or the Seneca.
Joshua Wynne I was certainly a credit to the Wynne family as he followed in his father's, grandfather’s, and great grandfather’s footsteps in public service. In England he was the landlord of rental property that he had inherited from his father. In Virginia he was a plantation owner with over eight hundred fifty acres, six hundred sixty of which he inherited from his father. He was also a merchant, attorney, Indian interpreter, overseer of highways, justice of the peace, a representative in the House of Burgesses in the Virginia legislature, a Major in the Virginia Militia, Sheriff of Prince George County, husband, father of seven children and a friend who witnessed many legal documents and served as the administrator of several estates. He was clearly a man of many talents, responsibilities, and capabilities and he was obviously held in high esteem by his fellow countrymen.
NOTE: FG does not have a link to the Merchants Hope Church cemetery, est.1657, which is next door to Merchants Hope Memorial Park.
In 1704 Joshua was mentioned as “Major of the Militia” of Prince George County and was also made interpreter to the Indians. In 1704 the Nottoway, Meherren, Nansemond, Paumkey and Chickahominy Indians petitioned the Governor of Virginia to allow some of their chief men to go north to conclude a peace with the Seneca Indians and ransom the Nottoway king who had been taken prisoner the previous summer. They "desired leave" to take with them Captain Joshua Wynne and his brother Captain Thomas Wynne "without whose consent and approbation they were to conclude nothing." Joshua and Thomas "seem to have been fearless adventurers, for this was a far away, difficult journey."
Colonial life in the first half of the seventeenth century was fraught with hardship and danger, and death was ever present from illnesses, childbirth and even murder. Sadly, although Joshua had served his community since he was a very young man in many capacities including working on behalf of issues important to the Indian community, in late 1712 Joshua Wynne, age fifty, was killed by Indians. There is conjecture as to which tribe was responsible; the Five Nations, the Saphony, or the Seneca.
Joshua Wynne I was certainly a credit to the Wynne family as he followed in his father's, grandfather’s, and great grandfather’s footsteps in public service. In England he was the landlord of rental property that he had inherited from his father. In Virginia he was a plantation owner with over eight hundred fifty acres, six hundred sixty of which he inherited from his father. He was also a merchant, attorney, Indian interpreter, overseer of highways, justice of the peace, a representative in the House of Burgesses in the Virginia legislature, a Major in the Virginia Militia, Sheriff of Prince George County, husband, father of seven children and a friend who witnessed many legal documents and served as the administrator of several estates. He was clearly a man of many talents, responsibilities, and capabilities and he was obviously held in high esteem by his fellow countrymen.
NOTE: FG does not have a link to the Merchants Hope Church cemetery, est.1657, which is next door to Merchants Hope Memorial Park.
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Yankee soldiers, during the Civil War, used Merchant's Hope Church as a picket and destroyed most of the headstones.
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