Anthony Winston
Anthony Winston (November 17, 1750 – December 20, 1828) was an American military officer, politician and planter. About two decades after the death of his father of the same name, in Buckingham County, Virginia (which this man represented in the Virginia General Assembly both before and after the American Revolutionary War, he and his brothers moved to what became Mississippi Territory and later Alabama Territory, where several descendants continued the family's military, plantation and political traditions. Early and family life This Anthony Winston was born on November 25, 1750, in Hanover County, Virginia to Anthony Winston (1723–1783) and his wife, the formerly widowed Alice Thornton Taylor (1730–1764). His grandfather, sea Captain Isaac Winston and his wife, the former Sarah Jennings, had settled near the falls of the James River and what became Richmond, Virginia. They also had three daughters who married into prominent Virginia planter families: Lucy Winston Dabney (1703–1791), Sarah Winston Henry (1709–1784; mother of Patrick Henry) and Mary Ann Winston Coles (1721–1758). Around 1765, the Winston family obtained a five-year old orphaned Portuguese boy, Peter Francisco, who had been found on the docks at City Point, Virginia and taken to the Prince George County Poorhouse. Capt. Winston realized