Timothy Winn, Purser, USN
Officers of the Continental and U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, 1775-1900about Timothy Winn
Name: Timothy Winn
Rank Information: Purser
Military Branch: US Navy Officers (1798-1900)
Death Date: 18 Feb 1836
Timothy Winn
U. S. Navy Purser
Washington Navy Yard
(1773 -1836)
Introduction
Timothy Winn was born on 20 September 1773, to a prominent family in Burlington Township, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Winn entered the United States Navy in 1799, and served on the Frigate Chesapeake. As a Purser on the U.S.S. Chesapeake he had served on an expedition to North Africa against the Barbary Corsairs (1801-1805).1 He married Rebecca Ann Dulaney (1784-1865) at Alexandria, Virginia in 181l. The couple had three children: Eliza Rebecca Winn (1812-1835), William Timothy Winn (1813-1848), and Mary Louisa Winn (1818 -1854). Timothy Winn was appointed Purser at the Washington Navy Yard in 1815; a powerful position which he held until his death on 18 February 1836. The Washington Navy Yard Purser was almost by definition an extremely influential position and as such, Timothy Winn was in charge of contracting for the District of Columbia's largest employer and industrial concern. As the Washington Navy Yard Purser, Timothy Winn was in charge of all procurement and contracting for naval supplies and equipment. Timothy Winn was said to be a man of considerable scholarship and learning.
Timothy Winn's Last Will and Testament like other such legal documents reflects primarily his business and commercial interests, especially his involvement in the Washington Navy Yard Bridge Company and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company as a major shareholder in both. These commercial concerns gave Timothy Winn the requisite entry and the ability to take active interest in local and national politics. He was also a major backer of the Corporation Stock of Washington City which gave him a prominent voice in the District politics. Timothy Winn's Last Will and Testament is a reflection of both his wealth and social standing in the early Washington, D.C. community. The inventory of his personal estate and possessions noted during the subsequent probate of his Last Will and Testament gives further evidence of his rich and socially connected life. Winn was a well known figure at the Navy Yard where he was in charge of paying the workforce. Michael Shiner (1805-1880), a slave and later a freeman who worked at Washington Navy Yard for fifty five years mentions Timothy Winn three times in his Diary.
Timothy Winn's Last Will gives us glimpses too of his personal concerns, most pronounced of which was his strong love, and his desire to pass on his estate intact to his wife and children. Here he provides detailed instructions and tries to consider all eventualities, such as the early death of his children and the perceived need to take care of his then ailing wife Rebecca (she outlived him by thirty years). One issue that clearly troubled Naval Purser Winn was the strong possibility that the Department of the Navy would make claim against his estate for non approved and alleged improper payments to Washington Navy Yard employees while acting as Navy Agent.3 Here Winn leaves emphatic instruction for his heirs not to pay what for Winn is clearly an unjust demand.
Like many Naval Officers and men of property4 , Timothy Winn owned slaves. The 1830 Federal Census for the District of Columbia enumerates three slaves owned by Timothy Winn and one free Black male in his employ. In his 1836 Will, there are eight slaves noted, and we find that Timothy Winn, like many slave owners in antebellum Washington, was conflicted as to how to arrange for his slaves after his death. The term "servant" is the polite euphemism found in this and other such documents. The house and property, including the servants, are for his wife Rebecca during her lifetime (which fortunately for the family and his servants was a long one). Had Rebecca died soon after her spouse, then the "servants" Charles Grandison and Eliza Savoy would have been bequeathed to Winn's son, William Timothy and his daughter Mary Louisa respectively. In that case, the servants would have come to his heirs with the following caution: "They are neither of them to be sold nor be set free on any account whatever. I have too much regard for them to set them free to provide for & support themselves in their old age, after having had their faithful services for the best part of their lives. They must be comfortably & well provided for & kindly treated & supported & receive every indulgence compatible with their situation." One rationale for Winn expressly stating a high regard for the servants, yet insisting that they were not to be freed, was to minimize the real likelihood that older slaves might be quickly manumitted by a new owner and left elderly and free but with no income or support.
Some of this same conflicted thought is found in other provisions of his Will: "My Servant Man, John Douglass" the will relates, "shall not be free, nor shall he be sold without his own free will & consent. He may be held in common by my Son & Daughter."
We can never know for certain what Timothy Winn's slaves actually thought of their late master. But regardless of their relationship, his slaves under law, were simply property and as such still subject to public sale on his death to pay his or his heirs debts or simply for the convenience of their new owners.
One very real fear of all District of Columbia slaves, after the death of a master, was to have their families broken up or for one or more family member "to be sold south", where conditions of servitude were even harsher. Fortunately, after Timothy's death, Rebecca Winn continued to live on.
Timothy Winn's last years were probably sad ones. His daughter Eliza Rebecca Winn died at age 23, and the Department of the Treasury auditors held Winn personally liable for hiring an assistant as purser's clerk with out the necessary authorization.8 During this same period his beloved wife Rebecca (according to his will) was ill and to add to his existing burdens the new Commandant of the Washington Navy Yard, Commodore Isaac Hull attempted (unsuccessfully) to replace him as Washington Navy Yard Purser.
In 1835, the last summer of Timothy Winn's life was particularly uneasy. In eastern cities like Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington DC, workers were agitating for a ten hour day. In July of that same year, Commodore Isaac Hull issued an order changing Yard work procedures and a bitter labor strike began when the mechanics and laborers refused to return to work. The Yard strikers blamed Commodore Hull for bringing in Black caulkers from Baltimore, Maryland. These strikers believed that Black workers were to be used to break their strike. This and other incidents exacerbated always simmering racial tension in Washington, and the Navy Yard white mechanics and laborers went on a three day rampage in which they threatened Blacks and broke up their businesses and property. Finally after days of disorder and riot, President Andrew Jackson, ordered on August 12, 1835, a company of US Marines to re-establish order and arrest the rioters in the unstable city.
Timothy Winn died on 18 February 1836 age 63 and is buried at the Congressional Cemetery, R41/126. Rebecca Ann Winn died in 1865; age 82, she is buried alongside her husband in the Congressional Cemetery, R41/127
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Officers of the Continental and U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, 1775-1900about Timothy Winn
Name: Timothy Winn
Rank Information: Purser
Military Branch: US Navy Officers (1798-1900)
Death Date: 18 Feb 1836
Timothy Winn
U. S. Navy Purser
Washington Navy Yard
(1773 -1836)
Introduction
Timothy Winn was born on 20 September 1773, to a prominent family in Burlington Township, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Winn entered the United States Navy in 1799, and served on the Frigate Chesapeake. As a Purser on the U.S.S. Chesapeake he had served on an expedition to North Africa against the Barbary Corsairs (1801-1805).1 He married Rebecca Ann Dulaney (1784-1865) at Alexandria, Virginia in 181l. The couple had three children: Eliza Rebecca Winn (1812-1835), William Timothy Winn (1813-1848), and Mary Louisa Winn (1818 -1854). Timothy Winn was appointed Purser at the Washington Navy Yard in 1815; a powerful position which he held until his death on 18 February 1836. The Washington Navy Yard Purser was almost by definition an extremely influential position and as such, Timothy Winn was in charge of contracting for the District of Columbia's largest employer and industrial concern. As the Washington Navy Yard Purser, Timothy Winn was in charge of all procurement and contracting for naval supplies and equipment. Timothy Winn was said to be a man of considerable scholarship and learning.
Timothy Winn's Last Will and Testament like other such legal documents reflects primarily his business and commercial interests, especially his involvement in the Washington Navy Yard Bridge Company and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company as a major shareholder in both. These commercial concerns gave Timothy Winn the requisite entry and the ability to take active interest in local and national politics. He was also a major backer of the Corporation Stock of Washington City which gave him a prominent voice in the District politics. Timothy Winn's Last Will and Testament is a reflection of both his wealth and social standing in the early Washington, D.C. community. The inventory of his personal estate and possessions noted during the subsequent probate of his Last Will and Testament gives further evidence of his rich and socially connected life. Winn was a well known figure at the Navy Yard where he was in charge of paying the workforce. Michael Shiner (1805-1880), a slave and later a freeman who worked at Washington Navy Yard for fifty five years mentions Timothy Winn three times in his Diary.
Timothy Winn's Last Will gives us glimpses too of his personal concerns, most pronounced of which was his strong love, and his desire to pass on his estate intact to his wife and children. Here he provides detailed instructions and tries to consider all eventualities, such as the early death of his children and the perceived need to take care of his then ailing wife Rebecca (she outlived him by thirty years). One issue that clearly troubled Naval Purser Winn was the strong possibility that the Department of the Navy would make claim against his estate for non approved and alleged improper payments to Washington Navy Yard employees while acting as Navy Agent.3 Here Winn leaves emphatic instruction for his heirs not to pay what for Winn is clearly an unjust demand.
Like many Naval Officers and men of property4 , Timothy Winn owned slaves. The 1830 Federal Census for the District of Columbia enumerates three slaves owned by Timothy Winn and one free Black male in his employ. In his 1836 Will, there are eight slaves noted, and we find that Timothy Winn, like many slave owners in antebellum Washington, was conflicted as to how to arrange for his slaves after his death. The term "servant" is the polite euphemism found in this and other such documents. The house and property, including the servants, are for his wife Rebecca during her lifetime (which fortunately for the family and his servants was a long one). Had Rebecca died soon after her spouse, then the "servants" Charles Grandison and Eliza Savoy would have been bequeathed to Winn's son, William Timothy and his daughter Mary Louisa respectively. In that case, the servants would have come to his heirs with the following caution: "They are neither of them to be sold nor be set free on any account whatever. I have too much regard for them to set them free to provide for & support themselves in their old age, after having had their faithful services for the best part of their lives. They must be comfortably & well provided for & kindly treated & supported & receive every indulgence compatible with their situation." One rationale for Winn expressly stating a high regard for the servants, yet insisting that they were not to be freed, was to minimize the real likelihood that older slaves might be quickly manumitted by a new owner and left elderly and free but with no income or support.
Some of this same conflicted thought is found in other provisions of his Will: "My Servant Man, John Douglass" the will relates, "shall not be free, nor shall he be sold without his own free will & consent. He may be held in common by my Son & Daughter."
We can never know for certain what Timothy Winn's slaves actually thought of their late master. But regardless of their relationship, his slaves under law, were simply property and as such still subject to public sale on his death to pay his or his heirs debts or simply for the convenience of their new owners.
One very real fear of all District of Columbia slaves, after the death of a master, was to have their families broken up or for one or more family member "to be sold south", where conditions of servitude were even harsher. Fortunately, after Timothy's death, Rebecca Winn continued to live on.
Timothy Winn's last years were probably sad ones. His daughter Eliza Rebecca Winn died at age 23, and the Department of the Treasury auditors held Winn personally liable for hiring an assistant as purser's clerk with out the necessary authorization.8 During this same period his beloved wife Rebecca (according to his will) was ill and to add to his existing burdens the new Commandant of the Washington Navy Yard, Commodore Isaac Hull attempted (unsuccessfully) to replace him as Washington Navy Yard Purser.
In 1835, the last summer of Timothy Winn's life was particularly uneasy. In eastern cities like Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington DC, workers were agitating for a ten hour day. In July of that same year, Commodore Isaac Hull issued an order changing Yard work procedures and a bitter labor strike began when the mechanics and laborers refused to return to work. The Yard strikers blamed Commodore Hull for bringing in Black caulkers from Baltimore, Maryland. These strikers believed that Black workers were to be used to break their strike. This and other incidents exacerbated always simmering racial tension in Washington, and the Navy Yard white mechanics and laborers went on a three day rampage in which they threatened Blacks and broke up their businesses and property. Finally after days of disorder and riot, President Andrew Jackson, ordered on August 12, 1835, a company of US Marines to re-establish order and arrest the rioters in the unstable city.
Timothy Winn died on 18 February 1836 age 63 and is buried at the Congressional Cemetery, R41/126. Rebecca Ann Winn died in 1865; age 82, she is buried alongside her husband in the Congressional Cemetery, R41/127
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Timothy Winn, Purser, USN
Officers of the Continental and U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, 1775-1900about Timothy Winn
Name: Timothy Winn
Rank Information: Purser
Military Branch: US Navy Officers (1798-1900)
Death Date: 18 Feb 1836
Timothy Winn
U. S. Navy Purser
Washington Navy Yard
(1773 -1836)
Introduction
Timothy Winn was born on 20 September 1773, to a prominent family in Burlington Township, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Winn entered the United States Navy in 1799, and served on the Frigate Chesapeake. As a Purser on the U.S.S. Chesapeake he had served on an expedition to North Africa against the Barbary Corsairs (1801-1805).1 He married Rebecca Ann Dulaney (1784-1865) at Alexandria, Virginia in 181l. The couple had three children: Eliza Rebecca Winn (1812-1835), William Timothy Winn (1813-1848), and Mary Louisa Winn (1818 -1854). Timothy Winn was appointed Purser at the Washington Navy Yard in 1815; a powerful position which he held until his death on 18 February 1836. The Washington Navy Yard Purser was almost by definition an extremely influential position and as such, Timothy Winn was in charge of contracting for the District of Columbia's largest employer and industrial concern. As the Washington Navy Yard Purser, Timothy Winn was in charge of all procurement and contracting for naval supplies and equipment. Timothy Winn was said to be a man of considerable scholarship and learning.
Timothy Winn's Last Will and Testament like other such legal documents reflects primarily his business and commercial interests, especially his involvement in the Washington Navy Yard Bridge Company and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company as a major shareholder in both. These commercial concerns gave Timothy Winn the requisite entry and the ability to take active interest in local and national politics. He was also a major backer of the Corporation Stock of Washington City which gave him a prominent voice in the District politics. Timothy Winn's Last Will and Testament is a reflection of both his wealth and social standing in the early Washington, D.C. community. The inventory of his personal estate and possessions noted during the subsequent probate of his Last Will and Testament gives further evidence of his rich and socially connected life. Winn was a well known figure at the Navy Yard where he was in charge of paying the workforce. Michael Shiner (1805-1880), a slave and later a freeman who worked at Washington Navy Yard for fifty five years mentions Timothy Winn three times in his Diary.
Timothy Winn's Last Will gives us glimpses too of his personal concerns, most pronounced of which was his strong love, and his desire to pass on his estate intact to his wife and children. Here he provides detailed instructions and tries to consider all eventualities, such as the early death of his children and the perceived need to take care of his then ailing wife Rebecca (she outlived him by thirty years). One issue that clearly troubled Naval Purser Winn was the strong possibility that the Department of the Navy would make claim against his estate for non approved and alleged improper payments to Washington Navy Yard employees while acting as Navy Agent.3 Here Winn leaves emphatic instruction for his heirs not to pay what for Winn is clearly an unjust demand.
Like many Naval Officers and men of property4 , Timothy Winn owned slaves. The 1830 Federal Census for the District of Columbia enumerates three slaves owned by Timothy Winn and one free Black male in his employ. In his 1836 Will, there are eight slaves noted, and we find that Timothy Winn, like many slave owners in antebellum Washington, was conflicted as to how to arrange for his slaves after his death. The term "servant" is the polite euphemism found in this and other such documents. The house and property, including the servants, are for his wife Rebecca during her lifetime (which fortunately for the family and his servants was a long one). Had Rebecca died soon after her spouse, then the "servants" Charles Grandison and Eliza Savoy would have been bequeathed to Winn's son, William Timothy and his daughter Mary Louisa respectively. In that case, the servants would have come to his heirs with the following caution: "They are neither of them to be sold nor be set free on any account whatever. I have too much regard for them to set them free to provide for & support themselves in their old age, after having had their faithful services for the best part of their lives. They must be comfortably & well provided for & kindly treated & supported & receive every indulgence compatible with their situation." One rationale for Winn expressly stating a high regard for the servants, yet insisting that they were not to be freed, was to minimize the real likelihood that older slaves might be quickly manumitted by a new owner and left elderly and free but with no income or support.
Some of this same conflicted thought is found in other provisions of his Will: "My Servant Man, John Douglass" the will relates, "shall not be free, nor shall he be sold without his own free will & consent. He may be held in common by my Son & Daughter."
We can never know for certain what Timothy Winn's slaves actually thought of their late master. But regardless of their relationship, his slaves under law, were simply property and as such still subject to public sale on his death to pay his or his heirs debts or simply for the convenience of their new owners.
One very real fear of all District of Columbia slaves, after the death of a master, was to have their families broken up or for one or more family member "to be sold south", where conditions of servitude were even harsher. Fortunately, after Timothy's death, Rebecca Winn continued to live on.
Timothy Winn's last years were probably sad ones. His daughter Eliza Rebecca Winn died at age 23, and the Department of the Treasury auditors held Winn personally liable for hiring an assistant as purser's clerk with out the necessary authorization.8 During this same period his beloved wife Rebecca (according to his will) was ill and to add to his existing burdens the new Commandant of the Washington Navy Yard, Commodore Isaac Hull attempted (unsuccessfully) to replace him as Washington Navy Yard Purser.
In 1835, the last summer of Timothy Winn's life was particularly uneasy. In eastern cities like Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington DC, workers were agitating for a ten hour day. In July of that same year, Commodore Isaac Hull issued an order changing Yard work procedures and a bitter labor strike began when the mechanics and laborers refused to return to work. The Yard strikers blamed Commodore Hull for bringing in Black caulkers from Baltimore, Maryland. These strikers believed that Black workers were to be used to break their strike. This and other incidents exacerbated always simmering racial tension in Washington, and the Navy Yard white mechanics and laborers went on a three day rampage in which they threatened Blacks and broke up their businesses and property. Finally after days of disorder and riot, President Andrew Jackson, ordered on August 12, 1835, a company of US Marines to re-establish order and arrest the rioters in the unstable city.
Timothy Winn died on 18 February 1836 age 63 and is buried at the Congressional Cemetery, R41/126. Rebecca Ann Winn died in 1865; age 82, she is buried alongside her husband in the Congressional Cemetery, R41/127
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Officers of the Continental and U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, 1775-1900about Timothy Winn
Name: Timothy Winn
Rank Information: Purser
Military Branch: US Navy Officers (1798-1900)
Death Date: 18 Feb 1836
Timothy Winn
U. S. Navy Purser
Washington Navy Yard
(1773 -1836)
Introduction
Timothy Winn was born on 20 September 1773, to a prominent family in Burlington Township, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Winn entered the United States Navy in 1799, and served on the Frigate Chesapeake. As a Purser on the U.S.S. Chesapeake he had served on an expedition to North Africa against the Barbary Corsairs (1801-1805).1 He married Rebecca Ann Dulaney (1784-1865) at Alexandria, Virginia in 181l. The couple had three children: Eliza Rebecca Winn (1812-1835), William Timothy Winn (1813-1848), and Mary Louisa Winn (1818 -1854). Timothy Winn was appointed Purser at the Washington Navy Yard in 1815; a powerful position which he held until his death on 18 February 1836. The Washington Navy Yard Purser was almost by definition an extremely influential position and as such, Timothy Winn was in charge of contracting for the District of Columbia's largest employer and industrial concern. As the Washington Navy Yard Purser, Timothy Winn was in charge of all procurement and contracting for naval supplies and equipment. Timothy Winn was said to be a man of considerable scholarship and learning.
Timothy Winn's Last Will and Testament like other such legal documents reflects primarily his business and commercial interests, especially his involvement in the Washington Navy Yard Bridge Company and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company as a major shareholder in both. These commercial concerns gave Timothy Winn the requisite entry and the ability to take active interest in local and national politics. He was also a major backer of the Corporation Stock of Washington City which gave him a prominent voice in the District politics. Timothy Winn's Last Will and Testament is a reflection of both his wealth and social standing in the early Washington, D.C. community. The inventory of his personal estate and possessions noted during the subsequent probate of his Last Will and Testament gives further evidence of his rich and socially connected life. Winn was a well known figure at the Navy Yard where he was in charge of paying the workforce. Michael Shiner (1805-1880), a slave and later a freeman who worked at Washington Navy Yard for fifty five years mentions Timothy Winn three times in his Diary.
Timothy Winn's Last Will gives us glimpses too of his personal concerns, most pronounced of which was his strong love, and his desire to pass on his estate intact to his wife and children. Here he provides detailed instructions and tries to consider all eventualities, such as the early death of his children and the perceived need to take care of his then ailing wife Rebecca (she outlived him by thirty years). One issue that clearly troubled Naval Purser Winn was the strong possibility that the Department of the Navy would make claim against his estate for non approved and alleged improper payments to Washington Navy Yard employees while acting as Navy Agent.3 Here Winn leaves emphatic instruction for his heirs not to pay what for Winn is clearly an unjust demand.
Like many Naval Officers and men of property4 , Timothy Winn owned slaves. The 1830 Federal Census for the District of Columbia enumerates three slaves owned by Timothy Winn and one free Black male in his employ. In his 1836 Will, there are eight slaves noted, and we find that Timothy Winn, like many slave owners in antebellum Washington, was conflicted as to how to arrange for his slaves after his death. The term "servant" is the polite euphemism found in this and other such documents. The house and property, including the servants, are for his wife Rebecca during her lifetime (which fortunately for the family and his servants was a long one). Had Rebecca died soon after her spouse, then the "servants" Charles Grandison and Eliza Savoy would have been bequeathed to Winn's son, William Timothy and his daughter Mary Louisa respectively. In that case, the servants would have come to his heirs with the following caution: "They are neither of them to be sold nor be set free on any account whatever. I have too much regard for them to set them free to provide for & support themselves in their old age, after having had their faithful services for the best part of their lives. They must be comfortably & well provided for & kindly treated & supported & receive every indulgence compatible with their situation." One rationale for Winn expressly stating a high regard for the servants, yet insisting that they were not to be freed, was to minimize the real likelihood that older slaves might be quickly manumitted by a new owner and left elderly and free but with no income or support.
Some of this same conflicted thought is found in other provisions of his Will: "My Servant Man, John Douglass" the will relates, "shall not be free, nor shall he be sold without his own free will & consent. He may be held in common by my Son & Daughter."
We can never know for certain what Timothy Winn's slaves actually thought of their late master. But regardless of their relationship, his slaves under law, were simply property and as such still subject to public sale on his death to pay his or his heirs debts or simply for the convenience of their new owners.
One very real fear of all District of Columbia slaves, after the death of a master, was to have their families broken up or for one or more family member "to be sold south", where conditions of servitude were even harsher. Fortunately, after Timothy's death, Rebecca Winn continued to live on.
Timothy Winn's last years were probably sad ones. His daughter Eliza Rebecca Winn died at age 23, and the Department of the Treasury auditors held Winn personally liable for hiring an assistant as purser's clerk with out the necessary authorization.8 During this same period his beloved wife Rebecca (according to his will) was ill and to add to his existing burdens the new Commandant of the Washington Navy Yard, Commodore Isaac Hull attempted (unsuccessfully) to replace him as Washington Navy Yard Purser.
In 1835, the last summer of Timothy Winn's life was particularly uneasy. In eastern cities like Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington DC, workers were agitating for a ten hour day. In July of that same year, Commodore Isaac Hull issued an order changing Yard work procedures and a bitter labor strike began when the mechanics and laborers refused to return to work. The Yard strikers blamed Commodore Hull for bringing in Black caulkers from Baltimore, Maryland. These strikers believed that Black workers were to be used to break their strike. This and other incidents exacerbated always simmering racial tension in Washington, and the Navy Yard white mechanics and laborers went on a three day rampage in which they threatened Blacks and broke up their businesses and property. Finally after days of disorder and riot, President Andrew Jackson, ordered on August 12, 1835, a company of US Marines to re-establish order and arrest the rioters in the unstable city.
Timothy Winn died on 18 February 1836 age 63 and is buried at the Congressional Cemetery, R41/126. Rebecca Ann Winn died in 1865; age 82, she is buried alongside her husband in the Congressional Cemetery, R41/127
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