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Hannah Wintemute was born on 25 October 1780 in Niagara, Ontario, Canada. She and John Weaver were married on 6 March 1796. She died on 18 March 1854, at age 73, in Humberstone, Welland, Ontario, Canada.

Named as Hannah Weaver in the will of her father. In the "Wintermute Family History" it is stated that she was born in 1780 and died in 1854 and that she married John Weaver, formerly of Dutchess County, New York.

Mary Decker Windecker and John Johannes Wintemute were married before 1772 in New Jersey. She died in 1774 in New Jersey.

Kelsey Jones mentions that in a list of Butlers Rangers that naturally included the Wintermute boys, Hendrick "Henry" Windecker was also on the list.

Besides the notorious Windecker at the Battle of Wyoming, I would like to know more about this family.

Josiah Trowbridge was born on 28 September 1785 in Framingham, Massachusetts. He and Margaret Wintemute were married on 22 September 1813 in Buffalo, Erie, New York. He died on 18 September 1862, at age 76, in Buffalo, Erie, New York.

Josiah Trowbridge was a Doctor.¹

Philip Wintemute was born in 1742 in Sussex County, New Jersey. He and Edia Allen were married before January 1797.¹ He died in 1809, at age ~67, in Bertie, Welland, Ontario, Canada.

He served in Butler's Rangers throughout the Revolution and subsequently settled in Bertie Township. He was listed in a return of the Loyalists in Captain George Dame's Company at Niagara on 30 November 1783, his age being given as 41. [Haldimand Papers, B105-A:385] His land petition [W2:97] dated at Niagara 26 January 1797 only states that he served six years in Butler's Rangers and that at the reduction of the Corps he settled near Ft Erie.

He married Mrs Edia Allen, widow of John Allen. Her petition [W2:64] is not dated but was received 27 January 1797. She was named in it as Edia Wintermute, wife of Philip Wintermute but late widow of John Allen. She and her late husband came into the Province in 1785 with two children. In a subsequent petition [W4:58] dated at Niagara 7 February 1797 she stated that she and her late husband John Allen came into the Province "about nine years ago" and settled on a lot of land at the head of the Chippawa, but that her husband "soon after dying" left her with a "large" family of children.

It is apparent from Philip's will that he did not have any children or, at least, none who survived him. He did not mention his wife in his will so it would appear that she pre-deceased him. His will, on file at St Catherines, is dated 17 June 1809 and describes him as being of Bertie. He named: "my nephew Phillip Wintermute the eldest son of my brother Leonard Wintermute; my brother Abraham Wintermute; my nephew Abraham and niece Anna; son and daughter of my brother Abraham, to have Lot 9 in the Front Concession off Bertie, 60 acres, when the become of age; my nephew Phillip Wintermute son of my brother Peter Wintermute 260 acres, being Lot 12 Concession 1 of Dorchester; my nephew Phillip Wintermute son of my brother Benjamin Wintermute all my claim of interest to a certain tract lying near the Grand River and on the Indian lands which I purchased from the late Captain Joseph Brant; and my niece Polly Wintermute, daughter of my brother Benjamin Wintermute". He named as executors Christian Ryslay and John Warren Jr, both of Bertie. Witnesses were Benjamin Wintermute, William Powell and John Putman. The will was proved 10 October 1809 on the oath of John Putman of Bertie, gentleman.

Benjamin Wintemute was born on 27 December 1761 in Walpack, Sussex, New Jersey.¹ He died on 22 September 1841, at age 79, in Bertie Township, Welland, Ontario, Canada.¹ He was buried in Saint Pauls Anglican Cemetery, Fort Erie, Niagara Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada.^2,1

Benjamin Wintemute resided Baptized 27 December 1761.
Residence: Settled in Canada; migrated to Brit. Col.

Peter Petrus Wintemute was born on 10 July 1751 in Walpack, Sussex, New Jersey.¹ He and Eve Sipes were married before 1782. He died on 1 December 1838, at age 87, in Bertie Township, Welland, Niagara District, Upper Canada. He was buried in McAffee Cemetery, Fort Erie, Niagara Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada.²

Peter Petrus Wintemute resided Baptized 19 August 1753.
Residence: Black Rock on Niagara River, Canada

There may be a mistake in the will because the Anthony land was located in the Lot number nine of the third concession. Although this may have been another parcel.
I think brother peter or Philip may have left lot 9 of 3rd conns to her (Sarah Anthony) later.
Edward Kornowski

Last Will and Testament of Peter Wintermute Senior of the township of Bertie in the County of Lincoln,in the Division of Niagara, and the province of Upper canada, I Peter Wintermute considering the uncertainty of this mortal life, and being of sound and memory blessed be the Almighty God for the same do make publish this my last will and testament, in manner and form following (that is to say)

First: I give and bequeath to my eldest son, James lots number ten and eleven in the second concession from Lake Erie in Bertie aforesaid being two hundred acres more or less to him his heirs and assigns forever.

Second: To my son Philip I give and bequeath the south half of lot number nine in the third concession of Bertie aforesaid being fifty acres more or less to him, his heirs and assigns forever,

Third: To my nephew Peter Wintermute son, of my son James Wintermute, I give and bequeath the sum of two pounds Province currency which I devise to be paid to him imediately after my death, out of my goods and cattles by my executor.

Fourth: To my son Alexander, I give and bequeath a piece of land known and described as follows, (viz) commencing at the distance of six chains and three links from lot number one in front of the first cross concession on the Niagra river it being part of the lot number two in the first cross concession, thru south thirty-five degrees west to allowance for a road in rear therein east to lands sold by me to William Powell, thence north eleven degrees east to within four chains six chain links and one sixth of a link of the ______ ________ northwesterly three chains sixteen links and one sixth of a link therein north , eleven degrees east to the place of that remains that I give to my son Alexander ten arces of land off of the lot number nine in the fourth concession of Bertie of aforesaid , off of the east end to him and his heirs and assigns forever,

Fifth: To my son William I give and bequeath the piece of land off of lot number nine in the fourth concession of Bertie aforesaid, west of and adjoining Alexanders land, to him his heirs and assigns forever.

Sixth: To my son John I give and bequeath the following described land (viz) commencing in front of the north west corner of lot number 1? thru or near the corner at the land belonging to Abraham Hershey_____thence southeasterly up to the river seven chains thence south thirty chains thence west seven chains to lot number four thence north to the place of begining, I also give to my son John ten acres of land off of lot number nine in the fourth concession of Bertie aforesaid, west of and adjoining William's land, to him his heirs and assigns forever.

Seventh: I give and bequeath to my daughter Sarah wife of William Anthony ten acres of land off of lot number nine in the fourth concession of Bertie aforesaid, west of and adjoining Johns land, to her , her heirs and assigns forever.

Eighth: I give and bequeath to my daughter Hannah, widow of James Edsall, ten acres of land off of lot number nine in the fourth concesion of Bertie , aforesaid, west of and adjoining Sarah's land, to her, her heirs and assigns forever,

Ninth: To my daughter Mary single woman, I give and bequeath the folowing described land (viz) commencing at the distance of seven chains from the northwest corner of lot number three or from the land now given by me to John, Thence southeasterly up the river to the allowance for a road between lots number two and three, then commencing at the northwest corner of lot number two first cross concession, thence southeasterly up the _____seven chains, then south, thirty chains thence west sixchains to the allowance for a road between two and three then west to John's land then north to the place of begining _______ _______ _ ______ ______ _______to her ,her heirs and assigns forever, I also give to my daughter Mary the East half of lot number ten in the fourth (missing but belived to say "concession of Bertie , aforesaid")

Part may be missing, due to copying error text picks up on final page containing signature.

also the one half of my stock of Cattle _____to be sold three months after decease and the proceeds of the sale of my lands and stock Cattle ___after all my lawful debts are paid, to be equally divided between my sons William, John, and Alexander, And my Daughters Hannah, Mary, and Sarah, their heirs Executors or Admininstrators, The land and other property which I will, to be sold, to be sold by my executor, whom I do hereby Authorise to make or cause to be made in simple good and lawful Deed or Deeds, for such lands as by him sold and that my executor divide between my children after all my just Debtsare paid,The proceeds remaining of the sale of land cattle ___ And I do hereby Constitute and appoint William Powell Esquire of the Township of Bertie, District and province aforesaid my sole executor of this my last Will and Testament : hereby revoking all former Wills by me made, In witness where of I have here unto set hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Thirty Seven:

Signed Sealed Published and declared
by the above named Peter Wintermute
to be his last Will and Testament, in
the Presence of us who have here unto subscribed
our names as witness, in the presence of
the Testator and in the Presence of each other

Edmund Riselay PETER WINTERMUTE
JohnRiselay
William Powell

Baptized 21 Oct 1753.

John Johannes Wintemute was born on 25 October 1747 in Walpack, Sussex, New Jersey. He and Mary Decker Windecker were married before 1772 in New Jersey. He and Anna Margaretha (Mary) Sipes were married before 1797. He and Nancy (Lea) LeopardLeppard were married after 9 May 1797. He died on 15 February 1824, at age 76, in Humberstone, Welland, Ontario, Canada.

John Johannes Wintemute resided 25 October 1747. John Wintermute - Mary’s father it shows his death as February 15, 1824 but I have a copy of his will and it is dated March 22, 1824 so the month of his death may not be correct. I was able to obtain a copy of the will from the Ontario Archives.

Education: sold farm & moved to Humberston. Dtrs
Maiden Name: married men named Strawn (2), Moses Done,
TEXT: Stoffer, & Dennis.

He was baptized 25 October 1747. It is stated in "The Wintermute Family History" that John married in New Jersey a Miss Decker or Windecker and that she died there. Both names were common in the northern part of Sussex County. It should be noted, however, that a family of Windecker's, also tory, lived in the Wyoming Valley before the Revolution not far from where the Wintermute's lived. John's name appears on the tax lists for the Exeter District of that Valley for 1776 and 1777. He served in Butler's Rangers, and at the reduction of that Corps he settled in Bertie. His household is listed in a return of the Loyalists in Captain Bernard Frey's Company of the Rangers at Niagara 30 November 1783. [Haldimand Papers B105-A:381] The list names Corporal John Wintmot aged 27 and Mary Wintmot 24 followed by three entries with the name Wintmot written, but for which no first names or ages are given. If the age given for John was 37, it would be more in accordance with his baptismal record.

A land petition from him dated 9 July 1795 [W3:137] states that he served in Butler's Rangers as a corporal and that he has a family consisting of five children. No mention was made of a wife. The following certificate of J. Ball, J.P., on file with the petition, indicates a second marriage for John. "Newark, 20 March 1797. I do hereby certify that corporal John Wintermute served in Butler's Rangers during the was; that he had a family before the year 1789 consisting of a wife and eight children; that his wife is the daughter of a Loyalist Hannah Lybs who came in the year 1778".

The "Loyalist Hannah Lybs" can only mean Hannah Sypes, or Sipes, who did enter Niagara in 1778. This would mean that John had married a sister of the wife of his brother Peter, but additional evidence should be found to corroborate such a marriage. It is noted, however, that two of John's daughters were Hannah and Eve, names which were used in the Sipes family.

John subsequently married Nancy Leopard (leppard, etc) but whether this was before or after he moved to Humberstone is not known. Documents on file with Nancy's land petition [L:3:35] indicate that she was married to John after 9 May 1797 and more likely after 1800. A power of attorney dated at Humberstone, 22 October 1832 states that "I, Nancy Wintemute of Humberstone, widow of John Wintemute late of same place, yeoman, deceased, and daughter of William Leopard, at his birth of Bucks County in the State of Pennsylvania, known before marriage as Nancy Leopard, do appoint Andrew Mercer of the town of York as my attorney to receive for me title to the south part of Lot 23 Concession 4 of Scarboro' containing 100 acres". Witnesses were John Wintemute (Jr) and Aaron Doan. He was baptized on 25 October 1747 in Dutch Reformed, Walpack, Sussex Co. New Jersey.¹

Abraham Wintemute was born on 19 August 1750 in Walpack, Sussex, New Jersey. He and Mary Gertrude (?) were married between 1810 and 1814.^1,2 He died in November 1812, at age 62.¹

Abraham Wintemute resided 19 August 1750.
Baptized 10 Nov 1761. He served as a corporal in Butler's Rangers, and at the reduction settled near Ft Erie. A land petition dated at Bertie 22 February 1797 was for the completion of his military lands; no mention was made of a wife or children. He married Mary _______, and three of their children were baptized in Bertie 27 March 1825 by the Rector of Trinity Church, Chippawa: William, Catherine Mary and Abraham, adult son. [OHSP 8:181].

Maria (Mary) Juliana Huber was born in 1715 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. She died after 15 February 1797 in Niagara District, Upper Canada. She was buried in McAffee Cemetery, Fort Erie, Niagara Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada.

I am trying to determine the identity of Maria Julia Huber (Hover, Hoover) wife of George Philip Wintermute.

A Johannes Hendricus Hover b. 1705 came to Philadelphia n 1735 and settled in Smithfield, PA before 1742. This was on the west side of the Delaware River in present Monroe County, Pennsylvania and only a few miles from the Stillwater area. He was admitted a member of the Reformed Dutch Church at Smithfield on 22 June 1745 and on 6 June 1746 Susana Holeyson his wife was admitted, having formerly been a Lutheran.

Five known children:
John b. 1738 killed in Indian raid. The raid was perhaps in 1756 when the Indian disturbances along the Delaware became severe.
Henry b. 4 Apr 1740.
Susanna bpt 14 Mar 1742 Smithfield.
Samuel bpt 30 Dec 1744 Smithfield.
Emanuel bpt 20 Sept 1747 Smithfield taken prisoner in same raid that brother John was killed in. Emanuel later served in American Revolution as a Captain. On 18 Apr 1797 Manuel Hover and Mary his wife of Northampton County, Pennsylvania conveyed 150 acres in Walpack to Jonas Smith and wife Mary, excepting one half acre, it being the common burying ground of Walpack.

It is believed that a Johan Michael Huber who married Elizabeth Mennes, Catharian Huber who married Peter Conterman (Countryman, Gunderman, etc.), and Maria Juliana Huber Wintermute were perhaps siblings to Johan Hendricus (Henry). A Johan Michael Huber came on the ship "Snow Catherine" 28 May 1742. In the "Memorials of the Moravian Church" it is related that the brethern (Moravians) kept and preached a school in the upper valley of the Delaware on the Jersey shore in 1746 and 1747 and were ministered to by a Joseph Shaw who came on the same ship as Johan Michael Huber and were the first colonists who arrived at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in June 1742. On page 75 in speaking of Johan Michael Huber it says "lost at sea in a hurricane on the passage to St. Thomas in Oct 1747 along with the missionaries Joseph and Mary Shaw. There was another Johan Michael Huber who arrived 21 Aug 1750 on the ship "Anderson." He is perhaps the one who married Elizabeth Mennes and had a son Johannes baptised Feb 1753 Walpack sponsored by Peter Counterman and Catharine Huber.

The Hubers are mentioned in the parish registers of Trippstadt situated at or near Holzwald, six miles south of Kaiserslautern. Several Hubers came to Philadelphia in 1740's and 1750's.

J. Kelsey Jones
montrose@ptdprolog.net.

Sylvester Wintermute was born in December 1859 in Canada.^1,2 He and Matilda (Mary) Hering were married on 15 July 1893 in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.³ He died after 1910.

Sylvester Wintermute was a Couchman.² 1880 U.S. Wisconsin Census has Sylvester married to Annie, age 19, born in Wisconsin. George, brother, living with them.

George Wintermute was born about 1860 in Canada.¹ He died on 20 January 1894 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Edward Wintermute was born on 9 March 1857 in Canada. He and Bertha RadkeRatke were married on 27 May 1877 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He died on 8 May 1937, at age 80, in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Edward Wintermute was a Housemover.¹

Mary Charlotte Summerfield and Daniel Wintemute were married on 15 February 1854. She died before 1880.²

Sarah Wintemute was born about 1819 in Ontario, Canada. She was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, Erie, New York.¹

Elizabeth Wintemute was born in 1814 in West Canada.¹ She died before 1871.

John Wintemute was born in 1827 in Bertie Township, Welland, Ontario, Canada.¹ He and Sarah Elizabeth Fowler were married on 14 November 1851. He and Catharine Kline were married in 1866. He died before 1900.

John Wintemute was a Farmer.²

Daniel Wintemute was born on 12 December 1805 in Waterloo Ferry, Canada.¹ He and Mary Charlotte Summerfield were married on 15 February 1854. He died on 23 March 1889, at age 83, in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.²

Daniel Wintemute was a Housemover.³

William Wintemute was born in 1814.

Catharine Young was born in 1785 in Barton Township, Hamilton, Ontario.¹ She died on 3 January 1851, at age ~66, in Fort Erie, Bertie Township, Welland, Ontario, Canada. She was buried in Fort Erie, Bertie Township, Welland, Ontario, Canada.

Lovina Wintemute was born in 1820 in Oneida Township, Haldimand, Ontario, Canada. She died in 1873, at age ~53, in Oneida Township, Haldimand, Ontario, Canada.