Christopher Windsor Family

Contributed By: John Fox

Christopher Windsor lived in Stafford County, Virginia, in the part which later became Fairfax County as early as 1716.  He received a land grant there for 225 acres of land on 31 July 1717 (NNS:142)  His will was approved in Prince William County, Virginia in 1735.

The will of Christopher 1 Windsor dated 1735 Fairfax Co. Virginia mentions only sons Thomas 2 who married  Sarah Simpson, William 2 who d. 1752 in Loudon Co. Virginia and whose wife, Jemima Moxley, married afterward John Piles and had children by him. Jemima by her husband William Windsor had only children James and William. And then John Piles with his children and with James and William Windsor all moved to Monongalia Co. West Virginia about 1788. Last son mentioned in will of Christopher 1 Windsor is son Christopher 2. This Christopher 2 died in 1772 in Loudon Co. Virginia and left a son Christopher 3 (born c1750) who served in the Revolutionary War and moved to Kentucky about 1777. And this Christopher  also had a son John  and probably a daughter Sybil (b. 1766). It is believed the wife of Christopher 2 after the death of her husband in 1772 may have gone to North Carolina as a record for an "orphan of Christopher Windsor" appears about 1785 in one county in that state.

Thomas Windsor and Sarah Simpson remained in Fairfax County, but their son, John Windsor, married Rebecca Rice on 8 September 1767, and brought his family to live in Caswell County, NC.

 A Samuel Conner  signed with Sarah Windsor on papers at Christopher's death.  He bought land with John Melton (Milton) five years after Christopher's death. Samuel had a daughter Sybil who married John Melton (Milton) in 1757.  He was born in 1729 so I am assuming that Sybil was born in the approximate time frame.  Was Sibba Windsor (born between 1765-1784) her namesake?  Sibba Windsor married Chas. Milton.

The Miltons (William and Michael) also married into the Rice family.