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	TN Encyclopedia: JAMES WINCHESTER
		James Winchester, pioneer, entrepreneur, military commander, and founder of Memphis, was born in Westminster, Maryland, and served in Maryland regiments during the American Revolution.
		Winchester came to Davidson County, North Carolina, in 1785 and settled on Bledsoe's Creek, where he built a mill, distillery, and cotton gin.
		When Sumner County was created by partition from Davidson in 1787, Winchester became captain of the horse, and was soon elevated to lieutenant colonel, commandant of the county.
	tennesseeencyclopedia.net /imagegallery.php?EntryID=W074 (566 words)

	James R. Winchester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Chief Justice James Winchester was appointed Jan. 4, 2000 as a member of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, the state's court of last resort for civil matters.
		In Dec. 1983, at age 30, Justice Winchester became one of the youngest district judges in the state when he was appointed as District Judge for the Sixth Judicial District of Oklahoma.
		Justice Winchester was named Outstanding State Trial Court Judge by the Oklahoma Trial Lawyers Association in 1986 and served as an executive board member of the Oklahoma Judicial Conference from 1992 to 1996.
	www.oscn.net /oscn/schome/winchester.htm (275 words)

	Rev Elhanan Winchester - The Winchester Genealogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Isaac WINCHESTER was born on 19 Oct 1721 in Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.
		Rev Moses WINCHESTER was born on 26 Aug 1762 in Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.
		Rev Elhanan WINCHESTER was born on 30 Sep 1751 in Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.
	www.godstruthfortoday.org /ElhananWinchester/Winchester021.html (3189 words)

	Winchester's History
		Winchester, which became known as the "only town of any importance" along the stagecoach road extending from Nashville to settlements in East Tennessee, was incorporated as a town on August 20, 1822.
		Winchester was able to rebound from periods of recession, in large part, due to the town's active and imaginative citizens who had a vision and were willing to take necessary risks to see their town prosper once again.
		Winchester further became known as a center of the southern nursery industry, as well as, having four of its citizens elected as governors of the State of Tennessee.
	www.winchester-tn.com /history.html (2425 words)

	Historic Cragfont Background Information
		James and George purchased the property on the east bank of Bledsoe's Creek.
		James Winchester lived in the house until his death on July 26, 1826.
		General James Winchester and his brother George, who was ambushed and scalped by the Indians in 1794, came to the wilderness frontier in 1787.
	www.cragfont.org /background.html (723 words)

	Henry-Inside the Stephenson House
		James had a tremendous amount of money and when Palemon was 14, his family moved very near his Uncle James and he spent his teenage years enjoying what James Winchester could provide and apparently Palemon's father could not.
		James Winchester felt that living in the remote frontier was not an excuse for failing to appreciate literature and the arts.
		James Winchester took an interest in his deceased brother's children, providing for their education and arranged for at least one boy to go to Baltimore for his schooling.
	www.stephensonhouse.com /henry104.htm (1209 words)

	The Family of General James Winchester, Part One
		This is a portion of the expanded and corrected revision of the Winchester genealogy compiled in the 1930's by Col and Mrs Louis Farrell of Nashville, TN.
		William Winchester, father of GENERAL JAMES WINCHESTER of Sumner Co, TN, was a descendant of the Winchesters of London and Kent, England.
		JAMES WINCHESTER was the third child of William Winchester and Lydia Richards.
	www.rootsweb.com /~tnsumner/winchest.htm (2166 words)

	Historic Cragfont Winchester Descendants
		James Winchester, of Cragfront, Sumner County, Tennessee, and his brother, William David Winchester, Baltimore, Md., were two of the four original founders of what is now downtown Memphis.
		If you are a descendant of James Winchester, Cragfront, or his brother, William David Winchester, Baltimore, Md., and if you are the oldest living heir in your line of descent from James and William you are a legal title owner of the undivided interest owned by your Winchester ancestor.
		As the majority of the Overton heirs, we are seeking coordination with James and William Winchester heirs who agree with the 81% of the Overton heirs on question number one on the enclosed survey.
	www.cragfont.org /descendants.html (1369 words)

	Winchester, Tennessee - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Winchester was created as the seat of justice for Franklin County by act of the Tennessee Legislature on November 22, 1809.
		The town is named for James Winchester, a soldier in the American Revolution, first Speaker of the Tennessee Legislature, and a Brigadier General in the War of 1812.
		Winchester was also the birthplace of Dinah Shore, singer and TV personality.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Winchester,_Tennessee (586 words)

	The Official James Burton Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		For Harris, assembling her first Hot Band with legendary guitarist James Burton was a key reason she drew crowds to her early shows after releasing her major label solo debut album in 1975.
		James left the band in 1976 and was replaced by Albert Lee, but Burton kept recording with the band until 1981, when they recorded Cimarron.
		James remembers the dilemma he faced on the title track to Winchester's Nothing But A Breeze: "Brian wanted me to play bottleneck on my Tele, but it's hard to do because of the arch in the round neck.
	www.james-burton.net /emmylouharris.html (308 words)

	James Winchester
		Winchester was afterward joined at Fort Defiance by Harrison, who, having quelled a mutiny among the troops, left him there in command of the left wing of the army, with which he intended to move on Detroit.
		Winchester now moved on Maumee rapids as he had been ordered, and though Harnson soon afterward recommended the abandonment of the movement, in view of reports that Tecumseh was in position to cut off his supplies, the march was continued, and the rapids were occupied and fortified on 10 January, 1813.
		General Winchester was taken as a prisoner to Quebec, and confined at Beauport, near that city, till his exchange in 1814.
	famousamericans.net /jameswinchester (717 words)

	Goodspeed's History of Shelby County, Tennessee (1887) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Winchester formed a copartnership with Anderson B. Carr and established a trading house, making the third house of this kind then at the Bluff, although the entire trade at this point at that time did not exceed $25,000 per annum.
		When the town of Memphis was laid out the proprietors of the original plat were John Overton, Andrew Jackson, Gen. James Winchester, of Tennessee, and the devisees George and William Winchester, of William Winchester (deceased), of the city of Baltimore.
		In 1853 Senator (ex.-Gov.) James C. Jones, incensed at the parsimony with which Congress made appropriations for the support of the Memphis navy yard, made a demand that the property be returned to the city.
	www.wdbj.net /shelby/goodspeed/history/history6.htm (4018 words)

	Winchester Tennessee Real Estate
		Winchester is located on Highway 41A and near Interstate 24, about 90 miles southeast of Nashville, 65 miles west of Chattanooga and 60 miles northeast of Huntsville, Al.
		Winchester has a population of 7,329 (year 2000) and is the county seat of Franklin County.
		Winchester is the county seat of Franklin County, which was settled around 1800.
	www.relocate-america.com /states/tn/cities/winchester.htm (632 words)

	john winchester of kent island
		On 6 October 1673, Isaac Winchester is cited as a cordwainer.
		As is shown by Chart 2, by her marriage with Morris Sliney, Sarah Winchester Sliney became the owner of the original Winchester lands patented by her great-grandfather.
		James, Jr.'s sister, Mary Harvey Roberts, was named next-of-kin along with Isaac Winchester (IV) in James Jr.'s inventory which suggests that James and Mary were brother and sister born of the same mother.
	www.cartar.com /papers/john_winchester/john_winchester_of_kent_island.htm (4535 words)

	Historic Cragfont References (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The first Cragfont was probably not the stone mansion, but a log house James and his brother George Winchester built in 1786 not long after their arrival in the Cumberland settlements.
		In the diary of Almira (Winchester) Wynne and the letters of her brother Napoleon we learn first hand of the parties and dinners held at the mansion.
		The book, which is available at Cragfont, describes how Malvina Winchester struggled to keep the plantation going after husband and son went off to the war and the servants had vanished in the wake of the Union army in 1863.
	www.srlab.net /cragfont/references.html (1121 words)

	James Winchester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Imprisoned in Canada for more than a year, Winchester was again released in a prisoner exchange and commanded the District of Mobile for the duration of the war.
		Resigning his commission in March 1815, Winchester returned to Tennessee and, in 1819, served on the state commission to regulate the Tennessee-Missouri boundary.
		Winchester, along with Andrew Jackson and John Overton, founded the city of Memphis, Tennessee on May 22, 1819.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Winchester (611 words)

	Jameson And Keith Ancestry
		She was married to John James WINCHESTER on 27 Feb 1959.
		James Monroe JAMESON was born on 18 Aug 1827 in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.
		James Randall JAMESON was born on 28 Aug 1900 in, Franklin, Arkansas.
	www.thescenicroute.com /cmterrell/jamesonkeith/d9.htm (1178 words)

	The War of 1812 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		James Winchester, a Kentuckian, was a brigadier general in the regular army.
		He was frustrated because William Henry Harrison, a political appointee to the rank of major general, outranked him.
		Like so many of his peers, Winchester was an aging relic of the Revolutionary War who seemed to have lost the fighting spirit which burned in the bellies of his men.
	www.galafilm.com /1812/e/people/winchester.html (132 words)

	Winchester, James (6 Feb
		Winchester, James (6 Feb. 1752-26 July 1826), soldier, planter, and pioneer,was born in Carroll County, Maryland, the son of William Winchester, a surveyor, and Lydia Richards.
		Already, President James Madison (1751-1836) had appointed him brigadier general of the U.S. Army, which required his resignation from the state militia.
		Collections of Winchester's papers at the Jean and Alexander Heard Library and Archives, Nashville, and the Tennessee State Library and Archives in the same city give insight into his activities, as do the Draper manuscripts at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin in Madison.
	www.libarts.ucok.edu /history/faculty/roberson/course/1483/suppl/chpX/JamesWinchester.htm (730 words)

	Winchester Ancestors
		James De Beauchamp was born in Of, Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England Abt 1247.
		James Blount was born in Of, Elvaston, Derbyshire, England Abt 1382.
		James was born in Brookline, MA September 25, 1733.
	www.mindspring.com /~henrymc/winchester.htm (10044 words)

	The Winchester Star (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		For the fourth consecutive year, James and his wife Patricia are co-chairs of the Whittier Acres/Omps Drive Lumenarias.
		James and Patricia Meehan, co-chairs, prepare lumenarias for the annual Christmas Eve display throughout the Whittier Acres subdivision in Winchester.
		James also rides up and down each participating street that night, making sure that each display is lit.
	www.winchesterstar.com /TheWinchesterStar/061221/Life_30.asp (1204 words)

	Franklin County Chamber of Commerce - Winchester, Tennessee
		For those of you who are strangers to Winchester, it is located about 90 minutes southeast of Nashville, 60 minutes west of Chattanooga, and 45 minutes northeast of Huntsville, Alabama.
		Settled in 1812, Winchester was named for General James Winchester, a veteran of the Revolutionary and Indian Wars.
		Winchester is proud of its schools, its churches and its business and industrial community.
	www.franklincountychamber.com /content/view/3/4 (249 words)

	Details for James Stewart/Winchester 73 at CDconnection.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Lin McAdam (James Stewart) and his friend High-Spade (Millard Mitchell) arrive in Dodge City for a shooting contest, in which the prize is a perfectly manufactured Winchester repeating rifle, referred to as 'One of a Thousand' -- a gun so fine that Winchester won't sell it.
		As the Winchester passes from Stewart to nemesis Stephen McNally and psychotic Dan Duryea, Mann touches on such Western archetypes as Wyatt Earp, the cavalry, Indians (including Rock Hudson), and gold-hearted women, before moving on to the elemental conflict between Stewart and McNally.
		Winchester '73 's popular success resulted in four more Stewart / Mann Westerns, including The Naked Spur (1953), and re-energized the genre; Stewart 's unprecedented deal for a profit percentage instead of salary also forever altered the business of stardom.
	www.cdconnection.com /details/James_Stewart__Winchester_73/821857 (415 words)

	Granddaugher
		Ethel Rose Owens, 80, said Wednesday that her father, Jesse Edward James, was just 7 years old when his notorious father was killed in St. Joseph, Mo., by Robert Ford, a newcomer to the James gang.
		The artifacts, which include Jesse James' Winchester rifle, a shotgun and pistol, have been closely guarded by the James family for generations, Mrs.
		James' widow told a newspaper she would never sell anything that belonged to the outlaw, saying "You can offer me a $1,000," - "which was a lot of money at the time," said Perry, interviewed by telephone from his home in Kansas City.
	www.librarymail.org /genehist/jamesarc/articles/Granddaugher.html (455 words)

	The Family of General James Winchester, Part Two
		Marcus was buried on a plot of land deeded for use as a cemetery to the city of Memphis in 1828 by its founders, Overton, Jackson and Winchester.
		James and Mary lived near Cragfont on Winchester property which was later deeded to his sons by his mother, Susan Black Winchester.
		James and Ann are both buried in Gallatin); and Baliss House (b 1798, d 1883, buried in Gallatin, TN).
	www.rootsweb.com /~tnsumner/winch2.htm (4925 words)

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		James Winchester joins the Drury University swimming program as a graduate assistant coach after completing a stellar competitive career at the University of Louisville.
		Winchester, a native of Worcestershire, England, was a letterwinner every year (2000-04) and was a three-time Academic All-American.
		James is presently in his first year of Drury's MBA program, and was previously head swimming coach at Scottsburg High School in Indiana.
	www.drury.edu /multinl/story.cfm?ID=18386&NLID=72 (129 words)

	James Costello, 76, Winchester official - The Boston Globe
		WINCHESTER -- James J. ''Jim" Costello of Winchester, former town accountant and town comptroller for the town, died Jan. 17 at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
		Costello was named the town accountant of Winchester, where he remained for 30 years.
		Costello was a fourth-degree member of the Knights of Columbus in Winchester and both the state and New England Association of Municipal Employees.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2006/01/26/james_costello_76_winchester_official?mode=PF (942 words)

	Ldot Vets - The War of 1812, 1812-1814
		Winchester had orders from General Harrison to stay at his camp until the full army was assembled and ready to move on Detroit, but he felt he had to act immediately.
		Upon arrival, Wells, pointed out to Winchester that the troops were in a highly exposed position, and recommended that scouts be sent out to learn what the British were doing.
		Winchester decided that the next day would be time enough to take care of these things, and went off to stay in the comfortable home of one of the community leaders, more than a mile away from his soldiers.
	www.angelfire.com /md2/Ldotvets/1812/Raisen.html (397 words)

	Writers' Window
		Dark one night James Winchester was sitting on his elegant cragfront porch.
		General Winchester, later on that night, ahd tried to go to bed, and when he did je made sure all the doors were locked.
		General Winchester woke up and saw that it was Smith and ran out of his house and dint come back for a week.
	english.unitecnology.ac.nz /writers/writing.php?id=44722 (611 words)

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