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Last Revised 0720 Send additions, corrections, etc. to wingoinfo@gmail.com I appreciate all help, especially database corrections.

Please find the Wingo DNA Project at FamilytreeDNA.com. The Wingo Family Haplogroup is J2 [J-l25] and at this time we have not matched any other surnames close enough to help find our way to Europe or beyond. We are not related to the Wing Family and I have not seen yDNA for the Ingo(e), Vingo(e), Wingot, Wingod, Wingate, Wingood or other related surnames to count them in or out. Time and patience may help. I wish to think those descendants from the grandsons of old John (d 1755) for joining the project. The yDNA showed few if any mutations at 37 markers. Thanks especially to William Wingo. It would be nice to have a male descendant with good paperwork from Williamson Wingo and expecially helpful if we had a male member from John "KW" Wingo.

According to one source John Wingo arrived in America around 1705. He carried a trunk with all of his belongings. The trunk was 55 inches long, 25 inches wide and 36 inches high. In the late 1980's it was owned by Mrs. Dorothy W. Neal, Route 4, Box 270, Inman, South Carolina 29349.
She said that originally the chest went to the youngest member of the family. Her grandfather, Zachariah (the youngest child of Sarah Rucker Wingo but he had at least five younger siblings by step-mothers), was the youngest member of the family and received the chest. Zachariah's son Wilson passed it to his son Alexander. Alexander did not marry and at his death his household possessions were sold at auction in 1929. Mrs. Neal said her father got the chest by having the highest bid. She said her youngest sister probably would receive the chest. This is a good story but may relate to the Seay Family and not Old John since it looks like he was in Virginia in the 1600's.

Old John was probably born in Virginia or Maryland.. He may have had more than one wife? There were family problems when Old John named his youngest son as executor of his will and left most of his possessions to that son. It is possible but not proven that he had already divided his possessions with his older children. It is possible that his youngest son was by a different wife and he inherited from his father what she had brought to the marriage. Also, since Old John was living with his youngest son at the time of his death he might have had numerous reasons for leaving his possessions to that son. We need more research findings...

The Wingo's migrated from England, Ireland or Scotland but might have originated in either Holland, the Rhine region of Germany or most likely from greater France or Spain They may have moved to America to escape the destruction wrought by the wars of Louis XIV which would put the time of their immigration between 1660 and 1720.

Amelia County, Virginia was formed from parts of Prince George and Brunswick Counties in 1735. Amelia County was itself to lose considerable land area as the population grew and unsettled areas obtained citizens. Amelia in its smaller configeration became approximately the same area as Raleigh Parrish. It is in the piedmont region of Virginia and very similar in appearance to Spartanburg County, South Carolina where many of John's grandchildren moved between 1785 and 1793. Revolutionary War Soldiers from Amelia County VA fought in South Carolina and liked the area so Wingo's, their relatives and neighbors moved there after the war.

Thomas Wingo, the oldest son of John shows up in Amelia County records in 1736. John and his youngest son James are in Amelia County by 1741 and son William (needs more proof) makes a brief appearance in 1745 before returning or moving to the King William/New Kent County area of Virginia where he rented lands from William & Mary College..

John Wingo listed six children in his will: They were Thomas, William, James, Elizabeth Hill, Mary Hurt and Savannah Harris. John Wingo left one shilling to each of his older children and gave all his property and belongings to his youngest son, James. His personal property was appraised as 37 pounds sterling. He signed his will with a modified letter. Thomas, the oldest son protested.

Note: Raleigh Parish, Amelia County, Virginia.
Sons Thomas, William and James; daughters Elizabeth Hill, Mary Hurt, and Susannah Harris. Since James was the youngest son I assume John had given William and Thomas their inheritance (probably including land) earlier. Another possibility is that James is from a second or later marriage and his inheritance was mostly from his Mother's contribution to the marriage.

One source suspects Wingo's and Seay's to be Huguenot. Both family names are found in England in the 1600's, but few in number. Both families lived near a Huguenot settlement in VA. One line of the Seay Family lived in Ireland.

Amelia County Court held 9/16/1751
Thomas Whiteworth appointed surveyor of road leading from Jeneto Road to a branch near Craddock's plantation. The two Wingoes (John and son James?) and their tithes, John Chapman and James Hayes and their tithes to assist in clearing same.

Amelia County VA Will Book pg. 114
Wingo, John (of Raleigh Parish) d bef 2/11/1755 p 6/26/1755
Wit. Francis Anderson, John Butler Ex: son James Leg. sons Thomas, William; dau Elizabeth Hill, Mary Hurt, and Susannah Harris; each got one shilling; son James got residue of estate.

Amelia County VA Will Book pg. 118
I & A. ret & r. June 27, 1755 for Wingo estate. Appr. George Forster, Thomas Forster, Wm. (x) Forster. Ex. James Wingo. Value 30/5/2

Amelia County VA Will Book pg. 118
Wingo estate further I & A Value 6/5/2. Total both I & A's 36/10/4.

Birth	14 Mar 1684	Nanjemoy, Charles County, Maryland, British America
Burial	1755	Amelia County, Virginia, British America
Death	Bef 11 Feb 1755	Amelia County, Virginia, British America

Spouse	Tsalagi "Rachel" MOYTOY (1688 - 1755)
Child	Thomas WINGO Sr. (1717 - 1788)
Child	William WINGO (1719 - 1792)
Child	Elizabeth WINGO (1724 - 1799)
Child	Mary Stuart WINGO (1726 - 1817)
Child	Susannah Savannah WINGO (1728 - )
Child	James WINGO Sr. (1731 - 1801)

Father	Joseph WINGE ( - )
Mother	Living
Sibling	Living
Sibling	Lewis WINGE (1681 - )
Sibling	Elizabeth WINGE (1689 - )
Sibling	Thomas WINGE (1691 - )