Robert Wynne (chr. 1622) emigrated from Canterbury, England to America and settled in Virginia. His descendants lived in Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, and elsewhere. Also traces the ancestry of 30 other families, typically back as far as the emigrant ancestor.

"Following the paternal line, the Winns, Thomases, Wares, and Garretts are traced back to their English roots in the 1600s. They settled in the Colonial South, Virginia and Maryland, and they were involved in most of the major events of Colonial America." and " ... brief biographies of Sam J. Winn and his wife, Helen Ware, and then their parents, Courtland S. Winn and Fannie Thomas and William Reid Ware and Nellie Garrett. Then, the paternal lines are traced"--Preface.

By: Gayle Austin, Pub. 2007, 362 pages, index, ISBN #0-89308-711-4. Pittsylvania County was created in 1767 from Halifax County, VA. It was a important migration path for early settlers moving into Tennessee, Georgia and North & South Carolina. Deeds are GREAT source for genealogical research due to the many and varied family members that are mentioned. Not only will the reader find the deed transaction itself, but often times such things as: marriages, relinquishment of dower, divisions of family farms among heirs, remarriages of widows are just a few of the matters you can anticipate finding within records of deeds.