{{Short description|American farmer and politician (1746–1815)}} {{for|the American tug of war competitor|Joseph Winston (athlete)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Joseph Winston | image = File:Col. Joseph Winston.jpeg | caption = Joseph Winston | order = | state = North Carolina | district = 12th | term_start = 1803 | term_end = 1807 | predecessor = ''seat established'' | successor = Meshack Franklin | state1 = North Carolina | district1 = 3rd | term_start1 = 1793 | term_end1 = 1795 | predecessor1 = John Ashe | successor1 = Jesse Franklin | office3 = | term3 = | birth_date = {{birth date|1746|6|17}} | birth_place = Louisa County, Virginia Colony, British America | death_date = {{death date and age|1815|4|21|1746|6|17}} | death_place = Germanton, North Carolina, U.S. | spouse = | alma_mater = | profession = | children = | party = | module = {{Infobox military person | embed = yes | allegiance = United States of America | branch = North Carolina militia | service_years = 1775-1783 | rank = Lieutenant Colonel | unit = Surry County Regiment | commands = | burial_place = Guilford Courthouse National Military Park | website = }} }}
Lieutenant Colonel '''Joseph Winston'''<ref>He held the ranks 1st Major, 2nd Major and Lt Col in the Surry County Regiment. See #Lewis for details, A DAR Chapter was named the Colonel Joseph Winston Chapter. {{cite web|url=http://www.ncdar.org/ColonelJosephWinstonChapter_history.html |title=Colonel Joseph Winston History |accessdate=April 7, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727113428/http://www.ncdar.org/ColonelJosephWinstonChapter_history.html |archivedate=July 27, 2011 }}</ref> (June 17, 1746 – April 21, 1815) was an American pioneer, politician and American Revolutionary War hero from Surry County, North Carolina, and the first cousin of statesman and Virginia governor Patrick Henry. He also served in the United States House of Representatives and North Carolina Senate.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=oQTmb8DBvIMC&pg=PA92 Winston-Salem: A History, Frank Tursi, Published by John F. Blair, 1994] {{ISBN|0-89587-115-7}}</ref> In 1766, Winston moved to the northern part of Rowan County, North Carolina, the area which subsequently became the current Stokes County, North Carolina.
==Early life== Joseph Winston was born on June 17, 1746, in Louisa County in the Colony of Virginia. His ancestors emigrated to the American colonies from Yorkshire, England, in the 17th century. His father was Samuel Winston. In his youth, he fought with the Virginia militia against border Indians in 1763 before moving to the province of North Carolina in the late 1760s. He settled on the Town Fork of the Dan River in what was Surry County and later became Stokes County, North Carolina.<ref name='NCPedia'/>
==Career== Before the war, he was elected a delegate to the North Carolina Provincial Congress in Hillsborough. He was a member of the Surry County Committee of Safety. In 1775, he was selected as a delegate from Surry County to the North Carolina Provincial Congress in Halifax in April 1776. He was the entry taker (register of deeds) for Surry County in 1778, where he assisted the Moravians in their Wachovia settlement.<ref name='NCPedia'/>
During the American Revolutionary War, he was a 2nd major and 1st major in the Surry County Regiment of the North Carolina militia, leading a unit of riflemen in several important battles, including the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, Battle of Kings Mountain and the Battle of Guilford Court House.<ref name='Lewis'>{{cite web|title=Major Joseph Winston|author=Lewis, J.D.|url=http://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/nc_patriot_military_majors.html|accessdate=March 4, 2019}}</ref><ref name='NCPedia'/>
Winston later represented North Carolina as a U.S. Congressman and also served in the North Carolina Senate (1787–1789).<ref name='NCPedia'>{{cite web|url=https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/winston-joseph|title=Joseph Winston|website=NCPedia|author=Hendricks, J. Edwin|year=1996|accessdate=April 8, 2019}}</ref>
Winston owned slaves.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Weil |first1=Julie Zauzmer |last2=Blanco |first2=Adrian |last3=Dominguez |first3=Leo |title=More than 1,800 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/congress-slaveowners-names-list/ |access-date=2023-02-20 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en}}</ref>
==Death== [[File:Joseph Winston monument Guilford Court House National Military Park.JPG|thumb|right|175px|Monument to Major Joseph Winston, Guilford Courthouse National Military Park]] He is buried in the National Park at the site of the Battle of Guilford Court House, where a monument erected in 1893 notes Major Winston's command of the militia forces.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/memorialvolumeof00guil/memorialvolumeof00guil_djvu.txtn A Memorial Volume of the Guilford Battle Ground Company, Organized May 6, 1887, at Greensboro, N.C., archive.org]</ref> The town of Winston, North Carolina (which later became part of Winston-Salem), is named for him.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://home.nps.gov/guco/learn/photosmultimedia/photogallery.htm?eid=121187&aId=153&root_aid=153&sort=title&startRow=13|title=Statue of Joseph Winston, Monument, Guilford Courthouse, National Park Service|website=nps.gov}}</ref> {{congbio|W000642}}
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