When Joseph Winsor was born on 8 October 1766, in Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, his father, Amos Mathewson Winsor, was 24 and his mother, Mary Marshall Bushee, was 23. He married Phebe Harris about 1787, in Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Otsego, Otsego, New York, United States in 1800. He died on 11 May 1850, in Hartwick, Otsego, New York, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Hartwick, Otsego, New York, United States.
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English: variant of Windsor . This is the spelling used for places so named in Devon and Hampshire.
Perhaps also an Americanized form of German Winzer .
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