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State of Service: MD
Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
Isaac Windsor was born at Montgomery County, Maryland, 20 June 1753, a son of Lazarus Windsor Jr., and Elizabeth Gayer. He served in the American Revolution as a private in the Montgomery County, Maryland, Militia, Middle Battalion, Third Company, 4 September 1777. He served in the Second Battalion in July 1780. He signed the Oath of Fidelity and Support of Maryland on the return of Will Deakins, Jr., dated 3 March 1778.
Windsor married Nancy Anne Riley, a daughter of Ninian Riley and Elizabeth Taylor at the Rock Creek Church of Montgomery County, Maryland, 2 March 1779. She was born 8 February 1760 at Prince George County, Virginia. They moved to Surry County (present-day Yadkin County), North Carolina in the spring of 1783, where he had received a land grant for his service in the war. They brought their young children, Samuel and Elizabeth, and located near the Riley household, who had moved to North Carolina about 1780.
Ninian Riley later decided to move to Kentucky, and Isaac Windsor purchased additional land from him at that time. Windsor also accumulated additional parcels from others. He was one of the largest land owners in the county at the time of the Surry County tax record of 1812.
Records of Flat Rock Baptist Church (then called Petty's Meeting House) at Hamptonville, North Carolina, show that Isaac and Nancy attended church there. Their hymn book, dated 1803, still exists and is privately owned. Isaac died 15 April 1821, aged 67 years. Nancy Anne died 15 January 1845, aged 84 years. They were both buried at the Windsor Family Cemetery near Windsor's Crossroads at Yadkin County, North Carolina.
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