Hi Connie, David Burton Winn here again. I'm re-posting the message below because of a couple od misleading errors in the original. Typing too fast!
The family notes that you refer to are mine, or in my possession. These particular notes are quite suspect (e.g., in pencil with a question mark on an otherwise ink page). There are other confusions in these old family records, e.g., one handwritten chart apparently hastily written that identifies Phillip's wife Jenny's husband as "Phillip" and as "Richard". In summary, I have nothing in my files that I deem reliable that establishes Phillip P. Winn as being himself from Wales or "a soldier in the American army of the revolutionary War" (a fact inconsistent with his likely birthdate).
The several Hanoiver County Chancery Court records concerning Richard and Ann Winn and referencing "Phillip P. Winn" and his siblings are far more convincing to me, since we know Phillip was in Hanover County (where he married and apparently paid taxes one year).
Incidentally, we've never established what the P stands for, though Pledger is an intriguing possibility. Bob and Stephanie and others have speculated that the P stands for Pledger and that the likely parents of Richard are Captain John Winn and Mary Pledger Winn of Hanover County (though Richard is not listed as their son in the records about them that I've seen). Interestingly, the middle name P or Pledger appears later in the line twice: (1) Elizabeth P. Winn 1799-1860 -- daughter of Phillip P. and his first wife Patsy Duke, and (2) Phillip Pledger Winn 1851-1917 - grandson of Phillip P. and his second wife Jenny Sims (son of their son Phillip Williams Winn). Other have suggested without any evidence that it stands for Pendleton.
Can you point me to where I can find the record of Philip P Winn in the "2nd revolutionary War of 1812"?
Thanks for all you do for the Winns!