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from Emigrants in Bondage - 'USA bound ?'
a listing of perhaps 4 different WINGROVE male that may have been transported to the USA

John Wingrove           sentenced to transportation Dec 1755
                                      Transported 1756 GREYHOUND
                                      London
John Wingrove           reprieved for transport for life Summer 1773
                                     Surrey
John Wingrove          sentenced to transportations LENT 1775
                                     Surrey
Thomas Wingrove    Transported April 1741 Speedwell or Mediterranean
                                     Buckinghamshire

Source
from A List of Pensioners in Lewis County Virginia under the Act of the 7th of June 1832

John WINGROVE

1. Age 84 years
2. Date of Declaration 7 Aug 1832
3. Court or Magistrate before, whom made Declaration -Court
4. Names of Witnesses, and date of their, Attestation Mark SMITH 7th Aug 1832
5. Names of Clergyman, and date of their, Attestation Jacob COZAD 7 Aug 1832
6. Names of Clerk, Certifying &, dates of their, Attestation J. TALBOTT 8th Dec 1832
7. Persons to, whom Certificates were sent - J. WALMSLEY
8. Post Office, and when, Sent -Weston, 20 June 1833
9. Length of , time in, Service - 1 year 11 months
10. Amount, per, Annum 76.66
11. Time of, entering the, Service - 28th March 1781
12. Officer under whom the Service was performed Cap. KNOWLTON and Col. MU{??}TENBURG
      Transcribed by Floa Swisher
      from the actual document at the WV Archives in Charleston, WV

A John Wingrove is mentioned in the Journals of Continental Congress as requesting a posting to India for a Commercial endeavor. Request denied since John was not a Citizen of the USA
Correspondence from 27 DECEMBER 1785 to 31 January 1786
see Continental Journal Extract

The WINGROVE surname is to be found in many states of the USA as indicated by Census returns from 1840 on. New York state was settled primarily with Wingrove families from Ireland although some families later moved into West Virginia and then into Iowa

Several English Wingrove families of the Virginias moved into Pennsylvania, California, Texas, Ohio and Kansas

Wingrove families from Canada moved into the states of Michigan, Washington and Illinois

Country of Origin is listed as ENGLAND, IRELAND, CANADA or GERMANY

                                             see USA CENSUS

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