Samuel Wydown (d. 1823)
Samuel Wydown, a native of England, worked as a pastor and shopkeeper before immigrating to the United States in the early 1800s. Following a stint as a Baltimore merchant, he was ordained a Baptist minister, and would serve congregations in Massachusetts and Newport, Rhode Island. By 1820 he was an Episcopal priest for St. Martin's parish in Hanover County, Virginia. The next year he spoke at the Episcopal Convention in Norfolk. Wydown's daughter Sarah married Captain Augustus J. M'Intire in 1819. Samuel Wydown died in Albemarle County in 1823.
Samuel Wydown to Thomas Jefferson, 9 January 1823, in Jefferson Looney, ed., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 19: 16 September 1822 to 30 June 1823 (Princeton University Press, 2022), 290.
Journal of the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: S. Potter & Co., 1820), 94.
"List of Obituaries from Richmond, Virginia, Newspapers," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 20, Number 3 (July 1912), 282–91.
"Marriage Notices from the Central Gazette, 1820-1827," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 62, Number 1 (January 1954), 124–31.
Richmond Enquirer, 25 May 1821, page 2, column 4 (Newspapers.com).
Newport Mercury, 18 December 1819, page 3, column 3 (America’s Historical Newspapers).
Alexandria Herald, 26 February 1823, page 3, column 3 (America’s Historical Newspapers).