NC Gazetteer

Winton

Also known as: Wynnton
A town in Hertford County
… town and county seat, E Hertford County on Chowan River. Authorized to be laid out and est. 1768 on the land of Benjamin Wynns, for whom it was named. Appears as Wynnton in eighteenth-century records and as recently as on the Tanner map, 1827. Produces aluminum castings. Alt. 45.