General Notes

[3104.ftw]

[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 22, Ed. 1, Tree #3104, Date of Import: Dec 9, 1998]

MAYFLOWER PASSENGER
m.1)16 May 1618 Leyden Elizabeth Barker
m.2)12 May 1621 Susanna Fuller
was Many times governor of the Colony.  He had four brothers and three sisters, Mary Magdalen Winslow Worden being his youngest sister.  Though Edward died and was buried at sea, Mary Magdalen and her husband Peter Worden Jr, along with many menbers of the Winslow, Worden and Burgess families, are buried near Yormouth, overlooking Cape Cod Bay.
     According to tradition, Edward was a young gentleman of "qualitie" who happened to fall in with the Leyden company while making the grand tour of the Continent - traditionally taken by sons of the upper classes and overnight embraced the lowly Separatist way of life.  It is quite evident that he had already been trained in the printing craft and had previously known John Reynolds, for shortly after his arrival, he was a witness for his master at the latter's marriage.  Winslow had probably worked for Reynolds in London, where he had connections, his mother Magdalen Oliver being a Londoner.  He was born in the west of England, in the hamlet of Careswell, being the eldest of five sons and three daughters.  A young brother accompanied him on the Mayflower.
     Winslow even when a young man was employed many times as an envoy on delicate diplomatic missions to England.  He was described as being "suave and plausible - a cunning, smooth tongued fellow possessed of a nice sense of tact and the good sense to use it.  In 1655 Cromwell, an historic figure in English history sent Winslow on an expedition to the West Indies.  Attacking Santo Domingo, the invaders were repulsed with heavy losses, and as the ships drew off to storm and capture Jamaica, Winslow fell sick, evidently of a tropical fever.  A few days later, in his 60th year on 8 May 1655, he died on his flagship and was buried at sea with a salvo of 42 guns.