General Notes

Family Links
Spouses/Children:
1. Elizabeth BARKER
2. Susanna FULLER


Edward WINSLOW
Elizabeth WINSLOW
John WINSLOW
Josiah WINSLOW


Edward WINSLOW
Born: 18 Oct 1595, Droitwich, Co. Worcestershire, England 3 4 5
Baptized: 20 Oct 1595, Droitwich, Co. Worcestershire, England 4 6
Married (1): 28 Apr 1618, Leiden, Holland 1
Married (2): 12 May 1622, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA 2
Died: 8 May 1655, Voyage From Hispaniola To Jamaica 6 7 8
Buried: At Sea Near Jamaica 7

   General Notes:

He came to Plymouth on the Mayflower. He left Plymouth on September 10, 1623 (cf. Bradford's letter of September 8, 1623 in "Bradford's History," op. cit., Vol. I, Pg., 323n), and that he expected to return to New England about December (ibid.). He arrived in Plymouth in March 1624 (Bradford, op, cit., Vol. I, Pg. 352n). At the Division of Cattle in 1627, he had two children living (The Register, Vol. 4, Pg. 299).

He received a good education in the cathedral school at Worcester, and he later went to Leiden, where he became associated with William Brewster in the printing business. Winslow was betrothed at Leiden on 28 April 1618 to Elizabeth Barker from Chatsum (Chattisham, Suffolk), and he was described as a printer and accompanied by Isaac Allerton, Jonathan Brewster, Mary Allerton, and Jane Hazel, the bride's niece. With Bradford, Allerton, and Samuel Fuller, he wrote a letter from Leiden to Carver and Cushman in England on 10 June 1620 (MD 8:100; Dexter, p. 640). He arrived at Plymouth on the 1620 Mayflower with his wife, and she died on 24 March 1620/21 (MD 30:3). Bradford recorded in his register (MD 30:4) that the first married at Plymouth was of Mr. Edward Winslow on 12 May 1621 to Susanna White, widow of William White, q.v. Winslow had no known children by his first wife, and by his second wife he had Edward, John, Josias (who became a governor of Plymouth Colony), and Elizabeth the first two died young, and the other two had but few surviving descendants, so that Edward Winslow probably has fewer descendants living today than any other of the Mayflower passengers from whom they can trace descent.

They believe him to be the principal author of Mourt's Relation (1622) and the author of Good News From England, A Relation of Things Remarkable in That Plantation (1624), Hypocrisie Unmasked (1646) and New England's Salamander (1647).

He returned to England several times, and in 1624, his first trip, brought back the first cattle of the colony. In 1635 they jailed him in Fleet Prison, London, for seventeen weeks--persecuted for solemnizing marriages as a magistrate.

Winslow became the colony's main emissary to England, and he engaged in numerous diplomatic and trade negotiations with the other New England colonies. In 1646 Governor Winthrop and the Bay Colony magistrates chose him to go to England as their representative to defend the Bay General Court from the charges being made to Parliament by William Vassall and Robert Child.

While in England for the last time, Winslow accepted employment in Oliver Cromwell's government and in December of 1654 was appointed commissioner, along with Admiral William Penn and General Robert Venables, of the ill-fated expedition to the West Indies to capture the island of Hispaniola from the Spanish. After the defeat at Santo Domingo, Edward Winslow died of a fever on the voyage from Hispaniola to Jamaica and was buried at sea. "He fell sick at sea betwixt Domingo and Jamaica and died the eighth day of May, which was about the sixty-first year of his life."


   Events:

1. Baptism; 20 Oct 1595; Droitwich, Co. Worcestershire, England. 3

2. Occupation; 1620; Plymouth Colony. 9 Governor

3. Immigration; Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA. Arrived on the ship 'Mayflower'

4. Occupation. 1 Printer


   Marriage Information:

Edward married Elizabeth BARKER on 28 Apr 1618 in Leiden, Holland 1. (Elizabeth BARKER was born in 1599 in Chattisham, Co. Suffolk, England, died on 24 Mar 1620/21 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA 1 6 and was buried in Mar 1620/21 in Winslow Cemetery, Marshfield, Plymouth Co., MA.)

   Marriage Notes:

His first wife, Elizabeth Barker "dyed in the first winter. [Ref. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations,V, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1991].

   Marriage Information:

Edward also married Susanna FULLER, daughter of Robert FULLER and Frances BLACKWELL, on 12 May 1622 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA 2. (Susanna FULLER was born about 1594 in Redenhall, Co. Norfolk, England, died on 1 Oct 1680 in Marshfield, Plymouth Co., MA 10 and was buried in Oct 1680 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA 8.)



Sources

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10 Ibid., Pg. 1362.