i.
Edward WINSLOW(931)
(932) (photo) was born in 1595 in England.
IMMIGRANT "MAYFLOWER PASSENGER" -- "It appears he was the
only one to have received formal schooling, this at the King's School at Worcester
Cathedral from 1606 to 1611 (Coons, p. 1). He then went to London. His mother
had lived there so he had relatives to help him, and there he learned the printing
craft from John Reynolds. It was John Reynolds who, as a Puritan delegate to
the Hampton Court Conference called by King James in 1604, suggested a new translation
of the Bible. This resulted in the King James Version. In 1617 Reynolds brought
Edward with him to Leyden in the Netherlands, where William Brewster and the
Scrooby congregation had gone (Willison, p. 94-5). Winslow family tradition
says Edward was the first of the family to adopt Separatist ideas..." (Bonnie
Hubbard)
Edward played a major role in the Plymouth Colony serving as a diplomat, trade negotiator, Assistant, and governor. His marriage to his first wife, Susanna White, on 12 May 1621 was the first marriage recorded in the Colony. His second wife bore him 4 children, Edward, John, Josias (who became a governor of Plymouth Colony), and Elizabeth. (Plymouth Colony)
"In 1621 he negotiated a treaty of friendship with the local Wampanoag people, and he was one of the first settlers to explore the New England coast and establish trading relations with the Native American tribes of that area. Between 1624 and 1646 he served on the governor's council of Plymouth Colony, and he was elected governor in 1633, 1636, and 1644. In 1635, while visiting England as an agent for the colony, he was imprisoned for several months by the archbishop of Canterbury ... on charges that he had committed offenses against the Anglican church. Winslow returned to England during the English Revolution, and after the triumph of the Puritan cause, he served the Commonwealth government of the Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell. In 1655 Cromwell sent him on a campaign against the Spanish West Indies; he died during the return trip to England. Among his writings are several works valued by historians of the New England colonies, notably Good Newes from New England (1625), Hypocrisie Unmasked (1646), and Glorious Progress of the Gospel Among the Indians (1649)." (Microsoft Encarta '95)
ii.
John WINSLOW(933)
(934) was born on 16 Apr 1597 in Droitwich, Worcestershire, England.
IMMIGRANT "FORTUNE PASSENGER" -- "... , was one of the many
strangers who came on the Fortune. Some years later he moved to Boston."
(Bonnie Hubbard)
936 iii.
Kenelm WINSLOW.
iv.
Gilbert WINSLOW(935)
(936) (photo). IMMIGRANT "MAYFLOWER
PASSENGER" -- "... and was one of the Mayflower passengers, though
counted a "stranger," a term Gov. Bradford used to denote someone who
was not a member of the Leyden congregation. He returned to England about 1646."
(Bonnie Hubbard) He reportedly died in England and no descendants are known.
v.
Josiah or Josias WINSLOW(937)
(938). IMMIGRANT - "... came with Isaac
Allerton in 1631. He struggled with the colony's accounts and was a representative
to the General Court in later years."
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