Edward Winslow, Governor of the Plymouth Colony

1595 - 1655  (59 years)

• Name	Edward Winslow  [1]
  Suffix	Governor of the Plymouth Colony
  Birth	18 Oct 1595	Droitwich, Worcestershire, England   [2, 3, 4]
  Baptism	20 Oct 1595	Droitwich, Worcestershire, England   [3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Death	8 May 1655	At sea, west of Hispaniola   [2, 3, 5]
  Person ID	I41214	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	21 Nov 2024

  
  

  Father	Edward Winslow,   b. of Clifton-upon-Teme, Worcestershire, England d. Between 17 Jan 1634 and 19 Dec 1634, Londonderry, Londonderry, Ireland
  Mother	Magdalen Oliver,   b. Bef 4 Aug 1566   d. Aft 1606 (Age > 41 years)
  Marriage	4 Nov 1594	St. Brides, Fleet Street, London, England   [3, 6]
  Family ID	F12565	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth Barker,   b. Abt 1597   d. 24 Mar 1621, Plymouth Colony (Age ~ 24 years)
  Marriage	12 May 1618	Leiden, Netherlands   [4, 5, 7]
  Notes	Present at their marriage were Jonathan Brewster, Isaac and Mary Allerton, and Elizabeth Barker's cousin Janet Hesel.
  Family ID	F24109	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Nov 2024

  
  

  Family 2	Susanna Jackson,   b. Abt 1594   d. Aft 18 Dec 1654 (Age ~ 60 years)
  Marriage	12 May 1621	Plymouth Colony   [3, 5]
  Family ID	F24110	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 May 2024

  
  

• Notes

  He arrived in the New World in 1620 on the Mayflower, and with his brother and shipmate Gilbert Winslow, he was a signer of the Mayflower Compact. He was governor of the Plymouth colony three times, from 1633 to 1634; 1636 to 1637; and 1639 to 1644. By 1643 he was in Marshfield. He was a merchant. "In Plymouth he served in a number of governmental positions such as assistant governor, three times was governor and also was the colony's agent in London. In early 1621 he had been one of several key leaders on whom Governor Bradford depended after the death of John Carver. He was the author of several important pamphlets, including Good Newes from New England and co-wrote with William Bradford the historic Mourt's Relation, which ends with an account of the First Thanksgiving and the abundance of the New World. In 1655 he died of fever while on an English naval expedition in the Caribbean against the Spanish. He is the only original Plymouth colonist with an extant portrait painted from life." [Wikipedia, accessed 20 May 2024]

  
  

• Sources

  [S7905] Sue Allan, Caleb Johnson, and Simon Neal, "The Origin of Mayflower Passenger Susanna1 (Jackson) (White) Winslow." The American Genealogist 89:241, Oct 2017. [S1739] Mayflower Increasings: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants by Susan E. Roser. 2nd edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1995. [S7714] The Winslow Families of Worcestershire, 1400-1700 by Brandon Fradd. Boston: Newbury Street Press, 2009. [S7906] Caleb Johnson, Sue Allan, and Simon Neal, "The English Origin and Kinship of Mayflower Passengers William1 White and Dorothy1 (May) Bradford of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire." The American Genealogist 89:81, Apr 2017; 89:168, July 2017. [S1647] The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New York Historic Genealogical Society, 2004. [S6860] Jesse Tarbert, "Recent Winslow Gleanings: New Details About the Life and Career of EdwardA Winslow." Mayflower Descendant 71:5, Winter 2023. [S7714] The Winslow Families of Worcestershire, 1400-1700 by Brandon Fradd. Boston: Newbury Street Press, 2009., says "after 12 May 1618".