FOURTEENTH GENERATION
Gov. Edward Winslow |
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22 May 1621 Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
"WHITE, ...(9577iii[2][1]) WILLIAM, Plymouth, woolcarder, as the rec. at Leyden calls him, when banns of m. were pub. 27 Jan. 1612, and the m. 1 Feb. foll. with (9577iii[2]) Anna Fuller, perhaps a relat. of Dr. Samuel wh. attend. at the ceremony, and prob. the same wh. was call. Susanna, came with w. and s. Resolved, and two serv. William, Holbeck and Edward Thompson, in the Mayflower 1620, and had Peregrine, b. at Cape Cod, bef. the sh. reach. P. Nov. of that yr. and he d. 21 Feb. two mos. aft. land. His serv. Thompson had d. betw. Cape Cod and P. and the other serv. d. soon aft. His wid. m. 12 May foll. (9577iii) Edward Winslow, whose w. had d. only 31 days aft. d. of W."
-- James Savage, op. cit.
"WINSLOW, ...(9577iii) EDWARD, Plymouth, eldest s. of (9576) Edward, b. at Droitwich, Co. Worcester, 18, bapt. 20 Oct. 1594, as Belknap, Am. Biogr. II. 281, gives the yr. but an ancient bible, erron. said to have been brot. by him, has a list of the ch. of his f. in wh. all the dates of bapt. purport to be insert. makes it 1595, yet my suspicion of a slight error was raised when observ. that 20 Oct. was Sunday in the earlier yr. and Monday in the foll. Baylies, II. 17, holds to the former yr. and the careful [[vol. 4, p. 599]]authority of Dr. Young in his notes on Chron. of the Pilgr. 46, counts the same, tho. 274 he adopts the later yr. on the faith of "extr. from the rec. of St. Peter's ch. in that place" as foll. 1595, Oct. 20, bapt. Edward, s. of Edward Winslow, b. the previous Friday, adding wh. was the 19th. Whose blunder this was, is immater. Friday bef. 20 Oct. 1595 was the 17th. But for the yr. it might seem more desirab. that should be mark. than the day, and perhaps, tho. not prob. it may be as the informant of Dr. Young gave it, mak. the m. of his parents Nov. 1594.
"On the first sight of this bible, pasted to its left hand cover is found the traditionary story of what is call. "Family Record," as in Gen. Rec. IV. 298, the mind instantly rejects the right to such honor, inasmuch as the whole rec. was evident. made at once, tho. entries for eleven yrs. 1595-1606, purport to be expressed; and secondly, the handwriting is manifestly of four generations later than the Govnr's. father (who only ought to have made such rec.) could have written it; and furthermore the age of the vol. (tho. early part of the old Test. is lost, and the latter part of the new) is apparent. to a practised eye, at least one hudnred and forty yrs. later than the first child's b. No great value attaches to such MS. and it has been, in more than three or four places, correct. by erasures and interlin. prob. from presum. transcripts of the Eng. parish rec. But modern tradit. gives a glorious myth to this bible, that may be really of the time of George I. tho. to me it seems more likely an imprint under George II. as if it were in the Mayflower, brot. by Edward in his first voyage, at least a century bef. the paper was made.
"He had fallen into comp. on a tour in Holland, a. 1617, with the band of puritans at Leyden, and was led to join them, there m. 16 May 1618, (9577iii[1]) Elizabeth Barker, when the Dutch rec. calls him printer of London, came with her in the little vessel from Delfthaven over to Eng. for embark. in the Mayflower from Southampton, and she d. 24 Mar. aft. the land. at P.
"He had five in his fam. on reach. the shore, George Soule, Elias Story, and Ellen More, count. with hims. and w. but Story and More, as well as his w. d. in short season aft. the end of that fatal voyage.
"On 12 May foll. he m. (9577iii[2]) Susanna, wid. of (9577iii[2][1]) Willaim White, wh. had been his compan. in the ship, and wh. dec. only thirty-one days earlier than Winslow's w. This was the first. m. in N. E. as had in Dec. preced. been first the b. of her s. Peregrine, at Cape Cod, bef. reach. P. By the sec. w. he had, bef. the div. of cattle in 1627, Edward, and John, both d. young; Edward, again, b. 1629; and Elizabeth wh. m. Robert Brooks, and next, 22 July 1669, capt. George Curwin of Salem.
"For his high public spirit, wh. took him, in the serv. of his country, over to Eng. 1623, and four or five times more, besides the freq. excurs. that were req. of him to Kennebeck, and all the adj. [[vol. 4, p. 600]] colon, until 1646, he gain, great esteem for sagacity and faithfuln. and was more of his days inhab. of Marshfield, chos. as Assit. to the Gov. 1625, and every subseq. yr. while he cont. on our side of the water, exc. in 1633, 5, and 44, when he was made Gov. to change places with Bradford, Mass. made choice of him to manage her difficult controvers. at home in 1646, where powerful complaint might have prevail. against her in Parliam. and Gov. Bradford closes his Hist. with regret for his long abs. Seven yrs. later, Cromwell, the great projector of designs to overthrow the Spanish power in the West Indies, fitted out large naval and milit. forces under adm. Penn and gen. Venables, against Hispaniola; and (with his extraord. insight into human charact. almost equal to the skill with wh. he conceal. his own) as he had some ground for suspect. the loyalty of both, nam. three commiss. with control. authority, of wh. our Gov. W. was the head. He d. of fever, exasperat. prob. by the ill success of the expedit. 8 May 1654; and his wid. d. 1 Oct. 1680, at the N. E. home in Marshfield, where he had left her."
-- James Savage, op. cit.
"WINSLOW, ...(9577iv) JOHN, Plymouth, br. of the first (9577iii) Edward, said to have been b. Apr. 1597, on Saturday bef. his bapt. 18th, but I suspect an error of a day, came in the Fortune, 1623, m. a. 1627, (9559x) Mary, d. of (9558) James Chilton. She had come in the Mayflower, and in her favor circulates the ridicul. tradit. that she was the first of Eng. parentage that leapt on Plymouth rock, but the worthless glory is equally well or ill claim. for John Alden, for neither of them is entitled to that merit. By her nine ch. at P. were count. of wh. the exact day or mo. of b. is not found in any one case, but approxim. to date is prob. as well as also to some line of succession; Susanna, wh. m. Robert Latham; Mary, b. 1630, wh. m. 16 Jan. 1651, Edward Gray; Edward, a. 1634; Sarah, wh. m. 15 Aug. 1660, Miles Standish, next, 1665, Tobias Payne, and last, Richard Middlecot, and so happy as to bear ch. to the two latter; John; Joseph; Samuel, 1641; Isaac, 1644; and Benjamin, 12 Aug. 1653.
"For this, I have partly foll. Russell's Guide to P. 240; and from him we learn that the last ch. d. bef. m. He was rep. 1653 and two yrs. more. In 1657 he rem. to Boston, was a thrifty merch. was freem. 1672, and d. 1674. In his will he names w. s. John, William Payne, s. of his d. Sarah Middlecot, Parnel, d. of his s. Isaac, Susan, d. of d. Latham, his s. Benjamin and Edward, childr. of Edward Gray by his d. Mary, his s. Joseph's two ch. gr.ch. Mary Harris, wh. was d. of Isaac of Bridgewater, his neph. Gov. Josiah, his br. Josiah's s. and his niece Elinor Baker, d. of Kenelm W. For this I have only ref. to Dean's Hist. of Scituate; but perhaps he gives the name of Harris's d. wrong, and I am sure that he is mistak. in mak. the w. of Miles Standish ano. d. of Kenelm. His wid. d. 1679; and her will of 31 July 1676, pro. 24 July 1679, wh. may be seen in VI. 300, well provides for s. John, d. Sarah Middlecot, with her ch. William Payne, d. Susanna Latham, with her ch. Susanna L. and the gr.ch. Ann Gray."
-- James Savage, op. cit.
"WINSLOW, ...(9577vi) GILBERT, Plymouth, third br. of Gov. Edward, with wh. he came in the Mayflower, 1620, had lot in the div. of lds. 1624, but none in the 1627 div. of cattle, so that perhaps he went home bef. that act; tho. Dr. Young, Chron. of Pilgr. 275, thinks he went ot Portsmouth. But the indisputab. word of Bradford (in Hist. since discovered), 454, shows that he went to Eng. and there d. bef. 1650."
-- James Savage, op. cit.
"WORDEN, ...(9580) PETER, Yarmouth m. [sic - prob. d.] 9 Feb. 1639, made his will, giv. all his est. to only s. (4790) Peter."
-- James Savage, op. cit.
"The Swanseys were a highly significant family in the area, ancient freeholders, with a long pedigree registered as early as the Visitation of Richard St. George in 1613 (Chet. Soc. Vol. 82). (9581ii[2]) Hugh is mentioned in the pedigree but was only six or seven years old at that date. His marriage to (9581ii) Elizabeth Worden is as yet untraced."
-- http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dcsvdata&id=I4514
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"FTM CD203, Mayflower Descendant, Vol. III, Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories pg 75-76: "(fol. 33) The last will and Testament of (9580) Peter Worden of Yarmouth the elder Deceased proved at the Gen'rall Court held at Plymouth the fift day of March in the xiijth yeare of the Raigne of our Sov'raigne Lord Charles King of England &c 1638 by the oathes of Mr. Nicholas Sympkins Heugh Tillie & Giles Hopkins as followeth vis "Be it knowne unto all men to whom this doth or may concerne That I Peter Worden of Yarmouth, in New England in Plymouth Patten being very sick in this year of our Lord 1638 and on the ninth day of ffebruary do make my last will to testyfy unto all that I Peter Worden doe give and bequeath unto (4790) Peter Worden my onely sonne & sonn & heire and in the presence of Nicholas Sympkins Hugh Tillie & Giles Hopkins I do make him my whole Executr to whom I doe give all my lands Leases Tennements with goods moveable and unmoveable in the Town of Clayton in the County of Lankester likewise I doe give unto Peter my sonne all my goods wch I have at this prsent in New England My will is my sonne is to give to (9581ii[1]a) John Lewis one Nate Goate also my will is my sonn is to give my Grandchild such money as is due for the keepeing of Goates and Calves untill this day and that my sonn is with the money to buy John a Kid or dispose it otherwaies for his use also one bed or boulster three blanketts also my sonn is to have the tuition of my grandchild untill he be at the age of one and twenty yeares of age also my will is he shall fynd him with meate drinke and cloathes and at the three last years of the xxjth years also to have fourty shillings the year after & above for to add to his stock with a sowe pigg when the sowe piggs. "In witness we present set our hands
"Mr. Nicholas Sympkins Heugh Tilly and Giles Hopkins were all deposed (in open Court) to this will the fift day of March 1638 xxiijth Caroli Rs" -- http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=thomasbledsoe&id=I03967
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"(9581ii[1]) John Lewis, who is oddly connected to the Wordens of the time, was the son of Thomas Lewis and was baptized 10 Ju1 1597 at St. Mary Woolnoth, City of London. He entered Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge University, as a sizar (part fee-paying) in 1614, Bachelor of Arts 1617 -18, Master of Arts, 1621. He was ordained Deacon on 20 Sept l618 and on the next day, the 21st, he married Judith Spenser at All-Hallows-on-the-Wall, only 400 yards from his baptismal church. He was ordained a priest in Dec l618.
"On 2 Ju1 1620 he was acting as curate at St. Albans near London when Bishop Bridgeman heard him preach and was so impressed that he carried him off to Wigan, Lancashire. Lewis was appointed Master of Wigan Grammar School with extra salary for preaching sermons. He was appointed King's Preacher sometime before 1623. He brought his wife with him as their daughter, Susan, was baptized at Wigan 2 Ju1 1621. About this time he moved to Ormskirk nearby and on 17 Feb 1624, the register shows that his wife Judith was buried in the high chancel, and on the same day his son Benjamin was baptized, a strange conjunction. He is referred to as Mr. John Lewis, Kings Preacher.
"In 1624 he published a religious treatise dedicated to the Earl of Derby, to whom he claimed to be Chaplain, and only 14 weeks after his wife's death he married Anne Ambrose, daughter of the vicar at Ormskirk ... he was 27 and she 37. She did not survive long as the Ormskirk register shows Anne Lewis, wife of John, Clerk, buried in the church on 15 Sept l626. Marrying this soon after being widowed was not unusual in those times. For an unknown length of time he had been active in the Preston area, not only in a priestly fashion. At Midsummer Quarter Sessions 1626 held at Ormskirk Court, John Lewis, Clerk (i.e., Holy Orders) was bound over in the sum of £10 to keep the Kings Peace to all men, especially to Hugh Massie, and to appear at the next Quarter Sessions. We do not know if he did.
"On 30 0ct l626, less than six weeks after the death of his last wife, he married Anne Moore at Preston. She was well connected with a family pedigree. Her fate is unknown. The names of Vicars of Preston from 1623 to 1626 are unknown and he may have been preaching there, which he was allowed to do, without actually being Vicar except perhaps in his own estimation.
"Worse was to come. At the April 1628 Quarter Sessions at Ormskirk, one Worthington claimed that "about six years ago" (in 1622), John Lewis, '1ate preacher," had left an infant of his called Elizabeth with Worthington and his wife to be nursed, but was behind with payment for the service to the tune of £4 and "is fledd out of the country (i.e., the county), and no grandparents are known." This means he could not be found locally. It seems possible that this child was an illegitimate one as his wife, Judith, was alive in 1624. The child was recorded in 1628 as "being put on the parish."
"It isn't surprising that he could not be found, as Bishop Bridgeman's defense alleged he had fled to London and was acting as curate therein 1628 -1631, although debarred from ministry. He was also accused of many other things, including frequently ale houses, blasphemy, gambling, fighting or duelling with rapier, pistol or truncheon, with many men including Hugh Massie. He also was said to have left two children in Wigan, one in Ormskirk and one in Lancashire (?), who were reduced to begging. It was even hinted that one of his wives had not died of natural causes.
"The most dramatic event for us in this catalog of sins is as follows: 'He hath a bastard at Leyland, begot on (9581ii) ELIZABElli WEREDEN.' The gender of this child is not stated and the loss of the Leydon Parish Register hampers consideration. The existence of this child is very probably true..."
-- http://www.shaweb.net/worden/99 Worden.htm
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