Descendants of Susanna

 

Generation No. 1

 

1.  SUSANNA11 died 01 Oct 1680 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts2.  She married (1) WILLIAM WHITE2,3 Bef. 16153.  He was born WFT Est. 1560-1592 in England4,5, and died 21 Feb 1621 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts6,7.  She married (2) GOV. EDWARD WINSLOW8 12 May 1621 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts9,10, son of EDWARD WINSLOW and MAGDALENE OLLYVER.  He was born 18 Oct 1595 in Droitwich, County Worcester, England11,12, and died 08 May 1655 in at sea between Hispaniola and Jamaica in the West Indies13,14.

 

More About SUSANNA:

Emigration: 1620, Arrived in America on the Mayflower15

 

Notes for WILLIAM WHITE:

[Caleb Johnson, William White from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers,  (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."]

ANCESTRAL SUMMARY:
The ancestry of William White of the Mayflower is not known. Incorrect royal lineages have been given for him, as well as an incorrect identification of him as the son of Rev. John White of London.

William Bradford wrote that William White came to America on the Mayflower with his wife "Susanna".  There is a marriage record in Leyden on 27 January 1612 for a William White, woolcomber, and an "Anna" Fuller, sister of Samuel Fuller.  The marriage was witnessed by Sarah Priest and Samuel Fuller.  This record, however, does not relate to the Mayflower passenger, as commonly claimed.  The reasons for this conclusion are as follows:

A William White had Sarah Priest witness his marriage; a William White in 1621 witnessed the marriage of Sarah Priest.  However, the William White of the Mayflower was dead in America and could not have witnessed Sarah Priest's marriage.  It would therefore appear that this is not the William White who came to America on the Mayflower.
Susanna, widow of William White, married second Edward Winslow.  Anna Fuller was baptized in 1577, and Edward Winslow in 1595.  It is most unlikely that 25-year old Edward Winslow would marry a woman 18 years older than him for his first wife.
Children of William White were buried in infancy in 1613, 1615, and 1616.  These deaths indicate it would be most unlikely they had a child Resolved in 1615.
Susanna, wife of William White, is not Susanna Tilley either, another common claim.  That "theory" was disproved in Pilgrim Notes & Queries 1:1.

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
Almost nothing is known about William White.  The often-stated fact that he was a "wool comber" comes from the marriage record which is disproved above, so even his occupation is unknown.  There were several William White's in Leyden, and it is possible he was one of them; but there is no evidence he was from Leyden either, and he could very well have boarded the Mayflower in London.  

William White brought his 7-months pregnant wife Susanna, and son Resolved on the Mayflower.  Susanna gave birth to Peregrine onboard the Mayflower in Provincetown Harbor in early December, 1621.  The name Peregrine means wanderer, traveller, or foreigner.  The "tradition" to use a unique name such as Peregrine to commemorate the Mayflower's voyage and the Pilgrims journey may have come from the Hopkins family, who named their son who was born on the voyage, Oceanus.

Emigration: 1620, Arrived in America on the Mayflower15

 

More About WILLIAM WHITE and SUSANNA:

Marriage: Bef. 161515

 

Notes for GOV. EDWARD WINSLOW:

[Caleb Johnson, Edward Winslow from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers,  (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."]

NOTE: Numerous sources have incorrectly given Edward Winslow's birth and baptism date (including Mayflower Families for Five Generations [Volume 5], Eugene Stratton's Plymouth Colony: Its History and Its People, and James Savage's Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England).  I have checked the original parish register for the year 1595, and the entry reads exactly as follows:   October .20. Edward Wynsloe sonne   of Edward Wynsloe was Baptized  & Born the xviii th of October being Saterday.

 [Alden R. Partridge, v10t3192.FTW,  (World Family Tree submission Volume 10 Tree 3192), "CD-ROM," Date of Import: Dec 26, 2000.]

Edward was 3 times Governor. His 1st wife, Elizabeth Barker or Baker died at Plymouth 24 Mar 1621. His 2nd wife Susanna White (widow of William White who also died 1621 at Plymouth). She died 1 Oct 1680.

[Caleb Johnson, Edward Winslow from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers,  (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."]

ANCESTRAL SUMMARY:
Edward Winslow was the son of Edward Winslow, a wealthy owner of a salt boilery, and Magdalene Oliver. Edward Winslow was baptized at Droitwich, Worcester, England on 20 October 1595.  Winslow soon joined with the Separatists, and moved to Leyden where he became a printer along with William Brewster, publishing illegal religious pamphlets.  His first wife, Elizabeth Barker, was from Chattisham, County Suffolk, England.

His second wife was the widow of William White of the Mayflower. For a description of what is known about her (she is not a Fuller) see William White.

The ancestry of Edward Winslow is as follows:

(1) Kenelm Winslow of Kempsey (it has been suggested, but not proved, that he married Elizabet Foliot, daughter of John Foliot--see NEHGR 122:175-178)

(2) Edward Winslow, m. Magdalene Oliver

(3) Edward Winslow of the Mayflower

Edward Winslow had four other siblings which came to America, namely Gilbert Winslow (Mayflower, 1620), John Winslow (Fortune, 1621), Josias Winslow (White Angel, 1631), and Kenelm Winslow, who married Eleanor (Newton) Adams, who came to America in the Anne, 1623.  Edward Winslow also had several sisters, including Magdalen who married Rev. William Wake on 25 April 1627, in Wareham, County Dorset, England.

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
Edward Winslow is the only Mayflower passenger to have a known portrait in existence--although a questionable sketch of Myles Standish exists.  The portrait to the left was painted by Robert Walker in 1651, so Winslow is here 31 years older than he was when he came to America on the Mayflower at the age of 25.  The original portrait is in the possession of the Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Nathaniel Morton in New England's Memorial (1669) writes of Edward Winslow:

He was the son of Edward Winslow, Esq. of the town of Draughtwich, in the county of Worcester.  He, travelling into the low countries, in his journeys fell into acquaintance with the church of Leyden, in Holland, unto whom he joined, and with whom he continued until they parted to come into New-England, he coming with that part that came first over, and became a very worthy and useful instrument amongst them, both in place of government and othrwise, until his last voyage for England, being sent on special employment for the government of the Massachusetts, as is aforementioned in this book; and afterwards was employed as one of the grand commissioners in that unhappy design against Domingo in Hispaniola, who taking grief for all ill success of that enterprize, on which, together with some other infirmities that were upon him, 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, and his body was honourably committed to the sea, with the usual solemnity of the discharge of fourty-two pieces of ordinance.

Cotton Mather, essentially copying from Morton in his Magnalia Christi Americana (1702) writes:  

Mr. Edward Winslow, the Son of Edward Winslow, Esq; of Draughtwich, in the Country of Worcester, . . . Travelling into the Low-Countries, he fell into Acquaintance with the English Church at Leyden, and joining himself to them, he Shipped himself with that part of them which first came over into America; from which time he was continually engaged in such extraordinary Actions, as the assistance of that People to encounter their more than ordinary Diffculties, called for.

Edward Winslow of the Mayflower was a printer, and assisted William Brewster in running the printing press at Leyden which published illegal pamphlets of a religious nature which were distributed in England. He was one of the more prominent and influential men in the Plymouth Colony, and was the colony's third governor.  In the early years of Plymouth, Edward played a prominent role in Indian-Pilgrim relations, and made many diplomatic visits to the Wampanoag sachem Massasoit.  One one occasion in 1622 he even managed to "cure" Massasoit of a dreadful sickness--an event which greatly helped Indian-Pilgrim relations.

Winslow also made trips to England in the early years of the Colony to conduct business agreements and make legal arrangements, including trips in 1623-4, 1630, and 1635.  In 1646 he returned to live in England and served in the English army under Oliver Cromwell . In 1655 he died of a fever on a military expedition to capture the island of Hispaniola. Upon his death, one of the ship's chroniclers wrote this poem:

The Eighth of May, west from 'Spaniola shore,

God took from us our Grand Commissioner,

Winslow by Name, a man in Chiefest Trust,

Whose Life was sweet, and Conversation just;

Whose Parts and wisdome most men did excell:

An honour to his Place, as all can tell.

Edward Winslow authored several books.  He wrote Good News From New England first published in 1624.  He authored a good portion of Mourt's Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth first published in 1622.  Winslow also wrote Hypocricie Unmasked (1646), and New England's Salamander (1647), which are both for the most part religious discourses.  He also edited several pamphlets.

In August, 1998, Dr. Jeremy D. Bangs of Leyden, Holland stated that he was nearing completion of a biography of Edward Winslow.

WILL OF EDWARD WINSLOW
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I Edward Winslowe of London. Esquior. being now bound in a voyage to sea in the service of the comon welth do make publish & declare this to be my last will & testamt touching the disposing of my estate. ffirst I doe give will devise & bequeath all my lands & stock in New England & all my possibilities & porcons in future allotmts & divicons to Josia my onely sonne & his heires, hee allowing to my wife a full third parte thereof for her life Also. I give to the poore of the Church of Plymouth in new England Tennessee pounds. & to the poore of marshfielde where the chiefest of my estate lyes Tennessee poundes., Also I give my lynnen wch I carry wth me to sea to my daughter Elizabeth & the rest of my goods wch I carry wth mee I give to my sonn Josias hee giving to each of my brothers a suite of apparell & I make my said son Josias my executor of this my will, and Colonell venables my overseer of my goods in the voyage & my fower frends Dr Edmond Wilson; mr John Arthur, Mr James Shirley & Mr Richard ffloyde, overseers for the rest of my prsonall estate in England.

witness my hand & Seale the Eighteenth day of December In the yeare of our Lord God one Thousand Six hundred fifty & ffower.

Sealed & subscribed

in the presence of Jon Hooper
Gerald Usher servant to Hen: Colbron

pr me Edw: Winslow

BAPL: 17 May 188116

Baptism: 20 Oct 1595, St. Peters, Droitwich, County Worcester, England17

Elected: 3rd Governor of Plymouth Colony18

Emigration: 1620, Arrived in America on the Mayflower19

ENDL: 05 Sep 189420

Occupation: Printer21

SLGC: 26 Apr 1966, ARIZO22

 

More About EDWARD WINSLOW and SUSANNA:

Marriage: 12 May 1621, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts23,24

       

Children of SUSANNA and WILLIAM WHITE are:

                   i.    RESOLVED2 WHITE25,26, b. 1615, probably Leyden, South Holland, Netherlands26; d. Aft. 19 Sep 168726; m. (1) JUDITH VASSALL26, 05 Nov 1640, Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts26; d. Unknown; m. (2) ABIGAIL26, 05 Nov 1674, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts26; d. Unknown.

More About RESOLVED WHITE and JUDITH VASSALL:

Marriage: 05 Nov 1640, Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts26

More About RESOLVED WHITE and ABIGAIL:

Marriage: 05 Nov 1674, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts26

                  ii.    PEREGRINE WHITE27, b. Bet. 07 - 10 Dec 1620, On the ship the "Mayflower" in Provincetown Harbor, off the coast of Massachusetts27,28; d. Bet. 20 - 22 Jul 1704, Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts28; m. SARAH BASSETT28, Bef. 06 Mar 164928; d. Unknown.

Notes for PEREGRINE WHITE:

[Caleb Johnson, William White from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers,  (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."]

WILL OF PEREGRINE WHITE
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The fourteenth day of July Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and four.

I Peregrine White of Marshfield in ye County of Plimouth in New England Being aged and under many Weaknesses and Bodily Infirmities But of Sound disposing mind and memory praises be Rendered to Almighty God therefore yet in dayly Expectation of my Great Change Do herefore hereby make and Declare this my last Will and Testament hereby Revoking and making null any former Will or Wils by me heretofore made and declare this to be my last Will and Testament and no other--

Imprimis I Humbly Commit my Soul to Almighty God that Gave it and my Body to decent Buriall and it Shall Please him to take me hence And Touching my Worldy Estate which it hath pleased the Lord to Bless me with my Will and meaning is that ye same Shall be imployed and disposed as followeth that is to say after my just debts and funerall expenses are payd and discharged by my Executors hereafter named and same shall be Imployed as herein is expressed Item I Give and Bequeath to Sarah my welbeloved Wife all my Goods and Chattels not otherways disposed of by this my Will the same to be for her Support and Comfort for and during ye term of her naturall Life. Item I having already by Deed under my hand and Seal Dated the 19th day of August 1674 Given and Confirmed to my Eldest Son Daniel White my Tenement or Homestead with other my land and Rights of Land in ye Township of Marshfield with ye Exceptions and Reservations therein mentioned--All which lands and premisses I hereby futher Confirm unto him according to ye true meaning of ye said Deed And I do hereby further Give and Bequeath to my said Son Daniell my Great table and fourms my Joynworke Bedstead and Cupboard Also I give unto my said son Daniel ye one moiety or half of my lands and Rights of land in ye Township of Middleborough Always provided that in Consideration thereof he the said Daniel Keep for the use of my said wife both Sumer and Winter one Cow during ye life of my said wife Item I having enjoyned ye said Daniel to pay unto my Daughters Sarah and Mercy each of them ye sum of Ten pounds as in ye above Recited Deed is mentioned. It is my will tha twhat is behind and unpaid by him be duly paid to them out of his Estate according to ye meaning of ye said Deed. Item I Give and Bequeath the other moiety or half my land and Rights of land in ye Township of Middleborough to my two sons Jonathan and Peregrine to be equally parted betweene them I further Give to my said son Jonathan my Rapier and to his Eldest son I Give my Gun. Item It is my will that all my said Goods and Chattels that shall be remaining at my wife her decease be Equally parted between my four children namely Jonathan Peregrine Sarah and Mercy And further it is my will that Sarah my wife enjoy that part of ye Dwelling house that I now live in and enjoy And I hereby Give her the one third of ye Rents and profits of ye land contayned in ye above Recited Deed to hold to her during ye term of her Naturall life. And lastly I hereby nominate and Appoint my said Wife and my said Eldest Son Daniel joynt Executors of this my last Will and Testament And do Request my Good friends and Neighbors Samuel Sprague Senior and John Dogget to be overseers thereof and be helpfull in ye advising of my wife to such methods as may conduce to her comfortable subsistance while she lives In Testimony whereof and in confirmation of ye promisses I ye said Peregrine White have hereunto set my hand and seal on ye Day and year above Written. Item before sealing I Give to Each of my sd Daughters one painted chair and a cushion.

Signed sealed and Declared
In ye Presence of

Saml Sprague
Thomas Dogget

Mary Joyce
her mark

P W
The mark of Peregrine White

More About PEREGRINE WHITE and SARAH BASSETT:

Marriage: Bef. 06 Mar 164928

 

Children of SUSANNA and EDWARD WINSLOW are:

                 iii.    WINSLOW2, b. 1623; d. 1623.

                 iv.    EDWARD WINSLOW, b. 1624; d. Aft. 22 May 1627, possibly died in 1640.

                  v.    JOHN WINSLOW, b. 1626, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; d. Aft. 22 May 1627.

                 vi.    JOSIAH WINSLOW, b. 1629, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; d. 18 Dec 1680, Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

                vii.    ELIZABETH WINSLOW, b. Bet. 1630 - 1640; d. 23 Sep 1697, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

Endnotes

 

1.  Caleb Johnson, William White from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers,  (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."

2.  Alden R. Partridge, v10t3192.FTW,  (World Family Tree submission Volume 10 Tree 3192), "CD-ROM," Date of Import: Dec 26, 2000.

3.  Caleb Johnson, William White from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers,  (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."

4.  Alden R. Partridge, v10t3192.FTW,  (World Family Tree submission Volume 10 Tree 3192), "CD-ROM," Date of Import: Dec 26, 2000.

5.  Caleb Johnson, William White from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers,  (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."

6.  William Hyslop Fuller, Genealogy of Some Descendants of Dr. Samuel Fuller,  (Palmer, Massachusetts C. B. Fiske & Co. 1910), Page 10.

7.  Caleb Johnson, William White from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers,  (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."

8.  Alden R. Partridge, v10t3192.FTW,  (World Family Tree submission Volume 10 Tree 3192), "CD-ROM," Date of Import: Dec 26, 2000.

9.  Caleb Johnson, William White from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers,  (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."

10.  Caleb Johnson, Edward Winslow from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers,  (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."

11.  Alden R. Partridge, v10t3192.FTW,  (World Family Tree submission Volume 10 Tree 3192), "CD-ROM," Date of Import: Dec 26, 2000.

12.  Caleb Johnson, Edward Winslow from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers,  (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."

13.  Alden R. Partridge, v10t3192.FTW,  (World Family Tree submission Volume 10 Tree 3192), "CD-ROM," Date of Import: Dec 26, 2000.

14.  Caleb Johnson, Edward Winslow from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers,  (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."

15.  Caleb Johnson, William White from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers,  (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."

16.  Alden R. Partridge, v10t3192.FTW,  (World Family Tree submission Volume 10 Tree 3192), "CD-ROM," Date of Import: Dec 26, 2000.

17.  Caleb Johnson, Edward Winslow from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers,  (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."

18.  William Hyslop Fuller, Genealogy of Some Descendants of Dr. Samuel Fuller,  (Palmer, Massachusetts C. B. Fiske & Co. 1910), Page 10.

19.  Caleb Johnson, Edward Winslow from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers,  (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."

20.  Alden R. Partridge, v10t3192.FTW,  (World Family Tree submission Volume 10 Tree 3192), "CD-ROM," Date of Import: Dec 26, 2000.

21.  Caleb Johnson, Edward Winslow from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers,  (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."

22.  Alden R. Partridge, v10t3192.FTW,  (World Family Tree submission Volume 10 Tree 3192), "CD-ROM," Date of Import: Dec 26, 2000.

23.  Caleb Johnson, William White from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers,  (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."

24.  Caleb Johnson, Edward Winslow from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers,  (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."

25.  William Hyslop Fuller, Genealogy of Some Descendants of Dr. Samuel Fuller,  (Palmer, Massachusetts C. B. Fiske & Co. 1910), Page 10.

26.  Caleb Johnson, William White from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers,  (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."

27.  William Hyslop Fuller, Genealogy of Some Descendants of Dr. Samuel Fuller,  (Palmer, Massachusetts C. B. Fiske & Co. 1910), Page 10.

28.  Caleb Johnson, William White from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers,  (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."

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