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Kenelm Winslow, Jr. (Kenelm, Ellenor)
was born circa 1635 HO14, AN5, CU13 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. On October 3, 1662, he was charged at
court for riding his horse on a Sunday: “Kanelme
Winslow, Junir, for riding a journey on the Lords day, although hee pleaded some disappointment inforcing
him thervnto, is fined ten shillings” SH12. He probably did not remunerate that fine
in a timely fashion, for on June 5, 1663, he still owed ten shillings to the
Plymouth Colony treasurer SH16. In
fact, “Kanelme Winslow, Junior” owed precisely ten
shillings in lists of “debtes due by fines and
otherwise to the countrey” in the years 1665, 1666,
and 1667 SH13. Whether he was fined repeatedly every
year, or he simply chose not to pay the original fine, was unspecified.
He
married Mercy Worden on September 23, 1667 HO14, SI4, or by 1668 AN5. Kenelm
Winslow moved to Cape Cod and settled in Yarmouth (now Brewster), Massachusetts
as early as 1668 HO14,
RO6, CU13. The “Records
of the Second Church of Scituate, Now the First Unitarian Church of Norwell,
Mass.” indicated that on August 9, 1668, his son, also named Kenelm, was
baptized; at this time he was said to have been from Yarmouth RO6. His homestead was at Satucket
(Winslow’s Mills) HO14, and
he was recorded in a list of freemen of Yarmouth on May 29, 1670 SH13. The History of Cape Cod: The Annals
of The Thirteen Towns of Barnstable County, Volume II, by Frederick
Freeman, stated that on April 29, 1676, a rate “towards the charge of the late
war” listed the tax-paying residents of Yarmouth, Massachusetts and their net
worth; among the names appeared “Kenel. Winslow” FR12.
He
was a sworn member of the Grand Inquest (Grand Jury) for Plymouth Colony on
June 7, 1676 SH13. In 1679, Kenelm, along with Joseph and
Barnabas Lothrop, William Clarke, and others, were agents who purchased over
seventy square miles of land in Sippican LE2, RO9, which is now Rochester, Massachusetts.
His name, “Canelm Winslow” was third in the list of
thirty-two individuals RO9 who
received land which was divided into thirty-two lots; each consisted of twenty
acres for a house lot and another forty acres of woodland LE2. Kenelm ended up with a lot in Sippican, along with fifteen other families, and the
remaining sixteen lots were located at Mattapoisett LE2. On April 15, 1680, when the purchasers
cast lots for house lots at the residence of Joseph Bung in Sandwich, “Kenelmme” Winslow drew the house twelfth lot in “Scippican” and the fifth lot in the common field, which in
July 1694 was called Cramesett Neck RO9. On an unknown date, he drew the
thirtieth lot in the sea division and the tenth lot in the woods division RO9. Kenelm also owned land in Mattapoisett
and near Leonard’s Pond LE2.
Kenelm
and several others were represented in the Court of his Majesty on July 6, 1680
by Mr. Thomas Hinckley, Sr. and Lieutenant Joseph Laythorp
(a variation of the surname Lothrop) against Lieutenant Ephraim Morton SH15. The argument made by the plaintiffs, who
did win the case, stated that SH15:
The purchassers
and sharers of and in the lands of Sepecan and places
adjacent… doe complaine against Lieftenant
Ephraim Morton, of Plymouth, in an action of treaspas
on the case, in a plea of lands, to the damage of two hundred pounds of siluer mony, for that the said
Ephraim Morton, vnder pretence
of being an agent for the towne of Plymouth, did,
with diuers others, on the 12 day of May last past, forcably enter vpon the lands of
the said Sepecan… and hee…
being the chiefe actor and aider of the rest, did,
then and there, on the said lands committ diuers inormities and wronges against the said purchasers… and against the publicke peace, by desturbing
some of the said purchasers and sharers… and more particularly did deface the
bound markes of [Elizabeth Ellis and Joseph Dotey].
Kenelm
was a jury member for three cases at the Court of his Majesty in Plymouth on
March 7, 1681/2 SH15, and he was listed as a freeman of
Yarmouth in June 1689 SH16. On
March 11, 1700, he purchased one thousand acres of land in Windham, Connecticut
for thirty pounds from George Denison of Stonington HO14, SI4. Later that year, on October 7, he gave
that land to Samuel, his son, who in turn sold it to his brother, Kenelm HO14. The bounds of his land in Rochester were
recorded on March 16, 1701/2 and May 28, 1702, and have been transcribed below RO9:
Kenelam
Winslow hath 62 Acers of Land Laid out to him in the great neck and bounded as followeth: begining at a pine
tree marked 12-13 for the south bounds of the 12 Lott at medow
in the great neck & there ranging west by north 80 rods to a stake with
stones about it & there north 81 rods to a white oke
bush marked K W & thence ranged N∙E∙ by n to a pine tree
marked: 11-12 for the bounds at the sd 12th Lott of medow and there bounded by the
sea and medow to the first bounds: Except one Rod
wide the whole Length of the west side next Aron barlows
Land is Left for a cart way with two rods wide more there [the preceding word
is uncertain] sd Aron barlow
hath Left between the two Lotts to the 13 Lot of madow: this Land is part of [at this point, a small blotch
has obliterated one or two small words] 100 acers devision
granted to sd winslows
shear in year 1701 – this being Laid out and committed to reccord
march 16th 1701/2
Kenellem
Winslow hath Laid out to him 30 acers of Land ajoyning
to his 6 Lott of fresh medow Lying upon Matapoiset river and bounded first a pine tree marked with
K W - standing near the South East corner of a peece
of swampy ground ajoyning to the north End of his medow and so runing from the sd tree n∙w to the brook
and s∙e by s∙68 rods to an Ash tree by a nother brook & an old way and thence S∙S:W 22
rods to a pine tree marked K∙W and thence west by south 40 rods to a red oke tree marked K∙W and thence norwest
to a pine tree marked with number V: on the south side and number – VI on the
north side for the bounds of the sixth parsell [the preceding word is questionable, as it was
written in a cramped hand and became blurred] of medow
that is the sd Land ajoyning
to it & thence bounded by the ma [two letters which appeared to be “ma”
were written on the right edge of the page, and the next line may have begun
with “d”, followed by a space, then a dot, and then the words “and brook”] and
brook to the first bounds only 3 acers of the 30 Lyeth
on the west side of his medow beginning at a pine
tree marked for the bounds of his mede [the preceding
word was illegible] and rainging north to a nother pine tree 68 rods and thence bounded by the medow to the first bounds being in all 30 acers and part of
the 180 acers granted to Each what shear in year 1701 and belongs to his own
shear of Land recorded may 28th 1702
Kenellem winslow hath Laid out to him ten acers of Land ajoyning to the west side of the 12 house Lott beginning at
2 white oke trees growing together and thence runing west 40 rods the bredth of
sd
12 Lott and thence ranging west 15 rods farther and marked a pine
tree on 4 sd sids and
thence north 110 rods to a pine tree marked on 4 sids
and thence Strait to a black oke tree marked 12 for
the northeast Corner bounds of the said house Lott this is half the first
addition to sd winslows
shear… may 28th 1702
After
Mercy died, he married Damaris Eames, who outlived him HO14, AN5. Damaris was probably the mother of his
children born after the death of Mercy, who were Damaris, Elizebeth,
Elenor, and John HO14.
Damaris
Winslow (“Damars”) was
an unmarried minor who was named in her father’s will, dated January 10, 1712/3
BA25. “Damoras”
Winslow married Jonathan Small on July 30, 1713 in Harwich, Barnstable County,
Massachusetts BO34. Damiras and
Jonathan Small were the parents of five children whose births were recorded in
Harwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts BO34. These were Hanah, born on August 20,
1715, Phebey, born on October 12, 1717, Jonathan,
born on May 26, 1721, Lidea, born on August 6, 1725,
and David, born on July 13, 1729 BO34.
Elizebeth Winslow married Andrew “Clerk” on August 9, 1711 in Harwich, Barnstable
County, Massachusetts BO34. Andrew
Clark was the son of Andrew and Mehetabel (Scottow) Clark HO14. Elezebeth (or Elizebeth)
and Andrew Clark were the parents of six children whose births were recorded in
Harwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts BO34. These were Mehetible, born on
October 29, 1712, Elezebeth, born on May 25, 1714
(who probably died as an infant or toddler), Elizebeth,
born on January 18, 1716/7, Thankfull, born on
November 18, 1721, Eunes, born on October 28, 1724,
and Hannah, born on June 13, 1726 BO34. They were also probably the parents of Anna, who was baptized
on July 30, 1719 HO14. The will of her father implied that at
the time of the writing of his will (January 10, 1712/3), she was an unmarried
minor: “my Will is that if Either my Three Daughters above named Dye with: out
husband or Child, and before she arive to the age of
Eighteen Years” BA25. Elezebeth
(Winslow) Clark was married with her first child by that date.
Elenor Winslow (“Eliner”) was an unmarried minor who was named in her
father’s will, dated January 10, 1712/3 BA25. Elener Winslow of Harwich and Shuball
Hamelen were married on March 25, 1719 in Harwich,
Barnstable County, Massachusetts in a ceremony officiated by Mr. Nathaniell Stone BO34. Elenor and Shobal Hamlin were the
parents of six children whose births were recorded in Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Massachusetts MA26.
These were Jerusha, born on May 4, 1722, Shobal, born on September 20, 1724, Joshua, born on August
21, 1728, Mehitable, born on December 4, 1730,
Eleanor, born on April 15, 1733, and Lydia, born on November 15, 1735 MA26. They were also probably the parents of another daughter named
Eleanor who was born on October 18, 1726 HO14.
John
Winslow was born about 1701 HO14. He
married Bethyah Androws on
March 15, 1721/2 in Rochester, Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI8. John and Bethiah Winslow were the
parents of eight children whose births were recorded in Rochester, Plymouth
County, Massachusetts VI7.
These were John, born on October 31, 1722, Deborah, born on February 8, 1724/5,
Jedediah, born on March 26, 1727, Nathanael or Nathaniell,
born on April 22, 1730, Bethiah, born on May 24,
1732, Lemuell, born on November 3, 1734, Prince or Prence, born on April 6, 1737, and Stephen, born on July 5,
1739 VI7. John was named in his father’s will, dated January 10, 1712/3 BA25. John Winslow’s probate record number is 23195 and it was
assigned in 1755 AM1.
Kenelm
died at age seventy-nine on November 11, or perhaps November 14, 1715 in
Harwich, Massachusetts HO14. The
records of Harwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts state “mr Kenelme winslow, Senr”
died on November 11, 1715 BO34. His
will, witnessed by Samuel Osburn, John Wing, and Jedidah Osburn, was dated January
10, 1712/3 BA25 and was proved on December 28, 1715 HO14. It has been transcribed below, but because it is quite lengthy,
a few portions have been omitted BA25:
In The Name of God amen The Tenth Day of
January one Thousand Seven Hundred and Twelve I Kenelm Winslow of the Town of
Harwich In the County of Barnstable and Province of ye massachusetts
Bay In New England… Declare this my Last Will and Testament in manner & form
following… First, I Committ my Soul to God Who Gave
it me… And now for the Settling of my Temporal Estate & Such Goods Chattels
and Lands as I have not by Deed formerly Conveyed I Do order Give and Dispose
of the Same in manner and form following: That is to Say First I Will That all
those Debts and Dutyes as I owe In Right or
Conscience to any maner of person w[ha]tsoever Shall be Well & Truly paid Within Convenient
Time after my Decease by my Executor Here after named –
Item I Give and bequeath unto my Loving
Wife Damaris all my now dwelling House and my Barn and my New orchard With all
the fence [?] Which now Incloseth it where now it
stands Round s[ai]d orchard Which She Shall maintain at her own Charge So Long
as She hath the benifit of it and She my s[ai]d Wife
Shall have the fruit of the Two pear trees in my old orchard: also my s[ai]d
wife Shall have the Land on which my s[ai]d house stands and that which is Joyining thereunto Eastward and northward with all ye meadow Lying on ye northeast thereof as the s[ai]d Land and
meadow is Comprehended Within and between the boundaries following [a complete
description of the metes and bounds of her designated land followed]… And my
said wife shall also have a privilege in my part of com[m]on or undivided Lands
for fire wood or fencing stuff [the transcription of the preceding word is
uncertain] as shall be needful for her: and the use of y [a symbol which
follows “y” may have been the scribe’s abbreviation for “the”] Cart Way Leading
from my House up through my Land to the [two or three faded words which were
probably abbreviations were written here, which appeared to be “sd or Pd”] Road for Carting Wood, and Fensing
Stuff etc., All which s[ai]d Housings Land meadow and all other the above
mentioned particulors my s[ai]d Wife shall have &
Enjoy for her use and her Childring So Long as She
Remains my Widow, and no Longer… My Will further is, that my s[ai]d son Kenelm
his heirs Executr: etc., shall alwais
have the privelodge of a Convenient Way Thro the Land above bequeathed to my Wife Down to his part
of ye Island of upland above mentioned as he
hath occasion and further my Will is and I Do Give to my son Kenelm Winslow his
heirs and assigns for Ever: att ye Death or marrage
of my s[ai]d Wife Damiris (Which Shall first happen)
all my Housings, Lands, meadows and all other ye above mentioned pemisses
[premises], to [the word “have” was omitted] & and to hold to him his heirs
and assigns for Ever:
Item I Do Give to my Wife all the Estate Shes brought to me hers… also I do Give [the word “give”
was struck out] Will her my s[ai]d Wife my best fether
bed and furniture thereunto belonging to her own use for Ever & after my
Just Debts funerall Charge and ye other nessary
[necessary] Charge That will arise Which my Executor shall pay out of my moovable Estate first and Then my Will is that all the Rest
of my movable Estate as Houshold Stuff Cattle all
Kind Plows Carts Chains etc. Shall be all Divided into Two Equal parts or halfs: and I Do Give to my s[ai]d Wife Damires,
all the s[ai]d one half of my s[ai]d movable Estate for her use and benifet During the Time She Remains my Widow.
Item I Do Give and bequeath ye other half of s[ai]d movables to my Three
Daughters Damars Elizabeth and Eliner to be Equally
Divided to them Alike Share & if it S [directly after the “S” was one
indistinguishable letter] Happen That my s[ai]d Wife be married again Then it
is my Will that all that all [this phrase was duplicated] the s[ai]d half of my
movable Estate Which She had and is then Left - Shall be again Divided into Two
Equall Halves: and my s[ai]d Wife Shall have the one
half thereof for Ever: and my Three Daughtrs shall
the other half Equally Divided to Each one alike Share, And I Do also give and
bequeath to my Daughter Mercy White her her [the word
“her” was written twice] Heirs or assigns one Eighth part of one Whole share
together with one Eighth part of one share of my [an illegible word which began
with an “S” was written here] of my Ceader [Cedar]
& Spruce swamp and Twenty five acres of the Two Hundred acres Adition scituate & lying in ye township of Rochester.
Item I Give to son John Winslow all my
Land and meadow fresh & salt, in the Great neck that I have not Disposed
of: and one Eighth part of one Whole share of all my Com[m]on or undivided
Land: all Which s[ai]d Land medow and Com[m]on are scituate Lying and being within ye Township of Rochester of: forsd [perhaps “aforesaid”]… Also I Give to my s[ai]d son
John Winslow one Eighth part of one Whole share of Cedar and Spruce Swamp:
Together with Twenty five acres being part of the Grant of Two Hundred acres…
in the Township of Rochestr as aforsd
[aforesaid].
Item To my sons, Josiah Winslow Samul [Samuel] Winslow Nathaniel Winslow &
Edward Winslow I have Given Each of them their full portions: and also to my
Daughter Mercy White herein above mentioned I have Given her by a Deed her full
portion: Excepting Wt [what] in this Instrument is
bequeathed to her
It [Item] my Will is that if Either my
Three Daughters above named Dye with: out husband or Child, and before she arive to the age of Eighteen Years Then the surviving
sister or sisters shall have her portion Equally to be divided…
Lastly I do Nominate and Constitue [constitute] & appoint my Loving son Kenelm
Winslow to be Executor to this my Last Will and Testament…
His
estate was inventoried on December 5, 1715 and was valued at 741 pounds, nine
shillings, and one penny HO14.
Kenelm was buried at the Winslow Burial Ground in Dennis, Barnstable County,
Massachusetts HO14, which has also been identified as the
Worden Cemetery.
Mercy Worden (Peter II, Mary) was born circa 1641 and was
the mother of Kenelm, Josiah, Thomas, Samuel, Mercy, Nathaniel, and Edward HO14, SI4.
Kenelm
Winslow, the son of
Kenelm of Yarmouth, was baptized on August 9, 1668 in Scituate, Plymouth
County, Massachusetts VI37. Kenelm Winslow married Bethiah Hall on January 3 TO1 or January 5 HO14, 1689 in Yarmouth, Barnstable County,
Massachusetts TO1. Kenelm was the father of Bethia, born about 1691, Mercy, born about 1693, Rebecca,
born about 1695, Thankful, born about 1697, Kenelm, born about 1700, Thomas,
born about 1704, Mary, baptized on September 21, 1707, Hannah, baptized on
September 9, 1711, and Seth, born in 1715 HO14. Kenelm was named in his father’s will, dated January 10,
1712/3 BA25. Kenelm Winslow died on March 20,
1728/9 HO14 and Bethiah
second married Joseph Howes or Hawes TO1.
Josiah
Winslow, the son of Kenelm of Yarmouth, was baptized on July 31, 1670 in
Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI37. Josiah
Winslow married Margaret (or Mary) Tisdale on June 13, 1691 in Freetown,
Bristol County, Massachusetts MA26.
Lieutenant Josiah Winslow was the father of three children whose births were
recorded in Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts MA26. These were Josiah, born on June 9, 1697, Marcy, born on
December 15, 1700, and Ebenezer, born on November 22, 1705 MA26. He was named in his father’s will, dated January 10, 1712/3 BA25. Josiah then proceeded to marry another four times. “Captt Josiah Winslow of Tanton
Entered his purposes of marrig to the widow Hannah
Winslow of Freetown” on September 19, 1738 in Freetown; they were married on
November 3, 1738 by Thomas Terry “Justis apees” MA26.
Captain Josiah Winslow of Freetown and Mrs. Hannah Booth of Middleborough were
married by Benjen Ruggles in Middleborough, Plymouth
County, Massachusetts on March 2, 1748/9 MA26.
Captain Josiah Winslow of Freetown and Martha Hathaway were married by William Canedy, Esq. on November 30, 1749 in Freetown, Bristol
County, Massachusetts MA26.
Captain Josiah Winslow of Freetown and Mary “Jons”
(probably Jones) were married by Samuel Tobey on May 22, 1751 in Berkley,
Bristol County, Massachusetts MA26.
Josiah Winslow, Gentleman of Freetown, Bristol County, wrote his will on March
5, 1753 in which he named his wife, Mary, his sons, Josiah, Ebenezer, Edward,
and James, his daughters, Margaret King, the wife of John King, Mary Hunt, the
wife of Daniel Hunt, Jr., and Rachel Winslow, the wife of Edward Winslow II of
Rochester, and the three sons and one daughter of his said son Josiah (Josiah,
Ezra, John Hayward, and Susannah Wentworth) AM1.
His will was proved on May 5, 1761 and an inventory of his estate was conducted
on August 30, 1765 AM1.
Thomas
Winslow, the son of
Kenelm, was baptized on March 3, 1672/3 in Scituate, Plymouth County,
Massachusetts VI37,
HO14. Thomas was not his father’s will, dated January 10, 1712/3 BA25. He died at age seventeen on April 6,
1689 HO14.
Samuel
Winslow was born about
1674 HO14. Samuel Winslow of Rochester
married Bithiah Holebrook
on September 26, 1700 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, and then he
married Marcy (or Mercy) King on November 11, 1703, also in Scituate VI8, VI38. Samuell and
Marcy Winslow were the parents of six children whose births were recorded in
Rochester, Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI7.
These were Marcy, born on August 16, 1705, Elizabeth, born on January 29,
1706/7, Anne, born on February 13, 1708/9, Thomas, born on June 7, 1711,
Kenelm, born on February 20, 1712, and Judeth, born
on July 8, 1716 VI7. Samuel was named in his father’s will,
dated January 10, 1712/3 BA25. Marcy, the wife of Samuel Winslow, died on February
16, 1733 in Rochester, Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI8. He was said to have
married Ruth Briggs after the death of Marcy HO14.
Mercy
Winslow was born about
1676 HO14. She married Malatiah
White by the year 1699 in Rochester, Plymouth County, Massachusetts TO1. Malatiah
White died at age thirty-nine on August 21, 1709 in Rochester, Plymouth County,
Massachusetts VI8. Malitiah (or
Malatiah) and Marcy Whit (or White) were the parents
of four children whose births were recorded in Rochester, Plymouth County,
Massachusetts VI7. These were Jude, born on July 17,
1699, Mercy, born on July 22, 1702, Margaritt, born
on March 13, 1703/4, and Malatiah, born on March 17,
1706/7 VI7. The will of her father, dated January
10, 1712/3, named “my Daughter Mercy White” BA25. Mercy second married Thomas Jenkins of Barnstable about the
year 1715; Thomas had previously been married to Experience Hamlin TO1, AN14.
Nathaniel
Winslow was born about
1679 HO14. Nathaniel Winslow of Freetown
married Elisabeth Holbrook on July 9, 1701 in Scituate, Plymouth County,
Massachusetts VI38. Nathaniel Winslow was the father of
three children whose births were recorded in Freetown, Bristol County,
Massachusetts MA26. These were Martha, born on May 1,
1702, Elizabeth, born on January 16, 1703/4, and Elizabeth, born on February
16, 1704/5 MA26. He was named in his father’s will,
dated January 10, 1712/3 BA25.
Edward Winslow was born to Kenelm and Mercy Winslow RE23 on January 30, 1680/1 MA27, HO14, PA5 VI7 in Rochester, Plymouth County,
Massachusetts MA27,
VI7. He was named in his father’s will, dated
January 10, 1712/3 BA25.
Mercy
died at age forty-eight on September 22, 1688 HO14, SI4 and was buried at the Winslow Burial
Ground in Dennis, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Marcye and her husband “Keneline
Winslow” were named in her father’s will dated January 9, 1679 PL5. As Mercy Winslow, she was named in her
mother’s will dated March 26, 1686 BA25. Her
gravestone is engraved with the name “Marcy Winslow”, and according to David
Parsons Holton and Frances K. (Forward) Holton, it is the oldest gravestone in
the yard, and made of slate, which was transported from England HO14.