Capt. Nathaniel Winslow

• Memorials of Marshfield, and guide book to its localities at Green Harbor (1854)
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• Kenelm Winslow, b. at Droitwich, England, 1599, followed his brothers, Edward, Gilbert and John, to New England, about 1630; he m. Ellen, widow of John Adams, 1634, supposed to have been the Ellen Newton of the Pilgrims, (Mrs. Adams had two sons, John and James, and a dau. Susan, when she last married.) They settled on a gentle eminence by the sea, near the extremity of a neck of land lying between Green Harbor and South Rivers. This tract of the township was considered the Eden
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• of the region. It was beautified with groves of majestic oaks and graceful walnuts, with the underground void of tangled shrubbery. A few of these groves were standing within the memory of man, but all have now fallen beneath the hand of the woodman.
• The children of Kenelm and Ellen Winslow were, Kenelm, b. 1635, removed to Harwich, Cape Cod; Ellen, b. 1637, m. Samuel Baker; Nathaniel, b. 1639, m. Faith Miller, and succeeded to the homestead of his father; Job, b. 1691, removed to Swansea or Freetown. Kenelm Winslow often represented the town in the court of the colony. He died at Salem, and was buried there, 1672. His widow deceased 1681, aged 83 years.
• Nathaniel Winslow and Faith Miller m. 1664; had Faith, b. 1665; Nathaniel, b. 1667, m. Lydia Snow; James, b. 1669; Gilbert, b. 1673, m. Mercy Snow; Kenelm, b. 1675; Eleanor, b. 1677, m. John Jones; Josiah, b. 1681, d. 1682. The homestead of Kenelm Winslow, sen., passed, after the decease of Nathaniel, his son, to Kenelm, his son, who m. Abigail Waterman ; then to their son Kenelm, who m. Abigail Bourn of Barnstable, whose son Kenelm was the last resident of the family name thereon. He removed to Kennebec County, Me., where he recently deceased. The families of this name, both in Lincoln and Waldo Counties, are, with perhaps others, descended from Kenelm Winslow, sen. On this estate remains, in fine preservation, one of the .... etc.
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  • Here Lyes Buried
  • the Body of
  • Capt NATHANIEL
  • WINSLOW who
  • Decd December the
  • 1st 1719 in the 81st
  • year of his Age.
• • Here lyes Buried ye
  • Body of Mrs Faith
  • Winslow wife to Capt
  • Nathaniel Winslow
  • Who Decd Novembr 9th
  • Anno Domin 1729 in ye
  • 85th Year of her Age.
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Please see Nathaniel's Wikitree profile for sourced citations.

Nathaniel was born about 1639. He married Faith Miller on August 3, 1664, in Marshfield and had eight children. He died on December 1, 1719.

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1. Event: Fact 1675 On a jury for a trial of the indians who had murdered another Indian named "Sassamon"
2. Event: Fact 1686 Served as a Selectman for Marshfield
3. Event: Fact 1689 A Deputy to the Plymouth General Court
4. Military Service: 1686 Sargent of the militia
5. Military Service: 1698 Captain of the militia
6. PROP: Inherited the homestead in Marshfield and was probably a farmer
7. Religion: 14 OCT 1969 First Church of Marshfield

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Captain of the Militia.