Josiah Winslow

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Josiah Winslow (1697)

Josiah Winslow

Born 9 Jun 1697 in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts

Son of Josiah Winslow and Margaret (Tisdale) Winslow

Brother of Marcy (Winslow) Whitcomb, Ebenezer Winslow, Edward Winslow, James Winslow, Margaret (Winslow) King, Mary (Winslow) Hunt and Rachel Winslow

Husband of Sarah (Hayward) Wentworth — married 10 Jan 1722 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Father of Asa Winslow, Susanna (Winslow) Wentworth, Josiah Winslow, Ezra Winslow and John Hayward Winslow

Died [date unknown] [location unknown]

Profile last modified 6 Jul 2018 | Created 25 Nov 2011

Biography

61. 1. Josiah [797] b. 9 June 1697; m. 10 Jan 1721-2, Sarah Hayward. [1]

797. Lieut. Josiah [61] (Josiah, Kenelm, Kenelm) b. 9 June 1697, Freetown, Mass; was a Bloomer or Forgeman by trade, and probably worked in the forge of which his father was one of the proprietors. He left Freetown and removed to East Bridgewater, but afterwards exchanged his farm in East Bridgewater for one owned by Joseph Keith in West Bridgewater, near the Easton line. He was lieutenant of the militia. He married at Bridgewater, 10 Jan 1721/2, Sarah Hayward, born 1703, daughter of John and Susanna (Edson) of Bridgewater, grand-daughter of John and Sarah (Mitchell) and great-granddaughter of Thomas Hayward of Bridgewater. [Susanna Edson was daughter of Samuel and Susanna (Byram) of B. Sarah Mitchell was daughter of Experience who came in the Ann in 1623 and Jane (Cook) of B.] She married 2d, as 2nd w. Edward Wentworth, of Stoughton, b. 20 June 1700, s. of Paul and Catherine of Dover, N.H., Newbury and Rowley, Mass. and Norwich, grandson of William and Elizabeth of Dover, N.H. His son, Edward, married her daughter Susanna Winslow [4228]. She d. 23 April 1779. [2]

Children of Josiah Winslow & Sarah Hayward Susanna Winslow - born 6 October 1724 Josiah Winslow - died Oct 1805 N. Vineyard ME Ezra Winslow - born @1736, died @1796 John Hayward Winslow - born 22 March 1738 Asa Winslow [3]

Widow Sarah Winslow had, when she married Edward Wentworth, four children ,viz- 1. Susannah Winslow, born 6 October 1724; married 1st, ---Symmes of Philadelpia, PA: and 2nd, her stepfather's son Edward Wentworth. 2. Josiah Winslow 3. Ezra Winslow 4. John Hayward Winslow[4]

Will of Josiah Winslow

5 March 1753 —Item I give & bequeath unto my Son Josiah Winslow £5 Lawful money, If he my so Son Josiah should be living at yo time of my Decease to be paid by my Executor hereafter mentioned. And also I confirm unto my so Son Josiah his heirs & Assigns forever all & whatsoever I have formerly given him by Deed. Item I give & bequeath unto yo three sons of my so son Josiah Winslow, & to their heirs & Assigns forever to be Equally Divided between them, namely Josiah, Ezra, & John Hayward, being ye Christian Names of my Son Josiah’s three sons. I give and bequeath to them as afores" Two Seven parts of my Old homestead Land where I now dwell my Old homestead to be Accounted & bounded from y” Salt Marsh up over y” County Road, till it comes to where the Path leads from y” County Road to yo Saw Mill, & y” path that comes from Assonet Bridge towards John Burts Cross each other near y” South Side of y" 24th Lot near a Pine Tree on ye Plain called & known by yo name of y" Pine tree below y” River, to turn a Square for ye head of y” so Homestead & to Extend at y' place where yo afores' paths cross each other as afores". Item I give unto my three Grandsons, Josiah, Ezra, & John Hayward as above described, & to their heirs & Assigns forever, two Seventh parts of my Salt Marsh & flats, lying on y” Easterly Side of y" Cove to yo West of my homestead, bounded towards y” West by y” Cove, & towards yo North by the Casway & Ebenezer Hatheway Esqr Meadow & towards yo East by my so Homestead, & towards the South by Tisdales Meadow or Marsh. I also confirm unto my Grandson Josiah Winslow, his heirs & Assigns for ever, two Acres of Land I lately gave him by Deed of Gift. Item I give to my Grand Daughter Susannah Wentworth, the only Daughter of my Son Josiah Winslow One Cow, She my s” Grand Daughter to have her Choice out from all my Cows I shall leave at my Decease. [5]

Sources

↑ Holton, David-Parsons and Frances K. (Forward) Holton. Winslow memorial: family records of Winslows and Their Descendants in America, with the English Ancestry as far as known: Kenelm Winslow, Volume I. New York: D.P. Holton, 1877-1888, p. 87. https://archive.org/details/winslowmemorialf001holt ↑ Holton, David-Parsons and Frances K. (Forward) Holton. Winslow memorial: family records of Winslows and Their Descendants in America, with the English Ancestry as far as known: Kenelm Winslow, Volume I. New York: D.P. Holton, 1877-1888, p. 136-137. https://archive.org/details/winslowmemorialf001holt ↑ Roser, Susan. Mayflower Births & Deaths (Genealogical Pub. Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1992): Vol. 1, Page 358 ↑ Wentworth, John. 1878. The Wentworth genealogy: English and American. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. Page 194 ↑ Holton, David-Parsons and Frances K. (Forward) Holton. Winslow memorial: family records of Winslows and Their Descendants in America, with the English Ancestry as far as known: Kenelm Winslow, Volume I. New York: D.P. Holton, 1877-1888, pp. 78, 83-87, West Bridgewater, K 137

Josiah Winslow 1697–Deceased • G9D8-LM6​​ Marriage: 10 Jan 1721 West Bridgewater,Plymouth,Massachusetts

Sarah Hayward 1703–Deceased • GMV9-6V3​​

Children of Sarah Hayward and Josiah Winslow (4) Susanna Winslow 1724–1780 • LH1T-XSD​​

Josiah Winslow 1727–1805 • GMV9-ZCX​​

Ezra Winslow 1736–1796 • GMV9-CT3​​

John Hayward Winslow 1738–1788