A Candidate for the Great Puritan Migration Project: John Winslow

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Did you think we had ALL of the Great Puritan Migration people? Hmm? My friends, we have one more to add to our ever growing list of people who crossed the Atlantic in the 1600s and settled in what is now Massachusetts. I give you...John Winslow!

This guy is not to be confused with the John Winslow who died very young in Plymouth. And I'm not sure if he's related to the Pilgrim Winslow family. But, he did migrate from England to Mass during the Great Puritan Migration. His wife, however, did not.

I did my best to make the profile. It may need cleaning up a bit. Hope the sources work. My friend Erica over at Geni helped me with the research.

So...yeah. John Winslow. Great Puritan Migration. Do we add him?

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That's a good looking profile, Chris. I can't help with the family, though. Sorry.

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Thanks, Tom. I had help with it. Erica Howton over at geni is a big help on things like this.

Answer 1

To fit into the PGM project John would have to have immigrated by 1640 our cutoff to be considered a PGMer. His profile gives a birth year of 1627 so he would have to have come by age 13. His marriage is recorded in 1652. So when did he arrive? When we know that, we can add the PMG tag.

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Right. That is a mystery. His parents are unknown. So, I doubt he came with his parents. If anyone wants to help me figure it out, they can.

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There is only one John Winslow in The Great Migration Directory. See page 380. He came in 1621 on Fortune and went to Plymouth and Boston. He is not this John Winslow.

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We have a date for his arrival! It's 1630/1631! Getting the source in a sec.

Now he should qualify!

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Right. Rumor has it he came in 1630/1631. Not sure if true.

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Chris, I think you're missing my point. Robert Charles Anderson in The Great Migration has listed every male immigrant who arrived in New England between 1620 and 1640. If Anderson did not find any record of John Winslow-1820 in the colonies before 1640, then it is unlikely you will find reliable information that he did.

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Okay. Just going by what I just found. Sorry.

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According to the article in The Great Migration Begins for Thomas Moulton-471, the father of Sarah Moulton-1477, who married John Winslow-1820, she married "John Winslow (or Winslead)" on 5 May 1652. Anderson says nothing further about Sarah's husband.

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Heh. Funny you should mention Tom. See newest post. =) Am unsure about the wife's last name as we got her with a different name and the profile says another one.

Geni has the "right name" as well as sources.

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Here's the thread if ya wanna check it out: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/497379/jane-moumford

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Chris, Rather that rely on Geni for your information, I recommend that you find and use the information in the Great Migration profile for Thomas Moulton. Anderson says that the surname of Thomas Moulton's wife Jane is unknown. He determined that she was born about 1610, based on a deposition she gave 20 January 1654/5? where she indicated she was age 45.

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No problem.  Moving onto the Moulton thread I e-mailed ya. That's a bigger fish to fry it seems.

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Chris, you need to find a source for that 1630/1 emigration as it is not, as others have said, found in Anderson. That would also place him at age 3-4 at emigration meaning he came with adults— typically parents.

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Right. I don't think it was accurate anyway. Removed the comment. It was a guess. Sorry.

Not sure when he came. If he came with parents, they would be known...