Brief Life History of Charity
When Charity Winslow was born in 1735, in Falmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Nathan Winslow, was 22 and her mother, Charity Hall, was 27. She married Paul Thompson on 3 July 1753, in Falmouth, Cumberland, Maine, United States.
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English: habitational name from Winslow in Buckinghamshire. The placename derives from the Old English personal name Wine (genitive Wines) + Old English hlāw ‘mound, hill’.
History: Edward Winslow (1595–1655), one of the founders of the Plymouth Colony who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620, was born in Droitwich, Worcestershire, England. He was a governor of the colony and also served as agent of the Massachusetts Bay Company in France. In 1621 he married Susanna, the widow of William White, the first marriage in New England. Their son Josiah (c. 1629–80) was governor of Plymouth Colony from 1673 to 1680, the first native-born governor in North America. He had numerous prominent descendents.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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