When Edward Winslow III was born on 3 January 1729, in Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Edward Winslow, was 25 and his mother, Hannah Winslow, was 17. He married Eleanor Pierce on 16 February 1755, in Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 29 May 1803, in Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 74.
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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.
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