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- Elizabeth Winslow
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Born: Circa 1595 East Bergholt/Chattisham,
Died: 1621, Plymouth
Wife of Edward Winslow. Recent research by Sue Allan and Caleb Johnson suggest she was probably born around 1595 in either East Bergholt or Chattisham and was unbaptized as a baby. While living in East Bergholt her parents, Samuel and Sarah Barker, were known as habitual “Brownists”, as was her step-mother, Elizabeth Barker senior, when she lived later at Chattisham.
Elizabeth married Edward Winslow in Leiden, Holland, in May 1618. In the marriage bans, she is called a “jongedochter van Chatsum in Engelant,” i.e. a single woman from “Chatsum” in England. She was accompanied by her acquaintance Mary Allerton (wife of Isaac Allerton).
In 1619, while suffering a serious illness in Leiden, Elizabeth wrote her will (but later recovered). In it she names Isaac Allerton as “her acquaintance”.
On 4 July 1620, before the couple then joined the Mayflower, Elizabeth and her husband, Edward Winslow, appeared before the manor court at Chattisham to dispose of lands there that Elizabeth had inherited.
The couple had no known children and on 24 March 1621, Elizabeth died - the very last death attributed to the first winter at Plymouth Colony.
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1595 - 1621 (26 years)