To the right of the present highway 24 as it crosses the river is where Josiah lived and has his business.
Land which Edward deeded to his sons was in the Salt Marshes of Bristol County.
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Editor’s note: Recently, author Doug Rozendal wrote Madison County Historian Matthew Urtz asking if he knew of any local publications that would be interested in publishing a series of articles that he had written about his family history and how they ended up in Central New York. This is the most recent in a series of six that will appear in the Courier.
The great grandfather of George Lester Winslow was Josiah Winslow, son of Kenelm Winslow II and Mercy (Mary) Worden. He was born in November 1669 in Marshfield, Plymouth County, Mass.
He was given one fourth of his father’s lands in a gift-deed dated Feb. 27, 1693. He bought more of his father’s land west of the Taunton River in Freetown. He lived near the village of Assonet, where he conducted a “cloth dressing” business on the road to Freetown. He was a public official, holding numerous offices from constable in 1696 to captain in the local militia in 1725.
He married Margaret Tisdale June 13, 1691; they had seven children. Josiah’s son Edward was born in Freetown in August 1709. He married Hannah Briggs Nov. 11, 1741, in Freetown.
By Jan. 2, 1758, he must have moved to Taunton because in a gift-deed from his father on that date he is referred to as “Edward Winslow of Taunton.” His father deeded him lands on both sides of the border between Taunton and Berkley; on May 20, 1780, Edward gift-deeded the land he owned to his three sons, Job, Josiah and Edward Jr.
The Winslow Memorial book shows Edward’s death as Oct. 30, 1792.
Edward’s son Job’s gravestone says he was born in 1750. He married Abigail Briggs on Dec. 21, 1775, in Berkley. Job lived in Taunton from the time of his birth to at least 1835. We have deeds in which he sold his land in Massachusetts, the latest of which was executed Sept. 7, 1835.
We know he had at least four children: Hannah, Peter, George Lester and Job, Jr. A grave in the Fox Burial Ground in Berkley, Mass., is for a Job Winslow (son of Job and Abigail Winslow), born in 1788 and died March 8, 1794 at age 6.
We know the names of Peter and Hannah because of an agreement dated March 24, 1813, in which Job pledged all the real estate he owned in Bristol and Plymouth counties to his daughter Hannah and his son Peter.
The other son of Job (George Lester) is known by the following circumstantial evidence: the 1800 census record for Job Winslow is immediately followed by that of Prudence Hoard, a widow living with her mother. We have ample evidence that Nov. 10 of this same year, a George Winslow married Prudence Hoard in Taunton.
Sometime as early as 1801, George and Prudence left for Oneida County. Prudence’s mother Prudence Simmons must have come with them because her 1818 tombstone is in the Strip Road Cemetery in Stockbridge, a few miles from Augusta, where George and Prudence were living in 1820.
The rest of the evidence regarding Job and George’s relationship comes from the fact that this cemetery is where Job is laid to rest, as well as George and Prudence and some of their children, including Sally Winslow.
There is further support in the fact that the 1840 Census record for George Lester shows a male living with him in the age range of 80 to 89. Job’s tombstone shows his dates as 1750 to April 12, 1843. If the census was taken early in 1840 and Job was born later in the year in 1750 he could still be 89 in 1840.
Author’s note: Information taken from Nov. 7, 1669 per Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection – Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Another source, Meet the Tisdales by Rosa D. Tisdale, Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, 1981, page 64, has his birth date as June 9, 1669. “Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986,” images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-36089-16763-97?cc=2106411&wc=M9QJ-NXQ:982830970 : accessed 05 Feb 2014), Bristol > Deeds 1699-1709 vol 3-5 > image 264 of 806. New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the…, Volume 1, edited by William Richard Cutter, page 377. Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp. Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Winslow memorial. Family records of the Winslows and their descendants in America, with the English ancestry as far as known. Kenelm Winslow,1877, page 87. Page 229 of indexed list called for in action of the Town of Berkley Selectman 13 Feb 1894. “Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986,” images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-36088-4039-33?cc=2106411&wc=M9QJ-NKW:n805093058 : accessed 04 Feb 2014), Bristol > Deeds 1753-1757 vol 41-42 > image 580 of 591. “Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986”, images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-36088-232-31?cc=2106411&wc=MCBL-ZNG:361612901,361725501 : accessed 28 Apr 2014), Bristol > Deeds 1789-1792 vol 68-69 > image 279 of 596. Winslow Memorial, page 87. Page 229 of indexed list called for in action of the Town of Berkley Selectman 13 Feb 1894. “Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986”, images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-36170-5243-9?cc=2106411&wc=MCBR-4YZ:361612901,362358301 : accessed 23 Apr 2014), Bristol > Deeds 1833-1837 vol 30-31 > image 381 of 608. Per Andrew Boisvert of the Old Colony Historical Society in a letter to Douglas Rozendal dated April 24, 2014. “Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986”, images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-36176-6863-36?cc=2106411&wc=MCBR-ZNG:361612901,362348601 : accessed 19 Apr 2014), Bristol > Deeds 1820-1825 vol 23-24 > image 86 of 570.