| Name | Kenelm WINSLOW Sr. "Lieutenant" |
| Birth | 29 Apr 1599, Droitwich, Worcester County, ENGLAND |
| Death | 13 Sep 1672, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Age: 73 |
| Burial | 13 Sep 1672, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts |
| Occupation | Joiner & Cabinetmaker |
| Religion | Christened, 23 May 1599, Droitwich, Worcestershire, ENGLAND |
| Father | Edward WINSLOW (1560-1620) |
| Mother | Magdelene OLIVER (1566->1607) |
| 1 | Eleanor "Ellen" NEWTON |
| Birth | 1598, ENGLAND |
| Death | 5 Dec 1681, Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Age: 83 |
| Burial | 7 Dec 1681, Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts |
| Marriage | Jun 1634, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts |
| Children | Kenelm (1636-1715) |
| Ellen (1638-1676) | |
| Nathaniel (1639-1719) | |
| Job (1641-1719) |
3 May 1599 Kenelm was baptized in Droitwich, Worcester County, England.
about 1632 Kenelm immigrated to Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. He was a pilgrim.
5 May 1645/1646 He was arrested "for opprobrious words" in Marshfield, Plymouh County, Massachusetts.
Kenelm worked as a joiner and cabinetmaker in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts between 1650 and 1670.
5 June 1673 Kenelm's estate was probated in Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
ORIGIN: Droitwich, Worcestershire
MIGRATION: 1631
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
REMOVES: Marshfield by 1643
OCCUPATION: Joiner. On 6 January 1633/4 "Sam[uel] Jenny, the son of John Jenny, hath bound himself apprentice to Kanelm Winslow, of Plymouth, joiner" [PCR 1:24].
FREEMAN: Admitted 1 January 1632/3 [PCR 1:4, 5]. In list of Plymouth Colony freemen of 7 March 1636/7 [PCR 1:52]. In Plymouth section of 1639 Plymouth Colony list of freemen [PCR 8:173], then erased and entered in Marshfield section of same list [PCR 8:177, 195]. In Marshfield section of 1658 and 29 May 1670 lists of Plymouth Colony freemen [PCR 5:277, 8:201].
EDUCATION: He signed his will. His inventory included "1 Bible and 7 other books" valued at 12s.
OFFICES: Plymouth Colony assessor, 27 March 1634 [PCR 1:26]. Deputy for Marshfield to Plymouth General Court, 7 June 1642, 27 September 1642, 29 August 1643, 10 October 1643, 5 June 1644, 20 August 1644, 6 June 1649, 4 June 1650, 5 June 1651, 7 June 1652, 7 June 1653 [PCR 2:40, 46, 60, 63, 72, 75, 144, 154, 168, PCR 3:9, 32]. Committee on laborers' wages, 5 January 1635/6 [PCR 2:36]. Coroner's jury, 3 May 1653, 14 February 1654/5 [PCR 3:28, 70]. Grand jury, 7 March 1636/7, 5 June 1638, 6 June 1654 [PCR 1:54, 87, 3:49]. Committee on provisions for the governor, 3 June 1657 [PCR 3:120]. Petit jury, 7 June 1636, 4 October 1636 [PCR 1:42, 44]. Plymouth member of colony committee on highways, 5 March 1638/9 [PCR 1:117].
On 1 December 1640 "Kenelme Winslow, being elected surveyor of the highways for the town of Plymouth, and neglecting the same, is fined 10s." [PCR 2:4]. Marshfield constable, 1 June 1647 [PCR 2:115].
In Marshfield section of 1643 Plymouth Colony list of men able to bear arms [PCR 8:196].
ESTATE: Assessed 12s. in Plymouth tax list of 25 March 1633, and 18s. in list of 27 March 1634 [PCR 1:11, 28].
On 8 January 1632/3 "Francis Eaton acknowledgeth that he hath sold to Kanelm & Josias Wynslow the now dwelling house of the said Francis" [PCR 1:8]. Granted mowing ground, 14 March 1635/6, 20 March 1636/7 [PCR 1:40, 55]. Granted "threescore acres of land lying upon the south side of the Eele River, above the great swamp.... This grant was made void upon a grant made to him at Green's Harbor," 6 January 1636/7 [PCR 1:47]. On 5 February 1637/8 "Kenelme Winslow requesteth a grant of lands at Green's Harbor" [PCR 1:76], and on 5 March 1637/8 he received, in partnership with Love Brewster, "all that parcel of land remaining of that neck of land lying on the east side of the lands lately granted to Josias Winslow, at Greene's Harbor" [PCR 1:78, 111].
On 26 October 1647 "Mr. Hatherley here in Court acknowledgeth that Helene, the wife of Kanelme Winslow, acknowledgeth her free assent and consent to the sale of all such lands as her husband had sold unto Samuell Sturdevant. Captain Miles Standish" deposed the same regarding her consent to sales to Henry Sampson [PCR 2:118-19].
Granted one hundred acres at Teticutt, 4 March 1673/4 (pursuant to an order of June 1662) [PCR 5:141].
In his will, dated 8 August 1672 and proved 5 June 1673, "Kanelme Winslow Senior" ordered that "what estate I have formerly settled on my eldest son Kanelme ... shall remain unaltered" and bequeathed to "my son Nathaniel ... the half of my farm that I last lived upon ... as I gave him by a former deed of gift"; "and the other half of the farm to my wife, for the term of her natural life" and "after the decease of my wife Ellinor Winslow the said half of the farm shall return unto my son Nathaniel"; to "my son Job ... half of my land at Namassakett which is about fifty acres ... and the other fifty acres or thereabouts unto Kanelme Baker my grandchild"; to "my daughter Ellinor" £5; "my wife shall at her decease give unto Mary Addams an equal portion of the goods and moveables as to the rest of my grandchildren"; wife to be sole executrix and "Major Josias Winslow and my son Kanelme Winslow" to be overseers [MD 24:41-42, citing PCPR 3:1:56].
The inventory of the estate of Kenelm Winslow, taken 25 September 1672, totalled £87 15s. 4d.; the real estate, unvalued, followed: "one half of the dwelling house and housings and meadow lands and uplands belonging to the said farm he had lived on and now died possessed of in the town of Marshfield"; "one half of all the lands granted him by the Court with the ancient freemen which lieth on the west side of Taunton River either divided or to be divided hereafter"; and "one half of the portion of land granted by the court to him and his brother Josias Winslow upon the account of their brother Gilbert Winslow as he was a first comer" [MD 24:42, citing PCPR 3:1:57]. - [1]
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