Job Winslow (1641 - 1720)

Born 1641 in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Ruth Chase (Cole) Winslow — married 1674 in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 14 Jul 1720 at about age 79 in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts

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Biography

Job, b abt 1641; m by 1674 Ruth _____. (In 1914 Richard henry Greene rejected the claim that she was daughter of Daniel Cole; considered she was related to Stephen Hopkins but came to no firm conclusion. See New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol 45, pp 2-8; see also Mayflower Descendant, vol 6, pp 7, 11

Note

Lieutenant in the Army (prior to there being a US) He settled in Swansea about 1666. After his house burned down, he moved to Freetown, Ma. He was a shipwright. He gave land which is now Winslow burying ground, Assonet Village.

Married around 1672 to Ruth

Children:

• William b 11/16/1674
• Oliver b 2/10/1676
• Ruth b 9/13/1678
• Richard b 3/6/1680 d 1728; m Hanna
• Hope b 5/29/1681
• Job b 7/10/1683
• Joseph b 1685 d 9/4/1727
• James b 5/9/1687
• Mary b 4/2/1689
• George b 1/2/1690
• Jonathan b 11/22/1692
• John b 2/20/1694
• Elizabeth b 1696-7 d 1768

Marriage

abt 1673/1674 Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA

Death

Lt. Job Winslow died on July 14, 1720.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Van Antwerp, Lee D. Vital Records of Freetown, Massachusetts. Self-Published. [https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsoffr00free/page/n7/mode/2up?q=winslow Page 1.

• Stearns, Ezra S. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire (Lewis Publishing Company, 1908) Vol. 2, Page 673
• Peirce, Ebenezer Weaver. Indian History, Biography and Genealogy: Pertaining to the Good Sachem Massasoit of the Wampanoag Tribe (Z.G. Mitchell, North Abington, Mass., 1878) Page 63: see footnote
• U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls