Damaris (Wilder) Winslow (1750)

Born 8 Aug 1750 in Petersham, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Kenelm Winslow — married 3 Mar 1773 in Petersham, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

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Biography

Damaris Wilder, likely daughter of John Wilder and Prudence Wilder, was born at Petersham, Worcester Co., Massachusetts, 8 August 1750.^[1]

Damaris married Kenelm Winslow,"both of Petersham," son of Kenelm Winslow and Elizabeth Clapp, at Petersham, 3 March 1773.^[2]

Children

Recorded at Petersham:^[3]

1. John Winslow born 7 September 1773
2. Betty Winslow born 17 April 1775
3. Polly Winslow born 12 September 1777; died 23 July 1856
4. Sally Winslow born 3 June 1780
5. Patty Winslow born 15 November1782; died 3 May 1852
6. Carrissy Winslow born 18 December 1784
7. Richard Winslow born 18 July 1788

Research Note

The Book of the Wilders (Revised) indicates the identification of Damaris, daughter of John and Prudence as the Damaris who married Kenelm Winslow is not proved. They further note however that she is the only Damaris known to be in Petersham whose age fits a marriage in 1773 and who is not otherwise recorded as marrying someone else.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Franklin P. Rice, Vital records of Petersham, Massachusetts: To the end of the year 1849 (Worcester, Massachusetts: p.p., 1904), 55-56
2. ↑ Rice, Petersham Vital Records, 159-160, 163.
3. ↑ Rice, Petersham Vital Records, 58-59.
4. ↑ Moses Hale Wilder, et al., The Book of the Wilders (Revised): A Further Contribution to the History of That Branch of the Wilders Who Immigrated to Massachusetts about 1638, 3rd printing (Goshen, Indiana: Justin E. Wilder, 1998), 327