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Ezra Winslow (1751 - abt. 1789)

Ezra Winslow
Born in Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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Husband of — married 28 Jan 1773 (to 12 Aug 1789) in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusettsmap
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Died about at about age 38 in Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts, United Statesmap
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Biography

Research of Diane R. Lyden

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Ezra Winslow 1751-1789 son of Hezekiah Winslow & Ezra Winslow[1]

He married Rosamond Spooner, daughter of Thomas & Rebecca (Paddock) Spooner, on 28 Jan 1773 at Dartmouth, Bristol, MA

Their children were Sukey, Thomas, Allis, Joseph, Ezra, Rosamond & George Rex.

He died in either Hardwick, Worcester, MA or Barnard, Windsor, VT

  • Fact: Burial (August 1789) Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Biography by Robert M. Gerrity: [2]
EZRA WINSLOW, (Elizabeth Paine, Thomas, Ralph), was born in Freetown on 10 May 1751, and died in Hardwick, Worcester Co. on 12 August 1789, "killed by a fall." He married in Dartmouth on 28 January 1773 ROSAMOND SPOONER, daughter of Thomas and Rebeckah (Paddock) Spooner, who was born in Newport RI on 21 March 1751. She married second at Barnard VT Richard Ransom. [VR FREETOWN;[3] VR HARDWICK cited in MFG III 383;[4] Worcester Co. Probate Records 1791 (guardianship), 1805 (Estate of Rosamond Winslow)[5]; Spooner Gen. 154-5;[6] Winslow Mem. 2:756-7;[7] History of Barnard VT, II gives more information on the family and their lines.[8]]

MFG III speculates Ezra may have had Loyalist leanings during the Revolution.[4]

Children (WINSLOW) all bp. Hardwick:

  1. Sukey/Susan (Susan (Winslow) Babbitt (1773-1816)), b. 1773, d. after 9 April 1805, m. before then ( ) Babbet.
  2. Thomas. b. 15 Sept. 1776, d. after 9 April 1805.
  3. Allis/Alice (Alice (Winslow) Dexter (1777-1862)), bp. 16 Nov. 1777, d. after 9 April 1805, m. before then ( ) Dexter.
  4. Joseph, bp. 27 August 1780, d. after 9 April 1805.
  5. Ezra, bp. 16 March 1793, d. after 9 April 1805.
  6. Rosamond, d. Woodstock VT 13 Sept. 1803, ae 18 years.
  7. (George)/Rex (George Rex Winslow (1788-1862)), b. 16 Oct. 1788, d. after 9 April 1805.

Sources

  1. ↑ Entered by Stanley Wood, Nov 22, 2012
  2. ↑ Gerrity, Robert M., Ralph Pain and Descendants: Four Generations (A Work in Progress) 1992. [Under revision by author, 2020-2022.] Personal copy in the files of DLG; and at the Old Colony Historical Society Library, Taunton MA.
  3. ↑ Thomas, Helen Gurney. 1988. ‘’Vital records of the town of Freetown, Massachusetts, 1686 through 1890.’’ Bowie, Md: Heritage Books. http://books.google.com/books?id=G4UlAQAAMAAJ.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Soule, John E., Milton E. Terry, and Anne Borden Harding. 1980. ‘’Mayflower families through five generations. descendants of the pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 Volume 3’’. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants. Library Search here
  5. ↑ Worcester Co. (MA) Probate Records: 1791 (guardianship), and 1805 (Estate of Rosamond Winslow)
  6. ↑ Spooner, Thomas. 1871. Memorial of William Spooner, 1637, and of his descendants to the third generation: of his great-grandson, Elnathan Spooner, and of his descendants, to 1871. Cincinnati: R. Clarke & Co.
  7. ↑ Holton, David-Parsons, and Frances K. (Forward) Holton. 1990. Winslow memorial: family records of the Winslows and their descendants in America, with the English ancestry as far as known : Kenelm Winslow. [Salem, Mass.]: [Higginson Book Co.]. [LIBRARY SEARCH]
  8. ↑ Newton, William Monroe. 2003. History of Barnard, Vermont: with family genealogies, 1761-1927. Salem, Mass: Higginson Book Co. Library Search




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Richard Turner
For many years, applicants to the DAR and SAR who claimed descent from Ezra Winslow of Dartmouth MA achieved membership based on two things---one, the assertion by Holton in his Winslow Memorial [1:422] that Ezra was a veteran of the Revolutionary War, and two, an Ezra Winslow of Dartmouth is listed as a sergeant in Captain Thomas Kempton's company of minutemen in the Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War [17:630].

Evidence will be presented here that there were two Ezra Winslows living in Dartmouth at the start of the Revolution, and that it was the second Ezra who should be credited with this service.

First, a brief recap:

The first Ezra Winslow, son of Josiah and Sarah (Hayward) Winslow, was born around 1736, and married Rachel Fenno. He moved to Dartmouth in the early 1760s, as his son was baptized there in 1762 [Vital Records of Dartmouth, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1850, 1:309, hereafter cited as VR Dartmouth]. He and his family moved from Dartmouth to New Vineyard ME about 1795, where he and his wife died [Holton, op cit]. This is the Ezra Winslow from whom applicants to the DAR and SAR claim descent.

The second Ezra Winslow , born in 1751, was the son of Hezekiah and Elizabeth (Paine) Winslow, and a third cousin to Ezra, son of Josiah. He married in Dartmouth in 1773, Rosamund Spooner [VR Dartmouth, 2:559] and his daughter Susanna was baptized there in 1774 [VR Dartmouth, 1:309]. By 1776, he had moved to Hardwick MA, where his son Thomas was born, and where he died in 1789 {Holton, 2:756-757].

The key piece of evidence that it was Ezra, son of Hezekiah, who served with Captain Kempton's company, lies in the following payroll receipt, found in Bolles' "History of New Bedford and its Vicinity, 1602-1892", p. 86:

"Dartmo', April ye 10th, 1776"

"Received of Thos. Kempton Twenty Eight shillings & ten pence on half penny, itt Being in fool for myself and my brother Ezra Winslow for our Travel and Time of service att the Lexington Alarum in April, 1775."

"Received by me, Job Winslow"

Note the phrase "and for my brother Ezra Winslow". Ezra, son of Josiah, did not have a brother named Job [Holton, 1:136-137]. However, Ezra, son of Hezekiah, did [Holton, 1: 211-212].

posted by Richard Turner

Ezra is 10 degrees from Maria Mitchell, 21 degrees from Carl Sagan, 19 degrees from Tycho Brahe, 27 degrees from Nicholaus Copernicus, 22 degrees from Eise Eisinga, 19 degrees from Caroline Lucretia Herschel, 23 degrees from Thomas Maclear, 11 degrees from Simon Newcomb, 15 degrees from Isaac Newton, 22 degrees from Pierre Henri Puiseux, 18 degrees from Beatrice Tinsley and 14 degrees from Edith Woodward on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.

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