1. Timothy1 Winslow birth date unknown.
He married ????. There are Winslow researchers who think that Timothy Winslow is the son of Joseph Winslow, who
was the son of John Winslow who arrived on the ship Fortune in 1621, and Mary Chilton, a Mayflower immigrant, who arrived on the Mayflower
in 1620 as a 13 year old girl with her parents. I offer the following written by one of these researchers and submit it for your
interest only: At the time of the settlement of North Carolina, there were known to be Winslows in Ireland and England and the
New England states, notably the towns of New Plymouth and Boston. The Irish Winslows are obscure. They were probably the relics of
successive English invasions and the settlement of Ireland, ranging from the time of the Norman Kings. First scattered records of them
appear fairly early in the XII Century, of whom many scattered records remain. They were sometimes prosperous and there are fairly frequent
records of their service at the Courts of successive kings. It was from a rather obscure branch of this old and scattered clan that the
Winslows of Worcestershire came, five of their sons going to New England about the time of the Pilgrim Fathers' settlement, two of them on
the "Mayflower". The North Carolina Winslows would thus be either Irish or English Winslows of their day, or roving Winslows from the New
England States. I have been unable to detect in immigrant or other records any mention of winslows coming from the British Isles in the
fifty years or so following the "Pilgrim Settlement", apart from the five Worcestershire Winslow brothers mentioned above. I therefore
deduce that the present North Carolina Winslows, many of whom trace descent clearly to a marriage between a Thomas Winslow and Elizabeth
Clear/Clare in North Carolina in 1704, were descended through this Thomas from the early settler Winslows of New England. It remains to
trace, beyond any reasonable doubt, the ancestry of this Thomas. To do so, we commence with the marriage in 1624 of John winslow (immigrant
"Fortune", 1621, a shipowner and merchant trader of Boston and Mary Chilton (immigrant "Mayflower", 1620). John and Mary (Chilton)
Winslow had a son, Joseph, whose date of birth is omitted in the voluminous family records I possess. There is also reference to a Joseph
Winslow in North Carolina records at this time. It will be shown that they must, beyond all reasonable doubt, have been the same person.
The population in New England in the early pioneer period was small. Records of that time are remarkably good. There is no mention of a
Joseph Winslow in this period, other than Joseph, the son of John. None of his four brothers had a child named Joseph and the five brothers
were the only Winslows in the small New England community. If the Joseph Winslow who turned up in North Carolina was not the son of John,
he must have been an immigrant. There is no mention of such an immigrant in all the records I have examined. Thee is a record of a
business association between the family of John Winslow of boston, aforesaid, and a Boston family of the name of Clear (spelled variously
Clair, Clere, Clare, etc.). We recall that Thomas Winslow married Elizabeth Clear in North Carolina in 1704. To develop the argument that
the North Carolina Winslows are of the lineage stated, the following statements, which are supportable by documents are put forward: (1)
The Will of John Winslow, dated March 12, 1673, proved 1674, refers to two children of his son, Joseph; "I give unto my son Joseph's two
children........to be paid to them as aforesaid (viz. when they come of age or the day of their respective marriages)." The children are
not named. (2) The Will of his wife, Mary, made in 1676, refers to only one child of her son Joseph, namely Mary. The will
makes plain that she is under the age of eighteen and not yet married. (3) The records of Boston show that Joseph Winslow and
Sarah (nee Lawrence) Winslow, had two children born on the following dates --- Mary, 25 September 1674 and Joseph, born 16 June 1677. From
these facts, we may deduce that since the Will of John Winslow is dated 1673, his son Joseph had two children before those mentioned in (3)
above, and that he had sired at least four children by 16 June 1677. Whether all survived to maturity, I cannot with certainty say. All
that can be said is that the two born before 1674 were living when John made his Will in 1673, and that there is no evidence that the other
two died before reaching maturity. Now, in regard to the family of Joseph Winslow of boston, son of pioneer John, we are first left with
the problem of the two unnamed children, born prior to 1774 and then still to be presumed living. How do they fit in? The answer may be
found in a closer examination of this Joseph Winslow of Boston and his "double" in North Carolina. (4) In the New England Gen.. and
Hist. Reg., Co.4, p. 259, Joseph is listed as one of the men of Marshfield able to bear arms in 1643. He died in Boston in 1679 and left no
will. Assuming that a sturdy pioneer lad would be listed as able to bear arms at about 15 years of age (a check on this detail would be
welcome), we have it that he must have been born about 1628. Having regard to the birth dates of his nine brothers and sisters, where
recorded, he could be fitted in on that date. If he wed at the fairly usual age of 25 (1653), his first two children would have been just
under age, but "earning citizens" by 1674. This deduction, and cognizance of the "long birth gap" between the first two children and the
post-1674 children, suggests that Joseph's first wife had died and that Sarah was his second wife. There is no record of a "first marriage.
(5) In the inventory of the will (1676) of Mary (Chilton) Winslow of Boston, we learn that Joseph Winslow, her son, had vacated
a house he had owned in Boston by that date. Perhaps he had then left the town? The will makes clear that he was in debt. If he had left
their town, perhaps because of debt, it seems reasonable that all his family would go with him, including the two first, and nearly grownup
children. We may guess that Grandmother Mary only mentioned the babe, Mary Winslow, in her will because of some understandable pique.
Had they all gone to North Carolina, which was then in some senses a sanctuary for debtors? We now come to Joseph Winslow,
referred to in North Carolina records. (6) There is a record that this Joseph, described as "another New England trader", was foreman of
a jury at Durant's Neck, North Carolina in 1677. He is also referred to as being considerably in debt to the customs. It is hard to
believe otherwise than the Joseph Winslow who left Boston in debt by 1676 (viz. his vacated house), and the indebted Joseph Winslow of North
Carolina in 1677 are one and the same person. I take them to be so from now on and my further arguments are mainly concerned with the
children of Joseph. Before doing so, I would mention that the will of Mary (Chilton) Winslow mentions payments to be made from certain
monies of hers held by a Goodman Clear (Clare, et.) of Boston. He is recorded in Boston in 1665 and Clears are mentioned in the town records
for a good part of the XVII Century. It will be seen as the thesis develops, that at this period we have Winslows and Clears in close
relationships in both Boston and North Carolina, a very striking "coincidence". We now pass to Perquimans County, North Carolina, where
in sparse early records we find --- (7) A Timothy Winslow who witnesses the will of Joseph Pierce in 1706. (8) Thomas Winslow
who weds Elizabeth Clare in 1704. On these two facts we may comment that Timothy Winslow was probably a friend of Pierce and of
fair age to be witness to his will. That being so, his age would fit pretty well with that of one of the unnamed children of Joseph Winslow
of boston, who were born before 1674. Timothy Winslow was in fact very probably one of the sons of Joseph Winslow of Boston and born about
1654. He would have married around 1679 and his son would have been of fair age to marry Elizabeth Clare in 1704. The supposition that
Thomas Winslow, who wed Elizabeth Clare, was the grandson of Joseph Winslow, Boston "exile", is further supported by the fact that Mr.
Francis Winslow, now living in North Carolina, is descended from said Thomas, knowing him to be "a son of Timothy Winslow". It is also
significant that Thomas Winslow and Elizabeth Clare called their first child (born 1705) "Joseph". I want now to go back to
the Boston Clears/Clare, where in 1635 we have a William Clear, presumably a relative of Goodman Clear, and known to the Winslows of that
small civic community. William Clear was (I believe) the father of Timothy Clear/Clare of Perquimans County, North Carolina, who was the
father of Elizabeth Clare, who wed Thomas Winslow in 1704. It looks rather as though, the the Winslow-Clear relationship in the two places,
that Timothy Winslow, who was a contemporary of Timothy Clear, put his son Thomas, to some form of business employ or apprenticeship with
the prosperous Timothy Clear. Thomas then marries his friend's daughter. To tidy off the argument, and recalling that one of the pre-1674
children of Joseph Winslow has yet to be given a name, there is mention in the appropriate period in North Carolina of a "Robert winslow".
May be is our quarry. Note again the coincidence. We have two (first" children of Joseph Winslow of Boston not mentioned in the
Grandmother's will, possibly because they are big enough to look out for themselves and have left the town with their indebted father. We
then have, fiting roughly to the ages these two children would have been, a Timothy and a Robert Winslow turning up in North Carolina
records, with the only other Winslow mentioned at all in the records of their day being Joseph Winslow, of an age to be their father.
Personally, I feel that Robert Winslow clinches the deal. In ages, dates and numbers, the Joseph Winslows and Clears of Boston and North
Carolina, have coincided too well to be of a lineage and relationship other than that I suggest.
Timothy Winslow and ???? had the following child:
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