'The New York genealogical and biographical record Volume XLV. by Greene, Richard Henry
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JOB WINSLOW'S WIFE.
By Richard Henry Greene.
Kenelme Winslow followed his brother, Gov. Edward Winslow, of the Mayflower pilgrims, to Plymouth, Mass., in 1629, coming, as is generally believed, on the second trip, with Winthrop's fleet, when thirty-five of the Leyden church came to join the pilgrims in New England.
Gov. Bradford in a letter to Mr. Shirley, dated May 25, 1629, says: "Here are now many of your and our friends from Leyden coming over. . . . With them we have also sent some servants in ye ship called the Talbut, that wente hence latly; but these came in ye Mayflower."
This, I think, proves that Kenelme Winslow and Josiah Winslow came in the same vessel in which their brothers Edward and Gilbert Winslow came on her first voyage in 1620.
Kenelme married after his arrival here, in June, 1634, Eleanor or Ellen, widow of John Adams, believed to be Eleanor Newton, who came on the Anne in 1623 (New Eng. Hist. Gen. Register, 33, p. 410). Kenelme had four children: Kenelme, Eleanor, Nathaniel and Job, the youngest who was born about 1641, probably at Marshfield, where his father had moved from Plymouth.
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He was one of the proprietors who purchased "Ye freemans lands at Taunton River" from the chief Wamsutta, April 2, 1659, called Assonet, later Freetown, where he never settled, but his son Job resided, coming from Swansea, where his house was attacked by Philip's men, July 18 or 19, 1675. He was there since about 1666. Job married about 1673 or Jan. 1674, Ruth —— . Here is the matter we are attempting to clear up.
Davis, in his Landmarks of Plymouth, says: Job married Ruth, daughter of Daniel Cole, of Eastham (page 290).
In the Descendants of Elisha Cole, by Jos. O. Curtis, N. Y., 1909, we find: Daniel Cole married Ruth Chester and had:
John, b. July 15, 1644; m. Ruth, probably daughter of Joseph Snow.
Timothy, b. Sept. 15, 1646.
Hepsibah, b. April 16, 1649; m. (1) Geo. Crisp; (2) Danl. Doane.
Ruth, b. April 15, 1651; m. (1) John, Nov. 16, 1669, son of John and Abigail Young; m. (2) Capt. Jonathan Bangs.
Israel, b. June 8, 1653; m. April, 1674-9, Mary Rogers.
James, b. Nov. 30, 1655.
Mary, b. March 10, 1658; m. May 26, 1681, Joshua, son of Gyles Hopkins; she d. March 1, 1734.
William, b. Sept. 15, 1663; m. Dec. 2, 1686, Hannah, dau. of Stephen Snow.
Daniel, b. Sept. 1666; m. Mercy, dau. Rev. Samuel Fuller.
Also, The Cole Genealogy, by Frank T. Cole, Columbus, O., 1887, gives Ruth, b. April 15, 1651; m. John, eldest son of John and Abigail Young of Eastham, b. in Plymouth Nov. 16, 1649. John Cole, eldest son of Daniel, who m. Ruth, dau. of Nicholas Snow, Dec. 12, 1666, and had a dau. Ruth, b. March 11, 1668; m. William Twining, whose third child was Ruth Cole, b. August 27, 1699; also Hugh and Mary (Foxwell) Cole, had dau. Ruth, b. Jan. 8, 1666.
The Genealogy oj James Cole of Plymouth, by E. B. Cole, Grafton Press, informs us that James Cole, m. 1624, Mary Lobel, b. London, and had: James, b. England 1624, and Hugh, b. 1627, in London probably. He came to New England in 1632 and Plymouth in 1633. This Hugh Cole m. Mary Foxwell, dau. of Richard and Ann Shelly; they removed to Barnstable; the first wife died in Swansea; he m. (2) Jan. 1, 1689, Elizabeth, wid. of Jacob Cook, and dau. of Thomas and Ann Lattice, of Plymouth; she d. at Swansea, Oct. 31, 1693; he m. (3) Jan. 30, 1694, Mary, wid. Ephraim Morton and dau. of Robert Shelly. He d. at Swansea, Jan. 22, 1699. Of his ten children the sixth was Ruth Cole, b. Jan. 8, 1666; m. Deacon Nathaniel Luther, June 10, 1693. Hugh Cole lived at Swansea at the same time with Job Winslow.
James Savage in I, New Eng. Genealogical Dictionary, at page 425, we read: Daniel Cole, Yarmouth, removed to Eastham 1643 . . . by wife Ruth had children (agreeing with Mr. Curtis
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above except Daniel, the last named), and there "he d. Dec. 21, 1694, aged 80, and his wife Ruth d. six days before, aged only 67."
On page 10, of Descendants of Elisha Cole, there is the Hopkins family, from which we abbreviate as follows: Stephen Hopkins, b. in England 1585; by his first wife he had two children: Gyles and Constance. Gyles Hopkins, b. about 1608; m. in Yarmouth, Oct. 9, 1639, Catorne, dau. of Gabriel Whelden, and d. at Eastham in 1690; they had among others, Joshua, who m. Mary, dau. of Daniel Cole; "the first of many marriages between the Cole and Hopkins family," according to the author.
I have been thus careful to show the Cole family, and have tried to show the locations where they lived; also to collect the daughters in that vicinity of the name of Ruth in order to determine who is right in naming the wife of Job Winslow.
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4. Ruth Hopkins, daughter of Gyles, b. June, 1653, three years after Bradford wrote. I find no account of her death, and no report of her marriage.
And though I find no record of established proof of her marriage, I see no reason or proof to the contrary. Job Winslow, we know, married a Ruth. Can any one say her last name was not Hopkins?
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