Henry married Mary WINSLOW on 8 Nov 1791 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Pelham WINSLOW and Joanna WHITE) was born on 28 Jul 1771 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Husband and wife are 2nd cousins.

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• Occupation: Merchant, farmer, high sheriff of Plymouth Co
• Military Event: American Revolution - MA: Maj General, Paymaster General
• Served American Revolution?: Y
• Military Flag: Y

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Graduated from Harvard in 1745. Was an American General during the Revolutionary War. His wife Mercy was a noted author and her brother, James Otis, was a renowned patriot.

James married Mercy OTIS on 14 Nov 1754 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Mercy was born on 14 Sep 1728 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 19 Oct 1814 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Noteworthy: Author and Poet
• Occupation: Author

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• Education: Harvard
• Military Event: American Revolution - British Army: Maj
• Served American Revolution?: Y
• Military Flag: Y

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Graduated from Harvard in 1753. He was a Loyalist and served as a Major in the British Army in the Revolutionary War. In March 1776 he left Boston with the British Army, and a short time later was in New York with those troops. In 1778 he was assigned by the British to duty at Newport, Rhode Island, but by August 1779 he had returned to New York, where he remained until he died.

Pelham married Joanna WHITE on 18 Nov 1770 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Joanna was born in 1744; died on 2 May 1829 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Descended from Richard Warren of the Mayflower.
He was high sheriff of the county, an office held by his father.

James married Penelope WINSLOW on 30 Jan 1724 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Penelope (daughter of Isaac WINSLOW and Sarah HENSLEY) was born on 21 Dec 1704 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 25 May 1737 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Soldier, justice
• Military Event: Indian Wars
• Military Flag: Y
• Historical Notes: Massachusetts raised 3,000 troops under the command of John WINSLOW and sailed up the Hudson to Albany in the Spring of 1756. Each soldier was supplied a blue uniform with red trim, a tricorn hat, powder horn, bullet pouch, a blanket, knapsack and a wooden bottle or canteen as well as a musket (or he could bring his own). By the end of May the English force numbered 5,000 men and they moved from Albany upriver to a place called Half-Moon. The soldiers moved themselves and their supplies along the road to Stillwater, then to Saratoga by water before being loaded in wagons and carried to the Upper Falls, then by boat to Fort Edward and then by land to Fort William Henry on Lake George. Each point of transit below Ford Edward was guarded by a stockade and several companies of troops where they were harassed by the French and Indians. Col. Jonathan BAGLEY was in charge of Fort William Henry where the troops were busy building three sloops and several hundred whaleboats to carry the army to attack the French at Fort Carillon. Capt. Robert ROGERS and fifty of his Rangers took five whaleboats from Lake George and carried them over the mountains to Lake Champlain and in a sneak attack sunk two French sloops and took eight prisoners at Fort Carillon before going back to Lake George. By summer Lord Loudon and his troops arrived. The encampment at Lake George was in poor shape with 500 men sick and losing five to eight men daily from disease. By mid-August with many troops sick or dying of disease and with the fall of the English forts at Oswego on Lake Ontario, Lord LOUDON abandoned the attack on Fort Carillon and ordered WINSLOW to stay where he was to keep the French in check. With the winter coming on most of the Indian allies of the French left for home and by late in the fall most of the French left Fort Carillon. WINSLOW and his men followed the French example and they marched for home, their ranks greatly thinned by disease having seen little battle. 

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Was a distinguished and successful military officer. He commanded a company in the unfortunate Cuban expedition in 1740, and was colonel in the expedition to Nova Scotia in 1755. Was general and commander-in-chief at Fort William Henry on Lake George in 1756 during the French and Indian War. His obituary refers to him as "General", although in the administration of his will in June of 1776 referred to John Winslow "of Hingham, reduced Captain in Colonel William Shirley's 1st Regiment of Foot". He was also a councillor of the Province. His surviving children apparently removed to Nova Scotia, as he had renounced during the Revolution.

John, soldier, born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, 27 May, 1702; died in Hingham, Massachusetts, 17 April, 1774. with the exception of Sir William Pepperell, was the most distinguished military leader in New England at that period. The council appointed him, on 14 August, 1740, captain of the company that was raised in Boston to serve in the expedition against Cuba. He went as a commissioner in 1752 to Fort St. George, Maine, to adjust territorial and other disputes with the Indians. While a major-general of militia and captain in the British army in 1755, he was directed by Governor William Shirley, who was advised by Governor Lawrence, of Nova Scotia, to proceed to that province to remove the Acadians. The most responsible persons for the manner in which that act was accomplished appear to have been Lawrence and his council, and Admirals Boscawen and Moysteyn. Winslow acted under written and positive instructions, and he said to the Acadians, before reading the decree, that it was "very disagreeable to his natural temper and make," but that it was not his business to "animadvert, but to obey such orders as he should receive." The following year he took the field with about 8,000 men to serve against the French. Receiving from Governor Hardy, of New York, in July, a commission as major-general and commander-in-chief, he established himself at Fort William Henry on Lake George" but Montcalm, fearing to risk the encounter, turned aside to capture Oswego. That general then returned to Canada, and the army of Winslow to Massachusetts. He served again as major-general against the French in the expedition of 1758-9 to the Kennebec. In 1762 he was appointed chief justice of the court of common pleas in Plymouth county, He participated as a commissioner in the first effort that was made to solve the vexed question--Which is the true river St. Croix?--in determining the easterly line of Maine with James Otis and William Brattle, in 1762. During the stamp-act troubles he was a councillor of the province in the legislature, and was associated on various occasions with Samuel Adams and others in preparing documents upon that controversy. The town of Winslow in Maine was named, in 1771, in his honor. His house in Plymouth is still standing, and in Pilgrim Hall are his sword and a portrait of him in military dress.

John married Mary LITTLE on 16 Feb 1726 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Mary was born on 9 Sep 1704 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died before 4 Dec 1772 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]