Gen John WINSLOW^[1]

1703 - 1774  (70 years)

• Name	John WINSLOW
  Prefix	Gen
  Born	27 May 1703	Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  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.
  Died	17 Apr 1774	Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I13211	Main
  Last Modified	23 Oct 2023

  
  

  Father	Isaac WINSLOW,   b. 1670, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. 5 Dec 1738, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts  (Age 68 years)
  Mother	Sarah HENSLEY,   b. 11 Aug 1673, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts ,   d. 6 Dec 1753, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts  (Age 80 years)
  Married	11 Jul 1700	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F4260	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Mary LITTLE,   b. 9 Sep 1704, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. Bef 4 Dec 1772, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts  (Age < 68 years)
  Married	16 Feb 1726	Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts
  Children	1. Josiah WINSLOW,   b. 5 Sep 1730, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. 1 Mar 1731, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts  (Age 0 years) + 2. Pelham WINSLOW,   b. 8 Jun 1737, Marshfield, Erie, New York ,   d. 13 Aug 1783, Brooklyn, Kings, New York  (Age 46 years) + 3. Dr Isaac WINSLOW,   b. 27 Apr 1739, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. 24 Oct 1819, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts  (Age 80 years)
  Last Modified	30 Jul 2017
  Family ID	F5748	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Bethiah BARKER,   b. 17 Feb 1715, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. 21 Nov 1790, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts  (Age 75 years)
  Married	Aft 4 Dec 1772
  Last Modified	28 Oct 2023
  Family ID	F6837	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 27 May 1703 - Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts Married - 16 Feb 1726 - Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts Died - 17 Apr 1774 - Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S44] Orcutt_001 gedcom file, Robert Waddell.