Person:Mary Chilton (1)

Mary Chilton
chr.31 May 1607 Sandwich, Kent, England
d.Bet 31 Jul 1676 and 1 May 1679 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
m. Est 1583
  1. Joel Chilton1584 - 1593
  2. Isabella Chilton1586/87 -
  3. Jane Chilton1589 -
  4. Mary ChiltonEst 1590 - 1593
  5. Elizabeth Chilton1594 -
  6. James Chilton1596 - Bef 1603
  7. Ingle Chilton1599 -
  8. Christian Chilton1600 -
  9. James Chilton1603 -
  10. Mary Chilton1607 - Bet 1676 & 1679
  • HJohn Winslow1597 - Bet 1673/74 & 1674
  • WMary Chilton1607 - Bet 1676 & 1679
m. Abt 1626
  1. John WinslowAbt 1628 - Bef 1683
  2. Susannah WinslowAbt 1630 - 1683
  3. Mary WinslowEst 1632 - Abt 1663
  4. Edward WinslowAbt 1634 - 1682
  5. Sarah WinslowAbt 1636 - 1726
  6. Joseph WinslowAbt 1638 - Bef 1679
  7. Samuel WinslowAbt 1641 - 1680
  8. Isaac Winslow1644 - Bef 1670
  9. Benjamin Winslow1653 - 1673
Facts and Events
Name Mary Chilton
Gender Female
Christening[1][2][6] 31 May 1607 Sandwich, Kent, EnglandSt. Peter's
Alt Marriage 12 Oct 1624 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United Statesto John Winslow
Marriage Abt 1626 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United Statesto John Winslow
Will[5] 31 Jul 1676 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Death[1][2][7] Bet 31 Jul 1676 and 1 May 1679 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Burial[1][4] King's Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Probate[7] 21 May 1679 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Reference Number? Q6779213?

Mary was born in Sandwich. When she was about two, her mother was excommunicated for attending the secret (non-Church of England) burial of a child. The family then moved to Leyden and joined the church there. In 1619, when she was twelve, her father and oldest sister were caught in an anti-Arminian riot and her father was hit in the head with a stone--an injury for which he would have to seek out a surgeon.

She was a passenger along with her parents on the Mayflower at the age of 13; the rest of her siblings stayed behind. Tradition has it that she was the first to set foot on Plymouth Rock. The painting "The Landing of the Pilgrims" by Henry Bacon and exhibited in Pilgrim Hall in Plymouth, Massachusetts reflects this tradition.

Mary's father died while the Mayflower was still anchored off the shore of Plymouth, and her mother several weeks later. Based on the later divisions of lands, it is believed she was raised in the John Alden and Miles Standish households.

Mary's husband John Winslow came to Plymouth on the Fortune in 1621. John was the brother of Edward Winslow, a Mayflower passenger and a Governor of Plymouth Colony. Mary was 16 and unmarried at the 1623 land division, and married to John, with no children yet, by the May 1627 division of cattle.

Mary and John moved to Boston about 1655, where John became a successful merchant and shipowner. She was the only passenger of the Mayflower to later settle in Boston.

Mary left the only will of a female passenger on the Mayflower, which is preserved at the Suffolk County Registry of Probate in Boston. The will was dated 31 July 1676 and proved 11 Jul 1679. It can be found at http://members.aol.com/calebj/will_mwinslow.html. She and John are buried in King's Chapel Burying Ground in Boston, where their tombstones still stand.

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Mary Chilton (May 31, 1607 – May 16,1679) was a Pilgrim and purportedly the first European woman to step ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.

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Last Will & Testament of Mary (Chilton) Winslow, 1676

In the name of God Amen the thirty first day of July in the yeare of our Lord one thousand Six hundred seventy and Six I Mary Winslow of Boston in New England Widdow being weake of Body but of Sound and perfect memory praysed be almighty God for the same Knowing the uncertainty of this present life and being desirous to settle that outward Estate the Lord hath Lent me. I doe make this my last Will and Testamt in manner and forme following (that is to say) First and principally I comend my Soule into the hands of Almighty God my Creator hopeing to receive full pardon and remission of all my sins; and Salvation through the alone merrits of Jesus Christ my redeemer: And my body to th eEArth to be buried in Such Decent manner as to my Executor hereafter named shall be thought meet and convenient and as touching such worldly Estate as the Lord hath Lent me my Will and meaneing is the same shall be imployed and bestowed as hereafter in and by this my Will is Exprest.

Imps I doe hereby revoake renounce and make voide all Wills by me formerly made and declaire and apoint this my Last Will and Testamt Item I will that all the Debts that I Justly owe to any manner of person or persons whatsoever shall be well and truely paid or ordained to be paid in convenient time after my decease by my Executor hereafter named--Item I give and bequeath unto my Sone John Winslow my great Square table Item I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Sarah Middlecott my Best gowne and Pettecoat and my Silver beare bowle and to each of her children a Silver Cup with an handle: Also I give unto my grandchild William Paine my Great silver tankard: Item I give unto my Daughter Susanna Latham my long Table: Six Joyned Stooles and my great Cupboard: a beadstead Bedd and furniture there unto belonging that is in the Chamber over the roome where I now Lye; my small silver Tankard: Six Silver Spoones, a case of Bottles with all my wearing apparell: (except onely what I have hereby bequeathed unto my Daughter Meddlecott & my Grandchild Susanna Latham:) Item I give and bequeath unto my Grandchild Ann Gray that trunke of Linning that I have alreddy delivered to her and is in her possession and also one Bedstead, Bedd Boulster and Pillows that re in the Chamber over the Hall: Also the sume of ten pounds in mony to be paid unto her within Six months next after my decease: Also my will is that my Executor shall pay foure pounds in mony pr ann for three yeares unto Mrs Tappin out of the Intrest of my mony now in Goodman Cleares hands for and towards the maintenance of the said Ann Gray according to my agreemt with Mrs Tappin: Item I give and bequeath unto Mary Winslow Daughter of my sone Edward Winslow my largest Silver Cupp with two handles: and unto Sarah Daughter of the said Edward my lesser Silver cupp with two handles: Also I give unto my Said Sone Edwards Children Six Silver Spoones to be divided between them: Item I give and bequeath unto my grandchild Parnell Winslow the Sume of five pounds in mony to be improved by my Executor untill he come of age: and then paid to him with the improvemt. Item my will is that the rest of my spoones be divided among my grandchildren according to the discression of My Daughter Middlecott: Item I give unto my Grandchild Mercy Harris my White Rugg: Item I give unto my Grandchild Mary Pollard forty shillings in mony. Item I give unto my grandchild Susanna Latham my Petty Coate with the silke Lace: Item I give unto Mary Winslow Daughter of my Sone Joseph Winslow the Sume of twenty pounds in mony to be paid out of the sume of my said Sone Joseph now owes to be improved by my Executor for the said Mary and paid unto her when She Shall attaine the Age of eighteene yeares or day of Marriage which of them shall first happen Item I give and bequeath the full remainder of my Estate whatsoever it is or wheresoever it may be found unto my children Namely John Winslow Edward Winslow Joseph Winslow Samuel Winslow: Susanna Latham and Sarah Middlecott to be equally divided betweene them Item I doe hereby nominate constitute authorize and appoint my trusty friend Mr William Tailer of Boston aforesd merchant the Sole Executor of this my last Will and testamt: In Witness whereof I the said Mary Winslow have hereunto set my hand and Seale the daye and yeare first above written

Memorandum I do hereby also Give and bequeath unto Mr. Thomas Thacher paster of the third Church in Boston the Sume of five pounds in mony to be pd convenient time after my decease by my Executr.

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Signed Sealed and Published by the above named Mary Winslow as her Last Will & testamt in the presence of us after the adding of foure lines as part of her will

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Mr Wm Tailer nominatd. Execr appeard in Court pr May: 1679 and renounced his Executorship to this will.

attests. Jsa: Addington Cler.

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 General Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620. (New England - United States: General Society of Mayflower Descendants., Various)
    Vol. 2.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Increasings for Three Generations. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1989)
    2d ed, p. 33.
  3.   Johnson, Caleb. MayflowerHistory.com [1].
  4. Mary Chilton, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  5. Appleton, William S. Early Wills Illustrating the Ancestry of Harriot Coffin: with Genealogical and Biographical Notes. (Boston: Press of D. Clapp & Son, 1893)
    p27-29.
  6. James Chilton, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

    x MARY, bp. St. Peter's, Sandwich, [31] May 1607 [MF 2:5]

  7. 7.0 7.1 John Winslow, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

    MARRIAGE: Plymouth by 22 May 1627 Mary Chilton, daughter of JAMES CHILTON [PCR 12:11; MF 2:6-10]. She died between 31 July 1676 (date of will) and 1 May 1679 (renunciation of executorship).