Person:Edward Winn (1)

Edward Winn was hired as a servant and carpenter, along with another unnamed carpenter, in Broughton, England by Barnabas Davis sometime about 1637. They were brought to London and were intended to accompany Davis to New England. Davis had been in turn hired by William Woodcock to attend to business affairs in England and the Colonies. In a change of plans involving non-payment of monies due to Davis, and possibly the death of William Woodcock, the servant-carpenters were turned over to one Roger Hogge. Subsequently William Woodcock's brother John Woodcock re-hired Davis who with his carpenters sailed to New England about 1639, accompanied by Davis' wife and children and Edward Winn's wife Joanna and their three children.^S4

In 1640 Edward Winne was one of the original Proprietors of Woburn, Massachusetts. His child Increase was the first child recorded born in that town ‎(1641)‎. Edward was made Freeman in 1643. He was a town officer, a surveyor, and a selectman in Woburn.^{S5 S6}

Edward's wife Joanna died in Woburn in 1649. Edward Winn married again twice but had no further children. He died in Woburn in 1682 survived by his third wife Hannah. ^{S1 S5}

1. ↑ Cleveland, Edmund Janes, and Horace Gillette Cleveland. The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families: an attempt to trace, in both the male and the female lines, the posterity of Moses¹ Cleveland who came from Ipswich, County Suffolk, England, about 1635, was of Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; of Alexander Cleveland of Prince William County, Virginia; and of ancient and other Clevelands in England, America and elsewhere; with numerous biographical sketches; and containing ancestries of many of the husbands and wives; also a bibliography of the Cleveland family and a genealogical account of Edward Winn of Woburn and of other Winn families. (Hartford, Connecticut: Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1899)
   3:2420.

   'He died at Woburn, Sept. 5, 1682.'

2. ↑ Johnson, Edward F. Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages . (Woburn, Massachusetts: Andrews, Cutler & Co., 1890-1919)
   2:208, Deaths.

   'WINN. ... Edward, s. of -----, Sept. 5, 1682.'

3.   Cleveland, Edmund Janes, and Horace Gillette Cleveland. The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families: an attempt to trace, in both the male and the female lines, the posterity of Moses¹ Cleveland who came from Ipswich, County Suffolk, England, about 1635, was of Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; of Alexander Cleveland of Prince William County, Virginia; and of ancient and other Clevelands in England, America and elsewhere; with numerous biographical sketches; and containing ancestries of many of the husbands and wives; also a bibliography of the Cleveland family and a genealogical account of Edward Winn of Woburn and of other Winn families. (Hartford, Connecticut: Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1899)
   3:2420.

   'EDWARD1 WINN was born, it is conjectured, in Wales, or more probably in England, was of Charlestown, Mass., prior to Dec. 18, 1640, and, evidently, from and after Feb., March, or May, 1640-1, of Woburn, Mass.'

4.   Lechford, Thomas, and James Hammond Trumbull. Note-book kept by Thomas Lechford, Esq.,: lawyer in Boston, Massachusetts Bay, from June 27, 1638 to July 29, 1641. (Cambridge [Massachusetts]: John Wilson and Son, 1885)
   p. 378.
5.   Sewall, Samuel. The History of Woburn, Middlesex County, Mass. : from the Grant of Its Territory to Charlestown, in 1640, to the Year 1860; with a Memorial Sketch of the Author. (Boston: Wiggin and Lunt Publishers, 1868)
   p. 649.
6. ↑ Pope, Charles Henry. Pioneers of Massachusetts (1620-1650): A Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns and Churches. (Boston: The Author, 1900)
   p. 507.

   'He deposed 17 June, 1670, ae. about 71 years.'

7.   Some compilers (possibly copying from a submission to LDS) indicate that Edward was the son of Edmund Wynne and Mary Berkeley. This does not appear likely. Various contemporary quotes about Edmund's family do not include Edward. Also, Edward is said to be from Ipswich in Suffolk, while Edmund was from Lincolnshire.