Person:Judith Winslow (2)

Although Judith is frequently cited as being the daughter of John Winslow's second wife, Judith, the volume "Mayflower Families Through Five Generations", VOL II, edited by Robert M. Sherman, on Chilton , More, Rogers, contends otherwise: "*The Mayflower Society has accepted lineages through a purported daughter Judith. No evidence has been found to substantiate this claim of a daughter Judith born to John Winslow and his second wife Judith, as reported in FAMS OF PILGRIMS and in COL. FAMS OF AMERICA 1:56; nor has the Judith Winslow who married Taunton 1688 John Packer been identified." The will of the candidate father mentions his "only son John" without any mention of any daughters. In none of John the father's captured documents does he mention any children other than this John, nor does son John refer to any other siblings.

The above is true in terms of strict positive proof, though, since Judith's origins have not been identified either, it is not strictly disproven, and the above conclusion seems to be accepted in many places, presumably based on the shared names of mother and daughter (e.g., see Source:Cutter, William Richard. New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial, p. 1:80).

In Temple's History of North Brookfield, P. 78, he lists a dau. Judith (no birth date) of Samuel (3) son of Kenelm(2) (1) and third wife, Ruth Briggs: Other children listed were Mary Elizabeth; Ann Thomas; Kenelm, b. Rochester, Feb. 2 1712-13; and the above Judith, who if born this late, would not be appropriate as a possible Judith.

Judith's son Person:Joseph Packard (1) mentions his aged mother in his will of 1756. One of Joseph's daughters is named Parnell, which brings to mind that Isaac Winslow married Mary Nowell, who had a mother and sister named Parnell, i.e., it is a family name in the Isaac branch of the Winslow family. The wills of Isaac Winslow and Mary (Nowell) Winslow are referred to in "Mayflower Families Through Five Generations", Vol II, and apparently do not mention Judith, which seems to suggest this scenario is impossible.

Judith is considerably younger than John Packard. Ages at death are not the most reliable, but a marriage in 1688 suggests she could not be born much later than 1672, while a death in 1761 suggests she could not be born much earlier. The significance of her age (16 at the time she married) would be that she would need her parent's permission to marry, and we would expect that she would be living with her family. Some websites suggest that John's wife was actually named Judith Willis, but the Judith Willis of Bridgewater was b. 1682 and could not have been the one who married in 1688, and certainly some kind of evidence would be needed to refute a contemporary record like the Taunton marriage record.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1916)
   2:533.

   Packard, Judith, wid. John, [died] June 19, 1761, in 90th y., GR7 [Juda, June 22, PR4]
   [Age 89, so birth about 1672. GR7=Old Graveyard. PR4=private records of Oliver Alden]

2. ↑ Judith Winslow Packard, in Find A Grave.