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authority of Dr. Young in his notes on Chron. of the Pilgr. 46, counts
the same, tho. 274 he adopts the later yr. on the faith of "extr. from the
rec. of St. Peter's ch. in that place" as foll. 1595, Oct. 20, bapt.
Edward, s. of Edward Winslow, b. the previous Friday, adding wh.
was the 19th. Whose blunder this was, is immater. Friday bef. 20
Oct. 1595 was the 17th. But for the yr. it might seem more desirab.
that should be mark. than the day, and perhaps, tho. not prob. it may be
as the informant of Dr. Young gave it, mak. the m. of his parents Nov.
1594. On the first sight of this bible, pasted to its left hand cover is
found the traditionary story of what is call. "Family Record," as in
Gen. Rec. IV. 298, the mind instantly rejects the right to such honor,
inasmuch as the whole rec. was evident. made at once, tho. entries for
eleven yrs. 1595-1606, purport to be expressed; and secondly, the
handwriting is manifestly of four generations later than the Govnr's.
father (who only ought to have made such rec.) could have written it;
and furthermore the age of the vol. (tho. early part of the old Test. is
lost, and the latter part of the new) is apparent. to a practised eye, at
least one hudnred and forty yrs. later than the first child's b. No great
value attaches to such MS. and it has been, in more than three or four
places, correct. by erasures and interlin. prob. from presum. transcripts
of the Eng. parish rec. But modern tradit. gives a glorious myth to
this bible, that may be really of the time of George I. tho. to me it
seems more likely an imprint under George II. as if it were in the Mayflower,
brot. by Edward in his first voyage, at least a century bef. the
paper was made. He had fallen into comp. on a tour in Holland, a.
1617, with the band of puritans at Leyden, and was led to join them,
there m. 16 May 1618, Elizabeth Barker, when the Dutch rec. calls him
printer of London, came with her in the little vessel from Delfthaven
over to Eng. for embark. in the Mayflower from Southampton, and she
d. 24 Mar. aft. the land. at P. He had five in his fam. on reach. the
shore, George Soule, Elias Story, and Ellen More, count. with hims.
and w. but Story and More, as well as his w. d. in short season aft. the
end of that fatal voyage. On 12 May foll. he m. Susanna, wid. of Willaim
White, wh. had been his compan. in the ship, and wh. dec. only
thirty-one days earlier than Winslow's w. This was the first. m. in
N. E. as had in Dec. preced. been first the b. of her s. Peregrine, at
Cape Cod, bef. reach. P. By the sec. w. he had, bef. the div. of cattle
in 1627, Edward, and John, both d. young; Edward, again, b. 1629;
and Elizabeth wh. m. Robert Brooks, and next, 22 July 1669, capt. George
Curwin of Salem. For his high public spirit, wh. took him, in the serv.
of his country, over to Eng. 1623, and four or five times more, besides
the freq. excurs. that were req. of him to Kennebeck, and all the adj.
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