“Little is known about the Pilgrim William White. Governor Bradford says that among MAYFLOWER passengers were “Mr. William White and Susanna his wife and one son called Resolved and one born a-shipboard called peregrine, and two servants named, William Holbeck and Edward Thompson.
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William and Susanna White left England with son Resolved. At Cape Cod on November 11, 1620, according to the old calendar, William was one of the forty-one signers of the Mayflower Compact. Two to three weeks later son Peregrine was born, the first English birth in Plymouth Colony, Susanna was widowed in February. She became the first colony bride in May, marrying Edward Winslow, a MAYFLOWER passenger who had lost his wife a few weeks before. At least five children were born to Susanna and Edward Winslow. “ [1,2,3,4]
Notes
[1] From page 1 of Mayflower Families through Five Generations. Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass December 1620. Volume13 Family of William White. … Re-edited by Robert S. Wakefield, FASQ. (General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1997). From page 2: Susanna has been given more than one surname, although none has definitively been connected with a specific father.
[2] Three months after White’s death, Susanna married Edward Winslow (1595-1655), who was born in Droitwich, Worcestershire, England, 1621. He died at Sea Between Hispaniola and Jamaica in 1665.
[3] Mayflower Families through Five Generations. Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass December 1620. Volume 5, Edward Winslow and John Billington, Re-edited by Robert S. Wakefield, FASQ. (General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1997).
[4] For more on Winslow see John Hanc, The Pilgrim Hero You Should Really Be Thankful for This Thanksgiving, Smithsonian Magazine, November 2016. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-edward-winslow-plymouth-hero-thanksgiving-180961174/ Accessed 2023 Sept 27.