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Magazine Antiques, Sept, 2001 by John B. Hermanson

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(6.) In 1738, for instance, James Warren (1700-1757) wrote to John Winslow that he had stopped by the "Governor's House" to visit "Mother Winslow" (Sarah, the widow of Isaac) (Winslow papers, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston).

(7.) Indentured dated April 18,1753, signed by Edward Winslow, George Watson, and Sarah Winslow; and indenture dated May 6, 1748, signed by John Winslow, Edward Winslow, Sarah Winslow, Samuel Holyoke, and John Smith (both in the Winslow papers).

(8.) Francis Parkman, Montcalm and Wolfe, vol. 1 (Boston, 1897), pp. 288-289; Krusell, Winslows of Careswell, p. 38.

(9.) Parkman, Montcalm and Wolfe, vol. 1, pp. 288-289.

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(10.) Krusell, Winslows of Careswell, pp. 38-39.

(11.) A 1784 map shows two Winslow residences on the Careswell estate--one belonging to "Gen. Winslow [his widow]" and the other on nearby Gotham Hill, belonging to "Dr. Winslow." By tradition, that house was purchased by Bildad Washburn in 1797, after Doctor Isaac moved into the 1699 house, and was moved to Kingston, Massachusetts, where it stands today (Krusell, Winslows of Careswell, pp. 38-39; and Krusell and Bates, Marshfield, pp. 13-14).

(12.) In 1773 Doctor Isaac had written to the Boston Evening-Post thanking General Thomas Gage (1721-1787) publicly for sending British troops from Boston down to Marshfield to quell disturbances related to the Boston Tea Party.

(13.) According to Krusell, Winslows of Careswell (p. 44), the following were subsequent owners: Seth Sprague, 1827-1835; Charles Henry Thomas, 1835-1836; Daniel Webster, 1836-1855; Charles and Ezra Wright, 1855; Tilden Ames and Nathaniel Holbrook, 1855-1882; Oscar Weston, 1882-1919; Edward C. Ford, John Gutterson and Edgar B. Sherrill, 1919-1920; Historic Winslow House Association, 1920-present.

(14.) General Samuel P. Lyman, The Public and Private Life of Daniel Webster... (Philadelphia, 1852), p. 65.

(15.) Richard Martinez, past president of the Historic Winslow Association in discussions with the author. Martinez, who watched the house being restored, is the repository of oral traditions about the house.

(16.) Lyman, Webster, p. 65.

(17.) Professor Richard Candee of Boston University's Program in Preservation Studies raised questions about the 1699 date at a symposium held at the Historic Winslow House on June 26, 1999. Abbott Lowell Cummings, on the other hand, believes--for structural and stylistic reasons--that the house is "First Period," meaning probably of the seventeenth century (conversation with Robert G. Neiley preparatory to the June 26, 1999 conference and mentioned by Mr. Neiley at that time).

(18.) Cited in Plymouth County Record of Deeds, book 24, p. 188, February 11/25, 1725 (cited in notes graciously loaned to me by Cynthia Krusell).

(19.) Another Winslow slave wrote A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man, -- Servant to General Winslow (Boston, 1760), which is reprinted by the Historic Winslow House Association.

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