The Mayflower House Museum is an 18th-century period historic house museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts operated by The Mayflower Society , also known as the General Society of Mayflower Descendants. The Society purchased the Edward Winslow House in 1941.
4-650: The mansion home was originally built in 1754 by Edward Winslow , a loyalist who escaped to Halifax, Nova Scotia . He died shortly after and was buried in the Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia) . (His son Edward Winslow made a significant contribution to the establishment of the loyalist colony of New Brunswick .) Winslow was the great-grandson of Edward Winslow , third Governor of Plymouth Colony. The mansion contains 18th century period decorations and furnishings. On September 14, 1835, Ralph Waldo Emerson married his second wife, Lidian Jackson Emerson in
8-602: The American Revolution . He was the great grandson of Mayflower Pilgrim Edward Winslow . During Father Rale's War , Winslows older brother Josiah was given the command of Fort St. George (Thomaston, Maine) and was killed by natives of the Wabanaki Confederacy in the Northeast Coast Campaign (1724) . He was also the father of loyalist Edward Winslow . He was originally from Plymouth and became
12-595: The Clerk of the Court, Register of Probate, and Collector of the Port. He built his home in 1754 in Plymouth, which is now preserved as a museum. Winslow was buried with great honor. His pall-bearers included Sir John Wentworth , General Edmund Fanning , Lt. Governor John Parr , Hon. Arthur Goold , Brigadier-General John Small , Hon. Judge Foster Hutchinson and Henry Lloyd . He
16-528: The parlor of The Edward Winslow House. The offices and library of the Society are located behind the mansion. 41°57′29.3″N 70°39′48.4″W / 41.958139°N 70.663444°W / 41.958139; -70.663444 Edward Winslow (scholar) Edward Winslow (7 June 1714 – 8 June 1784) was a loyalist who was a government official in Boston until he moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1776 during
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