William, Susannah, and Resolved came over on Mayflower with two servants, William Holbeck and Edward Thompson. William White, William Holbeck, and Edward all died during the first winter.138

Almost nothing is known of Wm White. The oft-stated “fact” that he was a wool-comber comes from a marriage license which did not belong to him. There were several Wm Whites in Leydon, but he also could have boarded the Mayflower in London just as well. See <members.aol.com/calebj/white.html>

In the 1623 Plymouth division of land William White received five acres as a passenger on the Mayflower (even though he had been dead for two years).138

Bradford gives him the honorific “Mr” and he was probably one of the wealthier Leyden Separatists.137

“...the first mother, the first widow, the first bride, and the first mother of a native-born Governor, of New England.”140

Susannah married Edward Winslow, a recent widower, in the first marriage ceremony in the Plymouth Colony. William Bradford, Mills ancestor, officiated.

Susannah must have been a strong person; she survived the crossing of the Atlantic to give birth to Peregrine while the Mayflower was still at anchor, then survived the first disastrous winter which killed off most of the other women of the colony.

Once Edward became involved with politics, the family saw little of him. Susannah spent much of her married life apart from her spouse. The family moved to Marshfield by 1634.138

Susannah’s identity is also somewhat mysterious. There are arguments on all sides: she was a Fuller but not related to Samuel and Edward Fuller (other Mayflower immigrants); she was not a Fuller, she was the sister of one Fuller and the daughter of the other.

On 30 October 1623 Edward Winslow wrote from London to "his much respected Uncle Mr. Robert Jackson" who was clerk of the sewers at Spalding, Lincolnshire. In his letter he wrote that "almost two years since I wrote to my father-in-law declaring the death of his son White & the continued health of his daughter and her two children; also how that by God's providence she was become my wife.... My wife hath had one child by me, but it pleased him that gave it to take it again unto himself; I left her with child at my departure (whom God preserve) but hope to be with her before her delivery.” Susanna appears to have had a brother and two sisters living at the time of this letter, based on its contents. This letter remains the best clue to her identity.138,137

“Great Migration” lists her death as “between 1654 and 1675.”138

NOTE: Burial note says she was buried in Norfolk. Check sources.