Meet Mayflower passenger Susanna White Winslow and discover the harrowing stories about her life in England and the challenges of building a new life in a world unknown to her in this 33-minute Vimeo video presented by the Westport Historical Society on January 23, 2021.
Westport Historical Society Executive Director Jennifer O’Neill introduced Malka Benjamin, Associate Director of Interpretation & Training at Plimoth Patuxet Museums, who offered the interpretation of Susana Jackson White Winslow. Susanna was the great grandmother of William White who settled in Westport and lived in the Cadman-White-Handy House.
Susanna, whose husband, William had died during the first winter, married Mayflower passenger Edward Winslow whose wife had also died during that hard first winter aboard ship. The Mayflower had first landed at what Captain John Smith had called “Cape James” on the tip of Cape Cod, as seen in this 1614 map drawn by Smith.
