Susanna White was a passenger on the Mayflower and successively wife of fellow Mayflower passengers William White and Edward Winslow. Born Susanna Jackson, daughter of Richard and Mary Jackson, she went to Amsterdam and joined its separatist congregation about 1608, and there married future Mayflower passenger William White. She was mother of one son, Resolved, when she boarded the Mayflower and was pregnant during its voyage, giving birth to Peregrine in late November 1620, while the ship was anchored at Cape Cod. Peregrine was the second baby born on the Mayflowers voyage, and the first known English child born to the Pilgrimsin America. Susanna was one of the four adult Pilgrim women who survived their first winter in the New World, along with Eleanor Billington, Elizabeth Hopkins, and Mary Brewster; these four, with young daughters and male and female servants, cooked the first Thanksgiving feast. Susanna was widowed February 21, 1621, and months later remarried to Pilgrim Edward Winslow on May 12, 1621 in Plymouth Colony. Edward's prior wife had died perished on March 24, 1621. The wedding of Edward Winslow and Susanna was the first in Plymouth Colony. Children of Susanna's first marriage with William White who became Edward Winslow's step-sons:
Resolved White – born ca. 1615. Married 1640 Judith Vassall, daughter of William Vassall, and had eight children. Resolved married 1674 Abigail ____ Lord. She died 1682. He died 1687.
Elizabeth Winslow – born ca. 1631. Married Robert Brooks on 8 April 1656 in Clapham, Surrey, and had one son. Married George Curwin 1669 and had two daughters. He died 1684/5. She died 1698.
Susanna died between December 18, 1654 and July 2, 1675. She was buried in Winslow Cemetery. As well, Winslow Cemetery has a substantial stone monument to "The Early Settlers of Green Harbor Marshfield" naming, among others, Susanna, Resolved and Peregrine White, and Susanna's second husband Edward Winslow.
