DOCTOR
RANDOLPH WINSLOW, of Baltimore, was born at
Hertford, Perquimans county, North Carolina,
October 23, 1852, son of Doctor Caleb and Jane
(Parry) Winslow. His father was a physician of
ability and standing. The family had been long
settled in North Carolina. We find in 1774 as one
of the representatives in the first Provincial
Congress called in North Carolina, independent of
the Provincial Governor, the name of Moses Winslow,
which shows that in the South, as in the North, the
Winslows in our Revolutionary period adhered to the
patriots' side. There is a curious misconception
about this family, the general opinion being that
in America, at least, it is altogether a New
England family. This is not borne out by the
records, for, while the vast majority of the
Winslows have been found in New England and date
back to the early settlement of Massachusetts, the
family was also known in Virginia and North
Carolina in the early settlement of those colonies.
The figures give some idea; thus, in 1790, there
were 171 families of Winslows in the United States;
of these, 143 were in New England, and 76 in
Massachusetts, but on that same date there were 4
families in Virginia and 18 in North Carolina. One
thing, however, seems to be true of both branches;
they belonged to that element in the population
which we call Puritans.