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Winslow, Anna Green, 1759-1780

Anna Green Winslow wrote a diary when she was a young girl about life in provincial Boston and the congregation at that city's Old South Church.

Anna's parents were Joshua and Anna Green Winslow. Her Pilgrim ancestors landed at Cape Cod before the more famous Plymouth landing. The Winslows were direct descendants of Mary Chilton, the first Englishwoman to walk on the shores of New England.

Anna was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia but moved to Boston at the age of ten to enter a finishing school. As a child, her interests were varied: she read widely, and wrote in her journal about everything from religion to hairstyles and fashion. She enjoyed socializing and maintained an active schedule despite bouts of colds and fevers.

The American Revolution was a difficult time for Anna's family, as her father was a Loyalist. He fled to England, and then moved to Quebec, where he became a Royal Paymaster. The position forced him to live apart from his wife and daughter, and letters suggest that he was away from home when Anna passed away.

Little is known about Anna Green Winslow's last years. Family members believe she died of consumption in the fall of 1779 at the age of 20.

Source: Diary of Anna Green Winslow: A Boston School Girl of 1771. Edited by Alice Morse Earle. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1894.

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