"The American Genealogist" vol. 55, No. 4, Oct 1979 article "Men of the Fortune: John Adams"
From GenServ BARQ8EA, Joanne Barnard:
Her name is listed on the passenger list, ship Anne, 1623. The Anne was a 140 ton ship out of London, with William Peirce as its master. It travelled in company with a smaller ship, the Little James. They arrived in New England in the summer of 1623 with (Williston page 446 quoting William Bradford) "about 60 persons for ye generall, some of them being very useful persons. . .and some were so bad as they were faine to be at charge to send them home againe ye next year."
Banks, "The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers" says at page 153: "Mrs. Ellen Newton: This lady was sometimes called called Elinor. As she died in 1681, aged 83, she was a young widow of 25 when she emigrated. John Newton and Helen, his wife, had a son Jeremy baptized 13 May, 1621, at St. Nicholas, Colchester, which was an early Puritan centre in Essex. A William Newton married Ellen Jacus, 8 January 1603/04, at St. Botolph's without Aldgate, London, but this combination, right as to names, is too early to date. As she and Mrs. Bridget (Lee) Fuller, wife of Samuel and a fellow-passenger, were given adjacent lots it is possible that a relationship existed between them. It is stated that she was a daughter of Peter Worden, Sr., who died at Yarmouth, Mass., in 1638, but this is given with necessary reservation. It seems reasonable to suppose that she was related to one or more of the passengers, as young widows did not travel alone, as strangers, on such voyages in that day." (In the same book on page 56, it states that Bridget Lee was the daughter of Joyce Lee and a sister of Samuel Lee.)
In the Division of Land, 1623, which is recorded in Volume XII of the "Records of the Colony of New Plymouth" each family member was given one acre of land. Ellen Newton is listed for one acre "this goeth in wth a corner by ye ponde."
She first married John Adams in 1625. He had come to New England as a "Stranger" (i.e., not one of the Pilgrims) on the ship Fortune in 1621, one of "35 persons to remaine & live in ye plantation," as described in "Saints and Strangers" by Willison, 1897, at page 444. Ellen was also a "Stranger." In 1626, John became one of the "Purchasers," namely a shareholder in the colony and entitled to a share in its property. He and Ellen had three children prior to his death in 1633.
In Stratton's "Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620-1691" on page 429 he lists the 27 March 1634 tax list. Included is "Widow Adams" for 9 shillings.
In 1634 Ellen Married Kenelm Winslow and had four children by him. She lived to . . . 83, dying at Marshfield 5 December 1681.