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EDWARD WINSLOW (1595-1655)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 733 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD See also:WINSLOW (1595-1655)  , one of the founders of the See also:Plymouth See also:colony in See also:America, was See also:born in See also:Droitwich, See also:Worcestershire, See also:England, on the 18th of See also:October 1595 . In 1617 he removed to See also:Leiden, See also:united with See also:John See also:Robinson's See also:church there, and in 162o was one of the " pilgrims " who emigrated to New England on the " See also:Mayflower " and founded the Plymouth colony . His wife, See also:Elizabeth (See also:Barker) See also:Winslow, whom he had married in May 1618 at Leiden, having died soon after their arrival, he married, in May 1621, Mrs Susannah See also:White, the See also:mother of Peregrine White (1620-1704), the first white See also:child born in New England . This was the first See also:marriage in the New England colonies . Winslow was delegated by his associates to treat with the See also:Indians in the vicinity and succeeded in winning the friend-See also:ship of their See also:chief, Massasoit (c . 158o-1661) . He was one of the assistants from 1624 to 1647, except in 1633-1634, 1636-1637 and 1644-1645, when he was See also:governor of the colony . He was also, in 1643, one of the commissioners of the United Colonies of New England . On several occasions he was sent to England to look after the interests of Plymouth and See also:Massachusetts See also:Bay, and defend these colonies from the attacks of such men as John Lyford, See also:Thomas See also:Morton (q.v.) and See also:Samuel See also:Gorton (q.v.) . He See also:left on his last See also:mission as the See also:agent of Massachusetts Bay, in October 1646, and spent nine years in England, where he held a See also:minor See also:office under See also:Cromwell, and in 1654 was made a member of the See also:commission appointed to determine the value of certain See also:English See also:ships destroyed by See also:Denmark . In 1655 he was the chief of the three English commissioners whom Cromwell sent on his expedition against the See also:West Indies to advise with its leaders See also:Admiral Venables and Admiral See also:William See also:Penn, but died near See also:Jamaica on the 8th of May 1655, and was buried at See also:sea . Winslow's portrait, the only See also:authentic likeness of any of the " Mayflower" " pilgrims," is in the See also:gallery of the See also:Pilgrim Society at Plymouth, See also:Mass .

His writings, though fragmentary, are of the greatest value to the historian of the Plymouth colony . They include: See also:

Good Newes from New England, or a True Relation of Things very Remarkable at the See also:Plantation of Plirnouth in New England (1624) ; Hypocrisie Unmasked; by a True Relation of the Governor and See also:Company of Massachusetts against Samuel Gorton, a Notorious Disturber of the See also:Peace 0646), to which was added a See also:chapter entitled " A Brief Narration of the True Grounds or Cause of the First Plantation of New England "; New England's See also:Salamander (1647) ; and The Glorious Progress of the See also:Gospel amongst the Indians in New England (1649) . With William See also:Bradford he also is supposed to have prepared a See also:Journal of the Beginning and Proceeding of the English Plantation settled at Plymouth in New England (1622), which is generally known as " Mourt's Relation," owing to its See also:preface having been signed by " G . Mourt." Some of his writings may be found reprinted in See also:Alexander See also:Young's See also:Chronicles of the Pilgrims (See also:Boston, 1841) . See J . B . See also:Moore's See also:Memoirs of See also:American See also:Governors (New See also:York, 1846) ; See also:David P. and Frances K . Holton's Winslow Memorial (New York, 1877) and J . G . See also:Palfrey's See also:History of New England (3 vols., Boston, 1858-1864) . Also see a See also:paper by W . C .

Winslow, " Governor See also:

Edward Winslow, his See also:Place and See also:Part in Plymouth Colony," in the See also:Annual See also:Report of the American See also:Historical Association for 1895 (See also:Washington, 1896) . His son, See also:JosIAH WINSLOW (1629-1680), was educated at Harvard See also:College . He was elected a See also:deputy to the See also:General See also:Court in 1653, was an " assistant " from 1657 to 1673, and governor from See also:June 1673 until his See also:death . From 1658 to 1672 he was one of the commissioners of the United Colonies of New England, and in 1675, during See also:King See also:Philip's See also:War, he was See also:commander-in-chief of the united forces of New England .

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