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 WINSLOW, EDWARD, colonial governor; born in Droitwich, England,
Oct. 18, 1595; became a Puritan in his
youth; married the daughter of a Dissenter; came to America from
Holland, in the Mayflower, in 1620; and soon afterwards buried his
bride here. He then married Susannah, widow of William White, and
one of his fellow-passengers. Winslow offered himself to
Massasoit,
the Indian sachem, as a hostage, at the first conference between the
English and the natives, and won his respect and affection,
especially by his curing the old ruler of an illness in 1623. He
made two voyages to England (1623–1624) as agent for the colony, and
in 1633 he succeeded Bradford as governor. He again visited England,
where he was imprisoned by Archbishop Laud seventeen weeks for
teaching in the church and performing the marriage ceremony as a
magistrate. Winslow was one of the most active men in the colony,
and was governor three successive terms. On his return from England,
in 1624, he brought with him several cows and a bull, the first
neat-cattle seen in the colony. He went to England again in 1649,
after the death of Charles I., and there proposed, and aided in
forming, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in
New
England. Cromwell so appreciated his worth that he offered him such
distinctions and emoluments in England that he never returned to
America. When Cromwell sent out an expedition against the Spaniards
in the West Indies, Winslow was commissioned to superintend it.
Before the work was done he was seized with fever, and died on
shipboard, May 8, 1655.
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