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- Came from England on Mayflower. Was a printer in England by trade.Assistant printer at Choir Alley Press, 1617-19; member of parties sentout to explore Cape Cod and environs; married, Plymouth, 1621, to Mrs. Susanna (Fuller) White; diplomatic mission to Massasoit, 1621; author of"come-on" literarture to attract settlers; agent to England, 1625; openedtrade along Kennebec, 1625; member of General Court as governor or asst.governor, 1624-46;l Purchaser, 1626; Undertaker, 1627-41; jailed inLondon by Archbishop Laud, 1635; removed to Marshfield, 1637;commissioner to New England Confederacy, 1643-44; sailed for London,1646, and never returned; chairman of joint English-Dutch commission toassess Damage done English ships by Djutch in Neutral Danish port; Cjhiefof 3 Commissioners appointed by Oliver Cromwell to conquer Spanish West Indies; died of tropical fever on flagship off Jamaica, buried at sea with salvo of cannon.
Christened October 20, 1595. Came to Plymouth, Massachusetts on the first voyage of the Mayflower in 1628. Served as first Governor of thePlymouth Colony. Established the Winslow mansion in 1636 near Green'sHarbor, now Marshfield and named is Careswell, probably from an ancientcastle of that name in Staffordshire. The estate was subsequently ownedby Daniel Webster. Was attached to the Pilgrim's church in Leyden(Holland), where he lived for about three years prior to his departurefor Plymouth. At that time he was called a printer of London. Was thethird signer of the Mayflower Compact. Following the death of his firstwife shortly after the the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth, he marriedSusanna White, widow of William White of the Mayflower. This was thefirst marriage in Plymouth. He went to England as the agent of thecolony in 1623, 1624, 1635, 1644 and 1646. On his return in 1624 hebrought over the first cattle which came into the colony. He did notreturn from his last voyage but was employed in various importantagencies for his adopted and his mother country. In 1655 he wasappointed by Cromwell as one of three commissioners to superintend theexpedition against the Spanish possessions in the West Indies, where he died.[Broderbund WFT Vol. 5, Ed. 1, Tree #3874, Date of Import: May 29,2000]
Edward Winslow was a also a Mayflower passenger. After the death of their
spouses Susanna and Edward married in May, 1620.
Edward Winslow rose to prominence as Governor of Plymouth Colony, becameColony representative to England, and at last headed up a jointcommission with the Dutch to award reparations for damage caused toDanish ships by Oliver Cromwell. Edward spent the last six years of hislife in England,
apparently Susanna stayed behind in the colonies. (Source:WHI-004,page-95)[Br¯derbund WFT Vol. 5, Ed. 1, Tree #3016, Date of Import: May30, 2000]
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s/o Edward Winslow, esq., was born in Worcestershire 1594; came to New
England with the Plymouth Pilgrims 1620; was chosen an assistant 13 years
from 1634, and elected governor in 1633, 1636, and 1644. He died 8 May
1655, while a commissioner of the united colonies to superintend the
expedition against the Spaniards in the West-Indies. Elizabeth his wife
died at Plymouth, 24 Mar 1621, and on the 12 May following, married
Susanna, widow of William White, and this was the first marriage in N.E.
He and Susanna raised little Resolved and Peregrine and had at least four
more of their oun.
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Edward Winslow
The Eighth of May, west from 'Spaniola shore,
God took from us our Grand Commissioner,
Winslow by Name, a man in chiefest Trust,
Whose Life was sweet, and conversation just;
Whose Parts and Wisdome most men did excell:
An Honour to his Place, as all can tell.
(A shipmate's poem)
Only known portrait of
a Mayflower Passenger
1651, Robert Walker
One of the first to step upon the shores of the new land, Edward Winslowwas elected governor of Plymouth in 1633. He was called a printer ofLondon and is believed to be the principal author of Mourt's Relation(1622) and the author of Good News From England, A Relation of ThingsRemarkable in That Plantation (1624), Hypocrisie Unmasked (1646) and NewEngland's Salamander (1647).
Embarcation of the pilgrims from Delft-Haven in Holland,
July 21st O.S. 1620
He returned to England several times, and in 1624, his first trip,brought back the first cattle of the colony. In 1635 he was jailed inFleet Prison, London, for seventeen weeks--persecuted for solemnizingmarriages as a magistrate. Winslow was the s/o Edward and Magdalene(Oliver) Winslow, and the eldest of five sons, all of whom came toPlymouth. His first wife, Elizabeth Barker "dyed in the first winter,"and he remarried Susanna White, widow of William White, a fellowMayflower passenger and who also died in 1621. Of five known children,Josiah ("Josias") and Elizabeth were the only surviving childrenmentioned in his will. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations,V,General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1991.
Edward Winslow was twenty-five years old when he arrived at Plymouth in1620, and he was thirty-seven when he became governor some twelve yearslater. One of only two men to alternate as governor with Bradford (theother being Thomas Prence) during the 1630s and 1640s, he was probablythe most aristocratic of the Mayflower passengers in upbringing, andcertainly in outlook (his correspondence with Bay Governor Winthrop showsa thorough underlying belief that some by birth were intended to govern).
Winslow became the colony's main emissary to England, and he engaged innumerous diplomatic and trade negotiations with the other New Englandcolonies. In 1646 he was chosen by Governor Winthrop and the Bay Colonymagistrates to go to England as their representative to defend the BayGeneral Court from the charges being made to Parliament by WilliamVassall and Robert Child .
At the time Bradford ended his History, Edward Winslow was still alive inEngland, and the last words of the History are "So as he [Winslow] hathnow bene absente this 4 years, which hath been much to the weakning ofthis govermente, without whose consente he tooke these imployments [thatis, Parliamentarian service] upon him," a double lament. Stratton, EugeneAubrey, FASG. Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620-1691.
While in England for the last time, Winslow accepted employment in OliverCromwell's government and in December of 1654 was appointed commissioner,along with Admiral William Penn and General Robert Venables, of theill-fated expedition to the West Indies to capture the island ofHispaniola from the Spanish. After the defeat at Santo Domingo, EdwardWinslow died of a fever on the voyage from Hispaniola to Jamaica and wasburied at sea. "He fell sick at sea betwixt Domingo and Jamaica and diedthe eighth day of May, which was about the sixty-first year of his life."Mayflower Families Through Five Generations,V, General Society ofMayflower Descendants, 1991.
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