WINSLOW, EDWARD (1595-1655), a founder of the Plymouth colony, was born in Droitwich, England, on Oct. 18, 1595. In 1617 Winslow removed to Leyden, united with John Robinson's church, and in 1620 was one of the "May flower pilgrims." His wife, Elizabeth (Barker) Winslow, having died soon after their arrival, he married, in May, 1621, Mrs. Susannah White, the mother of Peregrine White (162o-1704), the first white child born in New England. This was the first marriage in the New England colonies. Winslow was one of the "assistants" from 1624 to 1647, except in 1633-34, 1636-37 and 1644-45, when he was governor of the colony. In 1643, he was one of the commissioners of the United Colonies of New Eng land. On several occasions he was sent to England in the inter
ests of Plymouth and Massachusetts bay. He left on his last mission as the agent of Massachusetts bay, Oct. 1646, and spent nine years in England, where he held minor offices under Crom well. Winslow's portrait, the only authentic likeness of any of the "Mayflower pilgrims," is in the gallery of the Pilgrim Society at Plymouth, Massachusetts. His writings, though fragmentary, are of great value to the historian of the Plymouth colony. Some of them may be found reprinted in Alexander Young's Chronicles of the Pilgrims (Boston, 1841).