WINS'LOW, EDWARD ( 1595-1655 ) . An Anglo American colonial governor, born at Droitwich, Worcestershire, England. While making a tour on the Continent lie became acquainted with John Robinson, minister of the Independent Church in Leyden, which had separated from the Church of England. and became a member of the Leyden congregation. In 1620. with his wife and brother, he joined the at Southampton and was one of the party that landed at Plymouth, Mass. His wife died in March, 1621, and his marriage two months later. with INIrs. Susannah White, was the first in New England. Susannah the mother of Peregrine White, the first English child born in New England. The same year Winslow won the friendship of Massasoit, the Indian chief, with whom he negotiated a treaty, and whom two years later he cured of an illness. In 1623 and 1624 he visited England as agent of the Plymouth Colony. I in his re turn lie became a Magistrate. Ile went to land again in 1025. Ile was elected governor in 1633. While on a visit to England in 1635, lie went before the council and prevented any at tempt to destroy t he self-government of the Plymouth Colony. The same year, at the insti
gation of an envious colonist, he was imprisoned tor seventeen weeks by Laud or the eharge of giving instruction in the church and of celebrat ing marriages. while only a lapnan. lie s ;nvvrnor again in 1030 and 11144; again visited England in 1616, and in 1640 went to Emdand and stayed there. Ile was one of iho founders of the Society for Propagat lug Gospel in Now England. In 1655 lie was ap pointed by Cromwell OW of three commissioners to accompany an expedition against the Span iards in the West Indies, MO he (lied nn the voyage between 'Hispaniola and Jamaica. Ile wrote SVVVr:II works, the chief of which, (;oo(/ \ cires from Warr Englund ( 1624 1, II ypocrisie l'uniaiiked amid 7'he Glorious Progress of the Gospell .1»uingst the Indians (1649), have been republished by the Massaclrusetts Historical Society.