Edward Winslow
Mayflower passenger (1595-1655) · Politicians · Died at 60
Edward Winslow was a Separatist and New England political leader who traveled on the Mayflower in 1620. He was one of several senior leaders on the ship and also later at Plymouth Colony. Both Edward Winslow and his brother, Gilbert Winslow signed the Mayflower Compact.
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Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620, a painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris 1899. Winslow is the man standing in the center of the painting, with his right hand on the document and the ink horn in his left hand.
Statue of Edward Winslow in St. Andrew's Square, Droitwich Spa, England.
The Isaac Winslow House was built by Edward Winslow's grandson. This was the third house built on land granted to Edward Winslow (1595-1655) in the 1630s who erected the first homestead there.![Winslow's first house in Plymouth was located on the site of what is now the 1749 Court House Museum on Town Square in downtown Plymouth.[22]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Old_County_Courthouse_in_Plymouth_MA.jpg/1280px-Old_County_Courthouse_in_Plymouth_MA.jpg)
Winslow's first house in Plymouth was located on the site of what is now the 1749 Court House Museum on Town Square in downtown Plymouth.[22]About this person
In Plymouth he served in a number of governmental positions such as assistant governor, three times was governor and also was the colony's agent in London. In early 1621 he had been one of several key leaders on whom Governor Bradford depended after the death of John Carver. He was the author of several important pamphlets, including Good Newes from New England and co-wrote with William Bradford the historic Mourt's Relation, which ends with an account of the First Thanksgiving and the abundance of the New World. In 1655 he died of fever while on an English naval expedition in the Caribbean against the Spanish.
