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| | The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Winslow, Edward @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | WINSLOW, EDWARD [Winslow, Edward] 1595-1655, one of the founders of Plymouth Colony in New England, b. |
 | | On his return to Plymouth he was elected an assistant of the colony and was continuously reelected until 1647, except for the years he served as governor (1633-34, 1636-37, and 1644-45), years in which William Bradford had declined to hold the governorship. |
 | | Winslow was an active explorer and was apparently the first Englishman to visit (1632) Connecticut. |
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