Win·slow

(wĭnz′lō), Edward 1595-1655.

English colonial administrator who traveled to America on the Mayflower and served three times as governor of Plymouth Colony (1633, 1636, and 1644). His son Josiah (1629?-1680) was the first native-born governor of Plymouth (1673-1680).

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