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Edward Winslow, English Puritan American colonist, 17th century (c1880). Winslow (1595-1655) was one of the Pilgrim Fathers who arrived aboard the 'Mayflower' in 1620 to establish the colony of New Plymouth in Massachusetts. He was charged with treating with the local natives and established friendly relations with Massasoit, sachem (chief) of the Native American Pokanoket tribe, which assisted the colonists in avoiding starvation in the difficult early years of their time in America. He serves as governor of the colony in 1633, 1636 and 1644. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume I, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.