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Born October 18, 1595 • Droitwich • England
Died May 8, 1655 (aged 59) • Caribbean Sea • near Jamaica
Title / Office governor (1644-1645), Plymouth • governor (1636-1637), Plymouth • governor (1633-1634), Plymouth
Founder Plymouth

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Edward Winslow, detail of an oil painting by Robert Walker, 1651; in the Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Mass.
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