AVIXG FIELD
WINSLOW
York city, 1787-88, and was elected one of the
tvro first U.S. senators from New Hampshire in
1789, drawing the short term expiring March 3,
1793. He was a representative from New Hamp-
shire in the 3d congress, 1793-95, and judge of the
state superiour court, 1798-1809. At the time of
his death he was the oldest survivor of Harvard
college graduates, of the U.S. senate, of the U.S.
house of representatives, and of all except one of
the New Hampshire courts. He was then 98
}-ears, 9 months old, his wife lived to the age of
100 years, 8 months. He died at Stratham, N.H.,
March 7, 1838.
WINQFIELD, John Henry Ducachet, first bishop of Northern California, and 107tli in suc- cession in the American episcopate, was born in Portsmouth, Va., Sept. 24, 1833 ; son of the Rev. John Henry Wingfield of Trinity church, Ports- mouth. He was graduated from St. Timothy's college in 1850, and from William and Mary col- lege, Va., in 1853 ; he was tutor at St. Timothy's, 1850-52 and 1853-54 ; removed to New York, and was tutor at the Churchill Military academy, Sing Sing, N.Y., 1854-55. He attended the The- ological Seminary of Virginia, 1855-56 ; was prin- cipal of Ashley institute, Little Rock, Ark., 1856- 59 ; ordered deacon at Little Rock, Jan. 17, 1858, by Bishop Freeman ; ordained priest in the chapel of the Theological Seminary of Virginia, July 1, 1859, by Bishop Johns, and in Jul}", 1858, was ap- pointed assistant rector of Trinity church, Ports- mouth, Va., in 1858. He was rector of Christ church, Rock Spring, Md., 1864-66; returned to Trinity, Portsmouth, as rector, 1806-68 ; was rec- tor of St. Paul's, Petersburg, Va., 1868-74, and founded St. Paul's School for young ladies in 1871. He was rector of Trinity church, San Fran- cisco, Cal., 1874-75 : was elected missionary bishop of Northern California in 1874, and was conse- crated in St. Paul's, Petersburg, Va., Dec. 2, 1874, by Bishops Johns, Atkinson, and Lay. He was president of the Missionary College of St. Augustine, Benicia, Cal., and of St. Mary's of the Pacific in 1876. He declined the bishopric of Louisiana in 1879. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by William and Mary col- lege in 1869, and that of LL.D. in 1874, and that of D.C.L. by St. Augustine's college, Cal. He was a fellow of the Royal Geographical society London. He died in Benicia, Cal., July 27, 1898.
WINSLOW, Edward, governor of Plymouth colony, was born in Droitwich, England, Oct. 19, 1595 ; son of Edward and Magdalen (Ollyoer) Winslow. He joined the Rev. John Robinson's congregation at Leyden in 1617, and came to America in the Mayfloiver with the first company of Pilgrims to Plymouth, Mass., in 1620. He was twice married : first, at Leyden, May 16. 1618, to Elizabeth Barker, who died, March 24, 1621 ; and
secondly. May 12, 1621, to Susanna (Fuller), wid-
ow of William White. He was negotiator of the
treaty with Massasoit in March, 1621, which
treaty was kept unbroken until 1675 ; was the
first to make an exploring expedition into the
interior in July, 1621 ; received from Massasoit,
whose life he saved in 1623, information in re-
gard to the Indian plots against the colony of
Thomas Weston (q.v.), and visited England in
1623, 1624 and 1635, in the interests of the Ply-
mouth settlement. He was assistant governor of
the colony, 1624-47, with the exception of his
service as governor in 1633-36, and 1644. In the
latter capacity he sent a vessel in 1633 up the
Connecticut, whose crew built a house on the
site of the present Hartford, in rivalry with the
Dutch claims, and establislied through the court
of associates a permanent code of government in
1636. In the latter year he established the seat
of Careswell in Greenharbor (now Marshfield),
Mass. He represented his colony in the New
England confederation in 1643 ; was commissioned
by the Massachusetts government in 1646 " to de-
fend the colony from tiie accusation of religious
intolerance," and in 1649 was influential in secur-
ing the incorporation of the Society for Propagat-
ing the Gospel in New England. He served as a
commissioner "to adjust the claims against
Denmark for losses to English shipping " in 1654,
and in 1655 was appointed by Cromwell head
commissioner of an expedition against the Span-
ish West Indies, which was unsuccessful, owing
to the disagreement between its commanders.
General Venables and Admiral Penn. Governor
Winslow died during the voyage to Jamaica, and
was buried at sea. He is the co-author of : Brad-
ford's and Winsloio's Journal, or A Diary of
Occurrences (London, 1622) ; and author of its
supplement, Winsloio's Relation (1623), also known
as Neives from New England ; and republished in
Alexander Young's " Chronicles of the Pilgrims"
(1841), in which his Hypocrisie Unmasked (1646)
also appeal's. His other publications include :
New England's Salamander (1647); The Glorious
Progress of the Gospel amongst the Indiaiis in
New England (1649); A Platform of Church Dis-
cipline in Neiv England (1653). and also letters
contained in Tliomas Hutchinson's " Collection
of Papers "and in "State Papers " (iii.). See:
Moore's " Governors of New Plymouth " ; David
P. and Frances K. Helton's " The Winslow Mem-
orial " (1877) ; Drake's " History of Boston " (1856,
and Palfrey's " History of New England " (3 vols.,
1858-64). His portrait, painted in London. 1651,
hangs in Plymouth Hall. Plymouth. Mass. Gov-
ernor Winslow died at sea. May 8. 1655.
WINSLOW, John Ancrum, naval officer, was born in Wilmington. N.C., Nov. 19. 1811 : son of Edward and Sarah (Ancrum) Winslow ; grand-
