. The story of a pilgrim family from the Mayflower to the present time : with autobiography, recollections, letters, incidents, and genealogy of the author, Rev. John Alden in his 83rd year . th the exception ofthree years for Governor Winslow, and two for GovernorPrince, until the year of his death, serving thirty-one yearsas governor. He has since been called the Washington of the infant colony. His numerous writings have provedof great value to chroniclers and historians. These writ-ings were lost, and for years no trace of them could befound. But finally, the Bishop of Oxford discovered hi
. The story of a pilgrim family from the Mayflower to the present time : with autobiography, recollections, letters, incidents, and genealogy of the author, Rev. John Alden in his 83rd year . th the exception ofthree years for Governor Winslow, and two for GovernorPrince, until the year of his death, serving thirty-one yearsas governor. He has since been called the Washington of the infant colony. His numerous writings have provedof great value to chroniclers and historians. These writ-ings were lost, and for years no trace of them could befound. But finally, the Bishop of Oxford discovered hisHistory of Plymouth Plantation hid in the FulhamLibrary, in England. His eldest son, John, died childless. Two other sonsand one daughter were born to him by his second oldest. Major William Bradford, inherited his fathersbooks and his fathers love of them. At his death, in 1704,he requested to be laid beside him. The blue slate slab,which marked his resting place, was the guide to the graveof Governor William when, years after, his descendants 352 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN ALDEN. erected a monument to his memory on Burial Hill,died at Plymouth in 1657, aged sixty-nine years. He. BRADFORD S TOMBSTONE. EDWARD WINSLOW. The third governor of Plymouth Colony was a native ofDroitwich, England. He belonged to the gentry and wasan educated and accomplished man; the second in thecolony in point of wealth. He married, in Holland, Elizabeth Barker (the bride ofWeirs painting The Embarkation, a copy of which hangsin Pilgrim Hall ), who came with him in the Mayflower*together with two servants and a little girl. His wife diedthe first spring, and he married Susanna, widow of WilliamWTiite and mother of Peregrine, the first white child bomin New England. Winslow was the ambassador to theIndians for the colonists, and also-to the king. His famousvisit to Massasoit, the Great Sachem of the Wampanoags,has become a part-of history. He settled in Marshfield, ona farm since owned by Daniel
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