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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-