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Edward Winslow

Short biography: Edward Winslow in Great Lives

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Edward Winslow (1595–1655) was a planter and diplomat of Plymouth Colony, later a governor of the colony, and one of the writers of Mourt’s Relation. Good Newes from New England, printed at London in 1624, is his own sequel to that journal, a first-hand report of the years after the first harvest.

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Good Newes from New England

1624 · Renaissance Early Modern · History

Edward Winslow’s Good Newes from New England, printed in London in 1624, is a sequel to Mourt’s Relation and a report of the next years at Plymouth, from the arrival of new colonists through 1623. The hosted text follows Young’s 1841 Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers as transcribed in Project Gutenberg ebook 66332.