Josiah WINSLOW, GOVERNOR

                   REFERENCE: REYNOLDS, Cuyler, Editorial Supervisor, 1911; Hudson-Mohawk
Genealogical Memoirs, Volume IV, WINSLOW, pages 1415-1416.  He was the first
treasurer of Harvard College, and assistant governor in 1646-1649.  In 1657,
two years after the death of his father, he was chosen assistant governor,
which post he filled untill his election as governor in 1673.  The last office
he held until his death.  He was active and prominent in the colony affairs all
his mature life.  In 1652 he commanded the military company of Marshfield; in
1659 he was appointed the military commander of the colony, and in 1657 was
elected general-in-chief of the whold military force of the United Colonies,
being the first native-born, as well as governor in New England.  In 1658 he was
chosen one of the commissioners of the United Colonies and re-elected for
fourteen years.  On September 5, 1672, he was one of the six signers of the new
articles of confederation of the New England colonies, and on September 9, 1675,
he signed the dclaration of war against King Philip, made by the commissioners.
His last public act on September 5, 1680, was to solicit a charter for Plymouth
from the crown.  More detail is provided in this reference.