Josiah Winslow was the 13th governor of Plymouth Colony. In records of the time, historians also name him Josias Winslow, and modern writers have carried that name forward. He was born one year after
Portrait of Winslow, 1651
The Isaac Winslow House was built by Josiah Winslow's son. This was the third house built on land granted to Josiah's father, Edward Winslow, in the 1630s who erected the first homestead there.
King Philip's War was a colonial war in which a coalition of Algonquian tribes of the Northeastern Woodlands—the Wampanoags, the Pocomtucs, the Nipmucs, and the Narragansetts—fought against the Purita
Josiah Winslow
…passenger and Pilgrim leader and Governor Edward Winslow and was Governor from 1673 to 1680. The most significant event during his term in office was King Philip's War, which created great havoc for both the English and Indian populations and changed New England forever. Josiah was the first governor born in a "New…
Metacom (c. 1638–1676), also known as King Philip, chief Sachem of the Wampanoag and leader of the campaign against the English colonists, as imagined by Paul Revere in 1772.
The Puritan colonists sought to convert the indigenous population to Christianity. The English missionary John Eliot led an effort to translate the Bible into Algonquian, publishing the Old Testament in 1661 and the full Eliot Indian Bible in 1663.
"King Philip's Seat", a meeting place on Mount Hope in Bristol, Rhode Island.
Site of "Nine Men's Misery" in Cumberland, Rhode Island, where Captain Pierce's troops were tortured to death