threw him into a fever, which, operating with the dejection of his mind, put an end to his life on the eighth of May, 1655, in the sixtyfirst year of his age. His body was committed to the deep with the honours of war, forty-two guns being fired by the fleet on that occasion.

The following well-meant but inelegant verses were written by one of the passengers on board the same ship in which he died.

"The eighth of May, west from 'Spaniola shore,
God took from us our grand commissioner,
Winslow by name; a man in chiefest trust,
Whose life was sweet and conversation just;
Whose parts and wisdom most men did excel;
An honour to his place, as all can tell."*

Before his departure from New-England Mr. Winslow had made a settlement on a valuable tract of land in Marshfield, to which he gave the name of Careswell, probably from a castle and seat of that name in Staffordshire. His son, Josiah Winslow, was a magistrate and governor of the colony, and general of the New-England forces in the war with the Indians, called Philip's war. He died in 1680. Isaac, the son of Josiah Winslow, sustained the chief civil and military offices in the county of Plymouth after † See Camden's Britannia, 534.

*Morton's Memorial.

its incorporation with Massachusetts, and was president of the provincial council. He died in 1738. John Winslow, the son of Isaac, was a captain in the unfortunate expedition to Cuba in 1740, and afterward an officer in the British service, and major-general in several expeditions to Kennebec, Nova Scotia, and Crown Point. He died in 1774, aged 71. His son, Dr. Isaac Winslow, is now in possession of the family estate at Marshfield. By the favour of this gentleman, the letterbooks and journals of his late father, Majorgeneral Winslow, with many ancient family papers containing a fund of genuine information, are deposited in the library of the Historical Society. There are several other reputable branches of this family in New-England and Nova Scotia.

XXIII. MILES STANDISH.

THIS intrepid soldier, the hero of NewEngland, as John Smith was of Virginia, was a native of Lancashire, in the north of England, but the date of his birth is not preserved. Descended from the younger branch of a family of distinction,* he was "heir-appa

* All which I have been able to collect relative to the family of Standish is as follows:

Henry Standish, a Franciscan, D.D. of Cambridge, bishop of St. Asaph before the Reformation, was a bigot to popery. Falling down on his knees before King Henry VIII., he petitioned him to continue the religious establishment of his ancestors. This prelate died A.D. 1535, at a very advanced age.

John Standish, nephew to Henry, wrote a book against the translation of the Bible into the English language, and presented it to the Parliament. He died in 1556, in the reign of Queen Mary.*

Sir Richard Standish, of Whittle, near Charley. In his grounds a lead-mine was discovered not long before 1695, and wrought with good success. Near the same place is a quarry of

mill stones.t

The village of Standish, and a seat called Standish Hall, are situate near the River Douglass, in Lancashire, between the towns of Charley and Wigan, which are about 6 miles distant. Wigan is 9 miles north of Warrington, on the southern side of the county. See Camden's Map of Lancashire.

* Fuller's Worthies of England, 109, 114.

† Camden's Britannia, 802.

["So late as 1707, I find that Sir Thomas Standish lived

rent to a great estate of lands and livings, surreptitiously detained from him," which compelled him to seek subsistence for himself. Though small in stature, he had an active genius, a sanguine temper, and a strong constitution. These qualities led him to the profession of arms; and the Netherlands being in his youth a theatre of war, he entered into the service of Queen Elizabeth in aid of the Dutch, and after the truce settled with the English refugees at Leyden.

When they meditated a removal to America, Standish, though not a member of their church, was thought a proper person to accompany them. Whether he joined them at their request or his own motion does not appear, but he engaged with zeal and resolution in their enterprise, and embarked with the first company in 1620.

On their arrival at Cape Cod he was appointed commander of the first party of sixteen men who went ashore on discovery; and when they began their settlement at Plymouth, he was unanimously chosen captain or chief military commander. In several interviews with the natives he was the first to

at Duxbury, the name of the family-seat in Lancashire."-Ancient Vestiges, quoted in Morton's Memorial, 263, note.-H.]

meet them, and was generally accompanied with a very small number of men, selected by himself.

After the league was made with Massasoit, one of his petty sachems, Corbitant, became discontented, and was meditating to join with the Narragansets against the English. Standish, with fourteen men and a guide, went to Corbitant's place [Swanzey] and surrounded his house; but, not finding him at home, they informed his people of their intention of destroying him if he should persist in his rebellion. Corbitant, hearing of his danger, made an acknowledgment to Massasoit, and entreated his mediation with the English for peace. He was soon after [Sept. 13, 1621] admitted, with eight other chiefs, to subscribe an instrument of submission to the English government.

In every hazardous enterprise Captain Standish was ready to put himself foremost, whether the object were discovery, traffic, or war, and the people, animated by his example and confiding in his bravery and fidelity, thought themselves safe under his command.

When the town of Plymouth [1622] was enclosed and fortified, the defence of it was committed to the captain, who made the most