Military officer; born in
Plymouth, Mass.. May 27, 1702;
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was the principal actor, under superior orders, in the tragedy of the expulsion of the Acadians from
Nova Scotia in 1755.
It is said that, twenty years afterwards, nearly every person of
Winslow's lineage was a refugee on the soil from which the Acadians were driven.
In 1756
Winslow was commander-in-chief at
Fort William Henry,
Lake George, and a major-general in the expedition against
Canada in 1758-59.
In 1762 he was appointed presiding judge of the court of common pleas of
Plymouth, Mass., and councillor and member of the Massachusetts legislature during the Stamp Act excitement.
He was an original founder of the town of
Winslow, Me., in 1766.
He died in
Hingham, Mass., April 17, 1774.
See
Acadia.