Edward Winslow (loyalist)
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Edward Winslow (February 20 1746 or 1747 – May 13, 1815) was a loyalist officer and New Brunswick judge and official.
He was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1746 or 1747, a descendant of Mayflower Pilgrim Edward Winslow, and studied at Harvard College. He was a naval officer and clerk of the Court of General Sessions. In 1775, he joined the British Army at Lexington. In 1776, he went to Halifax with the British troops and was named muster master general for the loyalist forces. After the war, he went to Nova Scotia to help settle loyalist troops there and settled at Granville in Annapolis County. Because of resistance to the retired soldiers settling in the same region, in 1783, he suggested that the area north of the Bay of Fundy be separated from Nova Scotia as a separate province. Later that year, he was named secretary to Brigadier-General Henry Edward Fox, who commanded British forces at Halifax and who was sympathetic to Winslow's proposal. The province of New Brunswick was established in 1784. Winslow served as a member of the Legislative Council and judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for York County. In 1804, he was appointed to the New Brunswick Supreme Court, even though he had no legal training, which irritated many members of the legal profession.
He died in Fredericton in 1815.
