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To his sister Rowena in Fall River, Massachusetts. Winslow writes: "...the Indians have committed depredations quite near us they murdered two families a short distance up the River and have been seen acrost the bay, a company went from this place to hunt for them. I do not think I shall go to hunt Indians until our Governor makes the demand, as I did not ship to fight Indians..." George Winslow (1808-1841), the son of a Massachusetts sea Captain, was 32 years old when he sailed for the Florida Territory to take a job in a merchant house at Apalachicola. It was the fifth year of the second war between the Seminole Indians and American settlers in Florida. At the time Winslow wrote home, the Indians attacked a mail stage, a theatrical troupe and a group of traveling soldiers, killing seven people. The US Army then became more aggressive in "hunting" the elusive, hostile Seminoles, using a pack of Cuban bloodhounds. But the dogs did not prove very useful and one Army "hunting" party - perhaps the one Winslow declined to join - had six of their own men killed. Winslow returned to New England three months later. The following year, he drowned in Long Island Sound. With another Winslow ALs, Apalachicola, June 21, 1840, a business letter written when he was returning home from Florida.