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The Winthrop Society is a hereditary organization made up of the descendants of immigrants who arrived in New England on the Winthrop Fleet, forming the Massachusetts colony, or other Great Migration ships before 1634, as well as immigrants to Massachusetts by 1640.
Arrival of the Winthrop Colony, by William F. Halsall. The Winthrop Fleet was a group of 11 ships led by John Winthrop out of a total of 16 [1] funded by the Massachusetts Bay Company which together carried between 700 and 1,000 Puritans plus livestock and provisions from England to New England over the summer of 1630, during the first period of the Great Migration.
This is a list of notable hereditary and lineage organizations, and is informed by the database of the Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America.It includes societies that limit their membership to those who meet group inclusion criteria, such as descendants of a particular person or group of people of historical importance.
The Winthrop family was a prominent political family in Massachusetts and New York ... Winthrop Society; A. William Alabaster; Lucy Aldrich; Margaret Chanler Aldrich;
According to the Mayflower passenger list, just over half of the passengers were Puritan Separatists and their dependents. They sought to break away from the established Church of England and create a society along the lines of their religious ideals. Other passengers were hired hands, servants, or farmers recruited by London merchants, all ...
Thomas Lindall Winthrop (1760–1841), lieutenant governor of Massachusetts; Robert Charles Winthrop (1809–1894), lawyer, politician, philanthropist; Other descendants: Kwame Anthony Appiah (born 1954), philosopher, author, cultural theorist and descendant in the female line of John Winthrop. [50] [51]
The Winthrop Society is a hereditary organization made up of the descendants those who arrived on the Winthrop Fleet or other Great Migration ships before 1634. Passenger list of the Winthrop Fleet (spelling is Seely on this list)
Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett (21 January 1610 – c. 1673) was an early settler in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1640 Fones, with her then-husband Robert Feake , were founders of Greenwich, Connecticut .