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John Winthrop. John Winthrop (January 12, 1588 [ a] – March 26, 1649) was an English Puritan lawyer and a leading figure in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the second major settlement in New England following Plymouth Colony. Winthrop led the first large wave of colonists from England in 1630 and served as governor for 12 of the ...
Grist mill ( Winthrop Mill) built by Winthrop in New London in 1650 (1910 photo) First page of a diary kept by Winthrop of his journey from Boston to Saybrook, Connecticut, in 1645. John Winthrop the Younger (February 12, 1606 – April 6, 1676) was an early governor of the Connecticut Colony, and he played a large role in the merger of several ...
The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628–1691), more formally the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, was an English settlement on the east coast of North America around the Massachusetts Bay, one of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The lands of the settlement were in southern New England, with initial ...
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.
October 15, 1970. Fort Independence is a granite bastion fort that provided harbor defenses for Boston, Massachusetts, located on Castle Island. Fort Independence is one of the oldest continuously fortified sites of English origin in the United States. [2] [3] The first primitive fortification was called "The Castle", placed on the site in 1634 ...
The Antinomian Controversy, also known as the Free Grace Controversy, was a religious and political conflict in the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638. It pitted most of the colony's ministers and magistrates against some adherents of Puritan minister John Cotton. The most notable Free Grace advocates, often called "Antinomians", were ...
The Province of Massachusetts Bay was governed by appointed civilian governors until 1774, when Thomas Hutchinson was replaced by Lieutenant General Thomas Gage amid rising tensions between the Thirteen Colonies and the British Parliament. Gage was the province's last royal governor. He was effectively powerless beyond Boston, and was recalled ...
John Winthrop. Location. Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Coordinates. 42°21′13.6″N 71°4′30.1″W. / 42.353778°N 71.075028°W / 42.353778; -71.075028. A statue of John Winthrop by Richard Saltonstall Greenough (sometimes called John Winthrop or Governor Winthrop) is installed outside Boston 's First Church, in the U.S. state of ...