A brief biography of John Winthrop, discussing his childhood and career as Massachusetts governor.
A study approaching John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts, as a literary artist rather than a historian. The author examines the governor's writings in their political, social and theological contexts,...
Life and Letters of John Winthrop
A biography of John Winthrop, religious leader and governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who worked hard and passed groundbreaking new laws while trying to protect Puritan beliefs.
America's Forgotten Founding Father Francis J. Bremer ... For a discussion of whether Maverick owned slaves before 1630 see Lorenzo Greene , The Negro in Colonial New England ( New York : Atheneum , 1969 ) , 16 . 51. WJ , 246 . 52.
M Ley's informant could have been Thomas Brooke, who arrived in 1635, settled at Watertown, and later was constable and deputy at Concord; or his brother Richard Brooke, who came on the same ship in 1635 and settled at Lynn (Pope, 71).
13 Centuries later James Truslow Adams was discovering , as various hard - liners in the Bay Colony had learned , that Winthrop's personality had a way of undoing precisionists of any stripe . With such chapter titles as “ An English ...
When John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, emigrated from Stuart England to America, he and the colonists who accompanied him carried much of their culture with them....
Describes the life and accomplishments of the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony who, driven by his religion, created a place where people lived according to the rules set down in the Bible.
Life and Letters of John Winthrop: Governor of the Massachusetts-Bay Company at Their Emigration to New England, 1630
John Winthrop, First Governor of the Massachusetts Colony