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- H. John Winthrop, Jr.1606 - 1676
- W. Martha Fones (add)
m. 8 Feb 1631
Facts and Events
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John Winthrop (12 February 1606 – 6 April 1676), generally known as John Winthrop the Younger, was governor of Connecticut.
Will
Abstracts based on Source:Waters, Thomas Franklin. Sketch of the Life of John Winthrop, the Younger, p. 69-74
Early will (obsoleted by final will) of John Winthrop Jr., dated 12 Jul 1661, mentions wife, "my negro Strange, alias Kabooder" (whom he gave 20 acres, a heifer, freed for half his time while his wife lived, then completely so), daughter Lucy, son Wait Still Winthrop, "younger" daughters Margaret, Martha & Anne under 18, and friend "Mr. Samuell Stone, the teacher of Hartford", my daughter Newman [Elizabeth, wife of Rev. Antipas Newman], my son Fitz-John. wife, two sons, son Newma[n] and daughter Lucy all executors.
Will of "John Winthrop, of the Colony of Connecticott in N: Engd., now resident in Boston", dated 3 Apr 1676, mentions two sons, Fitz-John and Wayt Still; five daughters, Elizabeth, Lucy, Margarett, Martha & Anne. Nominates as overseers in Connecticut, Capt. John Allin, Mr. Will'm Jones & Major Robert Treat; in Boston, Mr Humphry Davy, Mr James Allin, & "my brother" John Richards [who married the widow of John's half-brother Adam Winthrop].
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hollister, Gideon Hiram. The History of Connecticut: from the first settlement of the colony to the adoption of the present constitution. (New Haven [Connecticut]: Durrie and Peck, 1855), 296.
John Winthrop, Governor of Connecticut, b. Groton [England] 12 Feb 1606, d. 5 April 1676, m. (1) Martha Fones, m. (2) Elizabeth Read.
- ↑ Waters, Thomas Franklin. A sketch of the life of John Winthrop, the Younger: founder of Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1633. (Ipswich [Massachusetts]: Printed for the Society, 1899 (Cambridge [Massachusetts] : University Press)), 59.
In September, 1675, he proceeded to Boston to attend a protracted session of the Commissioners of the United Colonies. In March, 1676, when preparing to return to Hartford, he took cold, became feeble, and on the 10th of April was laid beside his father in what is now King's Chapel grave-yard.
- John Winthrop, Jr., in Connecticut State Library.
| Founders of Ipswich, Massachusetts
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| The area known as Agawam remained an uncolonized part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony until 1633 when Governor John Winthrop sent his son, John, to establish a settlement to be called Ipswich. With a band of twelve men, John sailed up the Ipswich River in his shallop in March 1633 and began settlement on the banks of the river near the present wharf. On 1 April 1633 the General Court forbid any others from settling there, and gave permission for ten men already there to remain. The names of the other three men are unknown.
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Original Settlers John Winthrop, Jr. - John Biggs - William Clark (of Watertown) - Robert Coles - John Gage - Thomas Hardy - Thomas Hewlitt - William Perkins - John Thorndike - William Serjeant
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| Current Location: Essex County, Massachusetts Parent Towns: Boston Daughter Towns: Topsfield, Hamilton, Essex
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| The Abigail (1635)
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| The Abigail sailed in the summer of 1635.
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| Sailed: | summer 1635 from England under Master H. Hackwell
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| Arrived: | late summer? 1635 at New England
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