Person:John Winthrop (2)

[Source:???]The Winthrop connection of William Hoskins helps to explain his standing in the communities in which he lived, and his education, which was of superior quality. Adam Winthrop (1498-1562) grantee of Groton Manor, Suffolk, in 1544 was succeeded there by his son John Winthrop (born 20 January 1545/4 6; died 26 July 1613). John became estranged from his wife, and in 1609 sold Groton to his younger brother Adam and the latter's son John, the future first Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. He settled in Aghadowne, CO Cork, IRE and by Elizabeth Powlden of Rathgogan, CO Cork, whom he married after securing a legal separation from his former wife, he had 3 children. One of them was Anne Winthrop, who married Henry Hoskins, Gentleman, and became the mother of William Hoskins.

1. ↑ Notes on the Winthrop Family, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   182.