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Facts and Events
Name |
Waitstill Winthrop |
Gender |
Male |
Birth[1] |
27 Feb 1641/42 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States |
Christening[2] |
6 Mar 1641/42 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States |
Marriage |
Bef 1679 |
to Mary Browne |
Marriage |
13 Nov 1707 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Katherine Brattle |
Death[3] |
6 Nov 1717 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States |
Reference Number |
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Q7960396 (Wikidata) |
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Waitstill Winthrop (27 February 1642 – 7 November 1717) was a colonial magistrate, military officer, and politician of New England.
References
- ↑ Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699 (A Report of the Record Commissioners): Document 130. (Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States: Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, 1883)
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1641. Town. Waite-still son of John & Elizabeth Winthrop born 27th - 12th month. [In 1641, the 12th month was February of what we consider 1642, but was then 1641.]
- ↑ Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699 (A Report of the Record Commissioners): Document 130. (Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States: Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, 1883)
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1642. First Church. Waitstill of John Winthropp, the younger[,] aged about 8 days 6 day 1 mo. [In 1642, the first month was March.]
- ↑ Sewall, Samuel. Samuel Sewall's Diary, 1674-1729. (Boston, Mass.: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1879-1883)
Vol. 3, p. 146.
[1717] "Nov'r 7. 5. Last night died the Excellent Waitstill [Wait Still] Winthrop esqr., for Parentage, Piety, Prudence, Philosophy, Love to New England Ways and people very Eminent."
- Wait Winthrop, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
- Family Recorded, in Winthrop, Robert C. A short account of the Winthrop family. (Cambridge: J. Wilson and Son, University Press, 1887)
pp 9-10.
VI. Wait Still Winthrop, generally known as Wait Winthrop (born in Boston, Feb. 27, 1642 ; died in Boston, Nov. 7, 1717), a soldier of the Indian wars; for more than thirty years Major-General commanding the Provincial Forces of Massachusetts ; Judge of the Superior Court ; Judge of Admiralty ; and some time Chief-Justice of Massachusetts. Although he had not, like his father, the advantage of a foreign university education, he inherited no small portion of the latter's scientific tastes, particularly for the study of medicine, often practising gratuitously among his poorer neighbors. Judge Sewall, in his Diary, speaks of him as " the great stay and ornament of the Council, a very pious, prudent, courageous New England man." He married, 1st, Mary, daughter of Hon. William Browne, of Salem, and 2d, Katharine, daughter of Capt. Thomas Brattle and widow of John Eyre, of Boston. By the former he left issue a daughter, Anne (wife of Thomas Lechmere, brother of Lord Lechmere), and an only surviving son, — ...
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