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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 separate settlements into the unified colony.
Winthrop's eldest son John Winthrop the Younger. Winthrop documented his religious life, keeping a journal beginning 1605 in which he described his religious experiences and feelings.
John Winthrop, often known as “John Winthrop, Junior” or “the Younger”, was the eldest son of John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and Mary Forth, his first wife. His parents were wealthy, and in 1622, at age 16, he was sent to Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, for a general education.
Jan 14, 2021 · His eldest son, John Winthrop the Younger (l. 1606-1676 CE, one of the surviving children of his first marriage), followed his father's example in education and pursuing a career in law and would later play a major role in the colonization of New England.
- Joshua J. Mark
On November 4, 1631, English-born John Winthrop Jr. arrived on the shores of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where his father was governor. Four years later, Winthrop received a commission to found a colony in Connecticut.
Mar 14, 2022 · John Winthrop the Younger (Born 1606 in England, died 1676 in Boston) was an “unlikely founder” of Saybrook because he had no intention of ever founding the settlement. The accepted legend is that he named what became the Saye-Brooke settlement in honor of his two employers, Viscount Saye and Sele and Baron Brooke, sometime ...
John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the chief figure among the Puritan founders of New England. Winthrop famously composed a lay sermon in which he pictured the Massachusetts colonists in covenant with God and with each other, divinely ordained to build a city upon a hill.
