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Margaret Tyndal Winthrop (c. 1591 – 14 June 1647) was a 17th-century Puritan, the wife of John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The pair are notable for the survival and character of the love letters which they wrote to each other.
Winthrop, Margaret (c. 1591–1647) English-born colonial, wife of the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who was first lady for the colony's initial 16 years . Born Margaret Tyndal about 1591 in Great Maplestead, Essex County, England; died of uncertain causes in June 1647 in Boston, Massachusetts; daughter of Sir John Tyndal and ...
The year was 1627, nine years after the marriage of John and Margaret Winthrop, three years before John was to lead the first major wave of Puritan migration to Massachusetts Bay in the New World, and more than four years before Margaret was to leave the comforts and relative riches of an English manor house to follow her husband to the wilds ...
Apr 27, 2022 · About Margaret Winthrop. Margaret Tyndall was born in 1591, and was still unmarried when her father died, but she married in April 1618 John Winthrop Esq. of Groton in Suffolk. (96) She was his third wife, and enthusiastically shared his puritanical sentiments.
May 18, 2023 · Explore genealogy for Margaret (Tyndal) Winthrop born abt. 1591 Essex, England died 1647 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay including ancestors + descendants + 1 photos + more in the free family tree community.
Margaret Tyndal Winthrop (1591-1647) was one of the founding members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and a seventeenth-century Puritan who gained prominence for her enduring love-letters between herself and her husband, John Winthrop.
Margaret Tyndal (1591-1647) was the daughter of Sir John Tyndal and Anne Agerton, a gentry family from Essex, England. She married John Winthrop in 1618, becoming his third wife. She followed her husband to America a year after he first arrived in 1630.
