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John Winthrop
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- Life and letters of John Winthrop
- Lecture on Earthquakes
- Winthrop's Journal, History of New England, 1630-1649; Volume 7
- Winthrop's Journal, History of New England, 1630-1649, Volume 7, Issue 2
- Observations
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Quotes
- “For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.”
- “We must delight in each other, make other's conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body.”
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- John Endecott
- Succeeded by
- Thomas Dudley
- Born
- 12 January 1587/1588, Edwardstone , Suffolk, England
- Died
- March 26, 1649 (1649-03-26) (aged 62), Boston , Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Education
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Profession
- Lawyer, governor
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- John Winthrop 17th cent. American Antiquarian Society portrait.jpg
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- 1649-03-26
- date of birth
- 1588-01-22
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John Winthrop (January 12, 1588 – March 26, 1649) was an English Puritan lawyer and a leading figure in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the second major settlement in New England following Plymouth Colony. Winthrop led the first large wave of colonists from England in 1630 and served as governor for 12 of the colony's first 20 years. His writings and vision of the colony as a Puritan "city upon a hill" dominated New England colonial development, influencing the governments and religions of neighboring colonies in addition to those of Massachusetts.
Winthrop was born into a wealthy land-owning and merchant family. He trained in the law and became Lord of the Manor at Groton in Suffolk, England. He was not involved in founding the Massachusetts Bay Company in 1628, but he became involved in 1629 when anti-Puritan King Charles I began a crackdown on Nonconformist religious thought. In October 1629, he was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and he led a group of colonists to the New World in April 1630, founding a number of communities on the shores of Massachusetts Bay and the Charles River.