John Winthrop: Puritan Leader

John Winthrop

John Winthrop was an English Puritan lawyer and founding governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Leading the 1630 migration aboard the Arbella, his "City upon a Hill" speech established a Vision of religious community and exceptionalism that shaped early New England government and society.

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Year	John Winthrop
1588	Birth of John Winthrop (Period: January 12, 1588 (Old Style), Location: Edwardstone, Suffolk, England)
1605	Marriage (John Winthrop, Mary Forth, Age: 16 years old, Period: c. 1605, Location: United Kingdom)
1615	Marriage (John Winthrop, Thomasine Clopton, Age: 26 years old, Period: 1615, Location: United Kingdom)
1618	Marriage (John Winthrop, Margaret Tyndal, Age: 29 years old, Period: 1618, Location: United Kingdom)
1630	Founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony (Age: 41 years old, Period: 1630, Location: Present-day Boston, Massachusetts Area) Delivery of "A Model of Christian Charity" Speech (Age: 41 years old, Period: 1630, Location: During Atlantic Voyage (Aboard the Arbella))
1635	Banishment of Roger Williams (Age: 46 years old, Period: 1635–1636, Location: Massachusetts Bay Colony)
1636	Pequot War (Age: 47 years old, Period: 1636–1638, Location: Present-day Connecticut and Massachusetts Area)
1637	Trial of Anne Hutchinson (Age: 48 years old, Period: 1637, Location: Boston)
1643	Establishment of the New England Confederation (Age: 54 years old, Period: 1643, Location: New England Region)
1647	Marriage (John Winthrop, Martha Rainsborough, Age: 58 years old, Period: 1647, Location: Boston)
1649	Death of John Winthrop (Age: 61 years old, Period: March 26, 1649)

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Governor	John Winthrop William Bradford
Leader	Roger Williams Anne Hutchinson Cotton Mather
The Addams Family	John Adams John Quincy Adams
Indigenous People	Ousamequin Metacomet

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