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  PAL:John Winthrop (1588-1649)
One of the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Winthrop arrived in 1630 aboard the flagship Arbella.
It was during this period that Winthrop in 1627 was appointed attorney to His Majesty's Court of Ward and Liveries and served also as justice of the peace.
Winthrop's journal is widely acclaimed not only during his lifetime but today due to his stories of the Puritan way of life and views of that era.
web.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap1/winthrop.html   (1360 words)

  
  John Winthrop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Winthrop was extremely religious and subscribed fervently to the Puritan belief that the Anglican Church had to be cleansed of Catholic ritual.
Winthrop was convinced that God would punish England for its heresy, and believed that English Puritans needed a shelter away from England where they could remain safe during the time of God's wrath.
Winthrop had been elected governor of the colony prior to departure, in 1629, and was re-elected many times.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Winthrop   (655 words)

  
 Winthrop Fleet: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Winthrop Fleet of 1630 was a fleet of eleven ships that carried 700 immigrants from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony Massachusetts Bay Colony quick summary:
The massachusetts bay colony (sometimes called by the name massachusetts bay company, for the institution that founded it) was the direct predecessor of the province...
John winthrop was the name of several prominent figures in colonial new england....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/winthrop_fleet.htm   (709 words)

  
 Winthrop Fleet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Winthrop Fleet of 1630 was the largest fleet ever assembled to carry Englishmen overseas to a new homeland.
The Winthrop Fleet is often referred to in most history books as the Great Migration.
The Winthrop Society is a hereditary organization made up of the descendants those who arrived on the Winthrop Fleet or other Great Migration ships before 1634.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winthrop_Fleet   (323 words)

  
 Ahnentafel Report
He sailed to New England with the Winthrop Fleet of 1630, leaving from Yarmouth, England in April and arriving in June and July with 700 other passengers in the fleet.
Winthrop felt that the ordination was not done very well since it was performed by members of the Woburn church without the help of the elders of other churches.
Most of his fellow Roxbury settlers came with the Winthrop Fleet from the county of Essex and the town of Nazeing in England.
www.dartmouth.edu /~jac/cmc/at01/at01_013.htm   (1538 words)

  
 Interactive State House
John Winthrop was the young Massachusetts Colony's most prominent leader, serving as Governor for fifteen of its first twenty years.
Winthrop led the Puritans to Charlestown and eventually to the Shawmut Peninsula, because of its fresh water springs.
Winthrop's intolerant and even misogynistic nature was common among the zealous Puritan founders of Massachusetts.
www.mass.gov /statehouse/massgovs/jwinthrop.htm   (347 words)

  
 John Winthrop's "Christian Experience"
Winthrop was extremely religious and ascribed fervently to the Puritan belief that the
Winthrop had been elected governor of the colony prior to departure, in
Winthrop the younger, one of the magistrates, having many books in a chamber where there was corn of divers sorts, had among them one wherein the Greek testament, the psalms, and the common prayer were bound together.
www.fiu.edu /~harveyb/winthropbig.html   (1649 words)

  
 The Winthrop Society: Descendants of the Great Migration
The Winthrop Society means to document the lives and family histories of all these first settlers and their descendants to the fourth generation (to about the year 1700).
The Winthrop Society is open to all men and women of good character and proven descent from one or more passengers of the Winthrop fleet, or of others who settled in the Bay Colony and down east before 1634.
The Winthrop Society is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to historical and genealogical research and the dissemination of educational material.
www.winthropsociety.org /home.php   (468 words)

  
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We love to imagine the occasion when he personally spoke this oration to some large portion of the Winthrop fleet passengers during or just before their passage.
The biblical quotations are as Winthrop wrote them, and remain sometimes at slight variance from the King James version.
Winthrop’s intent was to prepare the people for planting a new society in a perilous environment, but his practical wisdom is timeless.
www.ipfw.edu /pols/syllabi/058/JohnWinthrop.htm   (4212 words)

  
 Bigelow, John (1) and the Winthrop Fleet = winthrop.htm
The "flagship" of the Winthrop Fleet was the
The Winthrop Woman, a book by Seton is well researched and deals with factual events in the life of this Winthrop family.
In the Winthrop Fleet, rough "cabins" were constructed for the women and children while usually hammocks for the men were strung up every place available.
www.bigelowsociety.com /rod/winthrop.htm   (1449 words)

  
 William Bucklin of Hingham and Pawtucket Biography
There is no known regular passenger list of the passengers in the various ships of the Winthrop fleet, but Winthrop did keep a journal in which he apparently tried to record most of the persons traveling in that initial group of ships with him.
Winthrop's note that William was on board as a "servant" of Plaistow means that William had the privilege denied others of ready and daily access to the upper deck.
We are certain of the Winthrop note, which clearly has William Bucklin on board one of the vessels of the 1630 Winthrop fleet.
www.bucklinsociety.net /Will1_bio.htm   (3805 words)

  
 Rhodes 19 FAQ
Established in 1959 by Dr. Randall Bell, Fleet 5 was the fifth fleet to be granted a charter by the Class Secretary of the Rhodes 19 Class Association.
Like all R19 fleets, Fleet 5 is self-governing, elects its own officers, and abides by the rules and regulations of the Class Association.
Fleet 5 races out of Marblehead Massachusetts, and is the largest active fleet of Rhodes 19's in the country.
www.r19fleet5.org /faq.htm   (3770 words)

  
 A Model of Christian Charity
We love to imagine the occasion when he personally spoke this oration to some large portion of the Winthrop fleet passengers during or just before their passage.
Winthrop’s genius was logical reasoning combined with a sympathetic nature.
Winthrop’s intent was to prepare the people for planting a new society in a perilous environment, but his practical wisdom is timeless.
www.reformed.org /books/winthrop/christian_charity.html   (4221 words)

  
 Winthrop Fleet Passenger List 1630
He may have been a passenger with Winthrop at this time for the purpose of viewing the country and reporting on its desirability for settlement.
The identity of this passenger is not established, but he was probably a neighbor of Governor Winthrop in Groton.
In a letter to his wife he mentions the death of "one of L. Kidbys sons." It is therefore probable that one of the name living later in Boston was one who survived.
members.aol.com /myself7482/win4.htm   (261 words)

  
 Thomas Dudley: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In the 30 years between his conversion and his eventual immigration with the Winthrop Fleet (Winthrop Fleet: the winthrop fleet of 1630 was a fleet of eleven ships that carried 700 immigrants from...
In 1629, with tension between the Puritans (Puritans: Adheres to strict religious principles; opposed to sensual pleasures) and the English government high, Dudley was chosen as one of the five officers to travel to the Americas (the Americas: North and South America) under the Royal Charter.
Travelling on the Arabella, the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet (Winthrop Fleet: the winthrop fleet of 1630 was a fleet of eleven ships that carried 700 immigrants from...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/thomas_dudley   (531 words)

  
 Early Mass Settlement
The arrival of Governor Winthrop, with the Massachusetts Company and the Charter of the Colony, has somtimes been assumed by chronologists and historians as the date of the permanent colonization of Massachusetts.
Winthrop came over at once as Governor of the Company, and to exercise a direct and personal magistracy over the Colony.
Winthrop was, in a word, the chosen leader of "the great Suffolk emigration", as it has been called, whereby that which had been hitherto regarded as a precarious plantation was at once transformed into a permanent and prosperous Commonwealth.
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 St. Boltoph Town: Chapter 3
Winthrop's vessel was called the Arbella in compliment to Lady Arbella Johnson, who was one of its passengers, and among the other ships which brought over this Company of some eight hundred souls was the Mayflower, consecrated in every New England heart as the carrier, a decade earlier, of the Pilgrims of Plymouth.
During the voyage Governor Win­throp wrote the simple beginnings of what is known as his "History of New England," a journal from which we glean the most that we know of the early days of the colonists.
And here, on the thirtieth of July, 1630, Win­throp, Dudley, Johnson and the pastor John Wilson adopted and signed a simple church covenant which was the foundation of the inde­pendent churches of New England.
www.kellscraft.com /StBoltophTown/StBoltophTown03.html   (2201 words)

  
 Abell
He was the immigrant who came to New England with John Winthrop on the Winthrop Fleet, in June 1630 and settled at Rehobeth, MA.
The Winthrop Society was created for ancestors who came over on the Winthrop Fleet.
Descendants of Robert are eligible to join the Winthrop Society which is open to all with proven descent of an ancestor from the Winthrop fleet.
todmar.net /ancestry/Abell_main.htm   (1306 words)

  
 Groton Merchant Bankers ++ Groton Advisory Services provides corporate financial advice, and Groton Private Investments ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
John Winthrop was the original member of his family to settle in Massachusetts.
In the spring of 1630, John Winthrop led a fleet of eleven vessels and seven hundred passengers — The Winthrop Fleet — to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the New World, the greatest fleet ever assembled to carry Englishmen overseas to a new homeland.
Winthrop was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and was re-elected many times.
www.grotonpartners.com /provenance_of_groton.html   (213 words)

  
 PAL:John Winthrop (1588-1649)
One of the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Winthrop arrived in 1630 aboard the flagship Arbella.
Winthrop began writing his Journal in 1630 and continued it till his death.
Rutman, Darrett B. Winthrop's Boston: A Portrait of a Puritan Town, 1630-1649.
www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap1/winthrop.html   (701 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The fact is that the "Winthrop Fleet" is so called from its chief personage, John Winthrop, first governor of the colony under its surrendered patent.
Endicott's and Winthrop's fleets were parts of one vast emigration, in the years 1628-1630, impelled by the "new idea of an in- dependent existence on the transatlantic side," the vessels departing at different dates, and from different ports, and arriving at Salem at different times.
The great movement, of which the "Winthrop Fleet" was the main body, included all who sailed immediately before and immediately after the main body.
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 Harvard Independent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
And The Arbella Ball, named for the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet of 1630, is leading the way in spring-formal fun with a built-in dance floor, walkway (for the heels, ladies!), a chocolate fountain, and the most happenin' jazz-cover band around, Soul Boston.
Winthrop has tons of facilities ready for you to take over next fall, because most importantly, house space is your space.
While Winthrop's den of iniquity (or its Barksdale drug crew) may be hidden or relocated to a bar or finals club, its less savory residents, alongside a number of confused, athletic, and rebellious "police force" types, are always at odds with management about tiny rooms and an itty-bitty dining hall and servery.
www.harvardindependent.com /ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleID=10196   (727 words)

  
 The Winthrop Fleet 0f 1630
The other half of the fleet sailed in May and arrived in July at various dates.
Altogether they brought about seven hundred passengers of whom the following are presumed to have been on these ships.
The Winthrop Society has a nice site set up to study and document the history and genealogy of the Winthrop Passengers and other pre-1633 colonists who forged the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
members.aol.com /dcurtin1/gene/winthrop.htm   (97 words)

  
 Governor Thomas Dudley
In 1630, Thomas and his wife and children sailed to New England with the Winthrop Fleet, a group of eleven vessels carrying 700 passengers.
The Fleet left England in the Spring and arrived in Salem in June.
A somewhat violent disagreement between Dudley and Winthrop, the first of many owing to Dudley's touchy and over-bearing temper, occurred when Winthrop abandoned the chosen settlement and moved to Boston.
www.dudleygenealogy.com /gov.html   (1488 words)

  
 History Of East Boston 1634-1880
In Winthrop's first will, he wrote: "I give to my son Adam my island called the Governor's Garden, to have to him and his heirs forever; not doubting but he will be dutiful and loving to his mother, and kind to his brethren in letting them partake in such fruits as grow there.
Adam Winthrop was an ancestor of the Cambridge Winthrops, so-called because his great grandson, Professor John Winthrop, was for forty-plus years connected with Harvard College, where he achieved great works in science.
Margaret Winthrop, John Winthrop's wife, often dwelt on the island among the pleasant orchards of apples, pears, plums, and grape-vines.
www.ebmainstreets.com /history/eastboston.htm   (3469 words)

  
 Passengers of the Winthrop Fleet of 1630
Ann - This passenger, according to her own story, came with the Winthrop Fleet of 1630 in one of the first ships that arrived at Charlestown.
She was then about 9 or 10 yrs of age and described herself as 'a romping girl' of the type who would be the heroine of the special incident which will be her title to enduring local fame.
No person of this name is known to have come to New England as early as 1630, and it is possible that Winthrop meant to designate 'Sergeant' Robert Lockwood by his title as the name appears next to the one believed to refer to Edmond Lockwood (see under Lockwood).
www.kjfamilyconnections.com /Passengers2.htm   (3059 words)

  
 Governor John Winthrop
Winthrop briefly attended TrinityCollege, Cambridge, then studied law at Gray's Inn, and in the 1620sbecame an attorney at the Court of Wards in London.
Winthrop was extremely religious and ascribed fervently to the Puritanbelief that the Anglican Church had to be cleansed of Catholic ritual.Winthrop was convinced that God would punish England for its heresy, andbelieved that English Puritans needed a shelter away from England wherethey could remain safe during the time of God's wrath.
Winthrop had been elected governor of the colony prior to departure, in1629, and was re-elected many times.
www.delmars.com /family/perrault/3848.htm   (706 words)

  
 Jacob Barney of Salem, Massachusetts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This ship was famous in the history of the early emigration to Massachusetts, and her Master was equally noted for his skillful seamanship and his sympathy with the policy of the Puritan leaders.
The official connection of the Lyon with the Winthrop Fleet is of the same character as of the Mary and John, as both were doubtless approved by the Governor.
Although many of the vanguard of the Massachusetts Bay colonists, who had arrived the year before the main Winthrop fleet, had died during the harsh winter of 1629-30, the new colony was relatively healthy.
www.barneyfamily.org /cgi-local/public/director.cgi?CODE=9552981057328&LINK=/docs/article_05.htm   (8367 words)

  
 DEACON STEPHEN HART, Part I
John Winthrop, and was one of 13 sailing ships in the Winthrop fleet that embarked to New England that year.
Winthrop mentions in his journal that the Braintree Company moved from Mount Wollaston (later named Braintree), Massachusetts, to Cambridge in August 1632.
Assuming that Stephen was a member of this group, he would have had to arrive on the November 2, 1631 date in order to be with those who moved to Cambridge in August, 1632.
users.rcn.com /harts.ma.ultranet/family/harts/DavidsStephen/dec_stv1.shtml   (1273 words)

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