John Winthrop

This article deals with the Puritan John Winthrop (1588–1649). For additional individuals named John Winthrop, see John Winthrop (disambiguation) .

John Winthrop

John Winthrop (born January 12, 1588 in Edwardstone , Suffolk , England , † March 26, 1649 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was an English Puritan .

In 1629 John Winthrop was elected to succeed John Endecott as the second governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and reached it in April 1630 with a fleet of eleven ships and around 700 settlers. With a few exceptions, he was re-elected as governor of the colony every year until his death in 1649, and during this time he had a decisive influence on the colony's political development. In his sermon A Model of Christian Charity from 1630 Winthrop coined the expression " City upon a Hill ".

His son, John Winthrop, Jr. , was the governor of the Colony of Connecticut .

Web links

Commons : John Winthrop  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wikiquote: John Winthrop  - Quotes

• A Model of Christian Charity on wikisource
• Arbitrary Government Described and the Government of the Massachusetts Vindicated from that Aspersion, 1644
• The Winthrop Society

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dominik Nagl, No Part of the Mother Country, but Distinct Dominions - Rechtsstransfer, Staatsbildung und Governance in England, Massachusetts and South Carolina, 1630–1769, Berlin 2013, pp. 176ff. on-line