John Winthrop, Jr.

John Winthrop Jr.

John Winthrop Jr. or John Winthrop the Younger (born February 12, 1606 in Groton , Suffolk , England , † April 5, 1676 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was a politician during the North American colonial era and governor of the Colony of Connecticut .

Life

John Winthrop, Jr., son of John Winthrop , appointed governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony , was born on February 12, 1606 in Groton, Suffolk, England. He attended the Bury St Edmunds Gymnasium ( English grammar school ), as well as the Trinity College in Dublin , studied shortly after 1624 law at the Inner Temple in London , accompanied the unlucky expedition of the Duke of Buckingham in the replacement of the Protestants from La Rochelle , traveled to Italy and the Levant and returned to England in 1629.

In 1631 he followed his father to Massachusetts, where he was one of the "assistants" in 1635, 1640 and 1641, and from 1644 to 1649. He was also the principal founder of Agawam (now Ipswich , Massachusetts ) in 1633 , returned to England in 1634 and returned the following year for a term (one year) as governor of the Colony of Connecticut under the Saye and Sele patent , posted him the party to build a fort at Saybrook , the mouth of the Connecticut River . He then lived for a certain time in Massachusetts, where he devoted himself to the study of science and strove for the settlers' interests in the development of colonial mineral resources.

He was again in England between 1641 and 1643. On his return he founded iron works in Lynn and Braintree , Massachusetts. In 1645 he acquired a piece of land in southeastern Connecticut and founded what is now New London in 1646 and where he moved in 1650. He became a Connecticut magisterial councilor in 1651. He was also governor of the colony between 1657 and 1658, which he was again in 1659. He was then re-elected annually until his death. 1662 he received in England the certificate (Engl. Charter ) through which the colonies of Connecticut and New Haven were pooled. In addition to serving as the governor of Connecticut, he was also one of the commissioners of the United Colonies of New England in 1675 . At the same time he was elected to the reorganized Royal Society in England , where he contributed two newspapers to their philosophical undertakings (English. Philosophical Transactions ), the "Some Natural Curiosities from New England" and the "Description, Culture and Use of Maize . "

John Winthrop died on April 5, 1676 in Boston, Massachusetts, where he attended a meeting of the commissioners of the United Colonies of New England.

family

A great-granddaughter, Rebecca Winthrop (1712–1776), was married to Connecticut Governor Gudron Saltonstall Jr. (1708–1785), son of Gurdon Saltonstall (1666–1724) from the Nathanial Saltonstalls family active in Massachusetts. Gudron and Rebecca were parents of Dudley Saltonstall (1738-1796).

Bibliography

His correspondence with the Royal Society was published in Volume I, Volume XVI. published by the Massachusetts Historical Society's Proceedings. See TF Waters's Sketch of the Life of John Winthrop the Younger (Ipswich, Mass., 1899).

The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649 . Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Concord, Connecticut, USA 1996.

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personal data
SURNAME	Winthrop, John Jr.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	John Winthrop the Younger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American colonial governor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 12, 1606
PLACE OF BIRTH	Groton , Suffolk, England
DATE OF DEATH	April 5, 1676
Place of death	Boston , Massachusetts