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John Winthrop the Younger

John Winthrop the Younger (February 12, 1606 – April 6, 1676) was an early governor of the Connecticut Colony, and he played a large role in the merger of several separate settlements into the unified colony.

For other uses, see John Winthrop (disambiguation).

John Winthrop the Younger

Thomas Welles

William Leete

John Webster

Thomas Welles

Inaugural holder

George Fenwick

(1606-02-12)February 12, 1606
Groton, England

April 6, 1676(1676-04-06) (aged 70)
Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Mary Fones
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(m. 1630; died 1634)​
Elizabeth Reade
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(died 1672)​

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John Winthrop
Mary Forth

Bury St. Edmunds
King Edward VI School

Trinity College, Dublin

Early life[edit]

Winthrop was born in Groton, Suffolk, England on February 12, 1606, the son of John Winthrop, founding governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was educated at the Bury St. Edmunds grammar school, King Edward VI School, and Trinity College, Dublin, and he studied law for a short time after 1624 at the Inner Temple, London.[2]

Elizabeth Winthrop (1636–1716), who married Rev. Antipas Newman and Dr. Zerubbabel Endecott, son of Gov.

John Endecott

(1638–1707), who served as major-general in the army, a colonial agent in London for Connecticut (1683–1687), and governor of Connecticut from 1696 until his death in 1707[2]

Fitz-John Winthrop

Lucy Winthrop (1640–1676), who married Maj. Edward Palmes

(1642–1717), who married Mary Browne (1656–1690)

Waitstill Winthrop

Mary "Mercy" Winthrop (1644–1740), who married the Rev. John Culver III

Sara Winthrop (1644–1704), who married the Rev. John Culver III

Margaret Winthrop (c. 1648–1711), who married John Corwin

Martha Winthrop (1648–1712), who married Richard Wharton

Anne Winthrop (c. 1649–1704), who married John Richards (son of Wealthean (née Loring) Richards)[10]

accused witch

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the : Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Winthrop, John". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 736.

public domain

Ward, Harry (ed.). The United Colonies of New England-1643-90. Vantage Press=1961.

. Dictionary of National Biography. 1885–1900.

"Winthrop, John (1606-1676)" 

. Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1889.

"Winthrop, John" 

Biographical sketch of Winthrop at State Library Web site