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See also: John
See also: Winthrop the Younger, son of the preceding, See also: born at Groton, See also: England, on the 12th of See also: February 16o6
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He was educated at. the See also: Bury St See also: Edmunds grammar school and at Trinity See also: College, See also: Dublin, studied See also: law for a See also: short See also: time after 1624 at the Inner See also: Temple, See also: London, accompanied the See also: ill-fated expedition of the duke of See also: Buckingham for the See also: relief of the Protestants of La Rochelle, and then travelled in See also: Italy and the See also: Levant, returning to England in 1628
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In 1631 he followed his See also: father to Massachusetts, and was one of the " assistants " in 1635, 1640 and 1641, and from 1644 to 1649
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He was the chief founder of Agawam (now See also: Ipswich), Mass., in 1633, went to England in 1634, and in the following See also: year returned as governor, for one year, of See also: Connecticut, under the Saye and Sele patent, sending out the party which built the fort at See also: Saybrook, at the mouth of the Connecticut See also: river
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He then lived for a time in Massachusetts, where he devoted himself to the study of science and attempted to See also: interest the settlers in the development of the colony's See also: mineral resources
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He was again in England in 1641-1643, and on his return established iron-See also: works at See also: Lynn and See also: Braintree, Mass
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In 1645 he obtained a title to lands in See also: south-eastern Connecticut, and founded there in 1646 what is now New London, whither he removed in 165o
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He became one of the magistrates of Connecticut in 1651; in 1657-1658 was governor of the colony; and in 1659 again became governor, being annually re-elected until his See also: death
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In 1662 he obtained in England the charter by which the colonies of Connecticut and New Haven were See also: united
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Besides being governor of Connecticut, he was also in 1675 one of the commissioners of the United Colonies of New England
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While in England he was elected to membership in the newly organized Royal Society, to whose Philosophical Transactions he contributed two papers, " Some Natural Curiosities from New England," and " Description, Culture and Use of See also: Maize." He died on the 5th of See also: April 1676 in See also: Boston, whither he had gone to attend a meeting of the commissioners of the United Colonies of New England
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His See also: correspondence with the Royal Society was published in series 1, vol. xvi. of the Massachusetts See also: Historical Society's Proceedings
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See T . F . See also: Waters's Sketch of the See also: Life of John Winthrop the Younger (Ipswich, Mass., 1899)
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Winthrop's son, FITZ-JOHN WINTHROP (1638-1707), was educated at Harvard, though he did not take a degree; served in the See also: parliamentary army in Scotland under Monck, whom he accompanied on his See also: march to London, and returned-to Connecticut in 1663
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As major-general he commanded the unsuccessful expedition of the New
See also: York and Connecticut forces against See also: Canada in 169o; from 1693 to 1697 he was the See also: agent of Connecticut in London; and from 1698 until his death he was governor of Connecticut
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