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JOHN WINTHROP (1606-1676)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 736 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:WINTHROP (1606-1676)  , generally 'known as 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 . He was educated at. the See also:Bury St See also:Edmunds See also: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 See also: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 . In 1631 he followed his See also:father to See also:Massachusetts, and was one of the " assistants " in 1635, 1640 and 1641, and from 1644 to 1649 . He was the See also:chief founder of Agawam (now See also:Ipswich), See also:Mass., in 1633, went to England in 1634, and in the following See also:year returned as See also: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 . He then lived for a time in Massachusetts, where he devoted himself to the study of See also:science and attempted to See also:interest the settlers in the development of the See also:colony's See also:mineral resources . He was again in England in 1641-1643, and on his return established See also:iron-See also:works at See also:Lynn and See also:Braintree, Mass . In 1645 he obtained a See also:title to lands in See also:south-eastern Connecticut, and founded there in 1646 what is now New London, whither he removed in 165o . 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 . In 1662 he obtained in England the See also:charter by which the colonies of Connecticut and New Haven were See also:united . Besides being governor of Connecticut, he was also in 1675 one of the commissioners of the United Colonies of New England . 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 See also:meeting of the commissioners of the United Colonies of New England . His See also:correspondence with the Royal Society was published in See also:series 1, vol. xvi. of the Massachusetts See also:Historical Society's Proceedings .

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Waters's See also:Sketch of the See also:Life of John Winthrop the Younger (Ipswich, Mass., 1899) . 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 See also:army in See also:Scotland under Monck, whom he accompanied on his See also:march to London, and returned-to Connecticut in 1663 . As See also:major-See also: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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