See also: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
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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 (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
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
- BUCKINGHAM, EARLS, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- BUCKINGHAM, FIRST DUKE
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 1ST DUKE 0E1
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 2ND DUKE 0E1 (1628-1687)
- BUCKINGHAM, HENRY STAFFORD, 2ND DUKE OF3 (1454-1483)
- BUCKINGHAM, JAMES SILK (1786-1855)
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 See also:Massachusetts, and was one of the " assistants " in 1635, 1640 and 1641, and from 1644 to 1649
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 See also: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 See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
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 See also:series 1, vol. xvi. of the Massachusetts See also:Historical Society's Proceedings
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See also:Waters's See also: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 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
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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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