John Winthrop the Younger
John Winthrop Jr. or John Winthrop the Younger ( * 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 school (English grammar school ), and Trinity College in Dublin, studied after 1624 shortly law at the Inner Temple in London, accompanied the expedition pursued by bad luck of the Duke of Buckingham in the replacement of the Protestants of La Rochelle, traveled to Italy and the Levant in 1629 and returned back to England.
He followed his father in 1631 to Massachusetts, where he was in 1635, 1640 and 1641, and from 1644 to 1649 one of the " Wizard can ". He was also in 1633 the principal founder of Agawam (now Ipswich, Massachusetts), 1634 went back to England and returned the following year for a term (one year) as Governor of the Colony of Connecticut back, under the Saye and Sele patent, despatched him the party to build a fort at Saybrook, the mouth of the Connecticut River. He then lived for a time in Massachusetts, where he devoted himself to scientific study and strove to the settlers interests in the development of colonial natural resources.
He was again 1641-1643 in England. On his return he founded the forging (English iron- works) in Lynn and Braintree, Massachusetts. In 1645 he acquired a piece of land in southeastern Connecticut and founded there in 1646 what is now New London is and where he moved in 1650. He was in 1651 one of the master's councils of Connecticut. Furthermore, he was again 1657-1658 governor of the colony, he was also 1659 again. After that, he was re-elected annually until his death. In 1662 he received the certificate in England (English charter), by which the colonies of Connecticut and New Haven were pooled. In addition to the office as Governor of Connecticut, in 1675, he was also one of the commissioners of the United Colonies of New England. At the same time he was also elected in England in the reorganized Royal Society, where he contributed to their philosophical enterprises (English Philosophical Transactions ) two newspapers, the "Some Natural Curiosities from the New England " and the "Description, Culture and Use of Maize. "
John Winthrop died on 5 April 1676 in Boston, Massachusetts, where he took part in a meeting of the commissioners of the United Colonies of New England.
Family
A great-granddaughter, Rebecca Winthrop (1712-1776), was with Gudron Saltonstall, Jr. (1708-1785), son of Gurdon Saltonstall (1666-1724), governor of Connecticut, was married, was descended from the Massachusetts Nathaniel Saltonstall Family. Gudron and Rebecca were parents of Dudley Saltonstall ( 1738-1796 ).
References
His correspondence with the Royal Society was subsequently I., Volume XVI. the Massachusetts Historical Society 's Proceedings published. 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 in 1996.