Adam Winthrop 1548

Adam Winthrop, 1548–1623 (aged 74 years)

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Adam Winthrop

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Birth	August 10, 1548 49 32 Groton, Suffolk, England
Birth	August 10, 1548 49 32 London, Middlesex, England Source: Public Member Trees Citation details: Database online. Text: Record for Adam Winthrop
Occupation	Master of Clothworkers Company in London, Barrister
Death of a father	Adam Winthrop November 9, 1562 (aged 14 years) Groton, Suffolk, England Source: Public Member Trees Citation details: Database online. Text: Record for Adam Winthrop
Death of a mother	Agnes Sharpe May 13, 1565 (aged 16 years) Springfield, Essex, England Source: Public Member Trees Citation details: Database online. Text: Record for Adam Winthrop
Marriage	Anne Brown — View this family 1579 (aged 30 years) Suffolk City, England Source: Public Member Trees Citation details: Database online. Text: Record for Adam Winthrop
Christening of a son	John Winthrop January 16, 1587 (aged 38 years) Groton, Suffolk, England Latitude: 52.038288 Longitude: 0.8546 Source: England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 Citation details: "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5YB-M7Q : 5 February 2023), John Winthrop, 1587. External link: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5YB-M7Q Note: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5YB-M7Q Source: England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 Citation details: "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5YB-M7Q : 5 February 2023), John Winthrop, 1587. External link: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5YB-M7Q Note: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5YB-M7Q Source: England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 Citation details: "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J3R1-RWY : 4 February 2023), John Winthop, 1562. External link: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J3R1-RWY Note: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J3R1-RWY
Birth of a son	John Winthrop January 12, 1588 (aged 39 years) Edwardstone, Suffolk, England Latitude: 52.033333 Longitude: 0.833333 Source: Find A Grave Index Citation details: "Find A Grave Index," database, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJ1-1Q17 : 6 February 2023), John Winthrop, ; Burial, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States of America, Kings Chapel Burying Ground; citing record ID 1118, <i>Find a Grave</i>, http://www.findagrave.com. External link: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJ1-1Q17 Note: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJ1-1Q17 Source: Pennsylvania Cemetery Records, ca. 1700-ca. 1950 Citation details: "Pennsylvania Cemetery Records, ca. 1700-ca. 1950", database, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:8TKN-CDT2 : 16 September 2021), Gov John Sr Winthrop, . External link: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:8TKN-CDT2 Note: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:8TKN-CDT2 Source: Find A Grave Index Citation details: "Find A Grave Index," database, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJ1-1Q17 : 6 February 2023), John Winthrop, ; Burial, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States of America, Kings Chapel Burying Ground; citing record ID 1118, <i>Find a Grave</i>, http://www.findagrave.com. External link: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJ1-1Q17 Note: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJ1-1Q17 Source: BillionGraves Index Citation details: "BillionGraves Index," database, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2T7-F8S6 : 27 November 2018), John Winthrop, died 1649; citing <i>BillionGraves</i> (http://www.billiongraves.com : 2012), Burial at Kings Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. External link: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2T7-F8S6 Note: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2T7-F8S6 Source: BillionGraves Index Citation details: "BillionGraves Index," database, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VT7X-B9D : 29 October 2018), John Winthrop, died 1649; citing <i>BillionGraves</i> (http://www.billiongraves.com : 2012), Burial at Kings Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. External link: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VT7X-B9D Note: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VT7X-B9D Source: BillionGraves Index Citation details: "BillionGraves Index," database, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VT7X-B9D : 29 October 2018), John Winthrop, died 1649; citing <i>BillionGraves</i> (http://www.billiongraves.com : 2012), Burial at Kings Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. External link: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VT7X-B9D Note: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VT7X-B9D Source: FamilySearch Family Tree Citation details: Transcription of headstone image from billiongraves.com. Image taken at Kings Chapel Burying Ground (Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States) on 16 October 2011 External link: http://billiongraves.com/pages/record/JohnWinthrop/314615?utm_campaign=treeconnect&utm_source=familysearch.org&utm_medium=sourcelink Note: http://billiongraves.com/pages/record/JohnWinthrop/314615?utm_campaign=treeconnect&utm_source=familysearch.org&utm_medium=sourcelink
Birth of a son	John Winthrop January 22, 1588 (aged 39 years) Source: Handy Book of American Authors, 1907 Citation details: Database online. Text: Record for John Winthrop
Birth of a daughter	Jane Winthrop June 14, 1592 (aged 43 years) Source: Public Member Trees Citation details: Database online. Text: Record for Adam Winthrop
Birth of a daughter	Lucy Winthrop January 9, 1601 (aged 52 years) Groton Hall, England Source: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Citation details: Database online. Text: Record for Lucy Winthrop INDI:EVEN:SOUR:_FOOT: Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004), Database online.
Death of a daughter	Jane Winthrop 1619 (aged 70 years) Source: Public Member Trees Citation details: Database online. Text: Record for Adam Winthrop
Marriage of a daughter	Emanuel Downing — Lucy Winthrop — View this family April 10, 1622 (aged 73 years) Groton, England
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Death	March 28, 1623 (aged 74 years) Groton, Suffolk, England
Death	March 29, 1623 (aged 74 years) Suffolk, Sussex, England Source: Public Member Trees Citation details: Database online. Text: Record for Adam Winthrop

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father	Links Birth: October 9, 1498 — Groton, Suffolk, England Birth: October 9, 1498 — Lavenham, Suffolk, England Death: November 9, 1562 — Groton, Suffolk, England Links Compact tree Interactive tree Pedigree map Family with spouse Agnes Sharpe Adam Winthrop Adam Winthrop 1498–1562 Birth: October 9, 1498 — Groton, Suffolk, England Death: November 9, 1562 — Groton, Suffolk, England
mother	Links Birth: August 10, 1516 — Islington, England Birth: August 10, 1530 — Islington, Middlesex, England Death: May 13, 1565 — Springfield, Essex, England Links Compact tree Interactive tree Pedigree map Family with spouse Adam Winthrop Adam Winthrop Agnes Sharpe 1516–1565 Birth: August 10, 1516 — Islington, England Death: May 13, 1565 — Springfield, Essex, England
himself	Links Birth: August 10, 1548 49 32 — Groton, Suffolk, England Birth: August 10, 1548 49 32 — London, Middlesex, England Marriage: 1579 — Suffolk City, England Occupation: Master of Clothworkers Company in London, Barrister INDI:_PHOTO: Sir Adam Winthrop_1 Death: March 28, 1623 — Groton, Suffolk, England Death: March 29, 1623 — Suffolk, Sussex, England Links Compact tree Interactive tree Pedigree map Family with spouse Anne Brown Lucy Winthrop John Winthrop Jane Winthrop Adam Winthrop 1548–1623 Birth: August 10, 1548 49 32 — Groton, Suffolk, England Death: March 28, 1623 — Groton, Suffolk, England

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himself	Links Birth: August 10, 1548 49 32 — Groton, Suffolk, England Birth: August 10, 1548 49 32 — London, Middlesex, England Marriage: 1579 — Suffolk City, England Occupation: Master of Clothworkers Company in London, Barrister INDI:_PHOTO: Sir Adam Winthrop_1 Death: March 28, 1623 — Groton, Suffolk, England Death: March 29, 1623 — Suffolk, Sussex, England Links Compact tree Interactive tree Pedigree map Family with spouse Anne Brown Lucy Winthrop John Winthrop Jane Winthrop Adam Winthrop 1548–1623 Birth: August 10, 1548 49 32 — Groton, Suffolk, England Death: March 28, 1623 — Groton, Suffolk, England
wife	Links Birth: 1550 30 20 — Edwardston, London, England Birth: 1558 38 28 — Edwardston, London, England Marriage: 1579 — Suffolk City, England Death: April 19, 1629 — Groton, Suffolk, England Death: April 19, 1629 — Edwardstone, Suffolk, England Links Compact tree Interactive tree Pedigree map Family with spouse Adam Winthrop Lucy Winthrop John Winthrop Jane Winthrop Anne Brown 1558–1629 Birth: 1558 38 28 — Edwardston, London, England Death: April 19, 1629 — Groton, Suffolk, England
Marriage	Marriage — 1579 — Suffolk City, England
22 years daughter	Links Birth: January 9, 1601 52 43 — Groton Hall, England Marriage: April 10, 1622 — Groton, England Immigration: 1638 — Traveled to Massachusetts Bay Colony on the Thomas and Francis Religion: November 4, 1638 — Admitted to the Church in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Death: April 19, 1679 — London, England Links Compact tree Interactive tree Pedigree map Family with spouse Emanuel Downing George Thomas Downing Lucy Downing Joshua Downing Robert Downing Ann Downing Martha Downing John Downing Lucy Winthrop 1601–1679 Birth: January 9, 1601 52 43 — Groton Hall, England Death: April 19, 1679 — London, England
-14 years son	Links Christening: January 16, 1587 38 29 — Groton, Suffolk, England Birth: January 12, 1588 39 30 — Edwardstone, Suffolk, England Birth: January 22, 1588 39 30 Education: John (age 14) admitted to Trinity College at Cambridge University to get training for a Puritan Ministry. Drops from school when he gets married. — December 8, 1602 — Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom Education: John was admitted to Trinity College (a constituent college of the University of Cambridge) in December 1602, matriculating at the university a few months later. Among the students with whom he would have interacted at Trinity were John Cotton and John Wheelwright, both of whom would also play an important part in the settlement of New England. The teenage Winthrop, however, admitted in his diary to "lusts . . . so masterly as no good could fasten upon me." It has been suggested that John's struggles with his baser impulses may have prompted him to leave school early and to marry young. — December 1602 — Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England LifeSketch: John Winthrop (12 January 1587/88-26 March 1649) was an English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the second major settlement in New England, following Plymouth Colony. Winthrop led the first large wave of immigrants from England in 1630 and served as governor for 12 of the colony's first 20 years. His writings and vision of the colony as a Puritan "city upon a hill" dominated New England colonial development, influencing the governments and religions of neighboring colonies. Winthrop was born into a wealthy landowning and merchant family. He trained in the law and became Lord of the Manor at Groton in Suffolk. He was not involved in founding the Massachusetts Bay Company in 1628, but he became involved in 1629 when anti-Puritan King Charles I began a crackdown on Nonconformist religious thought. In October 1629, he was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and he led a group of colonists to the New World in April 1630, founding a number of communities on the shores of Massachusetts Bay and the Charles River. Between 1629 and his death in 1649, he served 18 annual terms as governor or lieutenant-governor and was a force of comparative moderation in the religiously conservative colony, clashing with the more conservative Thomas Dudley and the more liberal Roger Williams and Henry Vane. Winthrop was a respected political figure, and his attitude toward governance seems authoritarian to modern sensibilities. He resisted attempts to widen voting and other civil rights beyond a narrow class of religiously approved individuals, opposed attempts to codify a body of laws that the colonial magistrates would be bound by, and also opposed unconstrained democracy, calling it "the meanest and worst of all forms of government". The authoritarian and religiously conservative nature of Massachusetts rule was influential in the formation of neighboring colonies, which were formed in some instances by individuals and groups opposed to the rule of the Massachusetts elders. Winthrop's son John was one of the founders of the Connecticut Colony, and Winthrop himself wrote one of the leading historical accounts of the early colonial period. His long list of descendants includes famous Americans, and his writings continue to influence politicians today. Life in England John Winthrop was born on 12 January 1587/8 to Adam and Anne (née Browne) Winthrop in Edwardstone, Suffolk, England. His birth was recorded in the parish register at Groton. His father's family had been successful in the textile business, and his father was a lawyer and prosperous landowner with several properties in Suffolk. His mother's family was also well-to-do, with properties in Suffolk and Essex. When Winthrop was young, his father became a director at Trinity College, Cambridge. Winthrop's uncle John (Adam's brother) emigrated to Ireland, and the Winthrop family took up residence at Groton Manor. Winthrop was first tutored at home by John Chaplin and was assumed to have attended grammar school at Bury St. Edmunds. He was also regularly exposed to religious discussions between his father and clergymen, and thus came to a deep understanding of theology at an early age. He was admitted to Trinity College in December 1602, matriculating at the university a few months later. Among the students with whom he would have interacted were John Cotton and John Wheelwright, two men who also had important roles in New England. He was a close childhood and university friend of William Spring, later a Puritan Member of Parliament with whom he corresponded for the rest of his life. The teenage Winthrop admitted in his diary of the time to "lusts ... so masterly as no good could fasten upon me." Biographer Francis Bremer suggests that Winthrop's need to control his baser impulses may have prompted him to leave school early and marry at an unusually early age. In 1604, Winthrop journeyed to Great Stambridge in Essex with a friend. They stayed at the home of a family friend, and Winthrop was favorably impressed with their daughter Mary Forth. He left Trinity College to marry her on 16 April 1605 at Great Stambridge. Mary bore him five children, of whom only three survived to adulthood. The oldest of their children was John Winthrop, the Younger, who became a governor and magistrate of Connecticut. Their last two children, two girls, died not long after birth, and Mary died in 1615 from complications of the last birth. The couple spent most of their time at Great Stambridge, living on the Forth estate. In 1613, Adam Winthrop transferred the family holdings in Groton to Winthrop, who then became Lord of the Manor at Groton. Lord of the Manor As Lord of the Manor, Winthrop was deeply involved in the management of the estate, overseeing the agricultural activities and the manor house. He eventually followed his father in practicing law in London, which would have brought him into contact with the city's business elite. He was also appointed to the county commission of the peace, a position that gave him a wider exposure among other lawyers and landowners, and a platform to advance what he saw as God's kingdom. The commission's responsibilities included overseeing countywide issues, including road and bridge maintenance and the issuance of licenses. Some of its members were also empowered to act as local judges for minor offenses, although Winthrop was only able to exercise this authority in cases affecting his estate. The full commission met quarterly, and Winthrop forged a number of important connections through its activities. Winthrop documented his religious life, keeping a journal beginning 1605 in which he described his religious experiences and feelings. In it, he described his failures to keep "divers vows", and sought to reform his failings by God's grace, praying that God would "give me a new heart, joy in his spirit; that he would dwell with me". He was somewhat distressed that his wife did not share the intensity of his religious feelings, but he eventually observed that "she proved after a right godly woman." He was more intensely religious than his father, whose diaries dealt almost exclusively with secular matters. His wife Mary died in 1615, and he followed the custom of the time, marrying Thomasine Clopton soon after on 6 December 1615. She was more pious than Mary had been; Winthrop wrote that she was "truly religious & industrious therein". Thomasine died on 8 December 1616 from complications of childbirth; the child did not survive. In approximately 1613 (records indicate that it may have been earlier), Winthrop was enrolled at Gray's Inn. There he read the law but did not advance to the Bar. His legal connections introduced him to the Tyndal family of Great Maplestead, Essex and he began courting Margaret Tyndal in 1617, the daughter of Sir John Tyndal, a chancery judge, and his wife Anne Egerton, sister of the leading Puritan preacher Stephen Egerton. Her family was initially opposed to the match on financial grounds; Winthrop countered by appealing to piety as a virtue that more than compensated for his modest income. The couple were married on 29 April 1618 at Great Maplestead. They continued to live at Groton, although Winthrop necessarily divided his time between Groton and London, where he eventually acquired a highly desirable post in the Court of Wards and Liveries. His eldest son John sometimes assisted Margaret with the management of the estate while he was away. Decision to emigrate In the mid to late 1620s, the religious atmosphere in England began to look bleak for Puritans and other groups whose adherents believed that the English Reformation was in danger. King Charles I had ascended the throne in 1625, and he had married a Roman Catholic. Charles was opposed to all manner of recusants and supported the Church of England in its efforts against religious groups such as the Puritans that did not adhere fully to its teachings and practices. This atmosphere of intolerance led Puritan religious and business leaders to consider emigration to the New World as a viable means to escape persecution. John Winthrop's Christian Experience: at https://wiki.millersville.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=6946826 "This is Winthrop's account of his spiritual progress delivered to the Boston church and obviously based heavily upon the 'Experiencia'. . It is of interest because it sheds some additional light on his life and spiritual struggles." Elected: 1629 — Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony Occupation: First Colonial Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony and major participant in the Great Migration to New England — 1630 — Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America INDI:FSID: 9ML1-41Z INDI:_PHOTO: Governor John Winthrop Death: March 26, 1649 — Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Death: March 26, 1649 Burial: April 3, 1649 — Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Links Compact tree Interactive tree Pedigree map Family with spouse Margaret Tyndal John Winthrop 1588–1649 Birth: January 12, 1588 39 30 — Edwardstone, Suffolk, England Death: March 26, 1649 — Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
6 years daughter	Links Birth: June 14, 1592 43 34 Death: 1619 Links Compact tree Interactive tree Pedigree map Jane Winthrop 1592–1619 Birth: June 14, 1592 43 34 Death: 1619

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Shared note	Adam was born "in the street which is called Gracious" (Gracechurch) in the parish of St. Peter's, Cornhill in London. He graduated from Magdalen College and worked as a lawyer. In 1594 he moved to Groton. While living at Groton, Adam often tried poetry, either in English or Latin; a manuscript anthology of some of his work exists in the British Museum (Harleian Manuscripts No. 1598). The opening lines of a poem written for his neighbor Lady Mildmay on the birth of her son Henry are: "I sing not like the swan, that ready is to die...But with the Phoenix I rejoice, when she in fire doth fry".

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Adam was born "in the street which is called Gracious" (Gracechurch) in the parish of St. Peter's, Cornhill in London. He graduated from Magdalen College and worked as a lawyer. In 1594 he moved to Groton. While living at Groton, Adam often tried poetry, either in English or Latin; a manuscript anthology of some of his work exists in the British Museum (Harleian Manuscripts No. 1598). The opening lines of a poem written for his neighbor Lady Mildmay on the birth of her son Henry are: "I sing not like the swan, that ready is to die...But with the Phoenix I rejoice, when she in fire doth fry".

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father	Adam Winthrop 1498–1562
mother	Agnes Sharpe 1516–1565
himself	Adam Winthrop 1548–1623

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himself	Adam Winthrop 1548–1623
wife Parents Henry Browne Agnes Lnu	Anne Brown 1558–1629
daughter Family Emanuel Downing George Thomas Downing Lucy Downing Joshua Downing Robert Downing Ann Downing Martha Downing John Downing	Lucy Winthrop 1601–1679
son Family Margaret Tyndal	John Winthrop 1588–1649
daughter	Jane Winthrop 1592–1619

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Adam Winthrop(1548–1623)
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