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John Winthrop (12 January 1587/8 – 26 March 1649) led a group of English Puritans to the New World, joined the Massachusetts Bay Company in 1629 and was elected their governor on ...
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John Winthrop (1606-1676), American colonial administrator, son of John Winthrop, leader of Massachusetts Bay Colony, born in Groton, England, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He joined his father in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1631, and in 1646 he founded New London, in the Connecticut Colony. From 1657 until his death, Winthrop served almost without interruption as governor of that colony.