Harvard University announced Thursday it will drop the first name of its John Winthrop House, responding to long-standing efforts to separate the undergraduate residence from its namesake, whom ...

Winthrop House Will Keep Name but Lose Its Association With John Winthrop, Thought To Be a Slaveowner By E. Matteo Diaz By Samuel A. Church and Cam N. Srivastava, Crimson Staff Writers July 18, 2025 ...

After an introduction by Stephen Kendrick, who is Senior Minister of the First AND Second Church in Boston, Professor Francis Bremer talked about his book, [John Winthrop: America's Forgotten ...

A modern-day John Winthrop, age 79 and a descendant of that early governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, trekked from his home in Charleston, S.C., to participate in the dedication.

John Winthrop Sears, 83, who died in his Beacon Hill home, was a vestige of a vanishing Brahmin Republican tradition, serving in the Legislature and on the Boston City Council, and running for ...

Life and Letters of John Winthrop, From His Embarkation for New England in 1630, With the Charter and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, to His Death in 1649 February 1867 Issue ...

Sitter John Winthrop, 1587/8 - 1649 Exhibition Label Born Edwardstone, Suffolk, England English Puritan and lawyer John Winthrop was a founding member of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Appointed as the ...

John Winthrop, writing of his youth when he had grown to the full exalted stature of Christian manhood, and though sweetly mellowed in the graces of Ins character by genial ripening from within ...

Winthrop — named after the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s second governor, John Winthrop — was settled in 1630, making it one of the oldest towns in the country.

On June 12, 1630, John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, sailed into Salem Harbor. In 1665, New York City was incorporated under English law. In 1776, the State of ...