The Journal Of John Winthrop 1630 1649

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For 350 years Governor John Winthrop's journal has been recognized as the central source for the history of Massachusetts in the 1630s and 1640s. Winthrop reported events--especially religious and political events--more fully and more candidly than any other contemporary observer. The governor's journal has been edited and published three times since 1790, but these editions are long outmoded. Richard Dunn and Laetitia Yeandle have now prepared a long-awaited scholarly edition, complete with introduction, notes, and appendices. This full-scale, unabridged edition uses the manuscript volumes of the first and third notebooks (both carefully preserved at the Massachusetts Historical Society), retaining their spelling and punctuation, and James Savage's transcription of the middle notebook (accidentally destroyed in 1825). Winthrop's narrative began as a journal and evolved into a history. As a dedicated Puritan convert, Winthrop decided to emigrate to America in 1630 with members of the Massachusetts Bay Company, who had chosen him as their governor. Just before sailing, he began a day-to-day account of his voyage. He continued his journal when he reached Massachusetts, at first making brief and irregular entries, followed by more frequent writing sessions and contemporaneous reporting, and finally, from 1643 onward, engaging in only irregular writing sessions and retrospective reporting. Naturally he found little good to say about such outright adversaries as Thomas Morton, Roger Williams, and Anne Hutchinson. Yet he was also adept at thrusting barbs at most of the other prominent players: John Endecott, Henry Vane, and Richard Saltonstall, among others. Winthrop built lasting significance into the seemingly small-scale actions of a few thousand colonists in early New England, which is why his journal will remain an important historical source.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : John Winthrop
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Release : 2009-06-01
File : 862 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0674034384


John Winthrop

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This book describes the life and accomplishments of John Winthrop, who served twelve terms as governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony and who wrote in his journal about the events that came to be called the Great Migration.

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Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Capstone
Release : 2006
File : 120 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0756515912


John Winthrop S World

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As both a politician and a historian, Winthrop was an interpreter of foundational events in American history. Within his journal, therefore, lie resources for understanding the nature of leadership and the meaning of liberty in our past. Because of the ongoing Puritan legacy in American culture, Winthrop's journal may show us our own world, and possibly our future, in new ways. - Introduction.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : James G. Moseley
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release : 1992
File : 206 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0299135349


John Winthrop

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Providing a path-breaking treatment of the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Bremer explores the life of America's forgotten Founding Father. 18 halftones & line illustrations.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Francis J. Bremer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Release : 2005
File : 516 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0195179811


John Winthrop

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Puritan politician, lawyer, and lay theologian John Winthrop fled England in 1630 when it looked like Charles I had successfully blocked all hopes of passing Puritan-inspired reforms in Parliament. Leading a migration, he came to New England in the hopes of creating an ideal Puritan community and eventually became the governor of Massachusetts. Winthrop is remembered for his role in the Puritan migration to the colonies and for delivering what is probably the most famous lay sermon in American history, "A Model of Christian Charity." In it he proclaimed that New England would be "a city upon a hill"--an example for future colonies. In John Winthrop: Founding the City upon a Hill, Michael Parker examines the political and religious history of this iconic figure. In this short biography, bolstered by letters, sermons, and maps, John Winthrop introduces students to the colonial world, the Pequot Wars, and the history of American Exceptionalism.

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Genre : History
Author : Michael Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2013-10-30
File : 222 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781136725944


Life And Letters Of John Winthrop

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Genre : Massachusetts
Author : Robert Charles Winthrop
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Release : 1864
File : 496 Pages
ISBN-13 : OXFORD:N10632557


Life And Letters Of John Winthrop From 1630 To 1649

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Author : Robert Charles Winthrop
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Release : 1867
File : 522 Pages
ISBN-13 : OXFORD:600027980


John Winthrop S Defeat

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Author : Jean Kate Ludlum
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Release : 1891
File : 308 Pages
ISBN-13 : COLUMBIA:1002180480


John Winthrop

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A biography of John Winthrop, religious leader and governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who worked hard and passed groundbreaking new laws while trying to protect Puritan beliefs.

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Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Author : Ed Pell
Publisher : Capstone
Release : 2004
File : 52 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0736824553


Collections Of The Massachusetts Historical Society

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For the statement above quoted, also for full bibliographical information regarding this publication, and for the contents of the volumes [1st ser.] v. 1- 7th series, v. 5, cf. Griffin, Bibl. of Amer. hist. society. 2d edition, 1907, p. 346-360.

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Genre : Massachusetts
Author : Massachusetts Historical Society
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Release : 1889
File : 612 Pages
ISBN-13 : PRNC:32101076467636