A Puritan lawyer, John Winthrop was one of the leading figures in the founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony, the second largest settlement in New England after Plymouth Colony. He helped lead the first wave of English colonists to the New World in 1630 and served as the colony’s first governor…
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John Winthrop was an English Puritan lawyer who was one of the leading figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. The colony was the second major settlement in New England after Plymouth Colony. He led the first large wave of colonists from England and served as…
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