Gov. John Winthrop, Sr.

Notes:

Birth:
As of the publication of The Story of John Winthrop 1st Gov of MA in 1891, this birth date (Jan 12 1587) was expressed in modern calendar dates as January 22, 1588.

Name:
1st Governor of Massachusetts Colony

Died:
But the governor's hour was come. He fell asleep, "in the great consolations of God," March 26, 1649, in his sixty-second year. - John Winthrop First Gov MA

Buried:
The funeral was delayed till John could come from Connecticut. It was to be so ordered - as said the summons, dated "your father's parlor," despatched by fleet-footed Indian messenger, the ever troublesome Bellingham its first signer-" that it may appeare of what precious account & desert he hath ben, & how blessed his memoriall." It took place April 3, being conducted " with great solemnity and honour," both civic and military. The place of interment was what is now called the King's Chapel Burying-ground, - the spot to be seen at this day.

John married Mary Forth on 16 Apr 1605 in Great Stambridge, County Essex, England. Mary (daughter of John Forth and Thomasine Hilles) was born on 01 Jan 1583; died on 06 Jun 1615 in Groton, MA; was buried in St. Bartholomew's Churchyard, Groton, Babergh District, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet]

John married Thomasine Clopton in 1615. Thomasine died in 1616. [Group Sheet]

John married Margaret Tyndal in 1618. Margaret (daughter of Sir John Tyndal and Anne Egerton) was born est 1591; died on 14 Jun 1647. [Group Sheet]

John married Martha Rainsborough in 1648. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Born at Groton, in Suffolk, February 12, 1605/06, he was fitted for college in the celebrated Free Grammar School founded by Edward VI. at Bury St. Edmunds, where he learned to think and act for himself, as every boy of spirit must when away from home and thrown upon his own resources. p.1...(Sketch)

He had now entered the seventieth year of a life which had
involved unremitting exertion and much exposure to severity of climate. It is not therefore to be wondered at that the pressure of physical infirmities had begun to bear heavily upon him, but when, for the third time, he asked permission to relinquish the helm to a younger pilot, proposing to recruit his health by a voyage to England,'(^2) he was met by such a chorus of remonstrance that he resigned himself to die in harness, nor had he long to wait. In September, 1675, he proceeded to Boston to attend a protracted session of the Commissioners of the United Colonies. In March, 1676, when preparing to return to Hartford, he took cold, became feeble, and on the 10th of April was laid beside his father in what is now King's Chapel grave-yard. - "Sketch of John Winthrop the Younger" p.58

Name:
Governor of Connecticut, 1651-1676

John married Martha Fones in 1630. Martha was born on 21 Jan 1609. [Group Sheet]

Margaret married Judge Jonathan Corwin. Jonathan (son of Capt. George Corwin and Elizabeth Herbert) was born on 10 Dec 1640; died on 09 Jun 1718. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

George Corwin (February 26, 1666 ? April 12, 1696) was the High Sheriff of Essex County, Massachusetts during the Salem witch trials. He signed warrants for the arrest and execution of those condemned of witchcraft. On September 16, 1692, he was ordered by the Court of Oyer and Terminer to preside over the interrogation, under torture of Giles Corey, who was pressed to death for refusing to stand trial for witchcraft. Corwin died of a heart attack, in 1696, at the age of 30, after which his burial was delayed by a Salem resident named Phillip English, who was accused during the Witch Trials, and had his property seized by Corwin. English put a lien on Corwin's corpse, and delayed its burial until he had been reimbursed for the property he lost to Corwin.

George Corwin was the Grandson of John Winthrop, the Younger, the Governor of Connecticutt. His wife, Lydia Gedney, was the daughter of Bartholomew Gedney, one of the magistrates involved in the witch trials.

George married Lydia Gedney. (daughter of Bartholomew Gedney and Hannah Clarke) [Group Sheet]