A few 430 years ago, Massachusetts Bay Colony’s first governor and a founder of Boston was born in Suffolk, England. At the age of 42, lawyer John Winthrop boarded the Arbella for America with ...

The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded in 1630 by a group of Puritan refugees from England led by John Winthrop, and Massachusetts officially became a state in 1788. However, the oldest town in ...

It is believed that a journal entry made by Massachusetts Bay Colony governor John Winthrop on July 5, 1643, is the first recorded sighting of a tornado in what would become the United States.

The volume whose contents and theme we have already presented was wholly occupied with the ancestral family and domestic history of John Winthrop ... with the Massachusetts Company and their ...

Today John Winthrop (1588–1649) is perhaps best remembered for the famous sermon in which he likened the Massachusetts Bay Colony to a "city upon a hill," a model to the world of social and ...

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

By this noble volume Mr. WINTHROP is worthily ... relation to a mighty country that JOHN WINTHROP, a preacher of the Pilgrim band and first Governor of Massachusetts, occupies towards the United ...