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JOHN WINTHROP

John Winthrop was an English lawyer and colonist of America. He was born in 1588 at Groton and died in 1649. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and became a justice of the peace and attorney. His sympathies were with the Parliamentary opposition to the Stuart policy, and in 1629 he was chosen Governor of Massachusetts. He arrived in Salem in the summer of 1630, and soon proceeded to the site of Boston. He continued as the chief magistrate until 1634. In the short following period, when Vane was Governor, and the Anne Hutchinson controversy was the burning question, John Winthrop opposed Vane. He was Governor again from 1637 to 1640 and from 1646 until his death.

John Winthrop was an English colonist. He was born in 1606 and died in 1676. The son of John Winthrop the lawyer and colonist, he went to Massachusetts from England in 1631. He was an assistant of the Massachusetts colony from 1631 to 1649. He went to England in 1634 and obtained a commission to build a fort at the mouth of the Connecticut River. In 1646 he founded what is now New London, and became a Connecticut magistrate in 1650. He was elected Governor of Connecticut in 1657, and held office until his death, except one year. In 1663 he obtained a charter from Charles II uniting the colonies of Connecticut and New Haven.

John Winthrop was an American colonial governor. He was born in 1639 and died in 1707. The son of John Winthrop the yonnger, he was a highly efficient agent of the Connecticut colony in London from 1693 to 1697. He was Governor of Connecticut from 1698 to 1707.
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John Woolman was an American religious essayist and anti-slavery campaigner. He was born in 1720 at West Jersey and died in 1772. He was a Quaker and persuaded the Quaker community to abandon all participation in the slave trade.
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