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Major-General Fitz-John Winthrop (March 14, 1639 – November 27, 1707) was a Connecticut Militia officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Connecticut from 1698 to 1707, when he died in office.
Although it had been hoped that the Charter of 1662, obtained by Fitz-John’s father, John Winthrop Junior, would prevent Connecticut from being taken over by Massachusetts or New York, those colonies did not give up their claims to Connecticut’s lands.
John Winthrop (Fitz-John Winthrop), 1638–1707, American colonial governor of Connecticut, b. Ipswich, Mass.; son of John Winthrop (1606–76). He is commonly called Fitz-John Winthrop to distinguish him from his father and his grandfather.
John Winthrop the Younger (February 12, 1606 – April 6, 1676) was an early governor of the Connecticut Colony, and he played a large role in the merger of several separate settlements into the unified colony.
Nov 9, 2016 · While largely forgotten by modern historians, Fitz-John Winthrop was involved in several key moments of seventeenth-century New England history and interacted with powerful figures who shaped the development of the English colonies. Born in Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1638, young Winthrop quickly showed himself to be more of a soldier than a scholar.
Jan 14, 2021 · John Winthrop (l. c. 1588-1649 CE) was an English lawyer best known as the Puritan leader of the first large wave of the Great Migration of Puritans from England to North America in 1630 CE and governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (founded in 1628 CE) which they settled and expanded upon, and the founder of the city of Boston.
Fitz-John Winthrop, 1638-1707, American colonial governor of Connecticut, born in Ipswich, Mass.; son of John Winthrop (Jr.) (1606–76). He is commonly called Fitz-John Winthrop to distinguish him from his father and his grandfather, John Winthrop, theologian and many time governor of Massachusetts . He left Harvard to serve in the English ...
