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John Winthrop ~ Puritan. Winthrop grew up in England on an estate that his father purchased from King Henry VIII. It was a prosperous farm and afforded Winthrop all the advantages from his father’s social and economic position. Winthrop attended Cambridge for two years and married at 17.
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John Winthrop ~ Puritan • Winthrop grew up in England on an estate that his father purchased from King Henry VIII. • It was a prosperous farm and afforded Winthrop all the advantages from his father’s social and economic position. • Winthrop attended Cambridge for two years and married at 17. • More than likely, it was at Cambridge that Winthrop was exposed to Puritan ideas.
John Winthrop ~ Puritan • Winthrop was not a separatist. Unlike Bradford and the Pilgrims, he wished to reform the church from within – especially the hierarchy of the clergy and all the traditional Catholic rituals. • Realizing this was not possible, Winthrop and others managed to get the king’s (Charles I) permission to emigrate and in 1629, he and other believers were able to get a charter from the Council for New England for land in the New World. • They called themselves “The Company of Massachusetts Bay in New England.”
John Winthrop ~ Puritan • Out of four candidates, Winthrop was chosen governor in October 1629. • For the next 20 years, most of the responsibility for the colony rested in his hands. • On April 8th, 1630, an initial group of approximately 700 emigrants sailed from England to the New World. • Winthrop was on a ship named The Arbella. • It is on this ship that Winthrop was believed to deliver his sermon “A Model of Christian Charity.”
