The First Governor of The Massachusetts Bay Colony

                                                    

I am English Puritan New World leader  John Winthrop, and was born January 12, 1588 – March 26, 1649) . Throughout my life, I was well known for accomplishing the grueling task of officially joining the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629 and was also elected the first governor on April 8, 1630.

When I became governor, I delivered, in an angry tone, my sermon "A city Upon A Hill." It states that the Americas are setting the stage religious wise for others to follow and learn from. God has destined everyone to suffer from the unprecedented events and happenings from Hell.

 Additionally, I was know to be a religious Christian and believed that the Anglican Church had to be cleansed of Catholic ritual.English Puritans needed a shelter away from England where they could remain safe during the time of God’s wrath, and I was going to help them find a relief towards the Catholic ritual.I declared that the Puritan colonists emigrating to the New World were part of a special pact with God to create a holy community. They were going to be influential for generations

 to come.

During my term for being the Governor, I was one of the least radical of the Puritans. People liked me because  the number of executions were being maintained at a minimum and was working towards preventing the implementation of more conservative practices such as veiling women.

In total I married 4 times, and had a total of 13 children.

·         Mary Forth, was my first wife, and we married on April 16, 1605 at Great Stambridge, Essex, England. She bore him six children and died in June 1615. The youngest son became the Governor of Connecticut in a later stage of life.

·         Thomasine Clopton, was my second wife. We got married  on December 6, 1615, at Groton, Suffolk, England. Unfortunately, the love of my life at the time died on December 8, 1616. We did not have any children.

·         I married  Margaret Tyndal, my third wife on April 29,1968. I had the most children with Margaret Tyndall , as together we engendered  six children in England before the family emigrated to New England .Many people don’t know this but, one of my daughters died on the Lyon voyage. Two children were born to them in New England in 1630. Margaret died on June 14, 1647.

·         Finally, I married Martha Rainsborough, who was a widow of Thomas Coytmore. In this marriage however, we did not have more than one son and that was in 1648.

I  signed the Cambridge Agreement March 4, 1629,to embark on the next voyage and find a new Puritan colony in New England. The colony’s land was taken from Native Americans with Winthrop’s excuse that the natives hadn’t “subdued” the land and thus had no “civil right” to it.

I was the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629 and served for a total of 19 years years. The Constitution operated differently to the way it does today, because today the presidents are allowed to serve for only two terms, a total of 8 years.