WINTHROP, JOHN

born Jan. 22 [Jan. 12, Old Style], 1588, Edwardstone, Suffolk, Eng. died April 5 [March 26], 1649, Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the chief figure among the Puritan founders of New England. Additional reading Edmund S. Morgan, The Puritan Dilemma (1958), is a well-researched, well-written biography. Darrett B. Rutman, Winthrop's Boston (1965), analyzes the community Winthrop founded. Emery Battis, Saints and Sectaries (1962), discusses Winthrop's clash with Anne Hutchinson; and Richard S. Dunn, Puritans and Yankees (1962), traces the Winthrop dynasty in New England through three generations.