WINTHROP, JOHN, THE YOUNGER

born , Feb. 22 [Feb. 12, Old Style], 1606, Groton, Suffolk, Eng. died April 15 , 1676, Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony lawyer and a colonial governor in British North America. The son of John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, he emigrated to Boston in 1631 and was a member of the governor's council in 1635, 1640, 1641, and 164449. He was a founder of Agawam (now Ipswich), Mass., in 1633. He went back to England in 1634 and returned the following year as governor (for one year) of Connecticut. He was again in England in 164143 and on his return to Massachusetts established ironworks at Lynn and Braintree. Winthrop became magistrate of Connecticut in 1651. From 1657 to 1658 he was lieutenant governor and from the following year until his death was annually elected governor of the colony. In 1662 he obtained in England the charter uniting the colonies of Connecticut and New Haven. In 1675 Winthrop was further honoured by being chosen a commissioner of the United Colonies of New England. In England he was elected to membership in the newly organized Royal Society.