ILLUSTRATIONS.

STATUE OF GOVERNOR WINTHROP IN THE CHAPEL AT

MOUNT AUBURN

Frontispiece

FAC-SIMILE OF THE LETTER OF REV. JOHN WILSON

AND OTHERS ANNOUNCING GOVERNOR WINTHROP'S
DEATH TO HIS ELDEST SON .

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TO THE VENERABLE

JAMES SAVAGE, LL.D.,

MY PREDECESSOR IN THE PRESIDENCY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, AND NOW ITS SENIOR MEMBER, TO WHOSE LABORS IN EDITING

WINTHROP'S "HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND" I HAVE

BEEN SO DEEPLY INDEBTED

This Volume

IS GRATEFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Introductory. Winthrop's Voyage to America; its Incidents

and Perils. Farewell Letter to the Church of England.

Winthrop's Sermon on the Passage. The Arrival

CHAPTER II.

The State of Things in New England when Winthrop arrived

there. The Improvements which were soon witnessed, with

contemporaneous Accounts of Winthrop's Personal Labors in

accomplishing them

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CHAPTER III.

Winthrop goes to Massachusetts Bay. Death of his Son Henry.

Removal to Charlestown. Church Covenant.

of Boston. Temperance Movement

CHAPTER IV.

Settlement

First Winter in New England. Impending Famine. Fast

turned into Thanksgiving. Letters, to his Wife and Son.

Winthrop re-elected Governor. Blessing of the Bay.

Night Scene at Mistick. Visit to Salem

CHAPTER V.

The Birth of a Daughter at Groton. The Sale of Groton Manor.

The Marriage of John Winthrop, Jr. The Death of Forth

Winthrop. Correspondence of Margaret Winthrop and her

Son John. Their Voyage to America.

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CHAPTER VI.

Governor Winthrop's Controversy with Deputy-Governor

Thomas Dudley.

CHAPTER VII.

Winthrop's Visit to Plymouth and other Places, with some

amusing Passages from his Journal.

CHAPTER VIII.

Winthrop re-elected Governor in 1633. John Cotton's Political

Sermon, and its Result.

Dudley elected Governor in 1634,

and Winthrop called to an Account. His Vindication of

Himself. . .

CHAPTER IX.

Winthrop's Agency in the Division of the Town-Lands, and the

Reservation of Boston Common. The Arrival of Hugh

Peters and Henry Vane. Winthrop accused of too much

Lenity. Renewal of the Church Covenant

CHAPTER X.

Councillors for Life. Winthrop chosen one of them. Religious

Controversies. Correspondence with his Son

CHAPTER XI.

Religious Experience of his Maturer Years, written on his Fif-

tieth Birthday, 1636-7.

CHAPTER XII.

Winthrop re-elected Governor, after a Violent Struggle. Cor-

respondence with his Wife. Controversy between Vane and

Winthrop about Toleration. The young Lord Leigh. Vane's

Departure. Winthrop's Letters to Governor Bradford about

the Pequot War .

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