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Henry Winthrop : ウィキペディア英語版 | Henry Winthrop Henry Winthrop (1608 – 1630) was the second son of John Winthrop, founder and Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.〔Mayo, Lawrence Shaw, ''The Winthrop Family in America'' (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society 1948) p 59〕〔Anderson, Robert Charles, ''The Great Migration Begins, Volume II, G-O'' (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press 2003) p 2040〕〔Winthrop, R. C. paper in ''Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society'' Second Series - Vol. VI (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society 1891) p 2〕 In addition to his taking part in his father's Great Migration to America in 1630, Henry is part of American history for being the first husband of Elizabeth Fones,〔〔Winthrop, R. C., op cit p 2〕 who would later be a founding settler of what is now Greenwich, Connecticut,〔Mead, Spencer P. ''Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich'' (New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1911), pp 4-9〕 but also be at the center of scandal〔Winthrop, R. C., op cit p 3〕 in colonial America, as captured in the popular novel, ''The Winthrop Woman''. ==Early life==
Henry was born 10 January 1608 to John Winthrop and his first wife, Mary Forth, at Great Stambridge, England, with the christening 20 January 1608 at the Winthrop home, Groton Manor, in Suffolk.〔〔〔Bremer, Francis J., ''John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father'' (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society 1995) p 97〕〔Winthrop, R. C., op cit, p 2〕 Growing up, Henry split his time between Groton and London.〔 As a young man, he was described as "a spritely and hopeful young gentleman."〔''Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine,'' (Article: "Life and Letters of Governor Winthrop"), Vol CII, No DCXXI, August 1867 (Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons), p 181〕 Though well-to-do in his own right through inheritances,〔Mayo, Lawrence Shaw, ''The Winthrop Family in America'', p 59〕〔Winthrop, R. C. op cit, p 9〕 Henry tried one major business venture, traveling to live in Barbados to start a tobacco plantation,〔〔Winthrop, R. C. ''op cit, p 2〕 but he was not successful.〔Bremer, Francis J., ''John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father'', p 129-130〕 To the dismay of his family, upon return from Barbados in 1629 he entered a whirlwind courtship with his first cousin Elizabeth Fones, daughter of his aunt Anne Winthrop, sister of Henry's father John Winthrop.〔Bremer, Francis J., ''John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father'', p 130〕 Elizabeth Fones had been born at Groton Manor on 21 January 1610 to Anne and Thomas Fones, a London apothecary and a staunch Puritan.〔Whitmore, William H, ''Notes on the Winthrop Family'' (Albany: J Munsell 1864)〕〔Winthrop, R. C., op cit, p 2〕 Henry and "Bess" were married on 25 April 1629, at the Church of St. Sepulchre at New Gate, London.〔〔〔〔Raymer, Robert George, ''John Winthrop'' (New York: Vantage Press) p 51〕
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