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John Winthrop

John Winthrop

John Winthrop is a slave-owning person, who was in Boston, Massachusetts Bay in 1639.

Winthrop Papers

  • Will
  • October 29, 1639

  • [146] WILL OF JOHN WINTHROP

    ...

    I give to my sonne Adam my Iland called the Gouernours Garden, to haue to him and his heires forever: not doubting but he will be dutyfull and loving to his mother and kind to his brethren in letting them partake in such fruits as grow there. I give h…

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Winthrop Papers (Vol. 4, pp. 441–443, 146, 139, 157). (1944). The Massachusetts Historical Society. https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Z1EzAQAAMAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PR3 [Stolen Relations project at Brown University.]

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