John Winthrop

• January 12, 1587 – March 26, 1649

• First governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony

  • Elected while still in England

• Attended Trinity College

• Married to Mary Forth, remarried twice

• Had 5 children

• Emigrated to escape religious persecution of the puritans

• Arrived with 700 settlers

• Sat on the council which decided to raid Native villages on Block Island (Pequot War’s first major action)

• Actively kept one Pequot male and two females as slaves