Winthrop
Americannoun
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John, 1588–1649, English colonist in America: 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony 1629–33, 1637–40, 1642–44, 1646–49.
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his son John, 1606–76, English colonist in America: colonial governor of Connecticut 1657, 1659–76.
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John or Fitz-John 1638–1707, American soldier and statesman: colonial governor of Connecticut 1698–1707 (son of the younger John Winthrop).
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John, 1714–79, American astronomer, mathematician, and physicist.
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Robert Charles, 1809–94, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1847–49.
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a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
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a male given name.
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John. 1588–1649, English lawyer and colonist, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony: the leading figure among the Puritan settlers of New England
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his son, John. 1606–76, English lawyer and colonist; a founder of Agawan (now Ipswich), Massachusetts; governor of Connecticut
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"Coupled with the loss of territory over the past month, the January 30 agreement appears to spell the end for Kurdish ambitions to establish a federal or decentralised system in Syria," said Winthrop Rodgers, an associate fellow at Chatham House.
From Barron's
Alongside the Puritan John Winthrop’s description of his project as building a “city upon a hill” and the country’s founders envisioning it as “God’s new Israel,” an American constellation, Mr. Shalev notes, “echoed an already-existing idiom of an American mission to guide a yet-to‑be-enlightened world.”
Winthrop and his cohort began the large-scale white settlement of New England.
To get around this awkwardness, Winthrop et al. propagated the notion—formalized in the colony’s 1629 seal—that the Native Americans needed the new settlers for their own good.
He could have called this idea Winthropism, since he identifies John Winthrop—the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the first half of the 17th century—as its earliest proponent.
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