Winthrop, Massachusetts

strength, and determination to please God. The Puritan Dilemma, by Edmund S. Morgan, is the biography of John Winthrop, a Puritan who departs from England so as to create a haven and an example of a community where the laws of God were followed diligently. Within the Puritan Dilemma, Morgan outlines the dilemma that plagues all Puritans. Morgan speaks of the paradox that troubled Winthrop that was “... the paradox that required a man to live in the world without being of it.”(Morgan, pg.27) He…

Individualism, and the problems associated with it, are a significant part of John Winthrop’s Model of Christian Charity. When the Puritans immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the early 1630s, they were faced with very serious issues regarding community formation. Creating a new colony in a part of the world dominated by wilderness is a monumental undertaking, and can only be done by those who all share the same agenda. Otherwise, a group of varying ideologies may devolve into factions…

came the Puritans in the 1630s. The Great Migration of Puritans began in the summer of 1630 when leader, John Winthrop believed that him and his group could “purify” the Church of England from Catholicism. Their mission was to flee to a new country so they could create a pure version of Christianity elsewhere. Winthrop brought one thousand men and women crossed the Atlantic to Massachusetts Bay and he preached a sermon on the ship Arbella, also known as the “City upon a Hill”. It has been said,…

with them on an emotional level. For example when Kennedy states, “John Winthrop set before his shipmates on the flagship Arbela 331 years ago” it shows Kennedy’s knowledge of Massachusetts. The Arbela was a ship that arrived in Massachusetts and when it came to this land the first inhabitants would do their best in creating a very functional and excelling city. Kennedy uses this allusion to express, with his mainly Massachusetts resident audience, that he has the same desire of being an above…

During the 1600s, Puritans traveled across to the colonies, the Massachusetts Bay Colony, to get away from the Church of England and the Catholics. They wanted to purify the church and change it because they were Protestant and they had different beliefs/issues. Along with their change came many ideas and values. These ideas influenced colonies through their social, economical, political, and religious beliefs between the 1630s and the 1660s. Religion was a big deal during this time…

John Winthrop's Speech to the General Court seems almost insignificant at first glance. The governor appears merely to be celebrating his victory in court by preaching a small speech about politics. Yet it is also the earliest document we have in American Heritage: A Reader that does not mention the King of England by name, aside from the sentence-long Salem Covenant. Indeed, the ideas in the Speech to the General Court pose a singular threat to Britain's rule in the colonies because of their…

There were Thirteen colonies that survived and came together to form the United States of America, those colonies are, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. There are other colonies such as Roanoke, where the settlements failed to survive and all the settlers died. In the case of Roanoke, no one knows what happened to it’s colonists. All the colonies had their own…

formative colonies in North America. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Bay were some of the prominent founding colonies. The two I choose to analyze are Massachusetts Bay Colony and Pennsylvania. Massachusetts Bay Colony was one of the first English settlements in present-day Massachusetts, they arrived in 1630 by a group of about 1,000 Puritan colonists from England under Gov. John Winthrop and Deputy Gov. Thomas Dudley. In 1629 the Massachusetts Bay Company received a charter giving the company…

“A Puritan Death: John and Thomasine Winthrop” Did a foundation in the Puritan faith have a bearing on how many European immigrants handled their day to day affairs and dealt with the many struggles they would face in life and death? This is a question answered by J. William T. Youngs in his article “A Puritan Death”, as we are given a glimpse into the lives of John and Thomasine Winthrop. Through account entries kept in a journal by John Winthrop himself, Youngs walks us through a vivid…

the Plymouth colony in 1620 and Massachusetts Bay in 1630. The commercialism of New England was a result of their “special zeal to honor their God and to seek rewards that offered reassurance that God approved of their efforts.” It was this belief in a ‘godly’ purpose that shaped their political authority. This can be seen in the most famous sermon given by John Winthrop, a gentry lawyer and governor of Massachusetts Bay, A Modell of Christian Charity. Winthrop stressed religious and…