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Includes bibliographical references and index Machine generated contents note: Profogue Part One -- Heritage --1 Lavenham to London 1 -- 2 Reformation 23 -- 3 John and Adam 39 --Part Two -- StruggLe --4 Youth 67 -- 5 Turning Points 89 -- 6 A Godly Magistrate o05 -- 7 The Godly Embattled 125 -- 8 The Decision to Migrate 147 --InterLude -- Christian Chanty 73 Part Three -- Errand --9 Passing Through Hell 187 -- 10 The Best of Them Was But an Attorney 203 -- 11 Relations with England 229 -- 12 On the Fringe 241 -- 13 War 26I -- 14 Struggling to Hold the Center 275 -- 15 New Trials and Disappointments 301 -- 16 War Clouds and Concerns 323 -- 17 Under Attack 349 -- 18 Last Years 371 Epilogue 379

Profogue Part One Heritage 1 Lavenham to London 1 2 Reformation 23 3 John and Adam 39 Part Two StruggLe 4 Youth 67 5 Turning Points 89 6 A Godly Magistrate o05 7 The Godly Embattled 125 8 The Decision to Migrate 147 InterCude Christian Chanty 73 Part Three Errand 9 Passing Through Hell 187 10 The Best of Them Was But an Attorney 203 11 Relations with England 229 12 On the Fringe 241 13 War 26I 14 Struggling to Hold the Center 275 15 New Trials and Disappointments 301 16 War Clouds and Concerns 323 17 Under Attack 349 18 Last Years 371 Epilogue 379

The preeminent figure of early New England, John Winthrop was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. More than anyone else, he shaped the culture of New England and his effort to create a Puritan "City on a Hill" has had a lasting effect on American values. In John Winthrop, Francis J. Bremer draws on over a decade of research in England, Ireland, and the United States to offer a superb biography of Winthrop, one rooted in a detailed understanding of his first forty years in England. Indeed, Bremer provides an extensive, path-breaking treatment of Winthrop's family background, youthful development, and English career. His dissatisfaction with the decline of the "godly kingdom of the Stour Valley" in which he had been raised led him on his errand to rebuild such a society in a New England. In America, Winthrop would use the skills he had developed in England as he struggled with challenges from Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson, among others, and defended the colony from English interference. We also see the personal side of Winthrop--the doubts and concerns of the spiritual pilgrim, his everyday labors and pleasures, his feelings for family and friends. And Bremer also sheds much light on important historical moments in England and America, such as the Reformation and the rise of Puritanism, the rise of the middling class, the colonization movement, and colonial relations with Native Americans. Incorporating previously unexplored archival materials from both sides of the Atlantic, here is the definitive portrait of one of the giants of our history.