Adam Winthrop

1548 - Bef 1623  (< 74 years)

• Name	Adam Winthrop  [1, 2]
  Birth	10 Aug 1548	St. Peter's Cornhill, London, England   [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 28 Mar 1623	Groton Manor, Edwardstone, Suffolk, England   [3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12]
  Burial	28 Mar 1623	Groton, Suffolk, England   [4, 10, 13]
  Person ID	I8568	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	21 Nov 2024

  
  

  Father	Adam Winthrop,   b. 9 Oct 1498, Lavenham, Cosford, Suffolk, England d. 9 Nov 1562, Groton Manor, Edwardstone, Suffolk, England (Age 64 years)
  Mother	Agnes Sharpe,   b. Abt 1516, Islington, Middlesex, England d. 13 May 1565 (Age ~ 49 years)
  Marriage	20 Jul 1534	London, England   [11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19]
  Family ID	F2527	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Alice Still   d. 24 Dec 1579
  Marriage	16 Dec 1574  [18]
  Family ID	F24331	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Nov 2024

  
  

  Family 2	Anne Browne,   b. of Edwardstone, Suffolk, England d. 19 Apr 1629
  Marriage	20 Feb 1580  [16, 20, 21, 22, 23]
  Children	+ 1. Anne Winthrop,   b. 16 Jan 1586   d. 16 May 1619 (Age 33 years) + 2. John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,   b. 12 Jan 1588, Edwardstone, Suffolk, England d. 26 Mar 1649, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 61 years) > 3. Jane Winthrop,   b. 14 Jun 1592   d. 16 May 1656 (Age 63 years) + 4. Lucy Winthrop,   b. 9 Jan 1600, Groton, Suffolk, England d. 19 Apr 1679, Westminster, Middlesex, England (Age 79 years)
  Family ID	F3191	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

• Notes

  A brief article about him as a diarist, "a busy man of affairs, devoted to his wife and family, at the center of a network of inter-related clans," can be found here on the NEHGS's Vita Brevis blog. He and his wife were ancestors of Abigail Adams and John Quincy Adams. Adam Winthrop (1548-1623) = Anne Browne (d. 1629) Lucy Winthrop (1600-1679) = Emanuel Downing (1585->1660) Lucy Downing (d. 1698) = William Norton (d. 1694) Rev. John Norton (~1651-1716) = Mary Mason (d. 1740) Elizabeth Norton (b. 1696) = John Quincy (1689-1767) Elizabeth Quincy (1721-1775) = Rev. William Smith (1707-1783) Abigail Smith (1744-1818) = John Adams (1735-1826), 2nd US president John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), 6th US president

  
  

• Sources

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