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Adam Winthrop

Male 1548 - Bef 1623  (< 74 years)


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  • Name Adam Winthrop  [1, 2
    Birth 10 Aug 1548  St. Peter's Cornhill, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
    Gender Male 
    Death Bef 28 Mar 1623  Groton Manor, Edwardstone, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12
    Burial 28 Mar 1623  Groton, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 10, 13
    Person ID I8568  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
    Last Modified 14 Sep 2021 

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

    Family Anne Browne,   b. of Edwardstone, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 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 Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Mar 1649, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years)
     3. Lucy Winthrop,   b. 9 Jan 1600, Groton, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Apr 1679, Westminster, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
     4. Jane Winthrop,   b. 14 Jun 1592   d. 16 May 1656 (Age 63 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 
    1. [S387] Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Historical Society, 1952.

    2. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.

    3. [S154] The Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1915., year only.

    4. [S172] The Winthrop Family in America by Lawrence Shaw Mayo. Boston: The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1948.

    5. [S201] The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958. Historical novel, with nonfiction notes and a well-researched pedigree chart., year only.

    6. [S1123] Suffolk Manorial Families: Being the County Visitations and Other Pedigrees ed. Joseph James Muskett. Exeter: William Pollard & Co., Ltd, 1900., date only.

    7. [S2906] Puritans and Pedigrees: The Deep Roots of the Great Migration to New England by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2018., year and place only.

    8. [S3823] Evidences of the Winthrops of Groton, Co. Suffolk, England by Joseph James Muskett and Robert C. Winthrop. 1894., date only.

    9. [S3825] Milton Rubincam, "A Winthrop-Bernadotte Pedigree." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 103:246, Oct 1949., date and city only.

    10. [S5881] Ancestral Lines, Fourth Edition: 232 Families in England, Wales, the Netherlands, Germany, New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015.

    11. [S1123] Suffolk Manorial Families: Being the County Visitations and Other Pedigrees ed. Joseph James Muskett. Exeter: William Pollard & Co., Ltd, 1900.

    12. [S2906] Puritans and Pedigrees: The Deep Roots of the Great Migration to New England by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2018., year only.

    13. [S3825] Milton Rubincam, "A Winthrop-Bernadotte Pedigree." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 103:246, Oct 1949.

    14. [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler., year only.

    15. [S172] The Winthrop Family in America by Lawrence Shaw Mayo. Boston: The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1948., year only.

    16. [S2906] Puritans and Pedigrees: The Deep Roots of the Great Migration to New England by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2018.

    17. [S3825] Milton Rubincam, "A Winthrop-Bernadotte Pedigree." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 103:246, Oct 1949., year only.

    18. [S3823] Evidences of the Winthrops of Groton, Co. Suffolk, England by Joseph James Muskett and Robert C. Winthrop. 1894.

    19. [S5881] Ancestral Lines, Fourth Edition: 232 Families in England, Wales, the Netherlands, Germany, New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015., year only.

    20. [S154] The Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1915., says 1579.

    21. [S1123] Suffolk Manorial Families: Being the County Visitations and Other Pedigrees ed. Joseph James Muskett. Exeter: William Pollard & Co., Ltd, 1900., says 1579.

    22. [S3825] Milton Rubincam, "A Winthrop-Bernadotte Pedigree." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 103:246, Oct 1949., says 1579.

    23. [S5881] Ancestral Lines, Fourth Edition: 232 Families in England, Wales, the Netherlands, Germany, New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015., says "20 Feb. 1579".