Adam Winthrop
Lawyer and county magistrate of Groton Manor, Suffolk, whose diary of his household is printed in the Winthrop Papers. Probably a son of Adam Winthrop, the London clothworker who bought Groton, and Agnes Sharpe, he married first Alice Still and in 1579/80 Anne Browne of Edwardstone. Father of Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts Bay and of Anne (Winthrop) Fones; he died at Groton in 1623.
Life
- 1548Born10 Aug 1548
- 1574Married Alice Still16 Dec 1574
- 1579Married Anne Browne20 Feb 1579/80
- 1623DiedGroton, Suffolk, England
"d. Groton Manor, 1623, buried March the 28th" (Frost Genealogy, p. 347).
- 〃Buried28 Mar 1623, Groton, Suffolk, England
Family
- Father
- Adam Winthrop
Adam Winthrop (1498-1562), clothworker of London, who bought Groton Manor in 1544; "ADAM, son of Adam and his second wife, was their eleventh child" (Frost Genealogy, pp. 346-347). Not checked further in this research.
- Mother
- Agnes Sharpe
Second wife of the elder Adam Winthrop, daughter of Robert Sharpe of Islington; died 13 May 1565 (Frost Genealogy, p. 346). Not checked further.
- Spouse 1
- Alice Still
Daughter of William Still of Grantham and sister of Dr. John Still, later Bishop of Bath and Wells; she and her first child died 24 Dec 1577.
- Spouse 2
1 child
Pedigree
Notes
Lawyer and county magistrate of Groton Manor in Suffolk, father of Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts Bay and of Anne (Winthrop) Fones, through whom the Frosts descend. “He was a lawyer and county magistrate” (source, p. 347).
He kept a diary, printed in the first volume of the Winthrop Papers, which records the life of his household at Groton: on 23 February 1604/5 “T[homas] F[ones] came to Groton and was maried to my daughter Anne the xxvth. and they departed toward London the xxvijth day of February 1604” (source, 1:88), and on a Sunday in January 1609/10 “my daughter [Anne] Fones was d[eliuere]d of her seconde daughter,” his granddaughter Elizabeth (1:104). The same diary records “Sarah Winthrop was married to John Froste” and, in 1603, the death of “Sarah my cosen Frostes wife”; nothing connects this English John Frost with William Frost of Oyster Bay (source, pp. 347-348).
He married first, in 1574, Alice Still, who died with her first child in 1577, and second, on 20 February 1579/80, Anne Browne of Edwardstone. Their children included Anne (1586), who married Thomas Fones, and John (1588), the governor.
Research: research/mcmillan/Frost_Underhill_Bowne_Feake.md.
Connections
- Famous kin
- Gov. John Winthrop
Leader of the Puritan migration of 1630 and governor of Massachusetts Bay for most of its first twenty years
Gov. John Winthrop is the 9x great-granduncle of the centre of this tree: the brother of her 9x great-grandmother, Anne Winthrop. - John Winthrop the Younger
Physician, alchemist and Fellow of the Royal Society; founder of Ipswich and New London, and governor of Connecticut, for which he won the royal charter
John Winthrop the Younger is the first cousin, ten times removed, of the centre of this tree. - Sir George Downing
Diplomat and Treasury reformer under Cromwell and Charles II, in Harvard's first graduating class; Downing Street is named after him
Sir George Downing is the first cousin, ten times removed, of the centre of this tree. - Wait Still Winthrop
Chief Justice of Massachusetts, and one of the judges of the Court of Oyer and Terminer at the Salem witch trials of 1692
Wait Still Winthrop is the second cousin, nine times removed, of the centre of this tree. - Prof. John Winthrop
Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard, who observed the transits of Venus of 1761 and 1769
Prof. John Winthrop is the fourth cousin, seven times removed, of the centre of this tree. - Robert C. Winthrop
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1847-1849, and senator from Massachusetts
Robert C. Winthrop is the sixth cousin, five times removed, of the centre of this tree. - John Kerry
Secretary of State, 2013-2017, senator for Massachusetts and the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004
John Kerry is the tenth cousin, once removed, of the centre of this tree.
- Gov. John Winthrop