Winthrop Papers, vols 1-5 (Massachusetts Historical Society)

Letters of Edmund Freeman and about him: Freeman to John Winthrop Jr., 5 Nov 1635 (3:214); Freeman to John Winthrop, 25 Feb 1639/40 (4:202); Hugh Peter to Winthrop, 6 Sept 1640, about “his father Freeman for his Armes they had in the Pekot seruice” (4:285-286); Edward Winslow to Winthrop, 4 June 1646: “mr. Thomas insteed of mr. Freeman whom I suppose the Countrey left out in regard of his professed Anabaptistry and separacion from the Churches” (5:80-81).

Used for the Ipswich families of the Low line (vol. 3 at https://archive.org/details/winthroppapersv3wint; vol. 5 at https://archive.org/details/winthroppapersv5wint):

• The Ipswich petition of 21 June 1637 asking the Governor not to take John Winthrop Jr. away to command the Castle: “It was for his sake that many of vs came to this place.” Signers include “John Goggswell,” Robert Lord, Thomas Borman and John Procter (3:432-433).
• Joseph Wise of Roxbury, butcher: Nicholas Davison to John Winthrop Jr., 1648, “agreed with Joseph Wise of Roxburry Butcher for the payment of the fiftey pounds due to mr. Francis Warner of London” (5:264); Roger Williams, 1649, “six pounds which he paid for me to Joseph Wise the Butcher” (5:313); Wise’s letter from “roxby,” 4 May 1649, and his receipt of 3 Nov 1649 for “7 beife and 56 goats” and “88 li. of tallo besids” (5:341-342, 375).
• Samuel Symonds to John Winthrop Jr.: “I desire you would talk with Mr. Boreman & with his help buy for me a matter of 40 bushells of good Indian corne” (quoted by Goldthwaite).

Also Edward Winslow to Winthrop, 10 Oct 1640, on “a mocon … made by Mr. Paddy and some that inordinately cleaue to him” for settling Charles Chauncy at Jones River, “who purposeth there to lay the foundacon of an Academy” (vol. 4).

Used for the Fones, Winthrop and Feake families (October 2026, research/mcmillan/Frost_Underhill_Bowne_Feake.md; vol. 1 (1925) at https://archive.org/details/winthroppapersvo0000comm):

• Adam Winthrop’s diary, February 1604/5: “The xxiijth 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” (1:88). The editors’ note: Thomas Fones was the “Son of Thomas Fones of Dedford in Bromsgrove, co. Worcester, apothecary in London at the sign of the Three Fawns in the Old Bailey. He died April 15, 1629. Muskett, 87” (1:88 n. 27). Anne is “Anne Winthrop (1586-1619), who married Thomas Fones of London, February 25, 1604-05” (1:68 n. 80).
• The diary, 1609: “One sundaie the 21th of January my daughter [Anne] Fones was d[eliuere]d of her seconde daughter” (1:104).
• Thomas Fones’s courtship letters to “my dearest frend Mrs. Anna Winthrop Junior at Groton,” c. 1603: “Long looked for comes at last, so sayth our english Prouerb … Ah how Impatient is loue of delayes if the sight of a poore letter bring such Joy how far wold yt exceed to touch that hand that wrote yt” (1:149-150).
• Theophilus Eaton to John Winthrop Jr., New Haven, 21 July 1648 (5:237-239): “It is possible that William Hallet and she that was mr. Feakes his wife are maryed, though not onely the lawfulnes and validitie of such a mariage, but the reallity and truth is by some questioned, because themselves and Toby Feakes some times denye it … Mr. Feakes from Boston October 6, 1647 wrote to Stamford, that he reserved the whole propriety of his estate, till he saw how God would deale with him in England, and desired he and the children might not be wronged”; Hallett “in a secret underhand way, had taken the children, two Cowes, all the houshold goods … and by water were gone away”; “the children went (if not naked) very vnsatisfyingly apparraled.” Eaton speaks of four children.
• Gov. John Haynes to John Winthrop Jr., May 1649 (5:345): “one that was the wife sometimes of Mr. Feake and who it seemes did confesse her selfe an Adulteresse, (which is vppon record at the Dutch) and now pretends marriadge with another man, how trew, or legall is not well knowen,” summoned by warrant; the editors note that the trial never took place.
• Elizabeth Hallett to John Winthrop Jr., “from abord the vessell,” c. June 1649, endorsed by him “Sister Feakes” (5:348); the editors identify her “cosin” as “Tobias Feke, a nephew of Robert Feke.” Her next letter, from New Netherland: “Deare Brother, All the loue and servis and thankefullnes I am able to express is next unto god dew vnto your selfe as the Instrument of my present well being … the dutch gouernour comends his loue to you” (5:358-359).