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DownloadLetters Between John and Margaret Winthrop Shortly Before Deciding to Emigrate to New England, May 1629
ViewWinthrop's Reasons for Establishing the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Summer 1629
ViewThe Puritans' Final Expression of Loyalty Before Sailing for the New World, 7 April 1630
ViewA Model of Christian Charity, Spring 1630
ViewAn Early Account of the Bay Colony by Captain John Smith, 1631
ViewThomas Dudley on the Early Days of Settlement in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 12 and 28 March 1631
ViewWinthrop Opposes Roger Williams's Brand of Separatism, circa March 1631
ViewCaptain John Mason's Account of the Massacre at Mystic During the Pequot War, May-June 1637
ViewWinthrop's Account of the Trial of Anne Hutchinson, September 1637
ViewWinthrop's Defense of the Alien Law, circa June 1637
ViewHenry Vane's Attack on the Alien Law, circa July 1637
ViewWinthrop's Reply to Vane's Attack on the Alien Law, circa August 1637
ViewWonders and Prodigies as Recordedin Winthrop's Journal,1640-1648
ViewWinthrop Expounds the Need for a Negative Vote, 5 June 1643
ViewWinthrop’s “Little Speech,”5 July 1645
ViewThe Remonstrant’s Petition, May 1646
ViewA Simple Cobbler's View of Immigration, 29 January 1647
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First page of Winthrop’s Journal
Credit: Massachusetts Historical Society