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John Winthrop
What I knew about John Winthrop before I did this report was that he was a Puritan who came here from England. He was the governor of his colony for over 12 elections. And last but not least, he had many vessels come over to America with over 700 passengers from England.
John Winthrop was born on January 12, 1588 in Suffolk, England. His father was the lord of Groton Manor, a small estate in the English countryside. Of course, John grew up on his father's estate. While he was young a private tutor educated him, but at the age of fourteen his father enrolled him in Trinity College in Cambridge. He took in much knowledge from there in two years and then returned to his father's estate, to begin to learn how to run his father's estate, so that one day he'd run it himself.
John had a woman problem as a teenager but was introduced to a young woman named Mary Worth, by his father. He was married 3 weeks later at the age of 17. Just when he hit his 18th birthday he......

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