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John Winthrop in 1630 had claimed that the society they would form in New England would be " as a city upon a hill ;" and the colony leaders would educate all.
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In 1630, aboard the ship Arbella, Puritan preacher John Winthrop delivered his famous sermon Shining city upon a hill.
Located at the first convenient Charles River crossing west of Boston, Newe Towne was one of a number of towns ( including Boston, Dorchester, Watertown, and Weymouth ) founded by the 700 original Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony under governor John Winthrop.
The first president ( Henry Dunster ), the first benefactor ( John Harvard ), and the first schoolmaster ( Nathaniel Eaton ) of Harvard were all Cambridge University alumni, as was the then ruling ( and first ) governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, John Winthrop.
* Charles Proteus Steinmetz: A Biography, John Winthrop Hammond, New York Century Co., 1924.
From his religious training, Mather viewed the importance of texts for elaborating meaning and for bridging different moments of history — linking, for instance, the Biblical stories of Noah and Abraham with the arrival of such eminent leaders as John Eliot ; John Winthrop ; and his own father, Increase Mather.
* 1631 – In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
He found a new element in a mineral sample that had been sent to England from Massachusetts, United States in 1734 by a John Winthrop, and named the mineral columbite and the new element columbium after Columbia, the poetical name for America.
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* 3 May John Winthrop the Younger the son of the first governor of Massachustts, has been honoured by being made a fellow of the Royal Society, England's new scientific society.
* John Winthrop ( 1588 – 1649 ), Founder and future Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony ( governor-elect in 1629 )
* July 30 – John Winthrop helps in founding a church in Massachusetts which will later become known as First Church in Boston.
* April 16 – In England, John Winthrop, later governor of the future Massachusetts Bay Colony, marries his first wife ( of 4 ), Mary Forth, daughter of John Forth, of Great Stambridge, Essex.
* February 13 – John Winthrop, the Younger, Governor of Connecticut ( d. 1676 )
* December 6 – In England, John Winthrop, later governor of the future Massachusetts Bay Colony, marries his second wife ( of four ), Thomasine Clopton, daughter of William Clopton of Castleins, near Groton, Suffolk.
** John Winthrop, influential Puritan in the history of Massachusetts ( d. 1649 )
* May 18 – In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
* May 3 – John Winthrop, American astronomer ( b. 1714 )
* March 26 – John Winthrop First Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony ( b. c. 1587 )
* December 19 – John Winthrop, American astronomer ( d. 1779 )
* April 5 – John Winthrop the Younger, Governor of Connecticut ( b. 1606 )
Some of the Antinomians, especially those described by Governor John Winthrop as " Anabaptists ", settled in Providence.
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His earliest American ancestor, John Coolidge, emigrated from Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, England, around 1630 and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Hawks's family on his father's side were American pioneers and his ancestor John Hawks had emigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1630.
* 1630 – John Rogers, American educator ( d. 1684 )
* November 22 – John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury ( b. 1630 )
* July 2 – John Rogers, American President of Harvard University ( b. 1630 )
For their ideas on derivatives, both Newton and Leibniz built on significant earlier work by mathematicians such as Isaac Barrow ( 1630 – 1677 ), René Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ), Christiaan Huygens ( 1629 – 1695 ), Blaise Pascal ( 1623 – 1662 ) and John Wallis ( 1616 – 1703 ).
Later ( 1630 ) version of the 1612 map by Captain John Smith during his exploration of the Chesapeake.
The origin of the first theme, later known as American Exceptionalism, was often traced to America's Puritan heritage, particularly John Winthrop's famous " City upon a Hill " sermon of 1630, in which he called for the establishment of a virtuous community that would be a shining example to the Old World.
In 1630 came the arrival of John Winthrop and Thomas Dudley of the Massachusetts Bay Company.
John was born at Vila Viçosa and succeeded his father Teodosio II as Duke of Braganza when the latter died insane in 1630.
* Elizabeth Minshull ( 1630 – 1727 ), third wife of poet John Milton was born in nearby Wistaston and lived as a widow in Nantwich until her death in 1727.
Among the papers of the secretary Sir John Coke is a petition of Holles, couched in humble and submissive terms, to be restored to the king's favour ; having given the security demanded for his good behaviour, he was liberated early in 1630, and on 30 October was allowed bail.
John Taylor portrait engraved by Thomas Cockson, from the frontispiece of Taylor's 1630 poetry anthology.
Many were gathered into the compilation All the Workes of John Taylor the Water Poet ( London, 1630 ; facsimile reprint Scholar Press, Menston, Yorkshire, 1973 ); and The Spencer Society brought out their Works of John Taylor ... not included in the Folio edition of 1630 ( 5 volumes, 1870 – 78 ).
Henry Briggs ( February 1561 – 26 January 1630 ) was an English mathematician notable for changing the original logarithms invented by John Napier into common ( base 10 ) logarithms, which are sometimes known as Briggsian logarithms in his honour.
The first European contacts with the Mosquito country started around 1630, when the agents of the English chartered Providence Island Company — of which the Earl of Warwick was chairman and John Pym treasurer — occupied two small cays and established friendly relations with the local inhabitants.
John Winthrop's company stopped here for some time in 1630, before deciding to settle across the Charles River at Boston.
On 8 April 1630, Winthrop departed from the Isle of Wight, England on the ship Arbella and arrrived in Salem in June where he was met by John Endecott, the first governor of the colony.
Ipswich was founded by John Winthrop the Younger, son of John Winthrop, one of the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and its first governor, elected in England in 1629.
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But Dandy had had little experience with girls on his master's plantation in Bayou St. John.
Airless and dingy though it was, the attic represented luxury to a slave who had led a wretched life with six brothers and sisters and assorted relatives in a shanty at Bayou St. John.
When Captain John Gibault of Salem had visited Burma in 1793 his ship, the Astra, had been promptly commandeered and taken by her captors up the Irrawaddy River.
But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.
His mother Bess, who could not write herself, reminded her husband through Sturley to buy the apron he had promised her and `` a suite of hattes for 5 boies the yongst lined & trimmed with silke '' ( for John, only a year old ).
I never met John Dewey, whose style was a sort of verbal fog and who had written asking me to go to Mexico with him when he was investigating the cause of Trotsky ; ;
Chairman Khrushchev and John McCloy had a terrible row at Sochi.
John closed his eyes and saw once again the little niche in his mother's bedroom, where she had knelt to tell the good Virgin of her needs.
Geneva, instead of becoming the City of God, as John had dreamed, had in the two years since he had been there, continued to be a godless place where all manner of vice flourished.
But Michael Sept had unmasked him, revealing he had never been a bishop, but was an Anabaptist, afraid to state his faith, because he knew John Calvin had written a book against their belief that the soul slept after death.
So John had refused to agree to his appointment as a preacher, and now Caroli sought revenge.
The following morning, as John entered the Place Molard on his way to visit a sick refugee, he had a premonition of danger.
What had he thought of, to go to John, grovel and beg understanding??
What made him think John had a right to witness his brother's humiliation??
What right had John to any special consideration??
John Vernon had had all the patronage he cared for -- he had prospered, but he could not retire from horsedom.
In her letter to John Brown, `` E. B. '', the Quakeress from Newport, had suggested that the American people owed more honor to John Brown for seeking to free the slaves than they did to George Washington.
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