* 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.

The Village of Winthrop Harbor has a full-time police department and a part-time fire department.

The Winthrop Harbor Fire Department, founded in 1949, has grown from a small volunteer force to a 24-hour a day operation.

The estate of Robert Winthrop, an investment bank and member of the Dudley – Winthrop family, for whom Winthrop-University Hospital was named, has been similarly preserved.

Elizabeth Winthrop has written a novel, Counting on Grace, inspired by Addie's photograph and life.

Winthrop has a weekly newspaper, the Winthrop Sun Transcript, which reports local news, current events, happenings, and concerns.

However, according to the Town Government, Winthrop has a land area of just.

Winthrop has a town center with a number of businesses, including CVS / pharmacy, Michael's Mall, Samuel's Pharmacy and The Pizza Center.

Winthrop currently has four schools:

Winthrop has many places of worship.

Winthrop, although highly developed, has a diverse ecosystem with many various flora and fauna.

Pittel has been critically acclaimed in leading newspapers and magazines by both Harold C. Schonberg and Raymond Ericson in The New York Times, Michael Steinberg in the Boston Globe, and Winthrop Sargeant in The New Yorker, and his many awards include two Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund grants, and a National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist grant.

The one on the Manhattan-bound side, located on platform level, has a turnstile bank, token booth, and one staircase going up to the southeast corner of Winthrop Street and Nostrand Avenue.

He taught for 16 years at Winthrop University and has nine patents.

Winthrop is the remnant of a lunar crater that has been flooded by lava from the Oceanus Procellarum.

He has since moved to the firm of Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw, Pittman.

The first, an elderly lady, has to meet with Winthrop and plead with him to release them by returning.

On March 6, 2010, Winthrop defeated Coastal Carolina University by a score of 64-53 in the Big South Conference championship game, marking the 10th time Winthrop has won the Big South men's basketball tournament-a conference record.

Winthrop Village Shopping Centre has been labeled Western Australia's ' Best Value Supermarket ' by Today Tonight.

Winthrop has many parks, with the central area of the suburb containing " Winthrop Park " ( pictured looking ESE over above ).

What is now called the Old Connecticut Path and the Bay Path were used by John Winthrop the Younger to travel from Boston to Springfield in November, 1645, and these form much of the basis for the Upper Post Road.

By the late 18th century, the heath hen had a reputation as poor man's food for being so cheap and plentiful ; somewhat earlier Thomas L. Winthrop had reported that they lived on the Boston Common ( presumably when it was still used to graze cows, etc.

The industrial panel was originally created by Democratic Governor Orval Eugene Faubus and first directed by Winthrop Rockefeller, who in 1966 used his experience in the AIDC to get elected as Arkansas ' first Republican governor in modern times.

Mosaic directional signs on the southbound platform indicate it used to have an exit to Winthrop Street as well.

On 8 March 1640 Roger Williams wrote to Massachusetts magistrate John Winthrop, " Master Gorton having abused high and low at Aquidneck, is now bewitching and bemadding poor Providence, both with his unclean and his foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself in Christ's name have withstood him ) and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism ..." Being a bitter partisan by nature he used his talent and energy to consolidate many discordant elements of the discontented into a destructive party within the comparatively peaceful settlement established by Williams.

It used the full original alignment of the BW & PS ( including the 1882-abandoned section ), as well as the extension between Ocean Spray and Winthrop Beach.

A tellurion made in 1766, used by John Winthrop ( 1714 – 1779 ) | John Winthrop to teach astronomy at Harvard

The city was also home of Winthrop Rockefeller's election campaigns.

In the general election, he swamped the incumbent moderate Republican Governor Winthrop Rockefeller.

In 1970, as the running mate of Dale Leon Bumpers, Riley defeated Republican candidate, Sterling R. Cockrill of Little Rock, the ticket-mate of Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, whom Bumpers crushed in the general election.

Winthrop, taking advantage of a rule requiring unanimity in a church vote, was able to thwart Wheelwright's election, and had him sent to another church at Braintree, ten miles away.

Later that year, Winthrop actually won a popular plurality in the race for Massachusetts Governor but as the state Constitution required a majority, the election was thrown into the Legislature and the same coalition of Democrats and Free Soilers defeated him again.

However, Johnson then lost the general election, 257, 203 votes ( 45. 6 percent ) to the moderate Republican Winthrop Rockefeller, who polled 306, 324 ballots ( 54. 4 percent ).

The eventual party nominee, James D. Johnson, a former Arkansas Supreme Court justice from Conway, and an avowed segregationist, was defeated in the November general election by the Republican Winthrop Rockefeller of Morrilton.

Lader was the president of South Carolina's Winthrop University 1983 – 85 and, in 1986, was a candidate in the Democratic primary for the gubernatorial election in South Carolina.

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.

Winthrop attributed Williams's " Anabaptist " views to the influence of Katherine Scott, a sister of Anne Hutchinson, who may have impressed upon Williams the importance of believers ' baptism.

The statue of Roger Williams at Roger Williams UniversityMoore ( 1963 ) traces the ' negative ' approach of the orthodox Puritan writers ( Bradford, Winthrop, Morton, Cotton Mather, Hutchinson, Winsor, and Dexter ), the ' romantic ' approach ( George Bancroft, Vernon Parrington, Ernst, and Brockunier ) and the ' realistic ' approach ( Backus, H. Richard Niebuhr, Roland Bainton, and Hudson ), and regards the work of Mauro Calamandrei, who was followed by Perry Miller and Ola Winslow, as crucial.

He married Matilda Elizabeth Griswold and had three daughters and three sons, including: Frederick Frelinghuysen, George Griswold Frelinghuysen ( 1851-1936 ), Theodore Frelinghuysen (?- 1931 ), Matilda Griswold Frelinghuysen who married Henry Winthrop Gray, a daughter who married Charles L. McCauley, and Lucy Frelinghuysen.

In 1966, Pilkinton was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, having narrowly been defeated by the Republican Maurice L. Britt, the running-mate of Winthrop Rockefeller, who won the first of his two two-year terms as governor that year.

Winthrop was the first in a long line of critics who suggested that advocates of Manifest Destiny were citing " Divine Providence " for justification of actions that were motivated by chauvinism and self-interest.

Independence, platted in 1832, is located on the site of a trading post set up by Zachariah Cicott, who is buried in a cemetery just north of the town ; it is located in Warren Township along with the small settlement of Winthrop.

Three of her books are classics in their genre and continue in their popularity to the present: Katherine, the story of Katherine Swynford, the mistress and eventual wife of John of Gaunt, and their children, who were the direct ancestors of the Tudors, Stuarts, and the modern British royal family ; Green Darkness, the story of a modern couple plagued by their past life incarnations ; and The Winthrop Woman about the notorious Elizabeth Fones, niece and daughter-in-law of John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Conway was long the home of the late Arkansas Supreme Court Associate Justice James D. Johnson ( d. 2010 ), who ran unsuccessful races for governor in 1956 against then fellow Democrat Orval Eugene Faubus and in 1966 against the Republican Winthrop Rockefeller.

* Marion H. Crank, a former state representative who was the Democratic gubernatorial nominee in 1968, having been narrowly defeated by incumbent Republican Winthrop Rockefeller.

John Winthrop gave people who had worked with him in the Pequot settlement portions of his land.

Thomas Miner, who had immigrated to Massachusetts with John Winthrop, was granted many land plots, the main one lying on Quiambaug Cove, just east of the Mystic River.

The Winthrop Harbor Police Department's full-time officers are supplemented by part-time, sworn officers who provide the same level of protection.

Students who live in Fayette attend Fayette Central School, and once they graduate from fifth grade are sent to either Livermore Falls, Winthrop, or Maranacook

In August a land force commanded by Colonel Winthrop set off for Montreal, while a naval force, commanded by the future governor of Massachusetts, Sir William Phips ( who earlier on 11 May had seized the capital of French Acadia, Port Royal ), set sail for Quebec via the Saint Lawrence River.

It was Winthrop who decided to base the colony at the Shawmut Peninsula, where he and the colonists founded what is now the city of Boston.

One of these early houses, built initially during the first half of the 17th century, and rebuilt in 1675, was the home of Governor Winthrop ’ s youngest son, Deane Winthrop, who lived there until his death in 1703.

Governor Winthrop and the Puritan establishment ( who believed a Protestant theocracy was proper ), countered the perceived Catholic threat in March of that year by sending English men and women into the wilderness that would become Topsfield.

Winthrop Rockefeller ( May 1, 1912February 22, 1973 ) was a politician and philanthropist who served as the first Republican Governor of Arkansas since Reconstruction.

In 1966, Hays ran again for governor but lost the primary to James D. Johnson, a former associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, who was then defeated by Winthrop Rockefeller.

Thereafter, the Iowa-born Townsend, who had also been his party's gubernatorial nominee in 1916 against the Democrat Charles Hillman Brough, was the long-term Republican national committeeman from Arkansas, having served until 1961, when Winthrop Rockefeller assumed the position.