A note making the request was handed to U.S. Ambassador Winthrop G. Brown.

The son of Harry and Sarah ( Lee ) Whorf, Benjamin Lee Whorf was born on April 24, 1897 in Winthrop, Massachusetts.

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.

In 1629, Winthrop had led the signing of the founding document of the city of Boston, which was known as the Cambridge Agreement, after the university.

Shortly thereafter, Bachiler was excommunicated by the Hampton church on unfounded charges of " scandal ", but protested to Governor Winthrop and was later reinstated.

It is named after the first two children to whom it was taught: Winthrop " Tad " Chapman and Oma Simpson.

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.

In April 1947, when Crouch was a senior at Winthrop College, Thurmond was a judge in a beauty contest in which she was selected as Miss South Carolina.

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.

Revere was set off from Chelsea and incorporated in 1846 and Winthrop was set off from Revere and incorporated in 1852.

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.

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.

Gambling was finally closed down permanently in 1967 by two Republican officeholders, Governor Winthrop Rockefeller and Circuit Judge Henry M. Britt.

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

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

The village of Winthrop was said to have been settled by Baptists as early as 1729.

John Winthrop, the Younger, son of the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was designated Governor by the group that claimed possession of the land via a deed of conveyance from Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick.

Winthrop was aided by Colonel George Fenwick and Captain Lion Gardiner.

John Winthrop the Younger, the son of the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was among those to receive a huge amount of property, which would have been equivalent to what is now called southeastern Connecticut.

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.

Other prominent figures in the GOP's Rockefeller wing included Pennsylvania Governor Raymond P. Shafer, Illinois Senator Charles H. Percy, Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield, Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, Nelson's younger brother ( who was somewhat of an aberration in a conservative, heavily Democratic Southern state ) and President Richard Nixon.

* Winthrop P. Rockefeller ' 66

During the 2007 – 2008 season, the Cougar men's basketball team reached the Sweet Sixteen after beating Winthrop and Notre Dame, before losing to No. 1 Seeded UNC.

It enters from the Orient Heights neighborhood of East Boston along a bridge over the Belle Isle Inlet, then passes in a loop around the main body of the town ( bypassing Cottage Hill and Point Shirley ) before leaving the town to the north, turning into the Winthrop Parkway in Revere.

Winthrop attended Yale University ( 1931 – 34 ) but was ejected as a result of misbehavior before earning his degree.

William Leete of Guilford served as governor of New Haven Colony before that colony's merger into Connecticut, and as governor of Connecticut following John Winthrop, Jr's death in 1675.

A complete list of passengers is maintained by The Winthrop Society, a hereditary organization of descendants of the Winthrop Fleet and later Great Migration ships that arrived before 1634.

Thomas Hooker before him – founded a new colony, the colony of New Haven, though Winthrop and others literally begged both of them to stay.

As British soldiers on shore began firing, Preble worked his prize out to sea while the Winthrop turned to deliver a broadside in reply before making her escape.

In 1635 John Webster, curate at Kildwick, was before a church court charged with being a Grindletonian, and simultaneously in New England John Winthrop thought that Anne Hutchinson was one.

* 1958 – Odell Pollard, an attorney from Searcy, Arkansas, voted in his last Democratic primary in 1958 before switching allegiance to the GOP ; he was the Arkansas State Republican Chairman under Governor Winthrop Rockefeller from 1966-1970.

" New members Kevin Currie, Frank Farrell, and Dave Winthrop were all recruited shortly before the recording sessions.

The ball typically features a swing band playing before a temporary dance floor set up in the Gore Courtyard, and a DJ in the Winthrop Junior Common Room.

The exception is the Amstutz Expressway, which runs from Sheridan Road near the southern border of Waukegan to Greenwood Avenue roughly north, where the expressway abruptly ends ; Illinois 137 follows Greenwood Avenue west a short distance back to Sheridan Road and continues north through Beach Park, Zion, and Winthrop Harbor before terminating at the state line.

* 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.

Aboard the Arabella from Yarmouth, England, Winthrop and Dudley sailed, and after a difficult ten week voyage, they landed on the shores of the New World, with Salem and Boston Harbor being the Arabella's earliest destinations.

According to Cotton Mather, Comenius was asked by Winthrop to be the President of Harvard University, this being more plausibly John Winthrop the Younger than his father since the junior Winthrop was in England ; but Comenius moved to Sweden instead.

The founding Chancellor, Sir John Winthrop Hackett, died in 1916, and bequeathed property which, after being carefully managed for ten years, yielded £ 425, 000 to the University.

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.

Unfortunately Consuelo Vanderbilt had no interest in the duke, being secretly engaged to an American, Winthrop Rutherfurd.

More upsetting to Winthrop was that the Word of God was being undermined by a woman, whose seductive teachings undermined the commonwealth that he helped so earnestly to create.

He was re-elected annually until being defeated by Fitz-John Winthrop in 1698.

In 1853 Elizabeth Schermerhorn Jones built a 24 room gothic villa called Wyndclyffe described by Henry Winthrop Sargent in 1859 as being very fine in the style of a Scottish castle, but by Edith Wharton, Elizabeth's niece, as a gloomy monstrosity.

In 1647 Eaton was finally " exonerated " of a £ 100 debt that Winthrop misstated as being for £ 1, 000 in his History of New England, ibid, and with which Eaton had supposedly absconded to Virginia in 1640.

He was one of two lieutenant governors in state history to lie in state in the State Capitol Rotunda, the other being Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, the son of Governor Winthrop Rockefeller.

After being fired by his boss John Schulte in 1986, Frankel set up Winthrop Capital using the phony name of James Spencer.

The plot and textual references in " Young Goodman Brown " reveal the Puritans as being like " a city upon a hill " as John Winthrop, a founder of Puritanism, said, and wanting to be seen that way as good, holy men.

Dedication: " To Fruma: For being there during Winthrop at his worst and life at its best "

Fruma Klass was Philip Klass's ( William Tenn's ) wife, Winthrop being the name of the title character of the final story in the collection.

Bowne became a merchant and married well, his wife Hannah Feake ( ca. 1637 – 1678 ), whom he married in 1656, being a great-niece of Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts.

William Hutchinson was described by Governor John Winthrop as being mild tempered, somewhat weak, and living within the shadow of his prominent and outspoken wife.

In his journal, Governor Winthrop described the 1639 disagreement in Portsmouth, writing, " the people grew very tumultuous and put out Mr. Coddington and the other three magistrates ," Coggeshall being one of the three alluded to by Winthrop.