The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . all remainder of his flour among the very day a ship-load of pro-visions came. Winthrop dressedplainly, drank little but water, andlabored with his hands among hisservants. He counted it the greatcomfort of his life that he had a loving and dutiful son. This sonwas also named John. He was aman of excellent virtues, and wasthe first Governor of of the colonies was set-tled more rapidly than Massachu-setts. Twenty thousand people JOHN WINTHROP. came between 1630 and 1640, forNew England wa
The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . all remainder of his flour among the very day a ship-load of pro-visions came. Winthrop dressedplainly, drank little but water, andlabored with his hands among hisservants. He counted it the greatcomfort of his life that he had a loving and dutiful son. This sonwas also named John. He was aman of excellent virtues, and wasthe first Governor of of the colonies was set-tled more rapidly than Massachu-setts. Twenty thousand people JOHN WINTHROP. came between 1630 and 1640, forNew England was at this time regarded as a great refugefor the Puritans who suffered persecution in Puritans themselves were not free from the intoler-ance of the times; and when a new religious partv, ledby a Mrs. Hutchinson, arose in Boston soon after the set-tlement, the adherents to the new doctrines were banish-ed for disturbing the peace of the infant colony. .Aboutthe same time there came the war with the Pequot In-dians, about which more will be told in another THE COMING OF THE PURITAXS. 45
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