. King's handbook of Boston harbor. heir; John, the founder of New London, and gov-ernor of Connecticut; Stephen, who became one of Cromwells colonels,and member of Parliament from Aberdeen ; Deane, a resident of the pres-ent town of Winthrop; and Samuel, who became deputy-governor of An- KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. 149 tigua, and ancestor of. Lord Lyons and the Duke of Norfolk, — and thusthe Puritan blood of Margaret Winthrop is found flowing in Old England,after two and a half centuries, in the veins not merely of the highestnobility, but of the leading Roman-Catholic family of the real
. King's handbook of Boston harbor. heir; John, the founder of New London, and gov-ernor of Connecticut; Stephen, who became one of Cromwells colonels,and member of Parliament from Aberdeen ; Deane, a resident of the pres-ent town of Winthrop; and Samuel, who became deputy-governor of An- KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. 149 tigua, and ancestor of. Lord Lyons and the Duke of Norfolk, — and thusthe Puritan blood of Margaret Winthrop is found flowing in Old England,after two and a half centuries, in the veins not merely of the highestnobility, but of the leading Roman-Catholic family of the realm. The colonists had trouble enough with this mountainous guard of theport. Not only did it lure on to its strand the good ship Frie7idsJiip,bound for St. Kitts, in 1631 ; and hold here for a week a half-dozen goodPuritan burghers, in 1635, while an angry sea beat on all its shores; butalso, in 1643, terrible voices were heard issuing therefrom, which could nothave been the accents of the good governor, and sparkles of lire cor-. Fort Winthrop, Governors Island. ruscated on its heights. For a brief space the Governors Garden wasregarded as an isle of demons by the superstitious and witch-ridden Bos-tonese. In 1696, however, the committee on defences ordered the construc-tion of an eight-gun battery on the south-east point, and a ten-gun batteryon the south-west point, the cannon to be taken from the works on the town-wharves. French visitors were then expected, and they were to be held atarms-length down the Bay. Exactly fifty years later new and more for-midable fortifications were begun here by Richard Gridley, the chief bom-bardier in the siege of Louisburg, colonel of the First MassachusettsRegiment, Provincial Grand Master of Masons in America, a Harvard man,editor, lawyer (the Webster of his day), mathematician, and military I50 KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. engineer. We cannot learn much of the residents of the island in those days,but at least one hero was cradled
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