The history and antiquities of Boston .. . Hawkins, James Hawkins and twelve in length, downe to his signe post. y rest of y^ naybours may remove that Isaac Walker may set • vp a porche afore his crose worke y is set over the milne creeke, 1649.] CHARACTER OF GOV. WINTHROP. 313 CHAPTER XXXII. Character of Gov. Winthrop. — Death of the King. — Labors of John Eliot among the Indians noticedin Enghmd. — Action of Parliament relative thereto.—Origin of the Society for Propagating theGospel among the Indians.—Some Account of it. — Hon. Robt. Boyle.—William Pynchon. — HisBook upon Redemption, &c., o
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . Hawkins, James Hawkins and twelve in length, downe to his signe post. y rest of y^ naybours may remove that Isaac Walker may set • vp a porche afore his crose worke y is set over the milne creeke, 1649.] CHARACTER OF GOV. WINTHROP. 313 CHAPTER XXXII. Character of Gov. Winthrop. — Death of the King. — Labors of John Eliot among the Indians noticedin Enghmd. — Action of Parliament relative thereto.—Origin of the Society for Propagating theGospel among the Indians.—Some Account of it. — Hon. Robt. Boyle.—William Pynchon. — HisBook upon Redemption, &c., ordered to be burnt in the Market Place. — He returns to England.—His Death.—The Founder of Roxbury and Springfield. — Overtures to the French of Canada.—Town Affairs. — Streets and High-ways laid out. — Lands at Braintree. — Gift of Capt. Cromwell.— Clock. — Trade pi-ohibited with Places which favored the Cause of the King. — Law againstExtravagance in Dress. — Lands granted at the Blue tious, and at the THE death of Governor Winthrop forms an importantera in the history of Boston. Of the character of thatgreat man much has been written, yet generally bythose who have but very superficially studied his char-acter. The attentive reader of these pages of thehistory of his place of life and death, cannot but per-ceive, it is believed, the justness of this remark. JohnWinthrop had some noble traits of character, and hehad that constitution of mind which peculiarly fittedhim for a leader of a body politic. He was conscien-same time somewhat credulous ; honest, but artful;accomplishing his purposes as though they were the purposes of others;though practical, he was not a man of genius. In his circumstances itwere better so. He was of more value to a new country than twentymen of genius ; men who would have thought the existence of theCommonwealth depended upon untried projects. John Winthrop set onfoot no discovery, nor did he invent
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