. The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits. 1657 he wrote: I thanck God my wife &all of us are indifferent well at this time, though I have notmy health longe togither heer. The previous year he hadsat in Parliament for Banff and Aberdeen, and had takensome part there. Colonel Winthrop was now living in James Street, West-minster, troubled by sciatica and a harassing cough. Hehad lost four sons and a daughter, one or more by thesmallpox, although three
. The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits. 1657 he wrote: I thanck God my wife &all of us are indifferent well at this time, though I have notmy health longe togither heer. The previous year he hadsat in Parliament for Banff and Aberdeen, and had takensome part there. Colonel Winthrop was now living in James Street, West-minster, troubled by sciatica and a harassing cough. Hehad lost four sons and a daughter, one or more by thesmallpox, although three daughters, Margaret, Johanna,and Judith, still survived. His death occurred in the sum-mer of 1658, and his will was probated on the 19th ofAugust. He had always looked forward to an old agein New England, and his will records his loyalty to theNew World. He left one hundred pounds to the poor ofBoston, provided that the inhabitants would build a tombover the graves of his father and mother. A portrait, from which the reproduction has been made,came down through several generations of the Winthropfamily of New York. Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, May, 1898. 534. STEPHEN WINTHROP 1618-1658 (535) ^ K NEW YORIl LIBRARf Charles Chambers, for many years a member ofHis Majestys Council in the Massachusetts Bay, was bornabout the year 1660, the son of Edward Chambers, ofTorksey, Lincolnshire, and of Elizabeth, who was a sisterof Major Edward Palmes, of New London, Connecticut,and daughter of Andrew Palmes, of Sherborn, in Hants. As a young man Chambers appeared in Boston, com-manding a vessel in the trade with Antigua. He married,30 January, 1687/8, Rebecca, daughter of John and AmyPatefield, and soon after this date relinquished his life atsea for the career of a merchant. Mrs. Chambers gavebirth to an only child, 31 March, 1691, baptized asRebecca in the Charlestown church of which the parentsbecame members in later years. Mrs. Chambers died14 June, 1735, and the Cap
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