Ancestry of
John Kerry

68th U.S. Secretary of State

John Winthrop

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of John Kerry — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1792 
  • Father:
  • Adam Winthrop III 
  • Mother:
  • Anne Browne   
  • Birth Date:
  • 12 Jan 1587/1588 
  • Birth Location:
  • Edwardstone, Suffolk, England 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 26 Mar 1649 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Kings Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Forth
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Apr 1605 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Great Stambridge, Essex, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  John Winthrop Jr. (Ahnentafel No:896 )

  Henry Winthrop

  Forth Winthrop

  Mary Winthrop

  Anne Winthrop

  Anne Winthrop

  • Notes: 

  • 1st Governor of the Massachesetts Bay Colony.

• Additional marriages for John Winthrop

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  • Spouse:
  • Thomasine Clopton
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Dec 1615
  • Marriage Location:
  • Groton, Suffolk, England

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  • Spouse:
  • Margaret Tyndal
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 Apr 1618
  • Marriage Location:
  • Great Maplestead, Essex, England

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  • Spouse:
  • Martha Rainsborough
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 20 Dec 1647

• Sources for John Winthrop

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Samuel Dudley (m. 1632), p. 2.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/11/2015).
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1906, Vol. 60, p. 223.
  • ⁴ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1914, Vol. 45, p. 110.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 584, 658.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 2038-2042.
  • ⁷ Cocks, George William, History and Genealogy of the Cock, Cocks, Cox Family: Descended from James and Sarah Cock . . ., Somerville, New Jersey: The Unionis-Gazette Association (1914), 296-297.
  • ⁸ Hamilton, Marsha L., Social and Economic Networks in Early Massachusetts: Atlantic Connections, University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press (2009), 27.
  • ⁹ Hardy, H. Claude and Rev. Edwin Noah Hardy, Hardy and Hardie: Past and Present, Syracuse, New York: The Syracuse Typesetting Co., Inc. (1935), 341.
  • ¹⁰ Muskett, Joseph James, ed., Evidences of the Winthrops of Groton, co. Suffolk, England, Priv. print.: (1896), 26.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 30.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 276, 313.
  • ¹³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 501.
  • ¹⁴ Thomas, Lawrence Buckley, The Thomas Book: Giving the Genealogies of Sir Rhys ap Thomas, K.G., the Thomas Family Descended from . . ., New York: The Henry T. Thomas Company (1896), 554-555.
  • ¹⁵ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 207-208.
  • ¹⁶ Wikipedia, "John Winthrop", (accessed 03/02/2010).
  • ¹⁷ Winthrop, Robert C. and others, Committee of Publication, Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Vol. I - Fifth Series: The Winthrop Papers, Cambridge: John Wilson and Son (1871), xxxi.