John Winthrop, Founder of Puritanism Term Paper

These conditions were evident in a letter to his wife, where Winthrop described wintertime as "weather being cold and the waters perilous," and the difficulty of finding logs to burn for warmth.

The Puritan colonies survived, due in large part to Winthrop's efforts at both instilling this culture of discipline, and in addressing any growing factionalism within the ranks. Such actions have indeed been a double-edged sword, for they planted the seeds for suffering, they also ensured that the colony endured and later, flourished. In this way, Winthrop played a largely forgotten role in the founding of this country.

Works Cited

Bremer, Francis J. 2003. John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father.New York: Oxford University Press.

Morgan, Edmund S. 1958. The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop. New York: Little, Brown and Company.

Winthrop, John. 1630, "A Model for Christian Charity." Hanover Historical Text Project. Available online at http://history.hanover.edu/texts/winthmod.html

Winthrop, Robert C. 1869. Life and letters of John Winthrop: governor of the Massachusetts-Bay Company at their emigration to New England, 1630. Boston. Available as an electronic resource via the American Law Biography Database

Bremer 1996: 521.

Passages written by Henry Brown, quoted in Bremer, 533.

Morgan, 1958: 81.

Morgan, 22.

John Winthrop, 1630, "A Model for Christian Charity." Available online at http://history.hanover.edu/texts/winthmod.html

Bremer, 159

Bremer 299.

Bremer 242

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