Thomas Hooker letter to John Winthrop, ca. July 1637.

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Thomas Hooker letter to John Winthrop, ca. July 1637.

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Written by the first minister of the church in Hartford, Connecticut, the letter by Reverend Thomas Hooker included comments on religious matters in Massachusetts Bay, particularly the controversy surrounding Anne Hutchinson, and the news that several inhabitants of "Watertown" (now called Wethersfield) had been murdered by the Pequot Indians. Hooker added that the River Towns were mounting a retaliatory attack on the Pequots and requested Winthrop's support. Winthrop was governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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Winthrop, John, 1588-1649

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Governor of Massachusetts. From the description of Description of John Winthrop, 1631 March 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71067142 John Winthrop (1588-1649), a Puritan lawyer, one of the founders and the governor of the colony of Massachusetts. In March 1630, Winthrop began his journal that he kept until January 1649. By the early 1640s, the entries became more irregular and retrospective, and the narrative was more of a history than a personal journal. There were three ...

Hutchinson, Anne, 1591-1643

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Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647

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