In 1543 he served time in Fleet Prison “for disobeying the
wardens in the search because that he would not suffer them to carry the cloth
out of his house”. Adam was not released
from Fleet until he paid a 600 pound fine.
In 1544 he bought a manor house in Groton and became “Lord of the Manor”
. King Edward VI granted him arms and
the rank of Gentleman in 1544. This was
passed on to his son John Winthrop. I
descend from the youngest son, the third Adam Winthrop in this line.
This Adam was also a clothier in London. He was made master of the Clothworker’s
Company in 1551. When his brother John
went to Ireland in 1594 he became the Lord of the Manor at Groton. His papers were preserved in the British
Museum as “The Winthrop Papers”. Adam
and his second wife are buried at St. Bartholomew’s Church. Adam’s only son, John Winthrop (1588 – 1649)
was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and came to New England
on board the ship Arbella in 1630. There
were a total of eleven ships that came that summer with the Arbella, and these ships carried about
800 Puritan immigrants known as “The Winthrop Fleet”.
Governor John Winthrop’s youngest sister, Lucy (1601-1679) came
to the New World in 1638 on board the ship Thomas
and Francis with her husband, Emanuel Downing and settled in Salem,
Massachusetts. They returned to England
in 1645 when her husband became a spy for Cromwell. Downing was appointed to be Minister to
Holland under Cromwell, and later Council of State for Scotland under the King
Charles. He died in Scotland, and Lucy
went to live with her son, Sir George Downing, in London. George lived at Number 10 Downing Street,
which later became the Prime Minister’s residence.
Lucy Winthrop Downing was my 10th great
grandmother, and the end of my Winthrop line.
Her daughter, Lucy Downing (1625- 1697) was born in Salem, Massachusetts
and married Bonus Norton. They were my 9th
great grandparents.
The Winthrop Papers are online at https://archive.org/details/winthroppapers05wint
The Lion and the Hare: Being the Graphic Pedigree of over one thousand
Descendants of John Winthrop, 1588 – 1649, by Ellery Kirk Taylor, Ann
Arbor Michigan, 1939
Notes On the Winthrop Family: And Its English Connections Before Its
Emigration to New England, by William Henry Whitmore, Albany NY, 1864
The Winthrop Family in America, by the Massachusetts Historical
Society, 1948
My Winthrop Genealogy:
Generation 1: Adam Winthrop married to Joane Burton
Generation 2: Adam Winthrop, born on 9 October 1498 in
Levenam, Suffolk, England, died on 9 November 1562; married first on 20 July 1534 to Agnes Sharpe;
married second to Alice Hunne.
Generation 3: Adam Winthrop, baptized on 10 August 1548 at
St. Peter’s Parish in Levenam, died on
28 March 1623 in Groton, Suffolk, England; married first on 20 February 1579 to Anne
Browne; married second to Alice Still.
Generation 4: Lucy Winthrop, born on 9 January 1601, died on
1679 in England; married on 10 April 1622 in Groton to Emanuel Downing. He was the son of George Downing and Dorcas
Bellamy baptized on 12 August 1585 in St.
Lawrence Parish, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, and died on 26 July 1658 in
Scotland. Five children.
Generation 5: Lucy Downing m. William Norton
Generation 6: Bonus
Norton m. Mary Goodhue
Generation 7:
Elizabeth Norton m. Benjamin Swett
Generation 8: Elizabeth
Swett m. David Batchelder
Generation 9: Elisha
Batchelder m. Sarah Lane
Generation 10: Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson
Generation 11: George
E. Batchelder m. Abigail M. Locke
Generation 12: George
E. Batchelder m. Mary Katharine Emerson
Generation 13: Carrie
Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen
Generation 14: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings
(my grandparents)
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I'm also a descendant of Lucy Winthrop and Emanuel Downing, also through their daughter Lucy Downing and husband William Norton, and their son Bonus and Mary Goodhue. I descend through their daughter Lucy Norton, who married John Jenness.
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