John Winthrop Faces a Political Crisis

John Winthrop faces discontent among the many towns of the Massachusetts Bay colony. Will he be able to smooth things over and retain his title? Follow us on Twitter:   / historicalcp   Follow us on Instagram:   / the.historical.context   Read “A History of New England”: https://archive.org/details/historyof... More on John Winthrop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wi... John Winthrop photo courtesy of: By Unknown author; when donated to the AAS, it was thought to be by a follower of Anthony van Dyck; Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography (1889, v.6, facing p. 572) attributes it to van Dyck. - http://www.americanantiquarian.org/In... , additional provenance from the American Antiquarian Society: http://www.americanantiquarian.org/In..., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... More on Thomas Dudley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_... Fife and Drum by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song... License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...