John Winthrop

John Winthrop was the Puritan lawyer who led the 1630 Great Migration to Massachusetts Bay and served as the colony’s first governor. His lay sermon "A Model of Christian Charity" — with its image of a "city upon a hill" — framed New England as a covenanted, communitarian society, the founding ideal of the Yankeedom culture.

• Lived: 1588 CE – 1649 CE
• Nationality: english
• Roles: governor, colonist