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NEW LONDON TERCENTENARY May 6,1646 May 6, 1946 John Winthrop, the founder, was the son of John Winthrop who led from England the second Puritan emigration and afterwards became governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. His paternal grandfather was Adam Winthrop, ol' Suffolk, England. To the younger Winthrop undisputably belongs the title of founder of New London, for he determined the location of the town and promoted its inception with fervor and confidence, even to the extent of investing his entire fortune in the enterprise. He was born in England, February 12th, 1605. When only 16 years of age he entered the University of Dublin, where he remained for three years. Two years later he enlisted under the banner of the Duke of Buckingham in the useless attempt to succor the Protestants of Rochelle, France. He first arrived in America, November 2nd, 1630, later returning to England, where he remained for about one year. In October, 1635, he again came to America and at once interested himself in the affairs of the colonists. The name first given to New London—its Indian name—was Nameaug. Indian names were descriptive, and Nameaug was supposed to refer to fish, implying that the waters about the town afforded good fishing. It was also known as Pequot, after the tribe of Indians of that name, who under the Sachem Sassacus, or Totobam, as he was often called, inhabited the region which lay to the southeast of the Connecticut River settlements. By these the plantation was known until March 24th, 1658, when legislative permission was granted the inhabitants to call the town New London. For ten years previous to that time they had wished to show their affection for the land of their birth by naming their new place of abode London, in honor of England’s principal city; and no doubt they were highly gratified by this concession of the Legislature. It was then in order to name “the fair river of the Mo-hegans” the Thames, but at just what date it derived the name, bestowed in honor of its famous prototype in England, is not certain. The earliest inhabitants of New London came from Cape Ann, Massachusetts, Gloucester people to whom the sea furnished a living, and to whom New London seemed homelike in that respect at least. —“New London Beautiful” Ye Okie Winthrop Mill
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JOHN WINTHROP II Founder of New London, May 6, 1646 Governor of Connecticut 1657-1659; 1676 Charter of Connecticut procured by him from Charles II, April 23, 1662
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