A Sketch of the Life of John Winthrop the Younger, Founder of Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1633 (Publications of the Ipswich Historical Society VII [7])

78 pp. 4to. Original green cloth, gilt titles. A biographical sketch of John Winthrop, an early American settler who directed the founding of three New England towns, for many years held major office in two New England colonies and exercised a distinctive and beneficent influence over the entire region between the Hudson and the Kennebec, and was the first resident of North America to be made a member of the Royal Society of London.