After john Winthrop sold all of his possessions and arranged to move his whole family from comfortable England to the rugged and dangerous new world. His wife Margaret was expecting a baby, so he decided to leave her and his oldest son at home for the first year while he went with the first group of settlers. He could barely stand the thought of being separated from his beloved wife, so they made an agreement that they would think of each other every Monday and Friday, between 5 and 6 pm. On April 71630, four ships with four hundred people set out from England across the stormy Atlantic. On board the ship, John Winthrop began the keep a diary. This remarkable document was lost after his death, but it resurface one hundred years later. The contents of the diary are astounding. From the ship, Winthrop laid out the Puritan vision for the New World.

nutrition that they were already dying. Within a few days of their arrival, John's son Henry drowned in a river. The situation, confident that God was with them and would see them through. Rather than giving orders, he rolled up his sleeves and began to build shelters. He led by example and soon the world company was working as hard as he. Winthrop decided to move the colony away from Salem, someplace where they would have room to build houses and raise crops. After exploring the coast he led the colonist to what is now called Boston harbor. He ordered them to fan out, and they settle throughout the areas of Cambridge, Boston, Watertown, Roxbury and Dorchester. Realizing that they did not have enough provisions to last though the coming winter, he sent a ship back to England with one message for his son: Send food now! But the ship would take a long time to arrive. Governor Winthrop collected provision while the settles made shelters for the winter. They carved caves !

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