Hereditary Societies in Connecticut

Winthrop Society

25 August 1995

Objectives:

1. To identify all these settlers (no complete list of them survives), by consulting every source which can be found in the US, Canada and England.
2. To make a bibliography listing all useful books and resources on the history of the Colony to about the year 1691, and on the early history of Puritanism in England. As means permit, a library will be collected.
3. To locate the origins and family histories in England of all the colonists as well as can be identified. 
4. To make a genealogical database including all the descendants of these colonists to the fourth generation, the reconstructed biographies and ancestries of the colonists as well as can be established, plus the lineages to the present day as submitted to us by the membership.
5. To publish a quarterly periodical including our research findings, historical articles, and new members' lineages. The ideals and practicalities of Federalism and Congregationalism will be frankly expounded, as derived from Puritan writings and example, and related to modern times. Articles submitted by members and other readers are welcomed.

Requirements:
The Winthrop Society is open to all men and women of good character and proven lineal descent from one or more passengers of the Winthrop fleet, or of others who settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and down east before 1634.

Leader and Membership Contacts:

National Web Site:
http://www.winthropsociety.org