"Massachusetts Bay Colony" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... widow of General Waite Still Winthrop, a son of John Winthrop, Governor of Connecticut, who was a son of John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her maiden name was Katharine Brattle. She had first married John Eyre, with whom she lived about twenty years, and by whom she had twelve children. She was born in 1664, and at the time of Sewall's courtship of her was fifty-six and he sixty-nine. ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I • Various |
