Adam Winthrop, III

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Birth:
Adam III was born in a house on Gracechurch Street. Some records give a location as described as London, St. Peter's Parish.

Adam married Alice Still on 16 Dec 1574. Alice (daughter of William Still) died on 24 Dec 1577 in Suffolk, England; was buried in Hadley Church, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet]

Adam married Anne Browne on 20 Feb 1579. Anne (daughter of Henry Browne and Agnes) was born on 13 Jan 1544 in Edwardstone, Babergh District, Suffolk, England; died on 19 Apr 1629 in Groton, Babergh District, Suffolk, England; was buried in St. Bartholomew's Churchyard, Groton, Babergh District, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet]

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Anne Browne was Adam III's second wife, after Alice Still of Grantham, County Lincolnshire, England, daughter of William Still. Alice died in childbirth in 1577.

"John, the only sonne of Adam Winthrop and Anne his wife, was borne in Edwardston abovesaid on Thursday about 5 of the clocke in the morning the 12 daie of January anno 1587 in the 30 yere of the reigne of Qu: Eliza:"

So, exactly, reads his birth-record, - a smiling one, plainly,?as his father set it down in his private diary a little more than three hundred years ago. The date is expressed after the rule of the Old Style; now it would be Jan. 22, 1588. Win the year preceding the fated Queen of Scots had laid her fair head upon the block. The last night of the July following saw the signal-fires flaming all up the coast that announced the arrival of the Armada in the Channel. The child was born away from home, under the roof, probably, of his maternal grandparents. Adam Winthrop lived at Groton, contiguous to Edwardston, in the lower part of Suffolk, sixty miles northeast of London; was lord of Groton Manor, an estate granted to his father - also named Adam, as was his father before him - by Henry VIII, at the dissolution of the monasteries.

1. Gov. John Winthrop, Sr. was born on 12 Jan 1587 in Edwardston, Suffolk Co, MA; died on 26 Mar 1649 in Boston, Suffolk Co, MA; was buried on 03 Apr 1649 in Kings Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk Co, MA.
2. Anne Winthrop was born on 16 Jan 1585 in London, Greater London, England; died on 16 May 1618 in Groton, Suffolk, England.

Notes:

Adam Winthrop left his home at the age of seventeen and bound himself as an apprentice to Edward Altham in London for ten years. A clothier, Altham was elected to be Sheriff of London. After fulfilling his contract, Winthrop became a citizen of London in 1526.

According to Mayo, he worked hard and advanced in the Clothworkers' Company of London, and by 1551, he was chosen a Master of the Company, although his progress was not without a few bumps in the road. In 1538, as one of the Stewards, he was chastised "for disobeying the wardens in the search because that he would not suffer them to carry the cloth out of his house." Noting drying that Winthrop may have been "a little too enterprising for his own immediate good," Mayo states in 1543, he served time in the Fleet Prison and could not get out until he paid 600 pounds into the royal coffers. "His offense was negotiating with foreigners contrary to an edict of the King of England, but we do not know the nature of the negotiations which proved to be so expensive."

His offence could not have been too costly to him, however, because the very next year he purchased the Manor of Groton. With the prucase he became Lord of the Manor and Patron of the Church, for the property carried with it the right to name the local rector.

Four years later Edward, VI granted him arms and the rank of Gentleman. The arms were confirmed to his son, John, in 1592. (Information from Clopton Family Tree)

Adam married Agnes Sharpe in 1534 in England. Agnes (daughter of Robert Sharpe) was born in abt. 1516; died in abt. 1565. [Group Sheet]

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Agnes was the second wife of Adam II, after his marriage to Alice Henny of London November 16, 1527.

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Gentleman

Adam married Joane Burton in 1498. [Group Sheet]