Download or read book The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630–1649 written by John Winthrop and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 350 years Governor John Winthrop's journal has been recognized as the central source for the history of Massachusetts in the 1630s and 1640s. This full-scale, unabridged edition uses the manuscript volumes of the first and third notebooks, and James Savage's transcription of the middle notebook (accidentally destroyed in 1825).