John Winthrop, the first Governor of Massachusetts, was born on 22 Jan 1588 in Suffolk, England. He came to New England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the summer of 1630, where, after nineteen years of consecrated devotion to the task of planting a new state on new soil, he died, worn out with cares and labours, at Boston, 26 Mar 1649 in his sixty-second year. Margaret Tyndal, the daughter of Sir John Tyndal, of Essex, was his third wife. They...

Vol. 30 includes "The first half century of the Essex Institute," and "List of present members.".