B59511-Winthrop

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Name of the family:

Winthrop

Blason:

Ar. three chevrons crenellee gu. over all a lion ramp. sa. armed and langued az.

Crest(s):

A hare ppr. running on a mount vert. Motto (probably adopted as late as 1700, being the Latin of an anagram of the words John Winthrop, " Hope wins a throne")-Spes vincit thronum.

Info about the family:

Groton, co. Suffolk, now New England, united States, America-, confirmed and exemplified by William Dethick, Garter, 24 June, 1592, to John Wtnethrop, Esq., son of Aoam Wtnethrop, of Groton, co. Suffolk, gent., and uncle of John Winthrop, first Governor of Massachusetts, as the " shield and cote of armes apperteynyng to ye name and ancestors of the said John Wtnethrop, Esq." This original confirmation is still in the possession of the direct descendant of the family, Hon. Borert Charles Winthrop, of Boston, some years Speaker of the House of Representatives in Massachusetts, afterwards Member for Boston in the Congress of the United States, and Speaker of that Assembly, and finally Senator for Massachusetts

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1124

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