Family and Education
b. 24 Mar. 1619, 4th s. of John Winthrop I of Boston and his 3rd wife, Margaret Tyndall. m. c.1643, Judith (b. 1624) da. of William Rainborow*, at least 1s. d.v.p. 3da. d. c. July 1658.Firth and Davis, Regimental Hist. i. 179; ii. 418; Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. ser. 5, viii. 199n; Winthrop Pprs. iv. 418.
Offices Held

Colonial: freeman, Massachusetts Bay Co. 7 Dec. 1636–d.Recs. Mass. Bay ed. N. B. Shurtleff (Boston, 1853), 372. Recorder, Boston bef. 1646.R.C. Winthrop, Life and Lttrs. of John Winthrop (Boston, 1869), ii. 368.

Military: capt. of horse (parlian.), regt. of Thomas Harrison I*, New Model army, c. 1646 – Dec. 1649; maj. Dec. 1649 – Sept. 1654; col. Sept. 1654–d.Firth and Davis, Regimental Hist. i. 179, 184–5, 191–2; M. Wanklyn, Reconstructing the New Model Army (2015–16) i. 93; ii. 50, 67, 111; Clarke Pprs. v. 206.

Local: commr. assessment, Herefs. 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; propagating the gospel in Wales, 22 Feb. 1650.A. and O.

Scottish: j.p. Aberdeen 1656–?Scot. and Protectorate ed. Firth, 308. Commr. assessment, Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen 26 June 1657.A. and O.

: Westminster and Boston, Massachusetts.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, unknown, c.1650.Harvard Art Museum, Camb. Mass.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

WINTHROP, Stephen (1619-58), of James Street, Westminster, and Boston, Massachusetts

Will
3 May 1658, pr. 19 Aug. 1658.PROB11/280/245; Waters, Genealogical Gleanings, i. 162.
Estates
by d. owned house at Marylebone, Mdx., and 2 houses at James Street, Westminster; also his fa.’s house at Boston and half of Prudence Island and 1500 acres at Lynn or Salem, inc. Pond Farm, Lynnfield, Mass.H.F. Waters, Genealogical Gleanings (Boston, 1901), i. 162.
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