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The Winthrop Papers

About the Volumes

Containing the letters of John Winthrop, Sr., and Jr., and their correspondents, this collection details the early years of the New England colonies. One of the most important manuscript sources about colonial New England, the Winthrop Papers are central to the collections of the Society and to the study of American history. This series provides annotated transcriptions, prepared for a scholarly audience, of the most valuable documents from this resource.

Winthrop materials at the MHS include a range of correspondence, commonplace books, printed works, maps, legal documents, portraits, artifacts, and photographs spanning the family's history from 15th-century England to 20th-century America.
John Winthrop
Volume 6, 1650-1654
Edited by Malcolm Freiberg, 1992.
Pp. xxxiii, 538, index.

Volume 5, 1645-1649
Edited by Allyn Bailey Forbes, 1947.
Pp. xxxvii, 408, index.

Volume 4, 1638-1644
Edited by Allyn Bailey Forbes, 1944.
Pp. xxxvii, 531, illus., index.

Volume 3, 1631-1637 (out of print)
Edited by Allyn Bailey Forbes, 1943.
Pp. xxxvii, 544, illus., index.

Volume 2, 1623-1630 (out of print)
Edited by Stewart Mitchell, 1931.
Pp. xxii, 367, illus., index.

Volume 1, 1498-1628
Edited by Worthington C. Ford, 1929.
Pp. xxxii, 456, illus., index.

Ordering Information

All volumes are hardbound and sell for $65.00 apiece.

Volume 6, and standing orders for future volumes, are available from The University of Virginia Press (1-800-831-3406). Volume 1 through 5 are out of print.

About the Editors

Under the editorship of Dr. Francis J. Bremer (e-mail at fbremer@marauder.millersv.edu), Millersville University, future publication plans include
  1. continuation of volumes of correspondence that will conclude with the period of the American Revolution. Dr. Mark Peterson (University of Iowa) and Dr. Alison Games (Georgetown University) will edit the next volumes in this series.
  2. a second series of volumes organized by topic. These will include a volume of Religious Manuscripts, a collection of Legal Papers, and The Medical Notebooks of John Winthrop, Jr.
At the official Winthrop Papers website you can find the Winthrop Papers Newsletter and electronic seminars on Puritanism and on the history of the Atlantic world in the 16th through 18th centuries. Draft transcriptions of some of the Winthrop material currently being worked on are accessible in the Winthrop Papers Web Archive.