Famous Englanders

Benjamin Franklin Vs John Winthrop Both, John Winthrop and Benjamin Franklin, have a great importance in the American’s History and from the study of their tenures we can figure out the similar thoughts shared by both of them. They both were from the different generations but played there parts in changing the situations. Born in 1587 in England, Winthrop became a successful lawyer in his mother country. He was also an ardent Puritan, and in 1629 he set forth to help establish the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Winthrop's history in New England was very largely that of the Massachusetts colony, of which he was twelve times chosen Governor by annual election, serving in 1629-34, 1637-40, in 1642-44, and in 1646-49, and dying in office. To the service of the colony he gave not merely unwearied devotion; but in its interests consumed strength and fortune. His own temper of mind was conservative and somewhat aristocratic, but he guided political development, often under circumstances of great difficulty, with singular fairness and conspicuous magnanimity. In 1634-5 he was a leader in putting the colony in a state of defense against possible coercion by the English government. He opposed the majority of his fellow-townsmen in the so-called "Antinomian controversy" of 1636-7, taking a strongly conservative attitude towards the questions in dispute. He was the first president of the Commissioners of the United Colonies of New England, organized in 1643. He defended Massachusetts against threatened parliamentary interference once more in 1645-6. That the colony successfully weathered its early perils was due more to Winthrop's skill and wisdom than to the services of any other of its citizens (Twichell, 1891) Winthrop justification of the colony presented in the sermon, "Model of Christian Charity" which he delivered in the Arbela, Here he