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Letter from William Bradford to John Winthrop, 11 April 1638

Letter from William Bradford to John Winthrop, 11 April 1638

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    each page 30.3 cm x 19.5 cm; seal 2 cm x 2 cm

    From the Winthrop family papers.
    The item is comprised of a large sheet of paper that was folded in half, and then folded again. Bradford wrote his letter (page 1) on one half of the paper. On the other half, Bradford wrote the address (on the top of page 2) and John Winthrop wrote notes about his response to the letter (on the bottom of page 2).


    [ This description is from the project: MHS Collecting History ]

    Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony writes to Governor John Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony about Anne Hutchinson ("Mrs. Hutchinson), who soon would be exiled from Massachusetts Bay in the aftermath of the Antinomian Controversy, and her supporter Mary Dyer, who would die as a martyr to religious freedom in 1660.

    Provenance: Bequest of Robert C. Winthrop, Jr., 1905.