London’s Downing Street, home of the British Prime Minister, was built by a Puritan from Massachusetts who switched sides in the English Civil War. George Downing was John Winthrop’s nephew,…

London’s Downing Street, home of the British Prime Minister, was built by a Puritan from Massachusetts who switched sides in the English Civil War. George Downing was John Winthrop’s nephew,…

London’s Downing Street, home of the British Prime Minister, was built by a Puritan from Massachusetts who switched sides in the English Civil War. George Downing was John Winthrop’s nephew,…

Much of what we know about the earliest days of colonial America comes from the Journals of John Winthrop, and much of that was almost lost forever. The very first…