Person · 1588
John Winthrop
Puritan lawyer and first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1588–1649), who led the 1630 fleet and framed the settlement as “a city upon a hill.”
Why it matters
One of the oldest things still standing in the region — dated to 1588, and tied to 4 other entities across four centuries of the city’s record.
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Living object
Now, then, future
Every object is temporal: what it feels like now, what it used to mean, and what it can become next.
Now
Thenlively. Best now: the older layer.
1630: Puritan settlers under John Winthrop moved from Charlestown to the Shawmut Peninsula in September 1630, renaming it Boston.
Future2026: America’s 250th — July 4, 2026.
Current modegolden hour
Historical echoFounding of Boston (1630)
Connected eventThe 54th Marches Out (1863)
Pulse
How it feels right now
Current energylively
Best nowthe older layer
Best timegolden hour
historicserendipitous
Rain scoremodest
Indoor escapes within a few blocks.
Laptop friendlinesslow
Coffee, libraries, bookstores, and campus edges.
Student presencehigh
How strongly the nearby graph reads as campus life.
Tourist pressurelow
Fame, landmark pull, and visitor-facing assets.
Historic densityextreme
Older records and historical edges around this object.
Serendipityhigh
Different kinds of things hiding within a short walk.
Turn this into a walk
Routes with a point of view
What should I see next?
Chosen moves from here
The editor's hand
Human recommendations
Civic memory
What this meant before
15881588John Winthrop enters the civic record here.1630Founding of Boston (1630)Puritan settlers under John Winthrop moved from Charlestown to the Shawmut Peninsula in September 1630, renaming it Boston.1630King’s Chapel Burying GroundBoston’s oldest burying ground (1630) — John Winthrop lies here, alongside Mary Chilton, the first woman ashore from the Mayflower.
- Established
- 1588
- Online
- Official site ↗
- Graph connections
- 4
Plan your visit
In the graph 4 relationships — first-class data, not links
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Located in
Nearby what sits within a few minutes’ walk
Neighborhood · 1 min walk
Beacon Hill
Historical event · 1 min walk
Founding of Boston (1630)
Building / Landmark · 1 min walk
Meeting Place of the Woman's Era Club
Historical context
An unexpected connection
John Winthrop is linked, through the graph, to Boston — city, 12 min walk away. The kind of thread you only find by following the connections.
Keep exploring graph-powered — every path below is a real relationship, not a guess
NearbyA few minutes’ walk away
More peopleOther people in the graph
From the colonial eraOf the same period
Visitors also exploreReached through the same connections
One record, 2 framings cross-property publishing — never duplicated
How we know graph confidence — we explain our certainty, not just assert it
✓Source qualityBest source is primary / institutional
✓Independent corroboration3 sources across 3 tiers
✓Human-reviewedEditorially verified
✓Institutional backingCites a primary or institutional source
✓Record completeness80% of canonical fields present
Sources, by tier
Winthrop journals Unclassified
Mass. Historical Society Primary / institutional
OpenStreetMap node/7847783891 Open reference
The same entity, elsewhere
Graph scores — our north star is relationship density, not page count
Relationship density44
4 connections
Record coverage82
metadata completeness
Graph authority39
centrality + reach + trust
Schema.org JSON-LD — what answer engines read
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