Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2): A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present dayLanaghan, Mrs.
History
Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2): A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day
Lanaghan, Mrs.
Antigua -- Description and travel; Antigua -- History
From the Hon. Ashton Warner it descended, as an heirloom, to his
son, Joseph Warner, and it is now in possession of Charles
Warner, Esq., solicitor-general of Trinidad.
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[74] This marriage accounts for the Savannah and Folly estates,
having passed into another family.
[75] For further information of this gentleman, the reader is
referred to Appendix No. 19.
[76] The queen’s attachment to Essex might perhaps, in great
measure, arise from the fact of his being her relative—as shewn
in the following table, viz.,
Anne Boleyne, united to Henry VIII., king of England, had issue a
daughter,
Elizabeth, afterwards queen of England.
Mary Boleyne, (sister to Anne Boleyne,) married to William
Cary, had issue a daughter,
Catharine Cary, married to Francis Knolleys, K.G., had
(among other issue) a daughter,
Lettice Knolleys, married to Walter Devereaux, Earl of
Essex, K.G., who had issue a son,
Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex, the favourite.
[77] Philadelphia Cary, second daughter to Henry Lord Hunsdon,
married to Thos. Scroop, of Bolton, in Yorkshire, who succeeded
his father in his title, in 1592, made governor of Carlisle
Castle, and warden of the West Marches, in 1593, and K. G. in
1599.
No. 3.
MEMORIAL OF THE WINTHORPE FAMILY.
This gentleman (Samuel Winthorpe, Esq. of Antigua) was the son of
John Winthorpe, of Groton Hall, co. Suffolk, Esq., by his wife,
Margaret, dau. of Sir John Tindall, Knt., master in Chancery, and
ancestor of the present Chief Justice Tindall. Mr. Winthorpe’s
family had early embraced the Protestant religion, and were among
the most stanch supporters of that creed; and in those dark days,
when Popery once again reared its head in England, the
grandfather of this John Winthorpe attended the martyr Philpots
to the stake, as one of his latest friends. In after years, Mr.
J. Winthorpe, fearing religious persecution, sold off all his
property, (bringing him in 500l. or 600l. per annum, a great sum
in those days,) and emigrated to New England, then a forest
waste, where, in process of time, he became its first governor,
and from whence he kept up a private correspondence with Oliver
Cromwell, then Protector of the Commonwealth. Besides Samuel
Winthorpe, the ancestor of the Antiguan branch of the family, he
had two sons,
i. Stephen, a colonel in the army, appointed by Cromwell to a
command in Scotland, and was afterwards a member of his
parliament, died in 1659, the year prior to the Restoration,
and
ii. John, who succeeded his father in the government of New
England, and was a regular correspondent and distinguished
member of the Royal Society in Old England, died 5th April,
1676, aged 70.
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