After a voyage lasting more than two months, he settled with a large number
of Puritans on the site of modern Boston. For the principal part of the
time from his arrival in 1630 until his death in 1649, he served as
governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Not many civil leaders of any age
have shown more sagacity, patriotism, and tireless devotion to duty than
John Winthrop.

His _Journal_ is a record of contemporaneous events from 1630 to 1648.
The early part of this work might with some justice have been called the
_Log of the Arbella_.

[Illustration: FACSIMILE OF BEGINNING OF MS. OF WINTHROP'S "JOURNAL"]

TRANSLITERATION OF FACSIMILE OF WINTHROP'S "JOURNAL"

"ANNO DOMINI 1630, MARCH 29, MONDAY.
"EASTER MONDAY.

"Riding at the Cowes, near the Isle of Wight, in the _Arbella_,
a ship of 350 tons, whereof Capt. Peter Milborne was master, being
manned with 52 seamen, and 28 pieces of ordnance, (the wind coming to
the N. by W. the evening before,) in the morning there came aboard us
Mr. Cradock, the late governor, and the masters of his 2 ships, Capt.
John Lowe, master of the _Ambrose_, and Mr. Nicholas Hurlston,
master of the _Jewel_, and Mr. Thomas Beecher, master of the
_Talbot_."


The entry for Monday, April 12, 1630, is:--