Winthrop Historians

Winthrop has been fortunate to have had many local individuals take the time
to write detailed histories of the town.

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J. Harry Hartley

(1849-1929)

Scraps of History of the Town of Winthrop

•	No. 1 - Oct. 2, 1885)
•	No. 2 - Oct. 10, 1885)
•	No. 3 - Oct. 23, 1885)
•	No. 4 - Oct. 30, 1885)

David Floyd

(1854-1913)

The Addresses of David Floyd

•	Pulling Point and Vicinity in 1834
•	Beginning of Preaching in Old Chelsea
•	Fiftieth Apniversary of Town
•	Pulling Point School House
•	Old Chelsea Previous to 1857
•	Playstead Park Report
•	Unitarian Church, Revere
•	Methodist Church, Winthrop
•	Winthrop Lodge -- A. F. and A. M.
•	Gibbons Elm Celebration

Mary Priscilla Griffin

(1835-1927)

Winthrop Days, And A Half Century With The Trees - 1855-1905

Charles W. Hall

(1842-1916)

Historic Winthrop: 1630-1902

Frank W. Tucker

(1862-1943)

The Town We Line In

•	Early Names (May 1, 1926)
•	Indian Occupation (May 8, 1926)
•	Settlement of Winnesimmit (May 15, 1926)
•	Settlement of Winnesimmit (cont.) (May 22, 1926)
•	The Great Allotments of Pullen Poynte (May 29, 1926)
•	Captured British Ship Hope (Jun. 5, 1926)
•	Captured British Ship Hope (cont.) (Jun. 12, 1926)
•	The Battle of Shirley Gut (Jun. 19, 1926)
•	The Battle of Shirley Gut (cont.) (Jun. 26, 1926)
•	Our Earliest Non-Resident Property Owners (Jul. 3, 1926)
•	Our Earliest Non-Resident Property Owners (cont.) (Jul. 10, 1926)
•	Our Earliest Non-Resident Property Owners (cont.) (Jul. 17, 1926)
•	Anne Hutchinson and her followers (Jul. 24, 1926)
•	Early Houses (Jul. 31, 1926)
•	Old Rumney Marsh Burial Ground (Aug. 7, 1926)
•	Rumney Marsh Burying Plot (cont,) (Aug. 14, 1926)
•	Early Homes (cont,) (Aug. 21, 1926)
•	The Bill House and Family (Aug. 28, 1926)
•	Descendants of William Bill numerous (Sep. 4, 1926)
•	The Bill House and Family (cont.) (Sep. 11, 1926)
•	The Bill House and Family (cont.) (Sep. 18, 1926)
•	The Bill House and Family (cont.) (Sep. 25, 1926)
•	The Winthrop Farm and its occupant, Deane Winthrop (Oct. 2, 1926)
•	The Winthrop Farm and its occupant, Deane Winthrop (cont.) (Oct. 9, 1926)
•	The Winthrop Farm and its occupant, Deane Winthrop (cont.) (Oct. 16, 1926)
•	First Permanent Residenmts (Oct. 23, 1926)
•	First Permanent Residenmts (cont.) (Oct. 30, 1926)
•	Chelsea, a Town - 1739 (Nov. 6, 1926)
•	Chelsea, a Town - 1739 (cont.) (Nov. 13, 1926)
•	Why WInthrop does not pay a County Tax (Nov. 20, 1926)
•	Point Shirley - Up to Revolutionary Times (Nov. 27, 1926)
•	Point Shirley - Prominent Men (Dec. 4, 1926)
•	Point Shirley (cont.) (Dec. 11, 1926)
•	Point Shirley (cont.) (Dec. 18, 1926)
•	Point Shirley (cont.) - Col.. Thomas Galdthwait (Dec. 25, 1926)
•	Point Shirley (cont.) An Inoculation Hospital (Jan. 1, 1927)
•	Roads and Highways (Jan. 8, 1927)
•	Roads and Highways (cont.) (Jan. 15, 1927)
•	Roads and Highways (cont.) (Jan. 22, 1927)
•	Roads and Highways (cont.) (Jan. 29, 1927)
•	Going to Mill (Feb. 5, 1927)
•	Going to Mill (cont.) (Feb. 12, 1927)
•	Early Slavery (Feb. 19, 1927)
•	Island Neighbors (Feb. 26, 1927)
•	Island Neighbors (Cont.) - Noddle's Island (Mar. 5, 1927)
•	Island Neighbors (Cont.) - Governor's Island (Mar. 12, 1927)
•	Island Neighbors (Cont.) - Apple Island (Mar. 19, 1927)
•	Island Neighbors (Cont.) - Castle Island (Mar. 26, 1927)
•	Island Neighbors (Cont.) - Spectacle Island (Apr. 2, 1927)
•	Island Neighbors (Cont.) - Hogg Island (Apr. 9, 1927)
•	The early Tewksbury, Belcher, and Floyd Families - Tewksbury (Apr. 16, 1927)
•	The early Tewksbury, Belcher, and Floyd Families - Belcher (Apr. 23, 1927)
•	The early Tewksbury, Belcher, and Floyd Families - Belcher (Cont.) (Apr. 30, 1927)
•	The early Tewksbury, Belcher, and Floyd Families - The early Floyd Family (May 7,, 1927)
•	The early Tewksbury, Belcher, and Floyd Families - The Floyd Family (May 15,, 1927)
•	Early Education (Up to 1800) (May 21, 1927)
•	Early Education (Up to 1800) (Cont.) (May 28, 1927)
•	Early Education (Up to 1800) (Cont.) (Jun 4, 1927)
•	Early Church Going (Up to 1800) (Cont.) (Jun. 18, 1927)
•	Early Church Going (Up to 1800) (Cont.) (Jun. 25, 1927)
•	Early Church Going (Up to 1800) (Cont.) (Jul. 2, 1927)
•	Old Papers (Jul.9, 1927)
•	Old Papers (Cont.) (Jul.16, 1927)
•	Old Papers (Cont.) (Jul.23, 1927)
•	Old Papers (Cont.) (Jul. 30, 1927)
•	Early Wars (Aug. 6, 1927)
•	Early Wars (Cont.) (Aug. 13, 1927)
•	Early Wars - The Revolutionary War (Aug. 20, 1927)
•	Early Wars - The Revolutionary War (Cont.) (Aug. 27, 1927)
•	Early Wars - The Revolutionary War (Cont.) (Sep. 3, 1927)
•	Early Wars - The Revolutionary War (Cont.) (Sep. 10, 1927)
•	Early Wars - The Revolutionary War (Cont.) (Sep. 17, 1927)
•	Early Wars - The Revolutionary War (Cont.) - The Battle of Chelsea Creek (Sep. 24, 1927)
•	The Revolutionary War (Cont.) - The Battle of Chelsea Creek (Oct. 1, 1927)
•	The Revolutionary War (Cont.) - The Battle of Chelsea Creek (Cont.) (Oct. 8, 1927)
•	The Revolutionary War (Cont.) - The Battle of Chelsea Creek (Cont.) (Oct. 22, 1927)
•	The Revolutionary War (Cont.) - Death of Capt. Mugford (Oct. 29, 1927)
•	The Revolutionary War (Cont.) (Nov. 12, 1927)
•	The Revolutionary War (Cont.) (Nov. 19, 1927)
•	The Revolutionary War (Cont.) (Nov. 26, 1927)
•	The Revolutionary War (Cont.) (Dec. 3, 1927)
•	The Revolutionary War (Cont.) - Taxation after the Revolution (Dec. 10, 1927)

William W. Gardner

(1865-1932)

The Town of Winthrop

Edward Rowe Snow

(1902-1982)

Historical Facts About Winthrop

•	Episode 1: 1630-1649 (Mar. 27. 1936)
•	Episode 2: 1649-1689 (Apr. 3. 1936)
•	Episode 3: 1689-1711 (Apr. 10. 1936)
•	Episode 4: 1711-1739 (Apr. 17. 1936)
•	Episode 5: 1739-1753 (Apr. 24. 1936)
•	Episode 6: 1753-1762 (May. 1. 1936)
•	Episode 7: 1765-1776 (May. 8. 1936)
•	Episode 8: 1776-1812 (May 15, 1936)
•	Episode 9: 1812-1844 (May 22, 1936)
•	Episode 10: 1832-1845 (May 22, 1936)
•	Episode 11: 1846-1851 (Jun. 5, 1936)
•	Episode 12: 1851-1852 (Jun. 12, 1936)
•	Episode 13:
•	Episode 14: 1856-1865 (Apr. 1, 1937)
•	Episode 15: 1865-1869 (May 20, 1937)
•	Episode 16: 1869-1873 (Jul. 29, 1937)
•	Episode 17: 1873-1875 (Dec. 2, 1937)
•	Episode 18: 1873-1878 (Dec. 30, 1937)

A History of Winthrop, Mass.

Channing Howard

(1867-1958)

The Past, Present and Future

•	Part 1 (Apr. 12. 1945)
•	Part 2 (Apr. 19. 1945)
•	Part 3 (Apr. 26. 1945)
•	Part 4 (May 3. 1945)

Winthrop - Anciently Pullin Point: Our Peninsula in 1624

History of the Deane Winthrop House

Our Streets: How we got them and their Names

Winthrop Streets - Origin of Names

Atlas of the towns of Revere and Winthrop, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Sidvin Frank Tucker

(1902-1982)

The Past, Present and Future

•	Part 1 (Apr. 12. 1945)
•	Part 2 (Apr. 19. 1945)
•	Part 3 (Apr. 26. 1945)
•	Part 4 (May 3. 1945)

Pictorial History of Winthrop

•	Article 1 (Aug. 12, 1965)
•	Article 2 (Aug.. 19. 1965)
•	Article 3 (Aug. 26, 1965)
•	Article 4 (Sep. 2, 1965)
•	Article 5 (Sep. 9, 1965)
•	Article 6 (Sep. 16, 1965)
•	Article 7 (Sep. 23, 1965)
•	Article 8 (Sep. 29, 1965)
•	Article 9 (Oct. 6, 1965)
•	Article 10 (Oct. 13, 1965)

•	Article 11 (Oct. 13, 1965)
•	Article 12 (Oct. 20, 1965)
•	Article 13 (Oct. 27, 1965)
•	Article 14 (Nov. 3, 1965)
•	Article 15 (Nov.10, 1965)
•	Article 16 (Nov.17, 1965)
•	Article 17 (Nov.24, 1965)
•	Article 18 (Dec. 1, 1965)
•	Article 19 (Dec. 15, 1965)

William H. Clark

(1901-1955)

The History of Winthrop, Masachusetts: 1630-1952

G. David Hubbard

(1933- )

Winthrop Then and Now

Winthrop Then and Now: Historic Mapping of Winthrop, Massachusetts Now

Winthrop Then and Now: Historical Postcards of Winthrop Massachusetts)

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