Elizabeth Winthrop: Insubordinate Spirit

Missy Wolfe

Monday, October 22, 2012, 6:00PM - 7:30PM

Registration required; no fee

A historian of Dutch New York, Ms. Wolfe will discuss the turbulent and intrepid 1650s life of Elizabeth Winthrop Feake Hallett in America. Her first husband drowned, her second went insane, and the Puritans wanted her dead for marrying her third. Hear how John Wnthrop, Jr., saved his cousin's life by enforcing Stuyvesant's Dutch rule over this English woman within Southwestern Connecticut.

Wolfe's documented history, Insubordinate Spirit: A True Story of Life and Loss in Earliest America 1610-1665, draws deeply from across all volumes of the Society's Winthrop Papers, including John Winthrop, Sr.'s Journal. This event officially launches this new publication.

Reservations requested. To RSVP call 617-646-0560 or click on the ticket icon above.

Pre-Talk Reception at 5:30 P.M.

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