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New England Puritans & Pilgrims. Cite This Source. John Winthrop in New England Puritans & Pilgrims. John Winthrop (c. 1587-1649) was a devoutly religious Puritan elder who led a large migration of Puritans from England to America in 1629 and became the first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony one year later. He was probably the most powerful figure in New England in the first half of the seventeenth century.