John Winthrop is elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company in London.

(OS-10/20) Elected to the first of 12 terms as governor, Winthrop is chosen to replace Matthew Craddock, who has decided not to make the journey to North America. John Humphrey is elected deputy governor, but after he declines the position, Thomas Dudley is elected in his stead on March 29, 1630. In a paper written at the time entitled “General Considerations of the Plantation of New England,” Winthrop writes that in England, “the land was weary of her inhabitants.”