Being the extreme introvert that I am, I am not a joiner of societies, associations, or clubs, yet considering that I am a descendent of “one or more passengers of the Winthrop fleet, or of others who settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony on or before 31 December 1640,” I thought I might apply to join an organization called The Winthrop Society. Being the extreme introvert that I am, I am not a joiner of societies, associations, or clubs, yet considering that I am a descendent of “one or more passengers of the Winthrop fleet, or of others who settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony on or before 31 December 1640,” I thought I might apply to join an organization called The Winthrop Society, but I will pass for now.
I do wish to thank them for providing the list found on their website: Qualifying Ancestors Used by the Membership to Date.
On this list, I found five ancestors:
1. John Bancroft settled in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1632. He is a great-grandfather of Hannah Bancroft, who was the mother of Jotham Pickering. John was Corbett Pickering’s 4x great-grandfather.
2. William Baulston arrived in Boston in 1630, and was later banished to Rhode Island where he ran the colony’s first tavern. He was Corbett Pickering’s 5x great-grandfather.
3. John Coggeshall settled first in Roxbury in 1632 before founding a colony in Rhode Island. He was Corbett Pickering’s 5x great-grandfather.
4. Phillip Sherman settled first in Roxbury in 1633 before founding a colony in Rhode Island. He was Corbett Pickering’s 4x great-grandfather.
5. William Chase arrived at Roxbury with the Winthrop fleet in 1630. He was Corbett Pickering’s 5x great-grandfather.
I am not sure how accurate the list is, considering that John Pickering, who arrived at Ipswich in 1635 and later built a house in Salem that still stands to this day, is not listed.
If cousins or siblings are interested in applying, I will gladly provide whatever assistance is necessary.
Gathering Leaves 
Thank you for your impression of the Winthrop Society. I too found the requirements a bit “off putting” to see the least and strangely DNA proofs are not acceptable. As a descendant of both John Johnson and Elizabeth Cutter Harris, I also don’t feel the need to provide PII information to be handled over to an unknown entity in todays age of identity theft just to be a member of a organization which is dubious in my eyes. Spending over 8 years researching my biological paternal/maternal and DNA lines, I don’t see any benefit or need to prove any lineage.
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