 John Winthrop was born at Groton Manor in 1587; he became the leader of the Winthrop Fleet, a founder of the city of Boston, and one of the first Governors of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.The parish church has a Victorian stained glass window in his memory.Groton, Connecticut was also named after the village by Winthrop's son John Winthrop the Younger who settled in that area in 1646.