Biography of John Winthrop, City on Hill

But did your reverence hear of the portent that was seen last night? -a great red letter in the sky,-the letter A, which we interpret to stand for Angel. For, as our good Governor Winthrop was made an angel this past night, it was doubtless held fit that there should be some notice thereof (144)!
The late Governor John Winthrop was regarded, as shown in the previous quote, as an angel, a savior for the colonial people. John Winthrop led hundreds of people across the Atlantic Ocean, all the while searching for the utopia. When the colonists landed in what is now Boston, immediately they nam…