Worthy Sr

My respected freind & ould acquaintance & schoole
fellow. &c. I am very hartily joyfull. to heare of you. and
from you. & that God is pleased to lengthen out yor dayes
to stand up in the roome of good old Xtians gone into another
better habitation. I hope it is for best good both to yor selfe & to
the place you are in, we here are full of loosenes & prophanes
debauchery & what not cryinge Synns. aboundinge & little restraint
the mouths. of good men. restrained chariotts & horsemen laide
aside malligned & dispised for the good they have done or would
continue to doe lycentiousnes much more pleasing to ye Generality
of people then a strict holy course of Liveinge I doe not question
but greatly hope but yor acquaintance wth God is much & that yor
Lives is very holy & pleasing to him, I suppose you may have heard
of the death of Docter Tuckney sometime of or toune wth Mr. Cotton
but blessed be God we have good teachinge had we hearts to make
a right improovemt by holy Meditation and practis I have inclosed
sent a regester of all yor fathers children the Clerke thinkes he has
omitted none, there is one Mr Thomas Underwood sometimes woollen
drapr in London, who I think lives in Boston. & hes Beene there 10 or 12
yeares that marryed old Mr Tilsons daughter one of them but she is dead
& since he went to New England hes marryed againe I would desire
the favor of you to convey this inclosed lre to him & soe desireing fro
my heart if God bestow place of cheife or cheifest trust upon
[yow?] consider [yow?] rule not for man but for ye lord who wilbe wth
you & assist you & its the reall desire of him that he may soe be.
who wth his true respects to you subscribes himselfe.

Yor cordiall freind & humble servant

Robert : Atkyn.

[Dateline appears at bottom of page ] Boston March
18th 1672

[The following endorsements and notes are written on different areas of the paper with the written lines going in different directions--some notes are perpendicular to others.]

Register of Mr
Tho Leveret of Boston
in the County of Lincoln
his Children from New England
Aug 1612 to 1632
booked by the Register

To his much honor'd freind
Major Genrall John II
Leverett of Boston in
New England These

from Atkyns of
Boston wth register

I opened this to take a coppy which I
sent [yow?] sometime since least the
originall should miscarry.