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March

March 1636 Massachusetts Bay Company, General Court A consideration for this present General Court That it may be ordered to preuent future ... March 1636 Peter, Hugh to Winthrop, John, Jr. By these you may vnderstand that I haue receiued your letters and am glad our busines goes ... March 1636 Peter, Hugh to Winthrop, John, Jr. Mee thought I broke from you too abruptly last day. My hart is with you: I can say no more ... 1 March 1636 Downing, Emmanuel to Winthrop, John, Jr. I haue received 3 letters from you, the first of the 9th of 9ber thother 2 of the 12 and 15 ... 5 March 1636 Reade, Samuel to Winthrop, John, Jr. When letters came to my hands from my father and my brother Thomas Reade, I doubted not but ... 7 March 1636 Hewson, Thomas to Wintrhop, John I am full sorry my respect and care and cost vpon the plantation of a Colini in new England ... 8 March 1636 Downing, Lucy to Winthrop, John, Jr. I am much satisfied to hear of your safe ariuall and my neeces in N: E: and doe hartilie ... 10 March 1636 Eden, Lady Mary to Wintrhop, John I receiued a letter from you which I take very kindly, and if you would write mee some news ... 17 March 1636 Pynchon, William to Winthrop, John, Jr. Mr. John Winthrops Bill of Parsells of his cloth and other things Bought of William Pynchon ... 20 March 1636 Humfrey, John to Winthrop, John, Jr. You had received ere this an earnest expression of my masters desire to have brought or (at ... 28 March 1636 Dudley, Mary to Winthrop, Margaret My duty remembred to you and my father. I haue ocasion at this time to trouble you by reason ... 28 March 1636 Winthrop, John to Winthrop, John, Jr. I went to Tenhils this morning with your mother and your wife to have seene Goodman ... 29 March 1636 Martin, William to Wintrhop, John I ame glad to heare of Mr. Nortons safe arriuall, and should haue bene more glad if it had ... 29 March 1636 Phillips, George to Winthrop, John, Jr. I am bold to write a few lines vnto you and therby to request a great matter at your handes, ...

April

April 1636 Dudley, Mary to Winthrop, Margaret My duty remembred to your selfe and my Deare Father hopeing of your wellfare as all we are I ... April 1636 Saltonstall, Richard, Jr. to Winthrop, John, Jr. I am bould to troble you, and entreat you in my fathers Case; whearin your love to him; and ... 4 April 1636 Gurdon, Muriel Sedley to Winthrop, Margaret I rejoyc to hear of your recovery, for my daughter had wrote to me of your weaknes which ... 4 April 1636 Winthrop, John to Winthrop, John, Jr. I wrote vnto you by the Rebecka of the death of Bushnell and sent the keye of his Chest, ... 5 April 1636 Barnardiston, Nathaniel to Winthrop, John, Jr. Yours of the 12 of January I receaued and thanke you for your kind remembrance therin I sent ... 7 April 1636 Winthrop, John, Jr. to Wintrhop, John My humble duty remembred to your selfe and my mother with my love to my brothers and all our ... 8 April 1636 Boynton, Matthew to Winthrop, John, Jr. I haue now accordinge to my former intendment sent ouer two seruants tenn Ewe sheepe and a ... 13 April 1636 Boynton, Matthew to Winthrop, John, Jr. I haue none, upon whom I cann relye, butt your selfe, beeinge, as you know, a strainger in ... 16 April 1636 Allyn, Mathew to Winthrop, John, Jr. My love and service be preferred to you these are to signifie to you that I have a desire to ... 16 April 1636 Spring, William to Wintrhop, John itt is your charrety and not my words that I rely vppon for my fayrest and best Excuse of my ... 20 April 1636 Revell, Edward to Wintrhop, John That kinde respect and fauour yow pleased to shew vnto me, whiles yow was a magistrate of ... 22 April 1636 Mayhew, Thomas to Winthrop, John, Jr. touching my Journey to Ile of Sholes to buy 80 hogsheads of prouission when I came I fownd ... 22 April 1636 Pynchon, William to Winthrop, John, Jr. my respectiue loue remembred: being glad to heere of your safe ariuale: and of your ... 26 April 1636 Winthrop, John to Winthrop, John, Jr. Blessed be the Lord who hath preserued and prosperd you hetherto. ... 28 April 1636 Dudley, Mary to Winthrop, Margaret After my bounden duty I still continue to be a troublesome suter to you, in the behalfe of a ... 30 April 1636 Brewster, Jonathan to Winthrop, John, Jr. This is, (If I maye make soe bould with you) that you would be pleased, as to lett some of ...

June

June 1636 Dudley, Mary to Winthrop, Margaret my duty remembred to you: after my accustomed manner I make bold still to trouble you for ... June 1636 Haynes, John to Winthrop, John, Jr. Oportunity offeringe it selfe I gladly salute yow with my best wishes. I am to solicite yow ... June 1636 Stoughton, Israel to Winthrop, John, Jr. Vnderstanding of Newtownes Motion for some conuenient place for a warehouse for the present ... June 1636 Winthrop, Adam (1620-1652, son of John Winthrop) to Winthrop, John, Jr. The thoutes of youer loue and kindnes to me youre vnworthy brother does stir me up to writ ... June 1636 Winthrop, Elizabeth to Winthrop, John, Jr. I can not but I must bee trobboll some to the with these my poore lines, which are to ... 2 June 1636 Pynchon, William to Winthrop, John, Jr. my deere loue and affekeon rembred with thanks for your care to send away my goods: which I ... 4 June 1636 Peirce, William to Wintrhop, John Wheras Will: Peirse and Beniamyn Gillham were requested to arbitrat the worth or valleue of ... 10 June 1636 Winthrop, John to Winthrop, John, Jr. Mr. Hooker went hence vpon teusday the last of maye by whom I wrote to you, and sent all ... 18 June 1636 Brewster, Jonathan to Winthrop, John, Jr. Haveing 4 dayes agoe had occasion to send my man who hath the Indian Language to a place ... 18 June 1636 Brewster, Jonathan to Winthrop, John, Jr. Your last kyndnes with them formerly doth much oblige mee to you, to requite you according ... 20 June 1636 London Port In the Philip of London, master, Robert Huson for New England. John Winthorpe for the ... 21 June 1636 Howes, Edward to Winthrop, John, Jr. Since I receiue yours of the 9th of Nouember and the 6th of January I saluted you with a few ... 22 June 1636 Goodwin, William to Winthrop, John, Jr. I am requested by our neighbores the Dutchmen to mind you of what you willed me to tell them ... 22 June 1636 Hopkins, Edward to Winthrop, John, Jr. My last was per the Peter Bonadventure, wherin I gave you notice what goodes I had laden ... 22 June 1636 Winslow, Edward to Winthrop, John, Jr. I perceived by a letter of Mr. Brewsters of a mocion of yours to him to procure you hay for ... 23 June 1636 Winthrop, John to Winthrop, John, Jr. I wrote to you by mr. Hooker and sent you withall the lettres out of England, and 6 Cowes, 4 ... 24 June 1636 Winthrop, John to D’Ewes, Simonds The benefite which we have received from that which you were pleased in your kindnesse to ... 28 June 1636 Shurt, Abraham to Wintrhop, John My dutye remembred with my prayers for your health ettc. Sir some 10 dayes past I wrote you ...

July

July 1636 Downing, Lucy to Wintrhop, John Wee are nowe moste iustlie for our great vnworthynes, by the correctinge hand of our father ... July 1636 Hooker, Thomas to Winthrop, John, Jr. Your letter coming but late this evening immediatly before your servants were returning, I ... July 1636 Saybrook, Conn., servants at to Wintrhop, John master fenix and master peters our masters as we vnderstand and master leftenant gearner ... 1 July 1636 Vane, Henry to Winthrop, John, Jr. For as much as it hath pleased God to send Mr. Fenwicke into this country And to call me to ... 3 July 1636 Winthrop, Adam (1620-1652, son of John Winthrop) to Winthrop, John, Jr. I haue reseued your leter whar in you did express a grat dell of loue vnto me; for wich I ... 4 July 1636 Massachusetts Bay Company to Winthrop, John, Jr. Whereas it so falls out by the good Prouidence of God that the place of your present ... 4 July 1636 Pynchon, William to Winthrop, John, Jr. My true loue remembred: I sent you a few lines by land and now againe by sea to assuer you ... 5 July 1636 Feke, Robert to Winthrop, John, Jr. I salute you in the lord rememberinge my best respeckts vnto you. I thanke you for that you ... 5 July 1636 Feke, Elizabeth to Winthrop, John, Jr. I reioyce with you and blesse god for the safe deliuery of my sister and the welfar of her ... 8 July 1636 London Port In the William and John of London, master, Rowland Langrum for New England: John Wenthorpe ... 14 July 1636 Hopkins, Edward to Winthrop, John, Jr. My best respects premised etc. My last was per the Peter Bonadventure, in which Shipp I ...