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Winthrop Family Papers

Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1

Extract from Sir John Brond’s Extent, 1619

20 February 1619

Ezekiel Culverwell to John Winthrop

12 March 1619
Verses by Adam Winthrop1
Winthrop, Adam (1548-1623) Winthrop, Margaret

1619

 Loving fren torn The sweetenes of your Loue, Which I did lately taste, Doothe make me to affecte the same, euen with a mynde most chaste. 234 So that I doe desire You present stil to haue: That I might longe inioie your loue Until I rest in graue. For thoughe my youthe be paste and heade is cladde with graie: Yet in your loue I doe reioice, as do the2 Birdes in maie. Wherefore make haste to coome and doe no longer staye: Your Mother deere, and Sisters all, Woulde haue you coome awaye. Your lovinge and assured frende alwaies Adam Winthrop.

Indorsed in the hand of his great-grandson, Fitz-John Winthrop: “Adam Winthrop, Esquire, of Groton Hall in Suffolk, Father to John Winthrop, Esquire Gouernor of Boston in New England.”

 1.

W. Au. 1. Written probably to Margaret Winthrop during one of her visits to her mother at Great Maplestead, between Margaret’s marriage in April, 1618, and her mother’s death in July, 1620. ‘Your Mother deere’ is Anne Winthrop.

 2.

MS. repeats ‘the.’