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Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1

Henry Winthrop to John Winthrop, Jr.1
Winthrop, Henry Winthrop, John, Jr.

1626-10-30

To his louinge Brother Mr. John Winthrop at his fathers house at Groton dr thes
Louinge Brother,

I did send you a leter by chote for to peruse and to send me it and an answere of it all so I pray and if so be that you haue not sente them yet send them by barer by whom I haue sent you a Greuy hound for to keepe for me for it is a uery Good one and comes of as Good a kind as any that euer I herde of And if sobe you can not keepe it at 333home doe you see and if so be that you can Gitte it keept abroad sume where where it maye be safe I am for to send in to bedford shere tomorrow and as soone as the messenger com backe againe you shall here frome me Thus with my loue remembred to your seellfe and my dutye to father mother and grandmother I reste Your louinge Brother

Henry Winthrop Ketton2this 30 of October 1626
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Kedington or Ketton is a parish in the hundred of Risbridge, co. Suffolk. It was the seat of Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston. Barker, West Suffolk, 218–220.