I humblie thanke yow for your loue towardes me in all thinges but especially in this that yow desire to helpe me with a chapman For my house and land, which if yow shall effecte For me (the case standing with me as it doth) I shall be bound to pray for yow and shall euer thinke myselfe beholding vnto your Worshipp. I am to goe (god willing) with my Vnckle Brand to London vppon Monday morning likewise to parley about the sale of it with one or 2 gent: but it is as yet free for any man, and there is no incumbrance vppon it, but only a statute which my Vncle Brand haue For monyes which he hath disbursed for me which he will very willingly release: vppon the repaying of that mony which is due to him: my evidence are all at London, where I haue also a platt of all my landes in particular, and how many acres euery particular field and close conteyne, which yow shall there haue (if yow please) I haue been bidden 1800 li. for it by 2 or 3 but my Vnckle thinkes it to be to littell and therfore he doth (I thanke him) forbeare me the longer, that I might take my best chapman, I would 361willingly haue 1900 li. For it, but vse mony and chardges runne on: and therfore rather then faile, I will take 1800 li. For it. And thus with my loue remembred to your worshipp wishing all happines to your selfe and youres, I humbly take my leave, resting euer Your Worshipps poore neighbor and freind to command

after my humble dutye remembred to your sellfe and to my mother and Grandmother my loue to my brotheres and sisters and to the rest of my cindred respectively and frendes and acquantance—Thes are to let you vnderstand that I did wright to you be by captine Powell but least that you haue not reseyued my leter, I thought good to laye hould of an oppertunytye profered to me by a Plimmythe shipe tuchinge here to sertyfye you of my hellthe and wellfare so fare as time will giue me leue I blesse god that I was at scee aboue 3 mounthes and had not one houres sickenes nor science the time I was landed to this presente houre I ame here on this Iland of the weest Indyes called the Barbathes setled for a plantatyon for tobackow one which Iland here is but 3 score of christyanes and fortye slaues of negeres and Indyenes. and here I doe purpoes and if it please god to stay 3 yeres for the disscriptyon of the Iland I will leaue it till you doe reseiue my lettres by the captane Poowell in which letteres I haue wright to yow abought much bysynesse for the sendinge of me sume men ouer and clothes and othere thinges and in the meane time afore you doe reseiue these letteres and If you here of a ship that toucheyes here then that you woold send me ouer sum 2 or 3 men that they be bound to searue me in the west indyes sum 3 yere or 5 which you 362doe thincke good to binde them for and get them as resonable as you can promysinge them not aboue 10 pound a yere and a chest of conveniensie for clothese and sum linnynge clothes for my sellefe for shurte and stokinges for them and 30 payre of strong 3 solle shoes with alls and wax and thered and 5 thousand of sparow billes a dosen of kniues and a rundlyet of a good bute of 10 galyones and sume other thinge that you doe thincke I haue nede of and send me those thinges allso with all sped you can I wright for by my letteres by captine Powell and within this hallfe yeere I hope to send you 500 or a Thousand wayght of tobackow thus craving your prayres I rest as in haste Your obedyente sonne,