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Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 2

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Margaret Winthrop to John Winthrop1
Winthrop, Margaret Winthrop, John

1629-06-14

To hir very louinge Husban John Winthrope Esquire these dd.
My deare Husband,

haueinge so fit opertunity, I cannot omit it, but rite a word or to, to thee that you may vnderstand of our healths I prayse god wee are all well and I think very longe for your returne home. I hope to heare this weeke when you will come home. I haue receiued your sweet letter, and thanke thee for it my sonne Henry will be at London before the end of the terme, he and his wife purpose to goe to my brothers tyndall2 some time this weeke and I thinke he will goe from thence to London. I may chance to goe alonge with them my daughter beinge a stranger thear, if I goe i shall not right ainy more this weeke without I can send from thence, thou seest how bold I am to take leaue to goe abroade in thy abcence but I presume vpon thy loue, and concent or elce I wolde not doe it. I hope I shall take order that all thinge shalbe wel looked to for the time I stay. I will not trouble thee with relatinge any thinge to thee, but leaue all maters till I see thee. I loth to be thus short in rightinge to thee, but that it is night and I must send awaye my letter, and part with my beloued and good Husban and haue nothinge but my best loue and all due respect to send him which my pen can not exprese or my tounge vtter, but I will endeuor to shew it as well as I can to thee, and to all that loue thee. I pray remember my loue to brother and sister Downinge sister Fones. I hope I shall see them all heare this sommer, and thus I must leaue thee and bid my sweet husban good night and commit him to god. Your faythful and obedient wife

Margaret Winthrope. Groton, ca. June 14, 1629.

our sonnes and daughters remember thear duty I will not right any thing now about my sonnes man haueinge no tyme you shall know when you come home I thinke my sonne Forth will goe to Cambridge this weeke and talke with his tuter but I thinke he is resoulued to be no longer thear.

1.

W. 1. 50; L. and L. , I. 299–300; Twichell, Puritan Love-Letters , 110–111.

2.

At Great Maplestead, co. Essex.