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Winthrop Family Papers

Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 2

Second Receipt of John Pigot

9 March 1630

Bill of Edward Smith

5 March 1630
Notes the Payment to Pigot1
Revell, John Winthrop, John Revell, John Winthrop, John

1630

I pray you sir to Asighn me whear to Receve this one hundred pounds paid mr. Piggot I did speake to mr. Johnson and he tould me he would speak to you concerninge it I would haue com to you but my occasions ar such I cannot yours to be commanded

John Revell2

I haue sent you the byll of parsells with the aqvittance

my sonne hath orders to paye it where you shall appoint, let a note be sent to my brother downinges in fleetstreet, where he shall paye it and you shall not fayle. so I rest your thankfull freind.

Jo: Winthrop. 216

Endorsed: March the xth 1629 Receved Fowerty poundes of mr. John Wentrope and is in part of 100 li. which I haue payd mr. Pigot for powder } 40 li.

I say Recd.

John Revell. 1.

W. 1. 76.

 2.

John Revell, named among the Plymouth Adventurers in 1626, first appears in the records of the Massachusetts Company on July 28, 1629. He was chosen assistant on October 20, 1629, and one of the ten undertakers for the joint stock on December 1. He came over in the Winthrop Fleet on the Jewell, of which he was part owner, but returned to England in the Lion after a stay of only a few weeks. Savage pessimistically remarks that “he was probably too rich to adventure life and fortune with us.” 1 Collections , III. 48; Winthrop, History of New England (1853), I. 23, 448; 1 Proceedings , v. 93–96. See Journal, May 27, 1630.