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Winthrop Family Papers

Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 2

Octob: 23: 25.

23 October 1630

Nou: 11.

11 November 1630
Octob: 29.
Winthrop, John

1630-10-29

The handmaid arived at Plimmouthe, havinge been 12: weekes at sea, and spent all her mastes, and of 28: Cowes she lost 10: she had about 60: passengers, who came all well: Jo: Grauntes master.1

mr. Goffe wrote to me that his shippinge this yeare had vtterly vndoone him.2

she brought out 28: heifers the first half of this sentence is cancelled, but brought but 17: aliue3

1.

In this ship, “into which he was ignominiously hoisted by a tackle, and from whose decks he saw the flames that destroyed his dwelling,” Thomas Morton was returned to England. For the circumstances of his expulsion and the charge of murder against him, see Bradford, History of Plymouth (1912), II. 73–77; W. C. Ford, on Grant, in Proceedings , XLIV. 255–257; and Albert Matthews, “The Naming of Hull, Massachusetts,” in New England Historical and Genealogical Register, LIX. 177–186, especially 185. See Winthrop's letter of November 29, 1630, page 319.

 2.

See letter of John Humfrey to Isaac Johnson, December 23, 1630, page 337.

 3.

See Dudley's “Letter to the Countess of Lincoln,” Young, Chronicles of Massachusetts, 320–321.