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Winthrop Family Papers

Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 2

John Humfrey to Isaac Johnson

9 December 1630

John Humfrey to John Winthrop

12 December 1630
Priscilla Paynter to John Winthrop, Jr.1
Paynter, Priscilla Winthrop, John, Jr.

1630-12-10
To my much respected sonn, Mr. John Wenthrope.
my dere sonne,

so much comfort doth your loue afford me in this my affliction2 that I can now call you by no other name hopeing that though the lord hath made this brach uppon me yet I and mine shall still inioy your loue which I much desier and shall euer reioyce in: what my loue was to him that is gone before us you may se by my willing parting with my derest child to goe to such a plase3 what my grife is for the lose of him I am no way able to expres but suer I am that it doth set much closer to my hart then the lose of too children before: I know your loue to be such that I shall not nede to intrat you to comfort my pore child in this her grat destres: the good lord comfort us all4 and giue us all a sanctified vse of it: and so with the remembranc of my dere loue to your worthy selfe and second selfe5 I end and rest your louing mother till daeth

pris: paynter. Exeter, ca. December 10, 1630. 331

what my cosen forde was to doe for me about my house at Ipswhich I must nedes intrat you to doe for me if your busnes will giue you leaue if not I pray intrate my brother gosling to doe it for me and I shall be uery thankfull to him I pray remember my harty loue to him and his wife.

 1.

W. 4. 26; 5 Collections , I. 70–71.

 2.

The recent death of Forth Winthrop.

 3.

New England, whither Forth and Ursula intended to remove after their marriage.

 4.

MS. “comforts all,” with “us” interlined before “all.”

 5.

Martha Fones, who married John Winthrop, Jr., at Groton, February 8, 1630–31, almost a year after the date of their licence (supra, page 210) 5 Collections , I. 116.