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Winthrop Family Papers

Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 2

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.
Bill of Edward Smith1
Smith, Edward Massachusetts-Bay Company

March the: 5th: 1629–30
li. s. d.
It. 3 dubell bedes and boulstars at: 12: s. per peece: is 01. 16. 00
It. 3 hoole Ruges at: 9: s. per peece is 01. 07. 00
It. 3 Elles of packinge canues at: 10: d. per Elle is 00. 02. 06
It. for corde and porterege: Mallinge and carringe 00. 00. 06
li. s. d.
All the some is 03. 06. 00
March 6: 1629

Received in full of this bill the summe of three poundes six shillinges per me

Edward Smith.

marked thus.

the bale was

1.

W. 1. 75
Receipt of Francis Clarke1
Clarke, Francis Massachusetts-Bay Company

1630-03-06
li. s. d.
Resons solis2 1. C 2: li. at 40: s. per li C. 02: 00: 093
Currantes 1. C at 46: s. 8 d. per C: 02: 06: 08
Large ginger ½ C at 7: li. per li. C 03: 10: 00
Anisedes 20: li. at 9 d. per li. 00: 15: 00
gales4 6 li at 12 d. per li. 00: 06: 00
217
guaicum bark 2 li. at 18 d. per li. 00: 03: 00
greene copperis 6 li. at 3 d. per li. 00: 01: 06
small mace 1 li. at 12 s. per li. 00: 12: 00
Rasinggs 2 li. at 5: s. 6 d. per li. 00: 11: 00
Cloues 1 li. at 13 s. per li. 00: 13: 00
Large scnnot 1 li. at 6. s. 8. d. per li. 00: 06: 08
pepper 10 li. at 22 d. per li. 00: 18: 04
powder suger 20 li. at 13. d. per li. 01: 01: 08
for 2 bagges. 00: 01: 00
for 2 barrells. 00: 02: 00
for a box. 00: 00: 06
Jordan Almonds 14 li. at 15 d. per li. 00: 17: 06
Resons solis 20: li. at 4 d. ½ per li. 00: 07: 06
2 boxces 00: 01: 02
Verdegreece 4 oz. 00: 01: 06
14: 15: 9
pruons 1: C: at 20 s. per C. 01: 00: 00
for a bagge 00: 01: 03
for ½ li. of tobacco 00: 10: 00
1: 11: 3
14: 15: 9
16: 07: 0
Receaued the 6th of march 1629 in full of this bill the sume of sixteene poundes and seauen shillinges I say receaued. li. s.
per me Francis Clarke. 16. 7
1.

W. 1. 76.

 2.

Resons solis are sun-dried grapes. With currants they were reckoned remedial in scurvy.

 3.

The colons and dashes of the original are not reproduced.

 4.

Gales may be the leaves or twigs of sweet gale, or bog-myrtle, myrica gale, of old medicinal use, and sometimes employed in brewing.