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Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 3

John Winthrop, Jr., to Martha Winthrop1
Winthrop, John Winthrop, Martha

1631-03-04

Lond: Mar: 4: 1630/31 Thy deare husband John Winthrop My deare,

I cannot write the any long narration of our iorny but in breif both on Wednesday and Thursday we came to our iourneys end as wet as drounded rats but came safe and in good health God be praised Me thinks I want thy company much already which maketh me much greiued to thinke of a month or six weeks My Aund Downing expected to haue seene the and chid me because I did not bring the up She thinketh long to see the I prethe write to her when thou hast leisure and to my cosen Mary is uery sory thou carnest not up I send doune some orenges and lemons for 17the and my mother I wil wright her word I send them her Thus with my tru lov remembred I commit the to the God of heauen.2

All our freinds heare salute the. heere is none yet come for my sister Vrsula but last weeke there was one mr. Harris asked for her two or thre tymes and he had promised them to goe downe with her. So I rest with my love to all our freinds my sister winthrop sister mary (whose things I will shortly send downe) vncle and aunt Gostlin mr. Lee and the rest of our frends Thy loving Husband

John Winthrop
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W. Au. 57.

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The letter to this point, with the exception of the date line, is in cipher.