my humble deuteye remembreid vnto you trusteinge in god you are in good hellthe and I pray remembr my loue vnto my Brother Joseife, and thanck him for his kindnes that I found at his hand at London wich wase not the ualleu of fardin I knowe Louinge father and do confese that I wase an undeuteyefull Cheilld vnto you when I liueied withe you and by you for the wiche I am muche sorrowfull and greueid for it trusteinge in god that he will so geide me that I will neuer offend you so aney more and I truste in god that you will forgiue me for it and my wreightein unto you is to lete you vndurestand what a cuntrey theis new Eingland is whar we liue her ar but fewoe eingeines and a gret sorte of them deyeid theis winture it wase thought it wase of the plage thay ar a craftey peple and thaye will cussen and cheat and thay ar a suttell peple and whareas we ded expect gret stor of beuer her is littell or non to be had and thar Sackemor John waiethe it and maney of us truck withe them and it leyethe us maney tymes in 8s a pound thay ar proper men and clen Jointeide men and maney of them go nackeid withe a skein abought thare loines but now some of them get eingellishe menes parell and the 18cuntrey is uerey rockey and heilley and some champine ground and the soile is uerey flete and her is somee good ground and marshe ground but her is no myckellmes springe cattell threiue well here but thay giue small stor of mylck the best cattell for proffeit is sweines and a good sweine is her at 5li preise and a goote is worthe 3li a gadene gote her is teimbur good store and ackornes good stor and her is good stor of feishe If we had botes to goo 8 or x leges to sea to fishe in her ar good stor of weield foule but thay ar hard to come bye it is hardur to get a shoot then it is in ould eingland and Peple her ar subgecte to deicesesse for her haue deyeid of the skurueye and of the burninge feuer too hundreid and ode beseides maney leyethe lame and all sudberey men ar ded but thre and thee woomen and sume cheilldren and prouisseyones ar her at a wondurfule rat wheat mell is xiiijs a bushell and pese xs and mault xs and eindey seid wheat is xvs and thare other wheat is xs buttr xiid a pound and chese is 8d a pound and all kind of speyseis uerey der and allmoste non to be got and if theis ship had not cume when it ded we had bine put to a woondurfule straighte but thanckes be to god for sendinge of it in I resayueid from the shipe a hogseite of mell and the gouerner tellethe me of a hundreid waight of chesse the wiche I haue resayueid parte of it I humbley thancke you for it I ded expecte too coues the wiche I had non nor I do not arenestly deseyer that you shoold send me aney becauese the cuntrey is not so as we ded expecte it tharefor Louige father I wolld intret you that you woolld send me a ferckeine of buttr and a hogseit of mault onground for we dreinck notheinge but walltre and a corse clothe of fouer pound preise so it be thicke and for the fraute if you of youer Loue will send them I will paye the fraute for her is notheinge to be gote withe ought we had comemodeytes to go up in to the este partes amonckest the eingeines to truck for her whare we liue her is no beuer and her is no clothe to be had to mack no parell and shoes ar at 5s a payer for me and that clothe that is woorthe 2s 8d a yard is woorthe her 5s so I pray father send me fouer or fiue yardes of clothe to mack us sume parell and Louinge fathere thoue I be far disstante from you yet I pray you remembure me as youer cheield and we do not know how longe we may subeseiste for we can not liue her witheought prouisseyones from ould eingland thare fore I pray do not put away youer shopestufe for I theinck that in the eind if I liue it must be my leueinge for we do not know how longe theis plantacyon will stand for some of the marchantes that ded up hould it haue turned of thare men and haue giuene it ouere beseides god hath tacken away the chefeste stud in the land Mr. Johnson and the ladye arabella his wife wiche wase the cheiffeste man of estate in the land and on that woold a don moste good

her cam ouer xxv passeingares and thare cume backe agayn fouer skore and od parsones and as maney more wolld a cume if thay had whare withe all to bringe them hom for her ar maney that cam ouer the laste yere wiche wase woorthe too hundreid poundes afore they cam ought of ould eingland that betwine theis and myckellmes wille be hardly worthe xxxli so her we may liue if we haue suppleyes euerey yere from ould eingland other weyse we can not subeseiste I maye as I will worck hard sete an ackorne of eindey wheat and if we do not set it withe fishe and that will coste xxs and if we set it witheought fishe thay shall haue but a por crope so father I pray consedre of my cause for her will be but a uerey por beinge and no beinge withe ought Louinge father youer helpe withe prouisseyones from ould eingland I had thought to a cam home in theis sheipe for my prouisseyones ware all moste all spente but that I humbley thanck you for youer gret loue and kindnes in sendinge me some prouissyones or elles I sholld and myne a bine halef famiuyshed but now I will if it plese god that I haue my hellthe I will plant what corne I can and if prouisseyones be no cheper betwein theis and myckellmes and that I do not her from you what I wase beste to do I purpose to come hom at myckellmes my wife remembur hur humble deutey unto you and to my mother and my Loue to mye brother Joseife and to Sarey myler thus I leue you to the protectyon of Allmytey god