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Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 3

John Livingstone to John Winthrop, Jr.1
Livingstone, John Winthrop, John, Jr.

1635-01-05

Killinshie 5th Januar 1634/35 Mr. Wynthorp,

Hast to bee at my charge wes the reason why I come away so abruptly th’other day. I could have been glad to have had more tyme, and so to have been more refreshed with yowr company, But I hope the tyme may come when wee may see one another in that land where a great part of my heart is already. I have made bold to send some letters that yow 188may cause bee delyvered as you go along. To three I have writen somwhat concerning yow, To Johne Stewart in Air to Mr. David Dicksone in Irvin, and to James Murray in Edinborough, To whom if yow bee pleased yow may showe yowr self and give some information how maters goes beyond Seas They are men religious and wyse, with whom yow may be free and who (I dare promise) will communicate what yow impart to them only to such and so much as yow shal think fitting. The lord whom yow serve is with yow, wilbee with yow and guyd yow the way that yow are going which shalbee the prayers of him who is Yowrs in the trewest respects

Jo: Levingstone
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W. Au. 83; 5 Collections , I. 206. Livingstone is mentioned by Governor Winthrop in his Journal (1. 127); printed in D.J.W., entry for July 1634 . For a biographical sketch, see D.N.B.