Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 3
1635-04
Understanding that it is yowr pleasure to let out yowr dayrie till yowr Sonns retorne I desire to hire two of them and shal be content to imbrace yowr termes, and shal resigne them when mr. winthrop requires it: and wheras I am accidentally disappointed of the vse of my Steeres, I entreat yow that yow would giue mr. Clark alowance to let me worke gentlie yowr Steeres which ar at Ipswch wil otherwise grow wild for want of manageing, wherwith and the rest of my Cattle and Seruants I shal be ready to drawe yowr Sonns Hey and wood together this Summer: or els if He retorne late I shal be willing to winter some of his Cattle if I may know before hand that I may get provision for them And so with my respect to yow and mrs. winthrop with thanks for yowr great and no way deserued kindnes I rest yowrs to my Power
W. 1. 107. John Spenser settled in Ipswich in 1634, became a freeman of the colony on September 3 of that year, and subsequently moved to Newbury. His name appears frequently in the records of the General Court as representative both for Ipswich and for Newbury. He returned to England in 1638, having lost favor in Massachusetts because of his siding with John Wheelwright in the controversy of the preceding year. Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, IV. 147.