Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 3
1636-03-07
I am full sorry my respect and care and cost vpon the plantation of a Colini in new England is so slighted and little regarded haueing formerly maid over all I had to you in trust for me by a letter of attorney and your self writting so often you would gett francis Johnson to send me an accompt and let him and Captaine Indeco deall like honest men and truly maike it appeare what is becomde of those goods of myne receiued ashore out of the ship Tho: and Willam Mr. Willam Bundox mli per peace for me to pay heare or els you will deliver him 2 as good as the best of the six mr. Johnson had and you paid me for them about a yeare or two after heare Do you thinke mr. Johnson was of so base a dispossion if he had liued he would a kept my Cattle sould at a vnder value by him had no right to a done it and did it for his owne base by ends. assure you self if this reasonable request be denied me I shall not pase it so over; neither standeth it with the Creditt of mr. Johnsons frends to swallow such Guggions wrongs will provoke words when writting will not serve I feare not but procure a comanding power in what I request if it be denied me Therfor lett me intreat answere as pleaseth, and howsoever I shall rest your Frend to vse
W. 4. 80; 5
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, g1. 218–220. For Hewson, see 5
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, I. 218n.; Frances Rose-Troup, The Massachusetts Bay Company and Its Predecessors (New York, 1930), 114–115.