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Winthrop Family Papers

Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 3

Sir Matthew Boynton to John Winthrop, Jr.

13 April 1636

Sir William Spring to John Winthrop

16 April 1636
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Matthew Allyn to John Winthrop, Jr.1
Allyn, Mathew Winthrop, John, Jr.

1636-04-16
To the Worshippfull Mr. John Wintropp esquier at the mouth of the Ryver of conecticutt deliver these
Worshipfull Sir,

My love and service be preferred to you these are to signifie to you that I have a desire to have a lott at the mouth of the Ryver that may be fitt to sett a howse vppon to receave the goods and such other allotmente of lands to yt as your worshipp shale judge meete for mee I knowe not but I may have occasion to live in yt my selfe your worship I beleeve knoweth I have bine at Charge in keping the possession of yt but I having receaved such Curtesie from your worshipp this request being a thinge that lyeth in your power to frend mee and wrighte mee I doe not question butt your worshipp will order yt soe that I shall bee accommodated comfortetablely I desire your worshipp would be pleased to send mee a woorde or two what you allott mee that I may send servants to bulde vppon yt thus craving perdon for my bouldnes I reste Leaving your worshipp to the moste safe protection of the Allmightie and remayning your Loving Frend to his power to bee commaunded

Mathewe Allyn This 16th of Apprill 1636 From Newe towne2 1.

W. 10. 63. Matthew Allyn first settled in Cambridge and went to Connecticut with Hooker, settling at Windsor, where he died in 1670. He was a prominent figure in the early days of Connecticut, serving as deputy, magistrate, and assistant in the colony government and as one of the commissioners of the United Colonies. Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge (Boston, 1877), 479.

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Hartford, Connecticut.