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Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 3

Jonathan Brewster to John Winthrop, Jr.1
Brewster, Jonathan Winthrop, John, Jr.

1636-04-30

To the Woorshippfull John Winthrope Gouernour of the Foorte in Cunnitecutt Riuer deliver these
Woorshippfull Sir

This is, (If I maye make soe bould with you) that you would be pleased, as to lett some of your servants to be a meanes of sending two hogsheads of provisiones marked ST, which lyes at the Riuers 258mouth, by any vessell that comes vp the Riuer, eyther to Watertowne2 or Newtowne3 or this plantation. And if my brother Oldam be at the Riuers mouth, I suppose if he knowes that it is myne, he will doe me that Curtesye.

Thus fearing I am ouer bould with your Woorshipp heerin, with my duty remembred to your selfe, I take my leaue And Rest Yours to vse to his poore power

Johnnathan Brewster Mattainuke4 this 30th Aprill 1636
1.

W. 3. 21; 4 Collections , VII. 66–67. For Brewster, see 4 Collections , VII. 66n.; Bradford, History of Plymouth, II. 218, n. 2.

2.

Wethersfield.

3.

Hartford.

4.

Matianuck, the site of the Plymouth trading house in what is now Windsor, Connecticut.