Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 3
1636-06
I can not2 but I must bee trobboll some to the with these my poore lines, which are to sartifi the that I haue recaueed thy letter which doeth not a lettell reioces my harte to see that thee Lord hace bene so pleesed to geue the thy halte and life that soo thou mayest despach thy besnes to retorne home againe so soone as thee Lord shall se it fetting for truly I fare my time is neeare then thou thinkest it bes3 and thearfor let me intreate the that thou woldes not bee unminde of me in thy praieres to the Lord ouer greate God of Heauen before wohe wee must all appeare at the iugmente seeate of christ I thinke thou shoueds doo wall to write to my mother if thou caneast not come with the next but littell doest the thinke how much it wold refreach my haui and sad sparet to see thy deare face againe I pray come 267away so sone as thou canest and so I rest commetting the to God I rest thy eauer loueing and kinde wife to comande in whatsoeauer thou plesest so long as the Lord shall bee plesed to geue me life and strenge
I thanke the for my basket but I haue gau it to my mother for she was in loue with it
W. Au. 67; 5
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, I. 85–86.
The word in the original manuscript is spelled “mot.”
Elizabeth, daughter of John Winthrop, Jr., and Elizabeth Winthrop, was, according to the records of the First Church of Boston, baptized on July 3, 1636. Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, IX (Boston, 1883), 4. A statement in the Boston records (ibid.) that she was born on July 24 is obviously incorrect, as can be seen from the letter of Adam Winthrop to John Winthrop, Jr., July 3, 1636 (page 283, below), and those of Robert Feke and Elizabeth Feke to John Winthrop, Jr., July 5, 1636 (pages 287–288, below), all of which make mention of the infant daughter.