I wrote you lately per the Hector wherin I sent a runlet marked with your marke contayneinge some things your son did write to me to send him. 410John Wood masters mate did promise mee and James Downeinge that he would be carfull of it and deliver it to you.

These are now to intreat you that you would be assistante to the bearer herof (Thomas Hale my neer kinsman),2 in your councell and aduise to put him in the way how and where to settle himselfe in a hopefull way of sub-sisteinge with his family, he hath brought with him all his estate which he hath heer or can haue dureinge the life of his mother my sister he had almost 200li when he began to make his provision for this voyage I suppose the greatest halfe is expended in his transportion and in such necessaries as will be spent by him and his family in the first vse, the lesser halfe I suppose he hath in mony and vendible goods to provide him a Cottage to dwell in, and a milshe Cow for his Childrens sustenance. I suppose his way will be to hire a house or part of a house for the first year vntill he can looke out and buy or build him a dwellinge, wherin as in other things I shall intreat you to direct him, and the Courtesy that you shall do him therin I shall acknowledge as done to myselfe, and I shall be redy (deo assistante) to endeuour to requite it in any seruice which I can performe for you heer. Thus for this present I commit you all to the protection of the almighty and shall euer rest Your loving frend