my humble deuteye remembreid vnto you trusteinge in god you are in good hellthe and I pray remembr my loue vnto my Brother Joseife, and thanck him for his kindnes that I found at his hand at London wich wase not the ualleu of fardin I knowe Louinge father and do confese that I wase an undeuteyefull Cheilld vnto you when I liueied withe you and by you for the wiche I am muche sorrowfull and greueid for it trusteinge in god that he will so geide me that I will neuer offend you so aney more and I truste in god that you will forgiue me for it and my wreightein unto you is to lete you vndurestand what a cuntrey theis new Eingland is whar we liue her ar but fewoe eingeines and a gret sorte of them deyeid theis winture it wase thought it wase of the plage thay ar a craftey peple and thaye will cussen and cheat and thay ar a suttell peple and whareas we ded expect gret stor of beuer her is littell or non to be had and thar Sackemor John waiethe it and maney of us truck withe them and it leyethe us maney tymes in 8s a pound thay ar proper men and clen Jointeide men and maney of them go nackeid withe a skein abought thare loines but now some of them get eingellishe menes parell and the 18cuntrey is uerey rockey and heilley and some champine ground and the soile is uerey flete and her is somee good ground and marshe ground but her is no myckellmes springe cattell threiue well here but thay giue small stor of mylck the best cattell for proffeit is sweines and a good sweine is her at 5li preise and a goote is worthe 3li a gadene gote her is teimbur good store and ackornes good stor and her is good stor of feishe If we had botes to goo 8 or x leges to sea to fishe in her ar good stor of weield foule but thay ar hard to come bye it is hardur to get a shoot then it is in ould eingland and Peple her ar subgecte to deicesesse for her haue deyeid of the skurueye and of the burninge feuer too hundreid and ode beseides maney leyethe lame and all sudberey men ar ded but thre and thee woomen and sume cheilldren and prouisseyones ar her at a wondurfule rat wheat mell is xiiijs a bushell and pese xs and mault xs and eindey seid wheat is xvs and thare other wheat is xs buttr xiid a pound and chese is 8d a pound and all kind of speyseis uerey der and allmoste non to be got and if theis ship had not cume when it ded we had bine put to a woondurfule straighte but thanckes be to god for sendinge of it in I resayueid from the shipe a hogseite of mell and the gouerner tellethe me of a hundreid waight of chesse the wiche I haue resayueid parte of it I humbley thancke you for it I ded expecte too coues the wiche I had non nor I do not arenestly deseyer that you shoold send me aney becauese the cuntrey is not so as we ded expecte it tharefor Louige father I wolld intret you that you woolld send me a ferckeine of buttr and a hogseit of mault onground for we dreinck notheinge but walltre and a corse clothe of fouer pound preise so it be thicke and for the fraute if you of youer Loue will send them I will paye the fraute for her is notheinge to be gote withe ought we had comemodeytes to go up in to the este partes amonckest the eingeines to truck for her whare we liue her is no beuer and her is no clothe to be had to mack no parell and shoes ar at 5s a payer for me and that clothe that is woorthe 2s 8d a yard is woorthe her 5s so I pray father send me fouer or fiue yardes of clothe to mack us sume parell and Louinge fathere thoue I be far disstante from you yet I pray you remembure me as youer cheield and we do not know how longe we may subeseiste for we can not liue her witheought prouisseyones from ould eingland thare fore I pray do not put away youer shopestufe for I theinck that in the eind if I liue it must be my leueinge for we do not know how longe theis plantacyon will stand for some of the marchantes that ded up hould it haue turned of thare men and haue giuene it ouere beseides god hath tacken away the chefeste stud in the land Mr. Johnson and the ladye arabella his wife wiche wase the cheiffeste man of estate in the land and on that woold a don moste good

her cam ouer xxv passeingares and thare cume backe agayn fouer skore and od parsones and as maney more wolld a cume if thay had whare withe all to bringe them hom for her ar maney that cam ouer the laste yere wiche wase woorthe too hundreid poundes afore they cam ought of ould eingland that betwine theis and myckellmes wille be hardly worthe xxxli so her we may liue if we haue suppleyes euerey yere from ould eingland other weyse we can not subeseiste I maye as I will worck hard sete an ackorne of eindey wheat and if we do not set it withe fishe and that will coste xxs and if we set it witheought fishe thay shall haue but a por crope so father I pray consedre of my cause for her will be but a uerey por beinge and no beinge withe ought Louinge father youer helpe withe prouisseyones from ould eingland I had thought to a cam home in theis sheipe for my prouisseyones ware all moste all spente but that I humbley thanck you for youer gret loue and kindnes in sendinge me some prouissyones or elles I sholld and myne a bine halef famiuyshed but now I will if it plese god that I haue my hellthe I will plant what corne I can and if prouisseyones be no cheper betwein theis and myckellmes and that I do not her from you what I wase beste to do I purpose to come hom at myckellmes my wife remembur hur humble deutey unto you and to my mother and my Loue to mye brother Joseife and to Sarey myler thus I leue you to the protectyon of Allmytey god

I haue small hope that this should come to thy hands, in regard of the longe staye of the shipe heer, so as thou maiest be well onward of thy waye hether before these can come to England: therefore I write little to thyselfe and my sonne and those whom I expect to see heer shortly, if it shall so please the Lorde. And blessed be his holy and glorious name that he hath so far magnified his mercy towards vs, that when so many haue been 20layd in their graues since we parted, yet he hath pleased to preserue vs unto this hope of a ioyfull meetinge, that we may see the faces of each other againe, the faces of our children and sweet babes: these thinges I durst scarce think off heertofore, but now I embrace them ofte, and delight my heart in them, because I trust, that the Lord our God, who hath kept me and so many of my Company in health and safety amonge so many dead Corps, through the heat of the summer and the Cold of winter, and hath also preserued thee in the perill of childbirth, and vpheld thy heart in the middest of so many discouragements, with the life of all thy companye, will of his owne goodnesse and free mercye preserve vs and ours still that we shall meet in ioye and peace, which I dayly pray for, and shall expect in the Lords good tyme: who still continues his fauour and blessinge vpon thee and our sweet babes and all thy companye. For our little daughter, doe as thou thinkest best. the Lord direct thee in it. if thou bringest her, she wilbe more trouble to thee in the shipp then all the rest I knowe my sister wilbe tender of her till I may send for her.2 bringe Amy and Anne Gostlin with thee if thou canst. if they come not, they will much wronge themselues. they need feare no want here, if they wilbe guided by Gods word: otherwise they can looke to prosper no where. I prayse God I want nothinge but thee and the rest of my family: Commend my Loue and blessinge to them all: and to all my neighbours and freinds, but I haue desired my brother Gostlin to performe that. remember to bringe iuice of Limons to sea with thee, for thee and thy company to eate with your meat as sauce. but of these things my sonne hath direction: so again I kisse thee my sweet wife and commend thee and all ours to the Lord, and rest Thine