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Thomas Reade to John Winthrop, Jr.1

Reade, Thomas Winthrop, John, Jr.

1635-03-07

To the Worshipfull John Winthrop esquire

Roterdam th 7 Mearche 1635 N. S. Deare Sir,

I cane not chooes but trobell you withe thes feaue leynes to let you for to vnder stand that I should a bean very glad for to a spoke withe you at london but the shipes coming a way so sone that I could not inquier you ought (thoe I was at deyveres places to heare of you) touching Mr. Endecots house I thinke he dead wryt to you a bought it in the letter wiche I brought2 I ould in treate you that you ould not sell it wryt ought be fore I speacke withe you for I had all moste sould it be fore I came a way by his order but I hope for to se you heare be fore feaue deayes be peast for my father3 hath writ to you all for to come hether we should be glad of your Company to ouer desyered porte if so be that you doe not come soddonly I preay let me heare a word or to frome you what youer resolushons ar abought the viege. I thinke for to be in England with in this forte nyte at the furtheste but I hope for to se you heare or for to heare frome you be fore that teyme thus in great haste I comeit you to Ceaper of the Isrell of god and rest Yours to command to my pouer

Thomas Reade 1.

W. 3. 29; 4 Collections , VII. 113–114. For Reade, see 4 Collections , VII. 113n.

See the letter of John Endecott to John Winthrop, Jr., December 8, 1634, page 176, above.

His stepfather, Hugh Peter.

Emmanuel Downing to John Winthrop, Jr.1

Downing, Emmanuel Winthrop, John, Jr.

1635-03-25

To his loving Cosen John Winthrop Esqr. at mr. Gostlins in Groton hall Suffolke deliver

My good Cosen,

mr. Sheapheard was with me yeasterday, to enquire of your estate; whereof I could give him noe account. he prayed me to write vnto you thereof, and desires that you would retorne an answeare thereto this weeke, if you come not your selfe speedyly back. he would know your present estate in possession, and what in future you expect from your father, for this wilbe demaunded of him, before he can conclude any thing for you. And yts good reason you should satisfie him herein, because noe man that 195knowes you not, will parte with his Child till he know how shee shall be provided for to live in the world2

this day my brother Kirby cam to me to tell me that mr. Atwood the leather seller was with him, to give him notice that you should walke waryly and close because there be some that laye wayte to Attach you. Mr. Winsloe lyes still in prison, and is like soe to continew, for I doe not heare when the lords will meete againe for plantation buisines.

I doe heare there will goe at least 20 ships this yeare to the plantation. there is one at the Custome howse apoynted to receive Certificats and give discharges to all such as shall goe to the plantation.3 some that are goeing to N. E. went to him to know what they should doe. he bad them bring him any Certificate from Minister Church wardens or Justice that they were honest men and he would give them theire pass. they asked him what subsedy men should doe. he answeared that he could not tell who were subsedy men, and would dischardge them vpon theire Certificates. soe with my love to yourselfe my brother Gostlyn and his wife I rest Yours whilest I am

Em. Downinge 25 Martij 1635 1.

W. 2. 22; 4 Collections , VI. 42–43.

At some date between Downing’s letter and Winthrop’s sailing for Massachusetts on the Abigail in August, 1635, Winthrop married Elizabeth Reade, daughter of Edmund Reade of Wickford, Essex, and Elizabeth Cook Reade. The latter, after her husband’s death, became the wife of Hugh Peter.

See the order of the Commission for Foreign Plantations to the officers of the Port of London, December 31, 1634 (pages 180–181, above).