My loue and seruice to yow remembred: wishing your health and prosperity in the Lord: the cause of my writtinge att this time is to giue yow notice how it is with me: I haue 10 Acckers of ground to inclose: and it lieth soe among others ground that I must inclose it or forgoe it: now I am destitute of heelp and menns to doe it: hauing noe man: ther fore I doe desire your aduise in it: allsoe the time comes one to sett corne and if soe bee yow with the rest will alow me a man as my husbands condition was I should be glad to vnderstand your pleassur in it: and further as for the howse I now liue in I doe daly expect when they will call for mony for it: now my desire is to knowe whether yow will build me one or pay for that I ame in: I shall be content with what you thinke fitt: only my desire is to know which yow will doe, and I doe ernestly entreat your worshipfull with the rest of the Gentelmen to know what yow intend to doe for the time to come: my prouisiones 23grows skant: though I husband them the best I cane: allsoe concerning the kine my desir is to know how longe I shall haue them and whether I shall haue half the increase: as was before Agreed uppon by the marchants: soe Sir once more I pray yow to send mee word what yow intend to doe. in my barrell of mault I found some neatts tongs: if yow pleass I will send them yow with the first messenger I can: soe I beeseech the Lord to bless yow and rest Your Frend to her power.

My afections toward thee is so great as that I can let slip no ocasion of manifesting the same intreating thee to bee perswaded of my loue to thee notwithstanding my pasions and weaknes which formerly haue caused thee to thinke the contrary I haue sent up thy box this weeke and because it was not full I let Bes Web put in her goune for next weeke shee cometh up Thus with my loue to thy self and all our freinds I rest beeing in great hast and send thee a kiss Thy faithfull wife

I receiued thy sweete letter wherby thy loue doeth manifest its true desire and greate diligence to manifest itselfe without the 24omission of the least and sodainest occasion offered to him who needes noe glasse of uerbal expression to make it appeare and shine forth before his eies or put him in remembrance of its former splendor but as he enioyeth the sweetnesse of thy loue being present with the, so recreateth his thoughts with the sweete memory of the same in thy absence: my dere, thou needest not feare but I am fully perswaded of thy loue, nor thought the contrary, although thy clouding of thy loue sometime hath suddenly darkened my mind with greife and sadnes:2 but my deare, let us beare with one an others weaknesses and seeke to cherish loue by al menes, for that wil make our condition sweete houeuer3 Send John Robinson on Monday in the morning or if this letter come not to you till monday, then send him a tuesday morning betimes, to hitcham to mr. Kemtons, and desire them to cause theire tailor to take measure of mrs. Penelope Nanton, for a Gowne, and let him stay there till it be done, and let him bring away the measure with him and doe thou put it vp safe in a letter and send it next wednesday to my aunt Downing. let it be done with out faile for my aunt Downing hath promised my lady Nanton, and I have promised her, to doe it certainly, therfore prethe doe not thou faile to see it done. I hope to be downe my selfe before this letter come to thy hands but if I should not remember my duty to my mother, and my love to my sister winthrop and sister mary tell thim that my cosen Barfoots sonne is deade.