Your letter coming but late this evening immediatly before your servants were returning, I am forced to shorten these few lynes: Your charge and advise is seasonable and so exceeding vsefull, that I should be much awanting in my duty to God, and that due respect I owe vnto your self, if I should not help forward the execution of so good a work. I haue observed in my life tyme that want of prudence and providence hath occasioned the 281most of hazards that befall men in ther life. I desire that we may not preiudice the Lords care he hath had of our preservation, and our owne comforts: for the way is open and easy in my apprehension to prevent any pretended evill, if we be faythfull to attend Gods way. I heard but this day how likely the trade is to miscary, for want of care in setling of it. If you be pleased suddaynly to advise that a course may be taken by the mutuall agreement of all the plantations, and that execution may be speedy and through for the accomplishment of it, it may yet be recovered, but delay will breed a vtter and irrecoverable decay. The good Lord blesse you in your way and work: which he wisheth who is Yours in all due respect

master fenix and master peters our masters as we vnderstand and master leftenant gearner being preasant which is your debate we desire to make bold with your patienc to take theess wordes in to your consideration we desire to lete you understand what nesesaries we desire to have as we ar seruants to you first we hav liued a great while without the meanes of grace and salvation we being ignorant and scarse know any thing of the way and hav great need of teaching the end of our coming was the hope some of us for to haue the meanes in a more frequent and gloriouse way then we had in our natiue contrie and likwis it is your chardg to se it performd as we to desire it.

and also we desire for other nesecari comodities that be long to seruants as for our washing and lodging as our couenants rune hitherto we hau mist of it as we ought to hau had it as we hau been promised shirtes from on rainy day to another and here hath been many Rainy Dayes sines we hau been promised them but we hau been put of still from on day to another and so we shall be still if you do not tak some cours for us.

I hope this enough to let you vnderstand the whole many other thinges we could Rite as for our diet our bread that is taken away our brakfast and our bere and so most of our diet is peass porig so thess thinges that we hau de­282sired here be performed in your part we hope the lord will incline our hartes and afactiones vnto you we seing your loue and afacktion to us it will make us goe on Chearfuli and faithfulli in our places and calling wherein we hope the lord hath sete us in.

thess thinges not being performed with the whole consent of the companie we are resolued not to be content without them.