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.

For as much as it hath pleased God to send Mr. Fenwicke into this country And to call me to a distinct charge and care ouer the matters of this Plantation; I shall no way interest my self in the matters of Connetticut any further then as a publike person of this Body. so that in all these matters I shall wholy referre you to Mr. Fenwicke who accompanys these lines to you. That which for the present I haue to commend to you is a busines that concernes not only this state but all the English upon the Riuer, that is to say a cleare examination of the Pequots proceedings and such expression of our minds to them as in this case is requisite. To this End we haue thought fitt to send you a commission and to recommend to your consideration certaine instructions which containe the summe of our thoughts in that busines.2 And farther we do desire you to lay downe so much Wampum there as the Pequots sent vs and we shall see you repayd heere: your Father will write to you what quantity it is of. For the skins we shall send them by some of the Barkes that go to you. The oppertunity of Mr. Fenwick and Mr. Peeters being with you may somewhat aduance this worke and therfore I beseech you let not the occasion slip. As for other matters that concerne the mouth of the Riuer and those that liue in the vpland, if you acquaint me with them I shall giue you my aduise and assistance for establishing thing s according to Justice and the Equity of the cause. Your owne wisedome is such I know as to lay vp such obseruations 283by you as may be for the benefitt of the Gentlemen: and may giue them some returne of their great disbursements: as also for counsell and direction how to setle things at the Riuers mouth, in All which you may be helpfull to Mr. Fenwicke who is a stranger to those parts and so I doubt but you wilbee. Thus In hast I rest Your affectionate freind