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1631
according to your request I went to lanham2 and tooke particulers of all your lands there (as neere as I could gather of your tennants) whereof ther is 83 akers or thereabouts, all of the which is Copy saving 3 or 4 akers which is free and houldeth of Mr. Barrow and the house with halfe an aker is also fre but they know not of whome it houldeth Mr. Doyle haue demanded 3 pence the yeere for it but ther have not any rent bin payed because they never knew iustly of whome it held Mr. Harman farmes 20 akers rents 7li 12s ther is 10 akers of it errable and the rest fennes and ther is a littell tenement vpon the ground Allin farmes where he dwelleth 20 8akers 28 akers of it is erreble the rest fennes saving one aker of medow which lyeth in a common medow it rents 20li 12s more Allen farmes 20 akers 13 of it erreble the rest medow it rents 13li 10s
Mr. Forth farmes one medow of 3 akers it rents 4li the yeerely rent with the Lords rent is 45li 14s the Lords rent is in all 3li 7s the yeere, 41s 4d to Mr. Hoges, 24s to Mr. Doyle, 1s 8d to Mr. Barrow and thus with my truest loue to you my Brother Downing and sister with commendationes to all the rest of my cosenes and freinds I rest Your ever loving vncle
I could wishe that you would not sell any of it as yet it is thought that the land that lyeth at masones bridge which Allen last toke to farme will sell for as much as all the rest. Your Ante remembers her loue to you all.
W. 1. 83. Thomas Gostlin, a clothier of Suffolk, married Jane Winthrop, sister of the Governor.
Lavenham, Suffolk.
1631-01
your letter was exceeding wellcome to me, for I longed to heare whether my letters and the monyes I sent came to your hand or noe, and whether imployed to the vse of those poore distressed creatures our good Brethren and sisters in New England:2 And now I heare that my desire is fullfilled, I give you most harty thanks: you haue indebted me much to you, and I hope you haue ere this, or will shortly make some glad harts of those that haue felt much hardnes. The Lord in mercy blesse it to them. God hath bene pleased vntimely (as we may say) to take your 2 Brothers3 out of this life, for which I haue bene much grieved: I blesse his name that hath yet reserved you to be a comfort to your Fathers hart over all his heavy crosses, and to be a Blessing to the place whither you are intending. I pray be so good as send me word when you heare of any shipp that is to goe next, for I would write by any meanes: yea if I have fitt meanes I would send over a Cow or Bullock or 2. If I were able to travell I had seen your mother and bene with you once and twise ere this. But I have not bene a mile out of Towne since 9my lamenes now this halfe yeer allmost, yet I am forced tomorow to adventure to Assington to see my weak sonne. I pray God enable me to hold out the Journey. my loue hartily remembred (good Sir) I hartily take my leaue and commend you to the grace of God. Your w
W. 4. 71; 5
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, I. 197. For the Reverend John Rogers of Dedham, Essex, father of the Reverend Nathaniel Rogers of Ipswich, Massachusetts, see
D.N.B.
See Rogers’s earlier letter to Winthrop, Winthrop Papers, II. 316–317.
Henry Winthrop, who was drowned at Salem on July 2, 1630, and Forth Winthrop, who was buried at Groton on November 28, 1630.