I received your Lettre, and doe heartyly reioyce and blesse the Lord for his mercifull providence towards vs all in deliuering your wife 10from so greate a danger. the Lord make us truly thankfull: and I hope it will teach my daughter and other woemen to take heed of puttinge pinnes in the mouth, which was never seasonable to be fedd with such morsells: I can write you no newes onely we had letters from Conectecott, where they were shutt vp with snowe aboue a month since: and we at Boston were almost readye to breake vp for want of wood, but that it pleased the Lorde to open the Bay (which was so frozen as men went ouer it in all places) and mitigate the rigor of the season blessed be his name: on fryday was fortnight a pinnace was cast away vpon Longe Iland by Natascott, and mr. Babbe and others which were in her came home upon the Ice: we have had one man frozen to death: and some others have lost their fingers and toes: 7 men were carried out to sea in a little rotten skiffe and kept there 24 houers without foode or fire, and at last gat to pullen point.

we have appointed the general Court the 12 of the 1 month. we shall expect you heere before the Court of Assistants. so with all hearty salutations from my self and your mother to your self and wife and little Betty and all our good friends with you I commende you to the blessing of the Lord and rest Your loving father