Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 4
1639-07-12
After my humble servis presented, these are to acquant your Worship that the bearer hereof John Warner hath bin this day with me and giuen me2 satisfaction conserning a small debt he was indebted to me, vppon which I haue dellivered him his bill I had vnder his hand for payment (this att his request) and I rest yours in all Bounden dutie
W. 14. 22. For Hawkins, noted shipwright in the early days of the colony, see Oliver A. Roberts, History of the Military Company of the Massachusetts Now Called the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, I (Boston, 1895), 63–64.
The word in the original manuscript is “be.”