Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 4
1640-02-25
these may pleas your worship to vnderstand that I have appointed my Son William Paddy to receue of you for the Corne which I was to haue of the last yeere. I desire you would satisfy to him for so much as I paid for yt long sins which is I think 11li 13s 4d. Ther was A Cow appointed by Mr. Andrewes for Mr. Williames of Providens.2 I desire you would be pleased to send me word wheather you haue any or noe. Or mony to buy for him. I haue directiones from him to that effect that Mr. Williames may haue a Cow to keepe her for haulfe the Calfe. I the rather make bold to intreat your answer because Mr. Williames hath sentt to me often tymes abought yt. With my salutacions to you in the lord and to all thos that feere the Lord with you I take my Leaue. Your Worshipes to vse
W. 1. 140. Edmond Freeman, who came to Massachusetts in the Abigail in 1635, settled first in Lynn and two years later became a freeman of New Plymouth, for which colony his brother-in-law, John Beauchamp, was an adventurer. He was one of the founders, in 1639, of the town of Sandwich. Bradford, History of Plymouth, II. 336.
Cf. Richard Andrews to John Winthrop, July 8, 1639 (pages 129–131, above).