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Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 4

Francis Doughty to John Winthrop1
Doughty, Francis JW

1640-08

To the much honoured Magistrat Mr. John Winthrop these deliver in Boston
Sir,

my service remembered to your Worship, may it please you hearinge my sister Cole hathe petitioned against me,2 I make bold to intreat you doe me the fauor to let me vnderstand theffect of her proceeding and whether I shall need to attend the next Court and what you guesse she will doe then and when the Court is. I pray God increase your honour and perpetuate your happinesse resting, till you Command

Fr: Doughty Towards the end of August 1640 from Taunton
1.

W. 4. 107; 5 Collections , I. 308. For Doughty, see 5 Collections , I. 308n.

2.

For documents in the case of William and Elizabeth Cole vs. Francis Doughty, see Lechford's Notebook, 137, 171–174, 256.