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Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 4

Receipt of the Deacons of the Church in Boston1
Colbrun, William Hill, Valentine Eliot, Jacob

1642-09-20

Boston in N: England (7) 20: 1642

This is to certifie, that we the Deacons of the Church there have received of mr. winthrop our Governor a twenty shillings piece in golde sent from mr. Sparrowe of Ipswich to Nath: Greygoose late a member of our Churche, now deceased, who in the tyme of his sickness was maintaynd at the Churches charge a longe season.

Will Colbron Val: Hill Jacob Eliot

Endorsed by John Winthrop, Jr.: Deacons of Boston: receipt of 20s for N: Graygoose.

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W. 1. 149. The body of the document is in the handwriting of Governor Winthrop.