Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 4
1642-09-27
I could not but rit thes faue lines vnto you being verey desierus to heare from you it being so I cannot see you heare but I hop it will not be long but you will bee heare wee thinke the time verey long since you wint and wee know it cannot but be verey greues to my sistar to be so long 355absent from you thoth she bares it verey well before company therfore I pray hastin to vs and let not watestill wat any longer2 you know I soppose your sones name is so I must be brefe becas I am vnfit to rit much. I haue laine in and have another lekill girll and haue kept my chambar this nine wekes and haue had a sore brest but the lord hath bin verey good to mee. my husban is well and is at the bay at the court aconsulting what to doe about the Ingines wee are in fare of thim my sistar lake is heare and desiers to be remembared to you this with my loue to you remembard, I commet you to the lord and rest your euer louing sistar
W. Au. 75; Waters, Sketch of John Winthrop the Younger, 68. Martha Reade Symonds, second wife of Samuel Symonds of Ipswich, was the daughter of Edmund Reade and Elizabeth (Cooke) Reade (who later became the first wife of Hugh Peter). Her first husband had been Daniel Epes. Elizabeth Reade Winthrop, the second wife of John Winthrop, Jr., was her sister.
Wait Still, son of John Winthrop, Jr., and Elizabeth Winthrop, was born February 27, 1641/42.