My respectiue loue remembred vnto you and your wife and to your son John Wintrop and his wife: I received a letter lately from you by Nippumsint and another to mr. Haines which I sent him: I blesse god to heere of your good health and I praise god we are all in good health and in peace in our plantation and the Lord hath added some 3 or 4 yonge men out of the Riuer that are godly to us lately: and the Lord has greately blessed mr. Moxons ministry to the conversion of many soules that are lately added to our Church: and hetherto the Lord hath preserued vs in peace from enimies: much talk was of the great actes that the Mowhoaks would do at the begining of winter but the latest reports are that they will not help Sowaquassim and yet they kep his wampum. I doe not certainely heere whether they will aid the Naricanset Sachim but as far as I can vnderstand they reiect him also: But wheras you writ that you thought the Naricanset Sachim would be content to sit still: my intelligence from the Indians of the Riuer is otherwise: and they haue lately killd a munhegan woman: I conceiue you vse your best endeuors to hould of the Naricanset, and I suppose they in the Riuer do also hould of Woncas and in so doinge you doe well: and my advise is that neather you nor the riuer should do any thing else, but vse delatory meanes for I perceiue the nature of the Indians is vppon eury litle occasion 444to be much prouoked with the desyer of reuenge, but if meanes of delay be vsed but a while the edge of their reuengefull desyer will soone be cooled: I perceiue they are carefull of this not to begin first with the English, but they make account if the English begin first with them to doe great matters: and I veryly beleeue they may soone make lamentable hauock: But I hope the English will neuer put it to the tryall, till they be more then a little prouoked to it:

I had not the news of England, in any large measure till I had first written to mr. Haines, but then he spedily sent me such bookes of records as he had 7 or 8 wherin I blesse god to se that strict and godly couenant betweene England and Scotland: It is the high way of god for their deliuerance. I hope it is now the day of Antichrists great ouerthrow at Armageddon: I greately long to here whether the Scotts be yet come into the aid of the parliment: I hope you will haue newes by the fishing shipps err longe: and so the god of peace be our foregaurd and Reareward all our dayes Amen. Your euer loueinge Frind in the Lord