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Winthrop Family Papers

Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 4

Peter de Sallenova to John Winthrop1
Sallenova, Peter de JW

1640-02-05
To the Worshipfull Mr. John Wintropp Gouernor in new England att Bostone deliver
Worshipfull,

Aftar my harty Comemdations to you and yours nott forgetting Mr: Pettors, my Earnist requeist to you, is when I was last in new England I left a kindsman of my wifes with one Mr: Steauens of Maruill head a shipp Carpintar for hee was bound to me to teach him his trad I undarstand he haue neclected him, and nott taught him his trad according as he 190was bound to me for hee haue sett hime to keepe Cabarretoes2 and nott to bee a Carpintar. I haue Intreated Mr: Angill Hallott to call him before you to gett a warrant to bring him before your Worship Ether to release ore to teach him his trad. and all soe I haue a 100li in Mr. Izerill Stotons hand he receud it for the sellinge of my Land att Wayemouth. he haue neauer returned it to me, and if you know any bodye that will tacke the mony there, and send a bill to be payd heare by a sure Freind, and if I had my mony I should be with you this yeare therfor the next yeare I will be with you Leavinge you to the proticktion of the Allmighty I rest Your uerey Loueing Freind

P. Sallenova Dochestar the 5 Febr: 1639/40 1.

W. 1. 130. Captain Peter de Sallenova of Dorchester, England, where the records refer to him variously as captain, chirurgeon, and apothecary, was in the colony in 1635, at which time he was consulted by the General Court in connection with the proposed expedition against the French at Penobscot. Records of Massachusetts, I. 160. The following year he was reported to be in the West Indies (Winthrop Papers, III. 275), and he subsequently returned to England. Charles H. Mayo, Municipal Records of the Borough of Dorchester, Dorset (Exeter, 1908), 516–517, 544–545; Minute Books of the Dorset Standing Committee (Exeter, 1902), passim. There is a reference as late as 1642 to his owning land in Weymouth, Massachusetts, where he may earlier have been employed in building the mill or dam owned by Henry Waltham and Thomas Richards. Lechford's Notebook, 2, 2n.

 2.

Probably “cabaret,” in the obsolete sense of “a drinking house.” Cf. N.E.D.

Henry Walton to John Winthrop1
Walton, Henry JW

1640-02-11
To our honnoured Gouernour the right worshipfull Jno. Winthrop Present in Boston
Most respectiue Sir,

I pray be pleased to pay to the bearer hereof, Mr. How, the somme of thirty one pownd tenne shillings in full, if it may be with your worships Conueniency. if not, as much as you canne, my occasions beinge Somewhat vrgent, and soe with the presentment of my humble seruice to your worship I humbly take my leaue and rest Your humble Seruant to Command Till Death

Henr Walton Lynne this 11th of the 12th Moneth 1639/40

Endorsed: Receud of this 30s in mony and thirty pounds by Jo: Gallop per me2 daniell how

1.

W. 1. 130. Henry Walton and Daniel Howe were members of the Lynn group who, in 1640, founded the town of Southampton, Long Island. Walton, by the time of this letter, had returned to Lynn, but subsequently, as appears from his letter of June 4, 1644 (pages 460–461, below), he lived in Flatlands, Long Island. Howe also left Southampton, becoming one of the founders of East Hampton. James Truslow Adams, History of the Town of Southampton (Bridgehampton, L. I., 1918), 46, 47.

 2.

This endorsement, with the exception of the signature, is in the Governor's handwriting.

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