Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1
1627-10-06
I humblie thanke yow for your loue towardes me in all thinges but especially in this that yow desire to helpe me with a chapman For my house and land, which if yow shall effecte For me (the case standing with me as it doth) I shall be bound to pray for yow and shall euer thinke myselfe beholding vnto your Worli. for it by 2 or 3 but my Vnckle thinkes it to be to littell and therfore he doth (I thanke him) forbeare me the longer, that I might take my best chapman, I would 361willingly haue 1900 li. For it, but vse mony and chardges runne on: and therfore rather then faile, I will take 1800 li. For it. And thus with my loue remembred to your wor
My prise is 1800 li. if I may haue a lease of it agayne at a c li. per annum: otherwise if a gent. will buye it to dwell in my prise is twoe thousand pownd.
Thomas Doggett, of Boxford, co. Suffolk, married Margery, daughter of William and Margery (Waldegrave) Clopton, of Castleins, near Groton. A sister, Thomasine Clopton, was the second wife of Governor Winthrop. Muskett, 144.
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