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Winthrop Family Papers

Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 2

Royal Letter Concerning Abuses and Neglects in the Train-Bands

21 September 1628

Robert Nelson to John Winthrop

20 January 1629
Certificate1 to John Garrald
Lengton, John Garrald, John

1629-01-14

These bearers John Garrald with his wife,2 sister, and his brother, with his wife and one childe, landed here, att Bristoll in the County of Somersett the 14th of January 1628 –29 and are to post and returne, as in their Certifficat out of Ireland is desired, and to be lodged and relieued as therin is expressed.

John Lengton3  Maior. 1.

W. 1. 45.

 2.

“John Garrold and his wife” are among the little company of associates in prayer named by John Winthrop, Vol. I. 169.

 3.

John Langton was mayor of Bristol in 1628. William Barrett, History and Antiquities of Bristol (Bristol, 1789), 689.