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Winthrop Family Papers

Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 2

Wensday 28.

28 April 1630

Friday 30:

30 April 1630
Thursday 29.
Winthrop, John

1630-04-29

muche winde all this night at w: and by n: and the sea went verye highe, so as the shippe rolled verye muche, because we sayled but with one Course,1 therefore about 12: our Capt arose, and Caused the fore topsayle to be hoysed, and then the shippe went more steddye. he caused the quartermaster to looke down into the hold to see if the Caske lay fast, and ther with 4re men for his aid In the morninge the winde continued with a stiffe gale, raynye and Colde, all the daye.

we had been now 3: weaks at sea, and were not come aboue 300 leagues, beinge about ⅓ parte of our waye. viz: about 46: n: lat: and neere the meridian of the Terceras.2

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This night Capt Kirke Carried the light as one of our Consortes.

 1.

Each of the sails attached to the lower yards of a ship.

 2.

Terceira, one of the Azores. “The purpose of the navigators of Winthrop's ships,” says H. E. Ware, “appears to have been to reach a position directly to the north of the Azores in the latitude in which they now were, and then to sail due west.” Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, XII. 194.