Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 3
1631-05-26
one Mr. Hueson2 hath bene often with me to write to you. It seemeth Mr. Johnson had some Cowes of his (six as he sayth) of the deliuery of Mr. Endycott, without any authority to sell them. In Mich
We are at a stand here about Mr. Johnsons executorship. you write he made a will there to conferme this here.3 How can this then be proued as his last? You write you haue sent it over, John Drake sayth he copyed it to that purpose, But none can be heard of. I beseech you Sir let not your great occacions there cause an vtter neglect of the Credit and honour of that worthy gent
The lord keepe you and prosper your designes. Your
W. 2. 185; 4
Collections
, VI. 577–578. John Reading was a lawyer of the Inner Temple. Calendar of Inner Temple Records, F. A. Inderwick, Editor, II (London, 1898), 155. He has hitherto not been identified because of the misreading of his signature as “John Bradinge.” Another letter of his, with that signature, is printed in Winthrop Papers, II. 318–319.
Thomas Hewson, a merchant of London and an adventurer in both the Massachusetts Bay Company and its predecessor, the New England Company.
The earliest known will of Isaac Johnson is printed in Winthrop Papers, II. 49–56. For a discussion of Johnson’s later wills, see ibid., 49,
n. 2.