Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 3
1635-04
I will not touch vppon what I writt in my last to you only for the chattle which you soe much want, and wee can soe conueniently spare, I meane our best sorts of sheepe; I dare not continue my former aduice, of sending for any this summer, because ther can nott bee such store sent, as is needfull, and I feare after thers notice taken of any thatt goe from these partes ther will bee restraint after. soe as many as you can prouide shipping for, against the spring, I will soe prepare this next winter, that I hope few or none shall miscary; and those that goe must away together, that before the state cann send to inhibite, wee may haue dispacht a competent number, iff nott all that wee prouide; ass I writt before soe now againe I thinke itt will bee requisite 196to send a man who hath had experience in transporting and is somewhatt skilld in sheepe all healpes will bee little enowgh; iff the Lo
W. 4. 76, 5
Collections
, I. 208–209. This letter, like Clotworthy’s letter of March 6, 1634/35 (pages 191–192, above), was written so as to be read through a “casement.”
See Journal, I. 130, 152; Bradford, History of Plymouth, 11. 199; Hutchinson, History of Massachusetts-Bay, 1. 47–48; The Autobiography and Correspondence of Sir Simonds D’Ewes, Bart. (London, 1845), 11. 118D.J.W.
, entries for July 9, 1634 and June 1635