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Winthrop Family Papers

Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 4

Peter de Sallenova to John Winthrop

5 February 1640

Giles Firmin to John Winthrop

12 February 1640
Henry Walton to John Winthrop1
Walton, Henry JW

1640-02-11
To our honnoured Gouernour the right worshipfull Jno. Winthrop Present in Boston
Most respectiue Sir,

I pray be pleased to pay to the bearer hereof, Mr. How, the somme of thirty one pownd tenne shillings in full, if it may be with your worships Conueniency. if not, as much as you canne, my occasions beinge Somewhat vrgent, and soe with the presentment of my humble seruice to your worship I humbly take my leaue and rest Your humble Seruant to Command Till Death

Henr Walton Lynne this 11th of the 12th Moneth 1639/40

Endorsed: Receud of this 30s in mony and thirty pounds by Jo: Gallop per me2 daniell how

1.

W. 1. 130. Henry Walton and Daniel Howe were members of the Lynn group who, in 1640, founded the town of Southampton, Long Island. Walton, by the time of this letter, had returned to Lynn, but subsequently, as appears from his letter of June 4, 1644 (pages 460–461, below), he lived in Flatlands, Long Island. Howe also left Southampton, becoming one of the founders of East Hampton. James Truslow Adams, History of the Town of Southampton (Bridgehampton, L. I., 1918), 46, 47.

 2.

This endorsement, with the exception of the signature, is in the Governor's handwriting.