Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 4

Hugh Peter to John Winthrop, Jr.1

Peter, Hugh Winthrop, John, Jr.

1638-02

For the Worshipfull John Winthrop Esqr. Ipswich

Deere Sir,

Wee are glad to heare of you, and my wife intends to bee with you per first.

Your sister Symonds is deliverd last weeke of a dead child, and is in much weaknes, it came by a fall, let your wife looke to herselfe. John Baker will tell you abondance of newes from the bay. For Ipswich it will never bee well till the Church goe on, aduise them to that if you meane to save them. Wee are in good order here, blessed bee the lord, continue your affection to him who is Yours or nothing

H. Peter Salem 2d day ca. February, 1637/38

I must earnestly intreat you to give Mr. Broadstreet 40s in corne for mee, 14or mony, it is for one goodman Tompson of your towne. I will make the mony good here, or any where. Salute your Betty and little Betty from vs all. I have sent you the booke of the proceedings at the Court, which when it is coppyed out for your towne I must have agayne.

Essex Institute; 4 Collections , VI. 105–106.

Thomas Dudley to John Winthrop1

Dudley, Thomas JW JW

1638-02-19

To the Right Worshipfull John Winthrop esqr. Governour

Sir,

In answeare to yours, and to what Mr. Coddington hath by word motioned I say as followeth that I am content himselfe, Mr. Wildboare, Mr. Coggeshall, Goodman Freeborne and Richard Carder shall haue lycence to departe out of this Patent within a moneth from hence following, and after to retourne at their pleasures to remoove their famyles, soe it be with in halfe a yeare from this day, onely Mr. Coddington and Mr. Wildboare are to come and goe and trade and comerce and take their owne tyme for remoovall of their famylyes. likewise for Serieant Hutchinson and Serieant Boston and for John Porter, I consent to their departure and the release of their Fynes, provyded that they shall departe before the thirteenth day of the next moneth and not retourne any more, which if they doe they are to be lyable to the payement of their fynes and all three to such further censure as the Court shall thinck meete. Thus with my service remembred I take leave and rest Yours at command

Tho: Dudley 19 of the 12, 1637/38

The following order, in the handwriting of Governor Winthrop, appears, in rough draft, on the next leaf of this letter. 2

Mr. Wm. Coddington Mr. Jo: Coggeshall and Mr. blank Wildbore are licenced to depart out of this Jurisdiction and they haue liberty to remove their famylyes and dispose of their estates heere in convenient tyme at their owne liberty and to goe and come at their liberty except they or any of them shalbe otherwise limited by the general Court.

Wm: Baulston and Edw: Hutchinson have license to depart out of this Jurisdiction, provided that they submitt to the Order of the Generall Court in regarde of the Censure they lye vnder.

W. 3. 28; 4 Collections , VII. 110–111. For Dudley, see D.A.B. The persons named in this letter had all been supporters of Wheelwright and Mrs. Hutchinson during the controversies of the previous year.

Cf. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Editor, I (Boston, 1853), 223.