Three Visitors to Early Plymouth: Letters about the Pilgrim settlement in New England during its first seven years — John Shaqi
Three Visitors to Early Plymouth: Letters about the Pilgrim settlement in New England during its first seven yearsAltham, Emmanuel
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Three Visitors to Early Plymouth: Letters about the Pilgrim settlement in New England during its first seven years
Altham, Emmanuel
Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691
And thus, my kindest love and best affections being remembered to you,
desiring you to accept of this mite (being compared to my mind).
Likewise, as I am bound to respect, so let my love be remembered to my
sister your wife, and to my worthy friend, Sir John Leventhorpe, and to
his good lady, and all the rest of that noble house, as to my Lady Fowle
and Sir John Fowle, my brother Thomas, and my sister Mary.[85] And I
pray merrily tell her it will be no tarrying for me because I know not
when I shall come into England. But I pray likewise tell [her] that I
could here give her much land if she will come and live among this wild
scene of Indians. I hope this will make her smile. And now, I pray let
my love be remembered to my aunt Wolley, hoping that she will have me in
her mind, although not in her eye; I mean I hope she will remember me at
her death, which must be one day.[86] Pray remember me likewise to Mr.
Denn and his wife and old goodwife Stracy, and to my worthy Adventurer
Henry Stracy, who, if he claims his money, let him have it, I pray you,
for I see it will come in with profit. Pray likewise remember my love to
Mr. Bland and William Watson, and pray tell them thus much: that because
a ship could not be got when I had cattle in my hands, and likewise
because I could get nobody to join with me, I put that money into the
common stock; and it shall be answered in that, which, if they be not
contented, I will repay again. The like, I pray, do to goodman Wells.
Remember me to him and tell him I find great need of his cousin, the
potter.[87] I pray, sir, let them read this letter—either the same or a
copy of the same—and so, likewise, I pray let my noble friend, Sir John
Leventhorpe; although I have wrote to him, yet I refer him to
particulars in your letters.
And so I take my leave of you; but I pray remember me to my father Adee
and mother Adee, and to all the rest of my friends to whom I am by any
way tied—as to Seth Haggar and Edward Skoles, whose so long continuance
and good service in your house have caused me to speak well of them.
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