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GOVERKOE WINTHKOP'S WIFE.J 37-7>
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to hear so good pray news of our son Henry , . The Xiord make us thankful for all love _Jrlis mercies to yourself to us and and ours all the ! And rest thus I shall , with leave my mother scribbling ' s and . The my own weather best
being cold , makes me make haste . , Farewell , my good husband . The Lord keep thee I Your obedient wife , " Margaret Winthrop . " -
From the favorable reports brought to England of the new plantation of Massachusetts Baywhere those who held Puritan tenets
might enjoy a liberty of conscience , denied to them , in England , "Wmthrop joined " The London Company of Massachusetts Bay , "
and embarked a considerable amount of money in the concern . When in 1629—30 a considerable emigration took place , more _,
important than the previous ones , he entered with zeal into the undertaking' ; and " being well known in his own county of Suffolk _,,
and well approved for his piety , liberality , wisdom , and gravity , he was extremely useful in promoting it , and eventually headed it . "
These emigrants were persons of education , of large landed estates , and of good family connexions . Some of them were allied by marriage
_io the aristocracy ; some of them were among the principal gentry of the county of Suffolkto whichindeedthey all belonged ; while
, , , Ihe divines were men of acknowledged abilities and learned in the mother country—university graduates—Cambridge having been
their Alma Mater . At this time Winthrop ' s income was about ' £ 700 a yearequalsays the biographerto at least £ 7000 in our :
day ; he was , happy , in his domestic relations , , and from his talents and condition in life might reasonably aspire to the most honorable
and profitable offices in the State . Yet he decided to quit all these ' actual possible goods , and to emigrate under conditions which we ,
can hardly realize . For Natal or Vancouver ' s Island , are neither so distant or so unknown as was Massachusetts then .
Until the time of his embarkation for America , Winthrop _con-TOL . YIII . E E
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1862, page 377, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021862/page/17/
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