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880 GOVERNOR WINTHBOP'S WIFE ;
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sity deprive tL . ee of thy husband and children . Therefore , I will only take tliee now and my sweet children in mine arms , and kiss
and embrace you all , and do leave you with my God . Farewell , r far His ewell last , I bless letter yon is dated in the from name the of A the . _i'hella Lord whil Jesus e she . " lay at anchor
, off Yarmouth , in the Isle of "Wi ght , and is dated April 3 rd : — - letter ' "My I have Love written , my Joy to , thee my _faithful since I came One to , Hampton ... in . This requital is the of those third
, with hending two I reading received so much , nor from love can thee and read , which sweet them I affection without do often tears in read them ; with but , as whether much I am deli never they ght , proceed sat appre isfied - which
from hold with joy , sorrow theeI , or cannot desire conceive , or from . that Ah consent dear of heart affection I ever , held I thee always in , , my , high esteem , as thy love and goodness hath well deserved and ; but , if it to be pos »
th sible y sweet , I shall society yet prize than th ever y virtue before at . a I greater am sure rate thou , art long not short more of me enjoy in . this desire . Let us pray hardand pray in faithand our God in His good
time will lish our desire , . Ohhow loath , am I to bid thee farewell ! children but , since again and accomp it famil must Come y be . , The farewell d Lord tak , my bless e him sweet you , and all love , let and , farewell him grant rest . me Farewell in to thine see your , arm my faces dear who
will once ever remain . thy , my faithful ear husband , , " John Winthbop , . " "We must now follow Governor Winthrop to the New "World , on
3 fche shores of which he landed on the 12 th of June , at Salem , where _^ shortl Massachusetts y before . Endicott They came had upon laid the evil foundations times ; in the of the previous first town winter in
disease and death had been raging among the colonists , and eighty put of about 300 had died , while many of those still living
were weak and sickly . Not altogether liking Salem , the new comers dispersed and planted themselves at Charlestown , and at
suitable sites adjoining ; and from Charlestown Winthrop dated his first letter to his wife , on July 16 th , sent home probably by the
first ship which returned to England . He leaves it to the bearer to which and give promises her he detaile is to that d send information she to shall his receive of " brother the unfortunate the Downing full particulars state by of some the in a colony of letter the ,
last ships . " He expects to see her the following spring on the American shores . This letter tells her the sad news of the death
of his soil Henry ( by his first wife ) in the twenty-third year of his X age ) ut , who whom came he had to America accidentall in y another left behind vessel him and at was the Isle unfortunat of Wig el ht y ,
drowned in a small creek at Salem , on th . e 2 , nd of July , the very day , on which he landed .
j The prevalence of sickness and mortality , which carried off some of the most distinguished of the colonistsand Interrupted the
survivors in their building operations , was still , the "burden of the information which Mrs . Winthrop continued to receive from New
was _^ Eng land reason . Winthrop to believe and that his this children sickness , however had been , escaped caused _; and b as insuffi there - y
cient and unwholesome diet at sea , he would have her , instead of
880 Governor Winthbop's Wife ;
880 GOVERNOR WINTHBOP ' S WIFE ;
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1862, page 380, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021862/page/20/
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