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GOVERNOR WINTHROP'S WIFE. 381
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being out she discouraged should be thereb careful y , to to see take that this a as sufficient a lesson , supp that ly on of coming whole *
some Mrs food . Winthrop was provided ' s whole . soul was naturally set upon going out to
join her husband . She ' writes thus in May or June , 163 . 1 , to her step-son , John , who had been left in England : —
u Mx dear Son—Blessed be our good God , who hath not failed us , but have hath g heard iven us out cause of _JSTew , of most land unspeak Mr able Wilson joy , for had the been good with new me s before which th we
letters came to my hands Eng , but broug . ht . me no letter . He speaks very well y of things there , so as my heart and thoughts are there full already . I want that it but is *
the mean lace s to wh carry erein my God bod wi y ll after have them us to . settle I am and now I beseech y persuaded Him to , fit us for Itthat p we may be instruments of His glory ; there . This news came very
things seasonabl , went y to concerning me , being th possessed y wife ' s jointure with much . If But tho grief now canst for I but have thee , send cast hearing off - that how ,
when an . d hope Mr . God Wilson will goeth turn back all to , I the shall best be . very , very u glad of his company me . over If thmanifold loyments will not suffer thee to with meI shall be very
will sorry y not for it ; for emp I more would of thi be s g till lad I to hear carry from all thee my go comp how any things with , may me be . But done I . ,
I is pray now consider in say London any of and it , and promised give me me the to best come council and see you you can . He . Mr cannot . Wilson yet
her persuade I marvel his wife what to , go mettle , for all she this is made pains of he hath Sure taken she will to come ield at and last fetch or
. . y , else we shall brother want Downing him exceedin hath gly for in ! N * ew Eng husband land . writ I desire but little to hear to what me
my thinking news daug my hter we , had and been all the on rest our of voyage my ; mother good . my And friends thus , , I with desire my the t love Winthkop Lord to to thyself bless _^ ,
• and "I keep received you , and the things rest , your you loving sent down by , the carrier "Ma rgare this week , and thank . hter for band
my daugmy . " Lion Mrs . Winthrop She had for sailed her from fellow Eng - land in August her step , 1631 -son , in John the , shi and p
. passengers , and his wife Anne Mary . John , and Eliot her own the four celebrate children d apostle —Step of hen the , Dean Massachusetts , Samuel >
Indianswas also on . board , , and other families , consisting in all of of about their sixty , number persons . t They two had children plenty one of of good which food was , and little lost Anne none
week Wiiithrop at sea , aged . The a excep year voyage and lasted a half and ten , who , weeks died the . 3 after rd They the they reached wind had Natas been being a -
contrary cot on the , the 2 nd vessel of November stopped at ; Long on Island . Modern , readers will remember that here it was that Margaret Fuller was drownedy
220 years later . Between Governor poor Winthrop ' s wife and the intellectual heroine of Massachusettswhat a strange gulf ! Such
touches of vivid contrast mark the change , of nations more sharply than At an historical Island essay John . "Winthrop went on shoreand in the
Long , re evening -united the . The Governor next came morning on , board the wind , and becoming husband and favorable wife were , the
ship again set sail , and . cast anchor before Boston .
Governor Winthrop's Wife. 381
GOVERNOR WINTHROP ' S WIFE . 381
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1862, page 381, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021862/page/21/
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