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    GOVERNOR^ WlKTHROp's WIFE. 383

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    In The Histories, The Romances, And The ...

    that wondering spirits all , and shall what I work cannot the to Xiord the repulse best mean to them s b them y all ; which that these love troubles makes God me among or unfit rather us for . are Sure anything loved I am of ,

    Him and shine . I forth trembling know as He clear heart will as bring the not noon lig willing ht - out day . of to obscurity Yet submit I find to , and in the myself make , will of H an God is adverse rig as hteousness I desire spirit , .

    There a is a time to lant , and so a time to pull up that which is planted , which I could will be desire done But ght p not I will be , write yet . But the Lord knoweth ing to see what thee is to best -morrow , and H my is

    • . no more . Hop , ton Best I affections commit thee being to commended God . Your to loving _yourself wife the , rest of our friends at

    _New-, " Margaret Winthrop . ' * died Mrs in . Winthrop 1646 of an lived epidemic sixteen sickness years after prevalent lier emi among gration Indians . She ,

    Eng fever first lish . seized , Such French its as victims , and were Dutch b bled y a cold alike and , , and used in the was cooling summer accomp drinks of anied that died by year a ; sli those . ght It for the

    who had recourse to invigorating and cherishing remedies most part recovered , and that in a few . days . No family quite escaped it , though few died ; but among these , " in this sickness left this , the world Governor for ' s

    virtue better wife , , daug being prudence hter about of modest Sir fift John y-six and Tindal years iet , of Kni age and ght , , especiall a woman y belove of singular d and a

    honored , of all the , country y . , " She p fell y , sick on the 13 th of June in the afternoonand died the next morning . On the morrow she was

    carried to the , grave amidst the deep sorrow of her husband and famil the y , and north the side regrets of that of the field colony which . Her Winthrop place ' of s company sepulture had was

    on . selected and is known as a bury as the ing " -p Stone lace soon Chapel after Graveyard their arrival , " where . It many still exists of th _® ,

    earl This y Puritan quaint s little were history laid to rest of a . Puritan matron has reminded the

    writer of one of the most touching incidents of family piety ever beheldnot far from the very part of England whence the "Winthrops

    _emigrated anti , 200 monuments years ago . and In brasses an old of church a famil at of Colchester the name are of some y

    , some Sears , of or these Sayers que and . Ruffs black , doublets letter inscri , and ptions trunk hose carry , mark back the the date reader of

    farther still into , the middle ages of England . But a couple of centuries back the Sears disappear—the old church knew them no

    . . more the ages . Onl , and y on the a modern places of brass burial plate , of let a into line the of wall Sayers are who the died names there in , landlie at Mount Auburnsome heresome

    _^ _New Eng ; some , , , —— In localities and underneath well known are to words us throug whose h American exact arrangement history and we romance cannot

    recallbut which tell how a living son of New England had piously - sought , out the half-obliterated tombs of his forefathers , and since

    shores the " graye of another s of the continent household he h were ad at scatt leas ered t b far ht away the upon record of roug

    . their memories home . ,

    Governor^ Wlkthrop's Wife. 383

    GOVERNOR _^ _WlKTHROp ' s WIFE . 383

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1862, page 383, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021862/page/23/