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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...very good son Mr John Winthrop, at Fisher's Island n' Pequod River," and in it the Governor wrote, among other things: --I send you herein your letters, which I thought best to open. Your brother Stephen, it seems, means to stay in England and hath sent for his wife. He is Captain of a troop of horse. We are all as you left us, I praise God, & we all salute you and yours. The blessing of the Lord be upon you, and he protect and guide you in this great undertaking!s 1 Printed from the original in the unpublished Winthrop Papers. It does not appear to have been registered and there is no date; but it was undoubtedly executed at or about the time named. See Caulkins's History of New London, chap. ii. Life and Letters of John Winthrop, vol. ii. p. 355. VI On the 14th of June, 1647, there befell him one of the greatest sorrows of his life in the sudden death of his stepmother, between whom and himself there had always existed the deepest attachment, and who was as devoted to his children as he had ever been to hers. He is recorded to have been in attendance at meetings of the Commissioners of the United Colonies held in Boston in the following July and August, when it was finally decided that the Pequot country should belong permanently to Connecticut, and in September he was commissioned by the latter government to be a magistrate there, though he still retained his Massachusetts functions. These dual responsibilities cost him many journeys. Letters from Roger Williams place him at Pequot at different times in September, October, and November of that year, while one from Samuel Symonds, dated Oct. 6, 1647, shows him to have been recently in Boston. A dispute concerning a boundary-line, between Symonds and one of his neighbors, had...