Letter from John Endecott to John Winthrop Jr (1606-1676)
Description
My worthie good Friend, - I see your affeccion, & so I haue continuallie from tyme to tyme. I desire to be thanckfull to God & to your selfe for your true loue, & I hope I shall euer acknowledge it. Yet let mee say truelie, I account not myselfe to be the lesse ingaged vnto you concerning what you wrote, ffor any such small courtesie as a few trees. But I shall endeauour, according to my abilitie to shew myselfe thankfull, & to doe justice, though I must needs say I haue don you much wronge against my will, & ame sorry for it. It hath bene one of my greatest burthens.
Creator
Endecott, John (circa 1588-1665)
Date Original
[March 19, 1645]
Subject
Massachusetts--History--Colonial period--1600-1775; letters; Winthrop, John (1606-1676); trees
Source
MSS 413, Box 1, Folder 19
Repository
The Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum
Rights
Requests for permission to publish material from the collection must be submitted in writing to the Manuscript Librarian in the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum.
