I RECEIVED yours about a week after Capt. Browne sail'd
from our Island, otherwise should have sent an answer by
the same opportunity. I note the Contents of your Letter
and according to your desire have spoke to the Governour'
about the money you wrote to him for and he assured me
that he had ordered you the same and was willing for your
Coming over provided you had your Fathers Consent. I
am glad to hear of your good health which mercy we at
present enjoy. pray make our loves acceptable to your

1 The original is in the Newport Historical Society.

2 Abraham Redwood, the elder, born in Bristol, England, 1665, traded between
London and Jamaica. In 1687 he settled in Antigua, where he married Mehet-
able, daughter of Jonas Langford, and thus became possessed of a large sugar
plantation on the island, the Cassada Garden, with many slaves. In 1715 he
removed to Salem, Massachusetts, and later to Newport, Rhode Island. He died
there January 17, 1729, aged 64 years. This letter is addressed to his son,
Abraham.

3 John Browne.

Edward Byam, commissioned as Lieutenant-Governor of Antigua January 28,
1715, and again October 17, 1727. Antigua was one of the Leeward Islands, and
John Hart held the governorship of these Islands, 1721-1727.

Brother and Sister and all our relations and believe I am with great Cincerity your Loving Kinsman,

[Endorsed,] By Capt. Bell.1

an

JONAS LANGFORD TO ABRAHAM REDWOOD JR.

Deare Cousin Abraham Redwood,

SINCE my last by Capt. Bell wherein I inform'd thee that I had spoke to the Governour to remit to thee the money thou wrote to him for, which he promised me he would by the next oppertunity have not had any from thee, but have heard by Capt. Browne that thou hast had a severe fitt of Sickness, but now pretty well recovered of the same, and if so with the advice of thy Father and the rest of thy friends, I would have thee come over and look into thy affairs that thou mayst have some notion how and after what manner we gett our Bread in these parts. I write thus free to thee as being one of the nearest relations I have, and would not have thee be lost as the rest of thy Brothers were in Road Island. pray make my respects acceptable to all my relations and accept the same thy self from thy Loving Kinsman.

JONAS LANGFORD

ANTIGUA, 10th, March, 1726/7.

[Endorsed] By Captain Browne.

1 Captain William Bell commanded the sloop Elizabeth and Mary, of Rhode Island, and was taken by the French off the coast of Martinico in 1727. New England Weekly Journal, July 10, 1727.