* to send for Major Adam Winthrop, now liveing at Boston, & leave him all the said lands, to bear up the name of his father and family. These things, & many like, he said to mee in his last two months' conversation, which being upon a treaty of marriage, which soon after was consummated, I alwayes justly rested upon as a just settlement for Mr John Winthrop abovesaid. J. DUDLEY. Boston in New England, 24 October 1710. His Excellency Joseph Dudley Esq! made oath to the above written, before me. Ist ADDINGTON, Secr", et J: Pac:. * Afterward Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas and Colonel of the Boston Regiment; the grandson of a half-brother of Fitz-John's father. — EDS. APPENDIX. THE next volume of WINTHROP PAPERS will be chiefly devoted to letters of Wait Winthrop during the latter part of his life, and to selections from his voluminous correspondence with Sir Henry Ashurst and many prominent men of that period. The limited space remaining renders it impossible to include them in the present volume. This Appendix is therefore made up of miscellaneous matter, associated either with Fitz-John Winthrop or with Joseph Dudley. The former's correspondence, from his final return from England, in 1697, until his death, has been carefully winnowed; but it is not improbable that additional selections may be hereafter gleaned from his earlier papers. After the death of Governor Dudley, in 1720, a portion of his papers passed into the possession of his daughter, Mrs. John Winthrop, and has since formed part of the present collection. Among them are thirty-two letters to him from his friend and patron, Lord Cutts, which were separately communicated to the Society in 1886, and may be found in 2 Proceedings, II. 171-198. They are accompanied by a heliotype of an original portrait of Dudley belonging to the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, together with remarks upon other portraits of him. A single letter to Dudley from his friend Richard Steele, the dramatist, was communicated to the Society from the same source, in 1887, and may be found in 2 Proceedings, III. 201. — EDS. THOMAS DUDLEY, JR.,* TO JOHN WINTHROP, JR. To y much honoured, my uery loving Uncle, Mr John Winthrope, at his house at Pequot, these. CAMBRIDGE, October 3: 1654. HONOURED UNCLE, - In answer to y° letter you lately sent me & for ye performance of y° duty I alwayes owe you, I make bold to present you with wt you see :- According to your desire, S', I have imployd my best endeavours for the setling of my cousins in that way which I hope may concurre both to their best profite & your owne liking. I used ye best diligence I could in seeking out a convenient place in the towne for theire board, but could neither hear nor think of any other in y° towne (y' was free for boarders) more desireable y" that wherein they are now both of them together setled, viz: at Goodman Chesholmes, who lately having layd downe the charge of his keeping the Ordinary, hath his house as free from company in y* respect as almost any I can think of besides; and withall by this means he hath left unto himselfe above others yo priviledge of housroome and conveniency for boarders, and for matter of good order and diet in his family he deserves to be commended as far as most I know of. My cousins (both of them, as far as I can gather) are very well contented with yo place so far as their small tryall hitherto hath given them to be acquainted with it. Goodman Chesholme seemed very willing to accept of y" into his family upon my first proposall of y° question. Concerning the termes upon wch he takes them (I mean in re *Thomas Dudley, Jr., grandson of Governor Thomas Dudley, was graduated at Harvard in 1651, and was at this time a tutor and Resident Fellow in the College, but he died of consumption in the following year. His father, Rev. Samuel Dudley, had married Mary, daughter of Governor John Winthrop the elder, and was then settled at Exeter, N. H. This letter is here printed because of its allusions to the school-days of Fitz-John Winthrop, who was then in his sixteenth year, but whose education had been much interrupted by the removal of his parents from Boston to New London in 1650. He is stated to have matriculated at Harvard some time afterward; but it is certain that he did not take a degree, as he went abroad in 1657, and obtained a commission in the army in 1658. — Ens. |