Well beloved good friend Henry Hovener
My comendations remembred, I hartely [wish] your welfare
for god be thanked I am now in good health, but my brother and my wyfe are dead
aboute a yeare pass’d And touchinge the busynesse that I came hither is nothing
yett performed, by reason of my sicknesse & weaknesse I was not able to
travell up and downe the hills and dales of these countries but doo nowe intend
every daye to walke up and downe the hills for good Mineralls here is both
golde silver and copper to be had and therefore I will doe my endeavour by the
grace of god to effect what I am able to performe And I intreat you to beseeche
the Right Hon: & Wor: Company in my behalfe to grant me my freedome to be
sent either to me I dowbte not to doo well & good service in these
countries humbly desyringe them also to provyde me some [appointed] fellowe
& a strong boye to assiste me in my businesse, and that it may please the
aforesaid Company to send me at my charge a bed wth a bolster and cover and
some Linnen for shirtes and sheetes. Sixe fallinge bands wth Last Size pairs of
shoes twoo pairs of bootes three pairs of cullered stockings and garters wth
three pairs of lether gloves some powder and shott twoo little runletts of oyle
and vinnegar some spice & suger to comfort us here in our sicknesse abowte
ffyftie pounds weight of holland and Englishe cheese together, Lykewyse some
knyves, spoons, combes and all sorts of cullerd beads as you knowe the savage
Indians use Allso one Rundlett wth all sortes of yron nayles great and small,
three haire sives, two hatchetts wth twoo broad yrons and some Allum And send
all these necessaries thinges in a dry fatt wth the first shippinge dyrected
unto Mr. Pontes in James Towne here in Virginia And whatsoever this all costes
I will not onely wth my moste humble service but allso wth some good Tobacco
Bevor and Otterskins and other commodities here to be had recompence the
Company for the same And yf you could send for my brother Phillipps Sonne in
Darbesheere to come hether itt [were] a great commoditie ffor me or suche
another used in minerall workes And thus I comitt you to the Almighty. Virginia
13 January 1622.
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