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THE WINTHROP MANUSCRIPTS,
A Valuable Addition to the Library.
An Unpublished Letter.
Mr. Robert C. Winthrop, Jr., of
Boston, gave to the University Li-
brary, a few weeks since, a valuable
collection of manuscripts, drawn from
the inherited treasures of the Win-
throp family, and selected especially
with a view to their interest for stu-
dents of Connecticut history, Of the
whole number (sixty-six pieces), about
one-third are unpublished. The rest
have been printed in the various vol-
umes of ‘‘ Winthrop Papers” which
have been issued in the series of ‘‘ Col-
lections” of the Massachusetts Histor-
ical Society.
As illustrating the character of the
collection, it may be noticed that it in-
cludes letters or other writings of the
Rev. Thomas Hooker, Governors Haynes
and Hopkins, and Elder Goodwin,
among the most famous of the founders
of the Hartford Colony; of the Rev.
John Davenport and Governor Eaton,
Deputy Governors Goodyear and Jones,
and Governor Leete, of the New Haven
Colony; of George Fenwick and Lyon
Gardiner, of the earlier settlement at
Saybrook ; of Jonathan Brewster, the
commander of the Plymouth trading
house on the Connecticut: of Capt.
John Mason, the hero of the Pequot
War; of Sir Edmund Andres, with ref-
erence to his journey into Connecticut
to assume the government; of a num-
ber of the original Trustees of the Col-
lege, and of such of its early patrons as
Governor Fitz-John Winthrop, Gov-
ernor Saltonstall and Cotton Mather ;
of Rector Pierson’s father, Governor
Yale’s father and a group of Mr. Yale’s
immediate family conneetions. There
are also a few letters of persons less
directly associated with Connecticut
history, for example, one of Governor
John Winthrop, of Massachusetts (a pass
given to Ninigret, Sachem of the Nian-
tic Indians, to go to Boston in 1646), and
two of Roger Williams (1649 and 1669) ;
of John Winthrop, Jr., of Connecticut,
there is an interesting autograph, his
proffered resignation of the office of
Governor in 1675.
One of the unpublished letters of the
collection addressed. by one of the Trus-
tees of the College, immediately after
its foundation, to the Governor, Fitz-
John Winthrop, is as follows :
SAYBROOK, 15.10>r [= Dec.], 1701.
HONORABLE SIR:
Considering the countenance it hath pleased
your honor to afford unto the designe of
founding a Collegiate Schoole within this
Government, I have thought it no lesse than
my duty to informe your honor what proceed-
ings have been made in that affaire since the
Court.
Seven of the Trustees mentioned by the
honorable assembly had a meeting at this
towne 12. Nobr last and a very comfortable,
unanimous meeting was had, very well agree-
ing upon the person, who under the name of
Rector might preside in and take the charge
of sd schoole (viz.) the Revd Mr. Pierson.
Wee also had no great difficultie about the
place (viz.) Say-Brook (in case no considera-
tions come in to alter our thoughts), that
appearing to be the place for the best accom-
modation of the Colonie in generall, and adja-
cent places; whereupon M: Nathaniel Lynde
by subscription engaged a legall deed of his
house in the Town plot with eight or ten acres
of land adjacent, and three or four other per-
sons subscribed to the value of fifty pounds in
money, provided the s¢ Schoole bee at Say
Brook.
A letter from the Trustees was left with
mee to the -people at Killingworth, and I have
been there and offered it to them. I the last
weeke received their answer, the summe of
which is that they do not see it their duty to
consent unto the parting with Mr Pierson. I
doubt if they should persist in that answer it
might bee an occasion to worke some hin-
drance to and possibly some confusion about
that so good and greate a worke: yet our God
whom we desire to serve is able to make dark-
ness to bee light before us and unto him wee
desire to looke.
Sir, this very breife account I thought my
duty to offer to your honor, humbly request-
ing that correction or farther direction that
in your wisdome you shall think propper,
which with the tender of my humble service,
desiring God to bee with and blesse you in all
your publick and more personall parts of duty
is all at present from, Sir, your honor’s very
humble servant,
THO. BUCKINGHAM.
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