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THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
John Winthrop. — We stood on our course merrily.
Meredith. — Then came io days of gale and rain. Many were sick. The ship was damaged. What comment did John Win¬ throp make in his journal ?
John Winthrop. — Here I think it is good to note that all this time since we came from the Wight, we had cold weather. I wish therefore, that all such as shall pass this way in the spring have care to provide warm clothing.
Meredith. — Winds and high seas continued.
Margaret. — Mondays and Fridays, at 5 of the clock at night, we shall meet in spirit till we meet in person.
Meredith. — The entire month of May came and went. The Arabella still held to her course. On June the first . . .
John Winthrop. — This evening we saw the new moon more than half an hour after sunset, being much smaller than it is at any time in England.
Meredith. — On Tuesday, June the eighth, after 70 days at sea they sighted land. What were John Winthrop’s feelings? After long and bitter weeks on the ocean how did he describe his first glimpses of America ? He merely said . . .
John Winthrop. — There came a smell off the shore like the smell of a garden.
Meredith.— On Monday, June the fourteenth, they anchored in a protected harbor and set foot on the shore.
Music. — Into tragic, autumnal feeling.
Meredith. — Less than a month later his son Henry Winthrop was drowned in a creek near Salem.
John Winthrop
My dear wife,
I only write now that thou mayest know that yet I live and am mindful of thee in all my affairs. We have met with many sad and discomfortable things, and the Lord’s hand hath been heavy upon my self in some who are very near to
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