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it* the Company were at a dead-lock in its linanccs, lie -woiihi 

 advance the requisite funds ; when the Company coukl send 

 but two ships, he would himself send a third; if the Company 

 could not pay seamen's wages, he would ; instead of permitting 

 delay, his mercantile mind secured dispatch ; that the ships 

 (being at great cost) would not return empty, he wrote to 

 instruct Endicott to secure in advance, beaver, fish, sumac, 

 sarsaparilla, timber and other commodities, for return cargoes ; 

 and also 300 firkins of good sturgeon, which (if well cured) 

 would secure the voyage. 



Every resource, shift, expedient and contrivance of a mer- 

 cantile, administrative and diplomatic mind even, he, on some 

 occasion displayed. When a larger ship (the Eagle, afterward 

 named the Arabella,) was wanted, beside his share of the joint 

 stock, he himself subscribes for l-8th on his own private account. 

 In general subscriptions, when others wrote for £20, up to XI 00, 

 he would write for =£160, and so was it in almost every emer- 

 gency of the early proprietors. If any gulf of embarrassment or 

 of difiiculty was to be bridged over, he was ready to build the 

 bridge or to take the lead in building it. Instant in season and 

 out of season, at all times and with every variety of aid to promote 

 the " main aim and purpose " of the plantation, and if possible 

 to christianize the natives. These his great tasks and risks, 

 immense liabilities and heavy disbursements were assumed and 

 borne cheerfully, and unhesitatingly ; and accordingly the rec- 

 ords show that his many services were in due time appreciated 

 and properly recognized by those most benefitted by them, and 

 therefore the more capable of appreciating them. 



Thus the Company in its second general letter say — "As 

 our Governor hath engaged himself beyond all expectation, in 

 this business, not only in his particular by great sums disbursed 

 for the general, to supply the wants thereof, so our desire is 

 that you endeavor to give all furtherance and friendly accom- 

 modation to his agents and servants there." 



So in voting him land on the Mystic River, opposite the Ten 

 Hills Farm of Governor Winthrop. So later in our colonial 



