NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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dock’s letters to be viewed and his 
apology for the brethren particular- 
ly heard, protefted againft him and 
Mr. Humfries that they were a cou- 
ple of impofturous knaves, fo that, 
for all their great friends, they de- 
parted the council chamber in our 
view with a pair of cold fhoulders. 
I have ftaid long, yet have not loft 
my iabour. -The--brethren have 
found themfelves fruftrated, and I 
fhall fee my defire upon mine ene- 
mies.—Of thefe things I thought 
good, by fo convenient a meffen- 
ger, to give notice, lyft you fhould 
think I died in obscurity, as 
brethren vainly intended I fhould. 
As for Ratcliffe, he was comforted 
by their lordships with the crop- 
ping of Mr. Winthrop’s ears, which 
fhews what opinion is held amongst 
them of king Winthrop with all his 
inventions and his Amsterdam and 
fanatical ordinances, his preachings, 
marriages and other abufive cere- 
monies, which exemplify his detef- 
tation of the church of England, 
and contempt of his Mayjesty’s au- 
thority and wholefome laws. I reft 
your loving friend, 
“*Thomas Morton. 
Peblay 15) 1634.5 
“When Morton returned to New 
England in 1643, this letter was 
the — 
used against him and he was fined 
too pounds, which he was’ unable 
to pay, and only his age saved him 
from the whipping post. 
“Morton’s attempt to show that 
he and Jeffries had been good 
friends is negatived by the fact that 
when Morton was banished in 1628, 
Jeffries and Mr. Burslem contribut- 
ed two pounds towards the expense 
of the banishment. 
“Teffries was among those old 
planters who transferred their in- 
terests from Cape Ann to Salem in 
1626, as he styled William Jef- 
fries, Gentleman, in a letter of in- 
struction dated April 21, 1620, this 
letter being sent to Salem. 
“April 1,1626,-he-had---a-_legacy 
from his mother’s will, of two 
houses and bake: house and ale 
house “with sign of Cordelyon,’ 
etc., all anciently known as Flower 
de Luce, in Southwark. He married 
in 1640, Mary Gould, daughter of 
Jeremiah and Priscilla (Grover) 
Gould. 
“He was one of the commission- 
ers (marriage) of Weymouth in 
June, 1641. He evidently did not 
confine himself in the matter of rai- 
nent to the sober colors of many of 
the Puritans, as he is mentioned as 
the onetime owner of a damson col- 
ored “sute of cloth” which he had 
purchased of Mr. Easton. So Jo 
Godfrey testified March 28, 1648. 
(Water’s Ipswich, p. 499.) 
“He had applied for admission as 
freeman in Oct. (19th) 1630, and 
was sworn as such May 18, 1631. 
In 1636 he had a legacy. from his 
brother-in-law, Hugh Evans, of 
London, of to shill. to buy a ring. 
May 14, 1649, the General Court 
ordered that Jeffrey’s Creek be 
called Manchester. The exact date 
of his removal to Newport, R. L., 
we do not know, but in 1654 he was 
one of a committee of four persons 
of that town who wrote a letter for 
Newport to the towns of Provi- 
dence and Warwick.- March 27, 
1654, he sold Lawrence Turner and 
Tobias Saunders, land at Newport, 
measuring 67 by 57 rods. He was 
made freeman there in 1655, com- 
missioner in 1661 and deputy in 
1664. May 16, 1654, he is  men- 
tioned as a witness in a divorce 
case. (Mass. Bay Records, v. IV, 
Pteal,~psiO0s) 
“He claimed ‘Jefferay’s Neck’ 
‘nere’ Ipswich as his property and 
was given liberty to make good his 
plea before the whole court, May 
31, 1660. He was successful and 
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