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8 Novembr 1694
From [M^r ] Mather

To William Blathwait Es^qr
Whitehall

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The Last I had from you bears date April 19 w^ch was
Answered in June Last. you will perceive by the Address w^ch
[our] general Assembly does at this time send to his Majesty; and
by the Letters w^ch the Representatives in the Assembly have sent
to my Lord President, & to his Majesties principal Secretaries of State,
how great Satisfaction the people in this province take in
S^r W^m Phips his Governence. The Representatives would have had
me gone to England w^th the Governor, as their Agent but the
major part of the Council were not free to my going, not out of
any diskindness, but from their overvaluing a person so inconsiderable
as I am, supposing that the Country, & Especially the Colledge
^Harvard could not spare me. Nor could I myselfe be willing to undertake
a winters voyage.

I have not been wanting to endeavour that yo^r kindness to the
Country might be acknowledged. you can not imagine how miserably
they are impoverished by the warr w^th the French & Indians. Nevertheless
besides the 100 guinies y^e last year, there is now ordered for you an 100
more. which I confess is a very small consideration. but it shall be
none of my fault, if something more considerable be not sent to you
ere long. please to Let me understand how I may in any matter
serve you, who remayn, w^th great sincerity,