a letter to her brother John Winthrop, Jr., under

date of December 17, 1648, thus writes: ". . .Mr
[Nathaniel] Norcross is flowen to Agamenticus and
there he sayth for his short experience he likes
very well Mr Godfrey whear he lives keeps a
very good howes and if w.ee will goe thither a hows
with 3 chimnyes he promiseth if 2 of them blowe
not down this winter which may be feard being
but the parsons howes." Probably this " very good
howes " in which Justice Godfrey lived was the
frame house, the first in the town, according to
tradition. The officers of the Gorges proprietary,
of whom he was the senior councillor, sent a letter
to the heirs of the deceased knight, of whose death
they had been apprised in June, 1647, and again
in 1648, " but by the sad distractions in England
noe return is yet come to hand," they declared ia
July, 1649, when they drew up an admirable in-
strument for mutual protection and self-govem-

stood was thus bonnded by the surveyors in 1644: "from the Marked
tree above the Trapp unto M' Nortona house which is his bounds.
It contaj-ning 154 poole betweeue the s^ house & Tree & from these
bounds he is to goe North East." {Mmsachusetls Archives, csii. 12.)
On these broad acres he attempted to leave a name for his posterity
whiob should always remind them of the traditions of his family.
