 It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches. |
| To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants. |
| Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear. |
| I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart. |
| The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg. |
| It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand. |
| The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here. |
| I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians. |
| Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted. |
| We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony. |
| The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England. |
| The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals. |
| Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after. |
