History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, including Lynnfield ...

Biographical Sketches. King. 163
nature and course of their trade.
In a memorandum dated May
6, 1653, Daniel King, jr. says :
" I liave Rec. of my cosen William
Guy [of London] a parcell of goods amounting to the valew of
fforty ffive pounds, ffourteene shillings nine pence starling money,
which goods I have Rec : upon the account of Guy as an Adventure
by him promising to doe my outmost indeuor for the
sale of the aforesaid goods, and to make him returns by Chrismas
next, if," &c. But such " ifs " seem to have intervened
that a settlement was long delayed, and the matter finally got
into court. Five years after, that is, in 1658, his father, Daniel
King, makes the following statement: "Boston, this 14 of August,
1658. These presents Witnes that I, Daniell King of Lyn,
Sener, doe aknowledge that Capt. Jn° Peirce, Commander of the
Ship Exchang, hath bene with mee and demanded of mee a debt
of aboutt forty fiue pounds which my sone Daniell did Receive
in goods of M"" Wm Guy, of London, haberdasher ; and my
Answer is that my sone Daniel is gone to burbados and hath
carried with him goods in order to the making the Returne much
more then I can judge will Ballance that ace". And I hope either
by this time or very sudenly hee will Returne a satisfa6lory acc°."
Two years after the foregoing, namely, in 1660, Mrs. Elizabeth
King, mother of the delinquent Daniel, jr., comes to the rescue
of her son's credit and reputation in the following propitiatory
epistle to her nephew Guy "
: from Linn, in New England,
Decemb'' the 28"\ 1660 .... After Respeckts presented these
earr to lett you under stand that yours wee have receued, Return
you Manny thanks for your patiente lines But being much
troubled that wee yett cannot Answer your ends According to
your expecktations. Many ways wee have tryed. By Barbudoes,
By Bills of Exchange, & By getting of Bever, for you, But as yet
canno' proceure anny of them. But By the next shepping I
hoape wee shall find out some way or other whereby you shall
haue sattisfacktion ; my
sonn Ralph & my sonn Blaenny douth
Intend if pleas god the Hue and doe well to com for England
;
soe heaping that you will bee pleased to Ad one mitt of patience
unto your Aboundance which you have had soe.
" Resting and Remaining your Ever Loueing
Ante tell
Death,
Elizabeth King."