Here is good English wheat, ripe in three months. Half a bushel when it is planted will find a great family a whole year with bread and drink. . . . The beef fats itself, and hogs fat themselves. They are fat all the year, and people may kill them when they have occasion. Here is good land enough, and wood enough.
Servants are in great request.
Young men and maids come to great fortune . . . and do very well. My mother remembers her to thee, and she would not have you be discouraged, because of the water, for the Lord is well able to preserve by sea and land. We were near two hundred people on board the ship we came in. There was an ancient woman judged near four score of age, and she did very well. And several others that were very ancient.