It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.

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.

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.

I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.

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.

Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.