Web supplement for Katherine A. Grandjean, “New World Tempests: Environment, Scarcity, and the Coming of the Pequot War” Couriers Traveling between the Connecticut River Valley and Massachusetts Bay Name Letter Route Source From Connecticut to Massachusetts Bay Mr. Gibbons John Winthrop Jr. to John Winthrop, Apr. 7, 1636 Saybrook–Boston 3: 246–47 unnamed Englishman/shipmaster (the “Bacheler”) J. Winthrop Jr. to J. Winthrop, May 16, 1636 Saybrook–Boston 3: 260 John Haynes, W. Pynchon, and John Steele Roger Ludlow to J. Winthrop, May 29, 1638 Windsor–Boston 4: 36–37 “Panaquanike Indian” John Haynes to J. Wintrhop, Mar. 27, 1639 Wethersfield–Boston 4: 107 unnamed Englishman George Fenwick to J. Winthrop, Oct. 7, 1639 Connecticut–Boston 4: 141–42 “my seruant” William Pynchon to J. Winthop Jr., Apr. 22, 1636 Saybrook–Roxbury 3: 254–55 the “Wrenne” (mentioned) J. Winthrop to J. Winthrop Jr., June 23, 1636 Saybrook–Boston 3: 275–76 From Massachusetts Bay to Connecticut the “Rebecka” (mentioned) J. Winthrop to J. Winthrop Jr., Apr. 4, 1636 Boston–Saybrook 3: 244–45 John Oldham (by “Pinace”) J. Winthrop to J. Winthrop Jr., Apr. 4, 1636 Boston–Saybrook 3: 244–45 unnamed Indian (mentioned) Thomas Hooker to J. Winthrop, ca. December Boston–Hartford 4: 75–84 1638 Goodman Codmore, Goodman Grafton (mentioned) John Taylor to J. Winthrop, Sept. 28, 1640 Boston–Connecticut 4: 288 “This Shipp” J. Winthrop to J. Winthrop Jr., Apr. 26, 1636 Boston–Saybrook 3: 255–56 Mr. Hodges (mentioned) J. Winthrop to J. Winthrop Jr., Apr. 26, 1636 Boston–Saybrook 3: 255–56 Mr. Oldham (mentioned) J. Winthrop to J. Winthrop Jr., Apr. 26, 1636 Boston–Saybrook 3: 255–56 Mr. Tilly (mentioned) J. Winthrop to J. Winthrop Jr., Apr. 26, 1636 Boston–Saybrook 3: 255–56 Mr. Hodges (in the “Rebecka”) J. Winthrop to J. Winthrop Jr., June 10, 1636 Boston–Saybrook 3: 268–70 Mr. Hodges (mentioned) J. Winthrop to J. Winthrop Jr., June 23, 1636 Boston–Saybrook 3: 275–76 Mr. Hooker (mentioned) J. Winthrop to J. Winthrop Jr., June 10, 1636 Boston–Saybrook 3: 268–70 Mr. Hooker (mentioned) J. Winthrop to J. Winthrop Jr., June 23, 1636 Boston–Saybrook 3: 275–76 John Gallop (mentioned) J. Winthrop to J. Winthrop Jr., June 23, 1636 Boston–Saybrook 3: 275–76 The Batchelor (mentioned) J. Winthrop to J. Winthrop Jr., June 23, 1636 Boston–Saybrook 3: 275–76 Source: Allyn Bailey Forbes et al., eds., Winthrop Papers, 1498–1654, vols. 3–4 (Boston, 1943–44). © 2011 by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., vol. 68, no. 1, January 2011 DOI: http://jstor.org/stable/10.5309/willmaryquar.68.1.0075.