Boston Novmb: 9. 1749 Dear Brother,

I was much gratified some days ago with a short Letter from you, I shou'd have been glad to have wrote to you then but my time was short and I Could not attend it.

I rejoice at your health and wellfare and hope it will be Continued to you. As to our affairs they are much perplex'd at present, for we live wholly at uncertaintys but the time is hastening which must deside them for the ship is to Sayl next week if nothing unforeseen prvent. There is nothing Concluded about a place for ——r1 which gives me great uneasiness for F——2 designs by driving it off till the last to Leave her with us, for which I am Sorry (as you may judg) Since tis against her will.

Dear Brother I wish you Could be with us once more while we are together Since tis so uncertain whether we shall ever meet again, but if Providence denies us that Pleasure here on earth I hope we shall injoy it with the adition of Perfect and Endless happiness in a far better World for which I hope we are all preparing. My time is short & I must conclude your Sincere Friend & Loving Sisster,

ABIGAIL GREENLEAF

PS. I design by the next opertunity to Send your Wastecoat and some new Stockings. I intend to take all that belongs to you home to my house.

RC ; addressed: "To Mr. Robert Treat Paine att Lunenburg"; endorsed.

1.

Sister, i.e. Eunice Paine, who was sixteen years old at the time.

2.

Father's. Thomas Paine was contemplating a voyage to the Carolinas; see his letter to RTP of Nov. 27. 1749.