Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 1
After critical observing your Letter dated 30th Jany. 17492 and noting well the Contents, have accipe for answer. Capt. Hubbard3 and Madam go, Mr. Wyman4 and Madam, Honble. George Kimball5 102 & Madam, and the Revd. your hum. Servt. and Madam. I have not obtain'd a Horse for your self Sr. by reason of not knowing yesterday, but it will be most acceptable to the Company if you will clap on with us & partake the Cheer. Ergo you may draw the Consequence.6
William Downe gives many greetings to his master Robert Treat Paine. Good morning, lord.
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Jonathan Hubbard (1718/9–1759) was a "surveyor, well educated and useful citizen." He was one of the original grantees of Rindge, N.H., in 1749, and of Charlestown, N.H., about 1757. He married Abigail Jennison in 1739 (Edward Warren Day, One Thousand Years of Hubbard History [New York, 1895], 224–225).
Ezekiel Wyman.
George Kimball (1723/4–1790) served Lunenburg in a variety of capacities including school committeeman, selectman, town clerk and state representative. He was also a captain in the Revolution and a representative to the Provincial Congress in 1774. He married Sarah Mulliken in 1748 (Leonard Alison Morrison and Stephen Paschal Sharpies, History of the Kimball Family in America, 2 vols. [Boston, 1897], 1:152).
RTP notes in his diary for Jan. 31, 1749/50: 1 went to Mr. Samll. Hunts' in Compe. with Mr. Downe & Wife' Ezekiel Wyman & Wife; and Capt. Jno. Hubbard; PM we went to Mr. Amos Kimball's &c returning thro' the Woods my Horse foundered in the Snow and Horalogium perdidi inter Nives Abbisimos &c. [lost my watch in very deep snows]"