Braintree Decr. 13th. 1756 Dear Treat,

I must be still Troublesome to you. I want you to Inquire of Sprague how soon the money's Like to be ready & when I must come to Boston. Could I but discharge Mrs. Pemberton's Exn. 'twould be some safe to my mind for I hate The sight of a Sherriff as much as most men do. I wonder whether it would not do for a Certain Church to pray from the danger & plague of Sheriff's Libera nos Domine.1 I've wrote to Mr. Pray abt. the Daaws? at Foot's, He gave me Incouragement that he'd take them at £110.0.0 Pray urge that matter if you can see him. Do assist (Cato) in geting a yd. Cloth at Mr. How's. I have sent both pattern & Ordr. If you see any of my Folks uneasy tell them I'm an honest Fellow & am Contriving to pay them all.

Would it not do for Sprague to have this Executn. Indors'd to him, & to pay it off & keep it 'till he can Muster the rest of the money & so rid me of this Evil? Tomorrow Pray will be in Town, & I'll send him to you. Prevail with him to bring the Necessarys from the Distill-house, Including Cato Bed & Bedstead & tell him I'll pay him for his Trouble. If Snow will give £100 L Money to boot Query, whether or no it will not be best to let him have the Distill house? I've sold Mr. How the Glasses at 15/ 25/ & 40/ a ps. & he'll take the Barrs a sec? also. Pray let the Glasst be where he may got Them. I think I've no more to say, but when I get thro' the present difficulty's & get Setled at Smelt Brook I promise to write you a more Regular Epistle either in prose or Verse & may be it will be an answer to yr. midnight production. I am &c. three times over

J. GREENLEAF

P.S The second Line above is a Cureosity; for it Contains Twelve Monisibiles.

Cotton Linnen to Line Father Britches

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RC ; addressed: "To Mr. Robt. Treat Paine Boston"; endorsed.

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Free us. Lord.