Boston June 2d. 1757
Sr.,
I recd. yrs. pr. Capt. Jones & note the contents. I am glad to hear your welfare, & with regard to ours must now inform you that after a long senseless Languishment my Father departed this life on Tuesday Evening the last day of May & now lays dead. We purpose to interr him on the morrow at Weymouth. I am in Town preparing for his Funiral. Thus is he delivered from many Troubles wch. Life & health could not avoid. Eunice is considerably better than she was, the rest of us are well. As matters now stand I do not care to do any thing abt. the House there but must wait awhile. I pray you to look in the Case of Draws & see if there be a new hat, & if it be not much too big for me send it by Capt. Jones. I think there are several pr. of Sheets & some other things, let them be sent. The price of Leather is from 3 to 4 pr. lb. according to the Goodness. You write me nothing abt. the Cloath. I conclude Yr.
R. T. PAINE