Boston March 8th. 1758 Dear Eunice,

I recd. yrs.1 by the Deacon.2 Should be glad to see you at Boston. I believe I can supply you with cash for stays, but yr. thousand odd Dittos scare me. I don't understand them & therefore can't promise but if they don't mount extravagantly high I may possibly do something considerable. Who'd be plagued with a woman sure eno'. I shall have a pompous Court before Justice Dyar3 Thursday the 23d. Instant & as your name will be often called twill not be amiss for you to be there; next Saturday set out for Norton & Taunton a courting i:e: to attend some Justice's Court I have prepared there. Will you go; tell Dora I long to kiss her once more before she's married. In Great haste as usual Yr. Brother

R. T. PAINE

RC ; addressed: "To Miss Eunice Paine at Weymouth"; endorsed.

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Not located.

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Joseph Palmer.

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Benjamin Dyer (Dyar) was appointed a justice of the peace for Suffolk County in 1733 (Whitmore, Mass. Civil List, 128).