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Robert Treat Paine Papers

Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2

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From Eunice Paine

28 March 1772

From Samuel Quincy

15 April 1772
From Joshua Brackett
Brackett, Joshua RTP
Boston April 1772 Sir,

I have sent your seeds by the Bearer.1 There is not one tongue to be had in town. I have not one moments time to rite. Give you joy of your New Daughter. Complyments to Mrs. Pane. Am your Hume. Servt.

JOSA. BRACKETT

RC ; addressed: "To Robt. Treat Pane Esqr. Tauntown"; endorsed.

1.

RTP's interest in vegetable gardening dates from his move to Taunton in 1761 and continued through the end of his life. Each year his diary recorded various plantings and sowings, a practice which continued after his return to live in Boston in 1781. One of his last diary entries (May 6, 1814), a few days before his death, was: "planted Corn & horse Radish."