Taunton feby. 26 1776 my Dear,

I have recieved three Letter Since your return. In the Last Letter date 29 Jany. I find you are impatient to hear from home which I hope you have before this time for I Sent a Letter to the post office at 169providence the 20 Jany. in which I wrote for Some things that I am in great want of but for fear that Letter is not come to hand I Shall mention the perticulars in this tow peaces of Linnen for your Self & one for the children & 1 peace of Cambrick for their is no Such thing to bought here.

You complain of your taunton friends for not writing. We Should have Sent more packets then one before this time, but you wrote me that you Should return as Soon as Mr. Adams came to Philada. & I have expected you every day but have Look in vain but I hope it wont be my fate always to Look in vain though at times I almost dispair for Six months is a Long time to me with my Little tribe who are often asking when will papa come home. The Children Learn finly & behave very well. Tommy is a fine Chatering fellow & often tells Bob he Shall have the dog. Charles grows finely. I have not been so well this winter as I Could wish but keep about the rest of our family are pretty well for them. Mr. Morey1 has Books here as he said you told him he might. Parson Barnum is going Chaplin into Army for a year. We are to have a Court here the Second tuesday in march by which time I hope you’ll be at home. There has been a good many people here for notes but I could not find :em. If you dont come home Soon I should be Glad you would Send the Linnen if you think it will come Safe. All friends are well & desire to be Remember’d to you. I am your ever mindfull & affectinate

Sally Paine

PS dont forget Sum pins.

RC ; endorsed.

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Nathan Morey (1747–1778) graduated from Harvard in 1774 and went to Taunton to read for the ministry with Rev. Caleb Barnum. In 1777 he volunteered as chaplain to a Massachusetts regiment, and the next year as a surgeon aboard a privateer. Morey was captured by the British and imprisoned by the British at Halifax, where he probably died ( Sibley’s Harvard Graduates , 18:457–458).