Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 3
I have rec:d yours of march th 6 & 25 Some time a goe but when I rec:d the Last I was confined to my bed & Sally So very ill as 203not to bear her weight for 5 weeks & almost all the rest of our family Sick but we are all better. Sally & Tommy are feeble yet. Could you have none the Scituation of our family you would have wrote in a different manner. I was almost over Joy:d to hear from you & yet some what disapointed you call:d on me to revize my Letters. I have & am not mistaken. When you return I will conveince you of your mistake if it Should be in my Life time but thats uncertain. Brother has paid mr. winslow & have engaged the pasture for another year. Seth is engaged for another year. I have not paid him. I did not Chuse brother Should pay him till I heard from you for I have Call:d on him this Long while. Brother is ready to due any thing in his power at any time when ever I ask. This day docter Cobb Set out for Boston with sesine to Settle their. If he Should get into business he will remove his family Soon. I am very Sorry the docter will goe but he thinks tis best for him. What we poor Taunton folks are to due for a doct. I dont know without we remove after him. Monday we began to farm it but we it is very cold & we so much rain that we have not done much as yet. I hope your Close application to business wont make you forget your family. I begin to fear it will for you have done writing to me but I Still hope Soon to hear from you. I beg youll write by every opportunity if tis but 3 Lines & half as hear to fore. In hast your ever affectionate
May 3 theirs people often here after notes that was Left hear Last year to be Sue:d & I Cant find them. I Should be Glad if you would write me where they are & what I must due about them. Hezh. Cole has taken up his note 8–1.6. I received the money Last week.