Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 3
I rec’d yours of July 30 & augt. 3 by which I Learn you have been Sick & not fully recoverd helth. If you ware to ride I Beleive it would be of Service to you. I fear your Confineing your Self So Close to buisness will be two much for you. Due you know how Long it is Since you Left home if you did Surely you take this opportunity to Come home & recover your helth. You desire’d me to write what my desines ware about the Small pox. Our Justices are to meet this week to determine Where the265 Hospital Shall be if it Should be in a pleasant place & the docter think proper for me to have it I Shall go & three of the Children. I Should not think of having it ware it not for the Children but I Chuse to be with them. Nothing has been done with dr. Mckinstrey Estate Since his death. Mr. Harlow has not open:d Williams desk.1 We have Cut four tuns of hay & I desine to buy two tuns but I must give 12 dollars a tun. Sukey Adams wrote to me for Some papers that She left with you about Some Land Call:d Sharps Land. Her Letter was not dated from any place. Who She is or where to Send them to I know not.2 I expect the docter up this week. I am in hopes I Shall know by him as the Letter Came through his hands to me. I want to know if I must deliver papers to people. I Last weak I went to Attleborough to See my old home & to take a ride to see if it would due me good for I have been unwell. I wish you would come & See your old home. Prehaps it may due you Some good. Our family are well. Brother Jonathan wife is Sick. The docter has another daughter. Bobe & Sally Send duty & are very much pleas’d with thoughts of having the Small pox & Tommy promises to be very good if he may goe. All friend desire to be rememberd to you, your ever mindfull & affectionate,
Probably a reference to the estate of Dr. William McKinstry. See David Cobb to RTP, May 12, 1775.
Not further identified.