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Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 4

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To Gen. Horatio Gates

From George Godfrey

8 February 1779
From Sally Cobb Paine
Paine, Sally Cobb RTP
Taunton feby. 1779 My Dear,

I recd. your Letter1 Last evening by Esq. Tobey2 & am very glad to hear your are so near coming home it Seems a Long while Since you Left home3 & being unwell the greater part of the time make it worse. I have got no help yet but desire to Send Seth Soon ever the riding is anyways fit to See what about her. Mrs. Ball is here now but Last week Bob & Sally were my Chief nurses & they did very well to for Such Little folks. Our family are pretty well I am got Better but Mr. Stevenson is going I hant time to write but will write this week. Give my Love to Mr. Greenleaf family in haste

your affectinate Sally Paine

RC ; addressed: “To The Honble. Rob: T: Paine Esqr. In Boston”; endorsed.

1.

Not located.

2.

Samuel Tobey (1743–1823), a merchant at Berkley, Mass., was a justice of the peace and served on the Bristol County committee for confiscations (Rufus Babcock Tobey and Charles Henry Pope, Tobey (Tobie, Toby) Genealogy [Boston, 1905], 84; Massachusetts Spy, Mar. 29, 1781).

3.

According to his diary, RTP left Taunton for Boston on Jan. 28 and did not return until Mar. 6. In the meantime, he took a seat on the Council, was chosen attorney general again, attended the Superiour Court, and dined with the French consul.