Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 4
Mr. Steavenson with the horse & Chaise Set out for Boston this after noon. I Should be Glad of ¼ lb of Spice cinnamon cloves mace nutmages & Some Good Sugar to Save Loaf that Brother got is not nice. I have not been able to get any flower I have Sent to all the places & Could get none if you can get me a few lbs. of nice flower for pyes I can make it due for court1 their will be a Load of flower in town within a month. By your Letter2 I recv’d yesterday I find Nabby3 is married my Love to her & wish her Joy for me & tell her I Long to have been their. Know of Mrs. Greenleaf when one of her daughters can come. Dont forget my Rose water I have not any to use & Sweet herbs.
RTP returned home on Oct. 2 “in my chaise with Mr. Stevenson.” He left for a session of the Superiour Court of Judicature in Worcester (Oct. 5–9) but returned to Taunton for the Superiour Court’s Bristol County session (Oct. 12–15) (RTP Diary).
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Abigail Greenleaf (1753–1788) married at Boston, July 29, 1779, the Rev. Ezra Weld (1736–1816), as his third wife. Reverend Weld, a 1759 graduate of Yale College, was ordained as the minister of Braintree, Mass., in 1764 and remained there until his death (Charles Frederick Robinson, Weld Collections [Ann Arbor, Mich., 1938], 95).