Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 4
A Gentleman called here to day by your desire to know how we did by him I Send this. Our family are as they ware when you Left home.1 Keep down Stairs yet & could wish to till I see Docter Cobb when that will be I dont know for I have not heard from him as yet. Doe you intend to go 333 on your Journey with the horse you have—our horse came home yesterday & eats better then he did would you have any thing done for him.
RTP Diary, Apr. 16, 1785: “This day I purchased the house I live in of Mr. Wm. Foster & took a deed of Leonard Vassal Borlands.” He left for the “Western Circuit” of the courts on Apr. 18 in his sulky, noting “my horse being sick left him at Watertown bridge” and hired another.