Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 1
These may inform you of the safe arrival of all your kind Letters except one unless You have wrote one since the 2h instant wc. I have received with the enclosed an answer to one of which I send enclosed in this1 Desiring you to reiterate your kindness in superscribing it to Mr. Freeman for I am ignorant of where he lives, post revolutionem peractam quae majore forsan me afficitur mæroræ quamte cum tanta et tam praeclara est tua animi magnatudo et constatia.2 My Friend I long to see & converse with you but must be excused from ballancing accounts till spring; perhaps I may pay you the interest shortly. I would visit you immediately but I am stationed in the parish where A horse is to be had nec amore nec Numma.3 I should be glad if you can find in your heart to Trust me Almost a Bankrupt one visit more and I'll endeavour to pay you honestly for honesty is the best policy peace & quietness is the best. I Board at the Revd. Jos. Emerson.4 I have great reason to enveigh against101Algebra as an ice natured unkind Science since it has deprived me of the product of your otherwise most noble genus De schola delectabili5 &c. I shall Leave to oral Conversation whenever that pleasing moment shall revele; only in general
Tu facies faciem venebis cum veneris ante
ne sedeas sed eas ne peras pereas.6 Hoever this is far from being my case, for I am a professd admirer &c. &c.
Our Lecture at groton old Town will be Tomorrow come 4: weeks at which time I should be glad to see you at which time perhaps we may be happy in conversation sine eundo ad Diversorium7 but I should be glad of an earlier visit if possible & if possible I will convoy you tam Longe quam oppidum.8 Send my humble service home to yours &c as often and according to Discretion. I have Just room left to give you thanks for your friendship manifest when at home and to Tell you that I am yr. humble Sevt.
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After the revolution was completed which perhaps afflicts me with greater sorrows than you, since so great and so distinguished is your magnitude and constancy of mind.
Neither by love nor money.
Joseph Emerson (1724–1775), first minister of the First Congregational Parish of Pepperell (Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 11:217–20).
Type of delightful school.
You will make the appearance of love before; don't sit but go, lest through them you perish.
Without going to an inn.
As far as town.
After critical observing your Letter dated 30th Jany. 17492 and noting well the Contents, have accipe for answer. Capt. Hubbard3 and Madam go, Mr. Wyman4 and Madam, Honble. George Kimball5 102 & Madam, and the Revd. your hum. Servt. and Madam. I have not obtain'd a Horse for your self Sr. by reason of not knowing yesterday, but it will be most acceptable to the Company if you will clap on with us & partake the Cheer. Ergo you may draw the Consequence.6
William Downe gives many greetings to his master Robert Treat Paine. Good morning, lord.
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Jonathan Hubbard (1718/9–1759) was a "surveyor, well educated and useful citizen." He was one of the original grantees of Rindge, N.H., in 1749, and of Charlestown, N.H., about 1757. He married Abigail Jennison in 1739 (Edward Warren Day, One Thousand Years of Hubbard History [New York, 1895], 224–225).
Ezekiel Wyman.
George Kimball (1723/4–1790) served Lunenburg in a variety of capacities including school committeeman, selectman, town clerk and state representative. He was also a captain in the Revolution and a representative to the Provincial Congress in 1774. He married Sarah Mulliken in 1748 (Leonard Alison Morrison and Stephen Paschal Sharpies, History of the Kimball Family in America, 2 vols. [Boston, 1897], 1:152).
RTP notes in his diary for Jan. 31, 1749/50: 1 went to Mr. Samll. Hunts' in Compe. with Mr. Downe & Wife' Ezekiel Wyman & Wife; and Capt. Jno. Hubbard; PM we went to Mr. Amos Kimball's &c returning thro' the Woods my Horse foundered in the Snow and Horalogium perdidi inter Nives Abbisimos &c. [lost my watch in very deep snows]"