Weymouth, Novr. 30th 1758 Dear Brother,

I recd. your letter from Braintree tis true after I had look'd my Eyes out to see you. Oh! Cou'd I have reached you I'd have—. I send this suppose by Mr. Wryford & with it your Whip. I'll show my teeth tho' tis at so Great distance.

What shall I do? I intended to have wrote a Dreadfull Scolding Letter but I happen to feel very good Condition'd so think to thro' aside my paper till to another time.

Fryday morning. I have recd. a letter from Sister wherein she desires me to let you know Mr. Greenleaf is gone to N. York. She likewise Expresses a desire to have the Chaise brot home & wants to know your thots upon not parting with it so low as has been offer'd till Mr. Greenleaf's return. I don't understand any thing about it so write her own words. I am very sorry I have been forced to disappoint your scheme but when she sent for me I knew nothing off it & neither health nor Bussiness120wou'd anyways admit of my going & I had no way of sending the Horse so I am here Yet. I am better than I was thanksgiving Week or I dont know who I Shou'd be now for the Rhumatism took full possesion of my head & I was deny'd any rest for four or five days & nights which rais'd a fever & has left me very poorly but at present Quite Easy.

I cant go their till I have done all my Bussiness & can Quit with the world least I shou'd be shut up for all Winter. I feel Dreadfull Dull about going. I wish I did not but tis truth.

I know nothing of the affair but if you design anything about my fetching this Chaise you must let me know it soon Lest I shou'd start away. Tis very Cold my fingers are so numb I can write No more so Farewell. Yrs. &c.

EUNICE PAINE

PS I send a few lines Enclos'd for Emilia1 agreeable to her desire which pray Deliver.

RC ; addressed: "For Mr. Robert Treat Paine att Boston"; endorsed.

1.

Not identified.

Boston Decr. 1, 1758 Dear Sr.,

The design of this is to mind you of yr. Promise to favour me with yr. ever desirable company to Taunton the Monday after next. I have heard nothing from freind Abel,1 & as I can't tell when he will be down so can't plan out the time of my coming along exactly, whether on Saturday PM or on Monday Morning, but if you will go you can be ready at a minutes warning; Dear freind do not if possible dissapoint my Expectations of much Pleasure this Journey. He who go in quest of happiness ten to one but he is Chagrind, but he who Carrys it with him, come good come bad it does but aggrandize his felicity either by making a reall addition, or shewing his own in a better point of light by Comparison. Pray write me on the subject by the first Opportunity. I am got fixed at my new Lodgings where I long to see you; I have been in great confusion lately & in the clutter of moving have mislaid my best ready cut & dry'd compliments. Therefore pray you who always have a stock to lend me a few & present them in my name to Miss Hannah.2 that Sr. will be a121pleasure to you and a great peice of Service to me. My Respects to Md. Quincy,3 & wt. is proper to every body else. I have but just paper enough to desire you to convey the accompanying Letter to my Sister as it relates to business, renewing my Petition aforsd. I conclude yr. freind & hble. servt.

R. T. PAINE

RC ; addressed: "To Mr. Richard Cranch at Weymouth"; endorsed.

1.

Abel Willard.

2.

Probably Hannah Hill (1734–1782), who later married Samuel Quincy. See Benjamin Church to RTP, Dec. 3, 1758.

3.

Perhaps Elizabeth (Waldron) Quincy (1722–1759), daughter of Rev. William Waldron of Boston and second wife of Col. Josiah Quincy (H. Hobart Holly, Descendants of Edmund Quincy, 1602–1637 [Quincy, Mass., 1977], 6).