Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2
I wrote you fully upon the Breeches you were to have of Allen to which Letter I refer you as I imagine you must have rec'd it e'er this. Mr: Fleet having sent it as he informs me some Time last Week.
I send you by Mr. Adams.
| 2 yds very good Cotton Velvett @ £6.7.6 | £12.15— |
| 8 mohair Butts. | " 2. 8 |
| Horn ditto as I think they are best for the Hips & Waistband |
" 1. 3 |
| Twist | " 8— |
| £13. 6.11 |
Mr. Willard having taken from me the mony he deliverd. me (as I wrote you) I have only in my Hands the Difference betwixt £35.5/ & £13.6.11 which is £21.18.1 or £2.18.5 L mo. and therefore am unable to pay Mr. Parker, but as I suppose you will chuse to make up the Sum due to him I have not returnd the Balle. but retain both the money & Letter till I have the pleasure of recieving your further Orders.
Mr. Phillips, Deacon Marsh & Mr. Green are to be married this Week. Ned Walker has been married abt. 3 Weeks.1
I am Sir Your obliged humble Servt.
P.S. I have just had returned to me & inclose the Letter I wrote last Week, which Mr. Fleet told me he had forwarded.
Deacon Marsh has not been identified. All the other marriages took place at the Brattle Square Church. John Phillips (1715–1787), captain of the garrison at Castle William in Boston Harbor, married Mary Winthrop on Oct. 28 (Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 10:60–66); Joshua Green (1731–1806), a Boston238 merchant and Harvard classmate of RTP, married Hannah Storer on Oct. 7 (ibid., 12:380–381); and Edward Walker (1739–1801), a Boston merchant later (1787) admitted to the Suffolk bar, married Abigail Lovell on Sept. 10 (ibid., 14:233–234).
I wrote to you last Saturday, but understand by Mr. Pratt you had not recd. my Letter. By This time I hope you have. The Contents were to Inform you that I was going to Boston to Setle my affairs by the assistance of Mr. Wheelwright who is my very good friend. I came home last night with out finishing, but must attend the Business again to-morrow. In my last I desired you to renew my Licence for me, if I did not come, which I cannot do 'till next Tuesday before. I also want Lambarts papers, I have sent my Excise acct. by Lieutenant Ford with former Letter.
As to Jacksons affairs I was Ill treated in it being never asked for the Money & I never knew who had the Note before. If he will take Iron & English goods I'll pay him on demand for I have Several hundred pounds worth by me. If he'll tarry a reasonable time I'll pay him the Cash. If he hears to nothing I wd. demurr.
Your Sister is but Just able to keep about; I determine to fetch Sister Eunice next week Interim remain yr. Loving brother &c.
The 15th: last month Mr: Willard returnd me 82/ LMo: which he formerly put into my Hands on your Acco., but as I wrote you had afterwards resumed. Immediately upon recieving this money I deliverd the Letter inclosed to me for Mr: Parker & forward you his Rect. There is a Trifle still due to you from Your much obliged humble Servant,
P.S. Mr. Sam: Johnson1 has lately had a pension assigned him by the King239of £300 Sterling per anm: (to my great Joy.) Capt. Phillips was married abt: 10 Clock in the Forenoon of last Thursday.
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), the England lexicographer (DNB).