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Robert Treat Paine Papers

Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2

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From Abigail Paine Greenleaf

27 January 1757

To Eunice Paine

7 February 1757
To Samuel Gray
RTP Gray, Samuel
Boston Feby. 2d. 1757 Sr.,1

After my Regards to you & your Lady, I should be much obliged to you if you would copy out the Partition Deed of Paine & Braughton of Lands in Windham.2 You'll find it recorded Lib:ff Fol 386:387 pray let it be exact, for I have occasion for it, & send it to Boston by some safe hand to be left at Cowell's.

LbC ; addressed: "To Mr. Grey at Windham pr. favr. Colo. Dyar."

1.

Samuel Gray (1721–1787) served as town clerk of Windham, Conn., from 1755. He had previously been clerk of the county court (Lamed, History of Windham Co., Conn., 1:555; NEHGR 70[1917]: 185).

 2.

The Paine family lands at Windham, Conn., were a patrimony of Eunice (Treat) Paine and were sold off in various transactions over many years. See Roger Huntington to RTP, Oct. 11, 1784.