Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2
I here enclose you the bond against Smith the writ I have drawn a power of attorney & substitution and pray your care of them. lf there by any mistake in the writ I pray you would correct it.
To morrow at nine oclock I expect to embark for Shirley Point, and to be engrafted.1Doubtless your good wishes attend me as mine do you to the last moment of my life. being Sr. your most obt. hble. Servt.
The smallpox inoculation hospital was located at Shirley Point in Chelsea (that part now the town of Winthrop). Thacher's wife died from smallpox on July 4, 1764, and he himself never recovered from his inoculation and died July 9, 1765 (Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 10:327).