Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2
Your sister was this morning taken very Ill, her Complaints are very alarming, Universal & Extreme pain especially in her head attended with Something of a fever so that I shall not attend Court unless she grows better therefore have Inclos'd Bill of Cost, Cushing vs French, which I should be obliged to you if you will Indorse and get taxed.1
If my Wife gets better I determine to be at Plymouth on Tuesday next,2 Interim am Sr. yr. humbl. Servant
PS. Sunday Evening your Sister is much better.
The case of Adam Cushing, blacksmith of Abington, who attached David French, yeoman of Abington, for trespass on an account of £7.7.9. The defendant defaulted, and the court awarded damages and costs to the plaintiff (Plymouth Court Records, 8:258).
Greenleaf was acting in his capacity as a justice of the peace for Plymouth County, to which position he had been appointed on Feb. 6, 1765 (Whitmore, Mass. Civil List, 142).