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Robert Treat Paine Papers

Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 1

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From Abigail Paine
Paine, Abigail RTP
Boston June. 17. 1747 Dear Brother,

I am Glad to hear that you are well. I shou'd be Glad to Send your drops to you but I hant got them. We have not Seen the doctor Since you saw him here tho' we have Sent often. Mother is worse to day than yesterday. Last night there was a man (one Samll. Salter1) taken up drowned at the bottom of the Common he is thought to have been Swiming.

I will get and Send your drops assoon as possible, in haste I Subcribe your Loving Sisster,

ABIGAIL PAINE

RC ; addressed: “To Mr. Robert Treat Paine att Cambridg"; endorsed: "Abigail Paine. Rec'd. June 17: 1749."

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"Last Tuesday, towards Evening, Mr. Samuel Salter of this town, going into the Water at the Bottom of the Common to wash himself, was either taken with the Cramp or some Fit, and drowned. His Corps was soon after taken up, and decently interred the next day" (Boston Evening-Post, June 22, 1747).