Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 3
I have rec:d yours of march th 6 & 25 Some time a goe but when I rec:d the Last I was confined to my bed & Sally So very ill as 203not to bear her weight for 5 weeks & almost all the rest of our family Sick but we are all better. Sally & Tommy are feeble yet. Could you have none the Scituation of our family you would have wrote in a different manner. I was almost over Joy:d to hear from you & yet some what disapointed you call:d on me to revize my Letters. I have & am not mistaken. When you return I will conveince you of your mistake if it Should be in my Life time but thats uncertain. Brother has paid mr. winslow & have engaged the pasture for another year. Seth is engaged for another year. I have not paid him. I did not Chuse brother Should pay him till I heard from you for I have Call:d on him this Long while. Brother is ready to due any thing in his power at any time when ever I ask. This day docter Cobb Set out for Boston with sesine to Settle their. If he Should get into business he will remove his family Soon. I am very Sorry the docter will goe but he thinks tis best for him. What we poor Taunton folks are to due for a doct. I dont know without we remove after him. Monday we began to farm it but we it is very cold & we so much rain that we have not done much as yet. I hope your Close application to business wont make you forget your family. I begin to fear it will for you have done writing to me but I Still hope Soon to hear from you. I beg youll write by every opportunity if tis but 3 Lines & half as hear to fore. In hast your ever affectionate
May 3 theirs people often here after notes that was Left hear Last year to be Sue:d & I Cant find them. I Should be Glad if you would write me where they are & what I must due about them. Hezh. Cole has taken up his note 8–1.6. I received the money Last week.
There is a Dispute between Charles Ward Apthrop & me concerning a Sett of Bills, drawn by me in favor of sd. Apthrop upon —— Howell1 merchant in Philadelphia, in the year 1762. This is to desire you wou’d 204procure Vouchers of those Bills being paid to sd. Apthrop by Mr. —— Howell, out of a Sum of money sd. Howell owed me for a Brigg he purchased of me about that Time. In granting this Favor you’ll oblige yr.
May 3 theirs people often here after notes that was Left hear Last year to be Sue:d & I Cant find them. I Should be Glad if you would write me where they are & what I must due about them. Hezh. Cole has taken up his note 8–1.6. I received the money Last week.
Joshua Howell (1726–1797) was a merchant in Philadelphia, who at this time was also a director of the Philadelphia Contributorship, a fire insurance company, and one of the attornies for the trustees of the London-based Pennsylvania Land Company (Jonathan S. Howell, A Memorial History and Genealogical Record of the John Howell and Jacob Stutzman Families [Rushville, Ill., 1922?], 11, 49; Pennsylvania Gazette, Nov. 12, 1761, Apr. 15, 1762).