Diary of Robert Treat Paine

459

December 1769

Day	Planet
1	Friday	Moderate, very muddy in Boston
2	[Saturday]	Drizley day rode to Taunton & carried Dr McKinleys Chaise horse to my own Stable
3	[Sunday]	Fair Ther. 40°. Very muddy
4	[Monday]	Ditto Fair Ther 40° Infr Ct Saty by Adjd
5	Tuesday	Ditto Ditto Fair Ther 40° Infy Ct Saty by Adjd
6	[Wednesday]	Ditto Ditto Fair Ther
7	[Thursday]	Ditto Fair Cold Ther 25°
8	Friday	Ditto Fair Ther 25°
9	[Saturday]	Ditto Fair Ther 20° Court finished
10	[Sunday]	Ditto Ther 25° Some Snow--
11	[Monday]	Ditto Ther 30° PM rode to Plymouth
12	Tuesday	Ditto Fair Supr Ct Plymouth Cold day
13	[Wednesday]	Ditto Fair very Cold
14	[Thursday]	Ditto Fair very Cold
15	Friday	Ditto Fair more moderate rode to Taunton
16	[Saturday]	Ditto pleasant day
17	[Sunday]	Ditto Cold ther 25
18	[Monday]	Ditto pleasant bought four acres of Land of Capt Cobb adjoining my Garden
19	Tuesday	Ditto & a very dull day Ther 39°
20	[Wednesday]	Raw cold cloudy day. Spitting Snow Ther 30°
21	[Thursday]	Ther 30° fine pleasant
22	Friday	Ther. 25° Cold day fair
23	[Saturday]	Ther. 10° Cold night & morning, fair pleasant moderate Day Ther 25° Mrs Luscombe Wife of Robert Luscombe has died after 2 mo [dissuasion]
24	[Sunday]	Ther 13° fine pleasant day Ther 28°
25	[Monday]	Ther 30° very fine Day
26	Tuesday	Ther 25° Raw. Cloudy NE. Spit Snow
27	[Wednesday]	Ther 30° Fair Mrs Luscombe buried--
28	[Thursday]	Ther 30° Ditto an Exceeding dry time. the Ground bare & as dusty as in mid Summer
29	Friday	Cloudy day Ther 30° Spit Snow
30	[Saturday]	Fair very Windy Ther. 25° Came on Cold Dust blows like mid Summer Evening Ther. 10°
31	[Sunday]	Ther. 4° at 9 o Clock Still Cold [FH] meeting all day very tedious Cold P.M. Ther 15°

This Month as been moderate in generall little or no falling Weather & the fallen parts of it remarkably dry.

460

January 1770

Day	Planet
1	[Monday]	Ther 16° 9 o Clock. Cloudy. Night came on hard Storm S E & rained hard blew violently
2	Tuesday	9 o Clock Ther. 50° Warm Sly Wind all day Fair froze in Night
3	[Wednesday]	Ther 28° fair
4	[Thursday	Ther. 18° 9 o Clock fair
5	Friday	Ther 15° 9 o Clock cold day
6	[Saturday]	Ther 45° 9 o Clock hazy morning
7	[Sunday]	Ther 50° SE Shower Rained hard & high Wind all day
8	[Monday]	Ther 50° Windy blustering day-- grew Cold at night.
9	Tuesday	Ther 20° Cold Rode to Boston in Co with Capt Cobb-- rough nubbly riding; Infr Ct Setting there
10	[Wednesday]	Ther 15° []
11	[Thursday]	Ther 19
12	Friday	Ther 20° Snow'd
13	[Saturday]	Ther 15° []
14	[Sunday]	Ther 15° [] By [] at W Bowen P.M. Dr Cooper
15	[Monday]	Ther 15.
16	Tuesday	Ther 15. Evening to [] very Cold b 4.20 took cold

MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY

461 January 1770

17 [Wednesday] very unwell kept about cold ther 15 18 [Thursday] Ditto attended merchants meeting [?] 201 wk 19 [Friday] Ditto Ditto in X [?] Ther 15 [degrees] 20 [Saturday] Very sick Ther 18 21 [Sunday] Ther 15 home 22 [Monday] Sent for Dr J Gardner took physick 23 [Tuesday] Ditto more physick violent headache 24 [Wednesday] Ditto took to my chamber, blister behind ear Snow storm Wind much Snow fell 25 Thursday Ditto fair feverish 26 Friday Ditto very ill 27 Saturday Ditto more physick 28 Sunday Ditto fine day better 29 Monday Ther 25 better Thaway -day Raind 30 Tuesday Ther 30 Thaway 31 Wednesday Ther 15 very Cold went out

This month has been dry & cold & the ground bare for the most part

February 1 Thursday exceeding Cold, went out - Ther 15 (degrees) 2 Friday Ditto Ther 15 (degrees) bought a Sulkey 3 Saturday Moderate day Wind Southerly Rode to Taunton in (?), very icy hard going - 4 Sunday Cloudy day Ther 20 (degrees) 5 Monday Ther 20 (degrees) 9 o'clock fair day good sledding but thin 6 Tuesday Ther 15 9 o'clock fair moderate 7 Wednesday Ther 20 fine day - 8 Thursday Ther 40 (degrees) snowed in night. AM raind 9 Friday Ther 35 (degrees) Thawey Sloppy weather Cloudy 10 Saturday Ther 35 (degrees) Small Snow last night, fair