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Letter from Samuel Quincy to Robert Treat Paine, 16 December 1770

Letter from Samuel Quincy to Robert Treat Paine, 16 December 1770 Manuscript

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    Manuscript

    Letter: 19.5 cm x 16 cm; enclosure: 6.4 cm x 19.3 cm

    From the Robert Treat Paine papers


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    [ This description is from the project: Boston Massacre ]

    Samuel Quincy, a Loyalist and solicitor general for Massachusetts who was appointed as special prosecutor for the Boston Massacre trials, writes to Robert Treat Paine, a Patriot and lawyer asked by the town of Boston to prosecute the soldiers. Quincy addresses matters of the court and requests a copy of Paine's oral argument so that it might be included in a forthcoming publication covering the trial.