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Paine, Robert Treat (1731–1814)

66

PRIVATE AND FAMILY LIFE

7

debt collection

5

goods shipped for

5

on career sacrifices

4

living expenses

4

health of

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4

and move to Boston

4

leases Borland estate

4

birth of children

3

purchases legal texts

3

and servants

2

and farm and garden

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2

solicited for recommendations

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2

on growth of family

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2

and peace celebrations

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2

dines with J. Hancock

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2

as "enthusiast"

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1

sells land in Windham, Conn.

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1

bequests from Hannah Cobb

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1

resolve on petition

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1

receives money from S. Padelford

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1

repairs house

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1

and McKinstry estate

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1

F. Ames on

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1

returns from Philadelphia

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1

and slavery

1

ceremonial life of

1

relationship with family

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38

PUBLIC LIFE

2

Local and county

1

justice of the peace in Bristol County

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1

chairman of committee to revise bylaws of Boston

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36

State and national

9

and Committee for Revising the Laws

5

and New Haven Convention

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4

and state constitutional convention

4

at Rhode Island expedition inquiry

2

not reelected as Taunton representative

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1

and resolve on bills of credit

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1

attends conferences on public credit

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1

drafts address of New Haven Convention

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1

called before Massachusetts Board of War

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1

drafts General Court address on currency

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1

and committee on Laws of Nations

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1

drafts act for observance of the Lord's Day

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1

at meeting on dividing counties

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1

role with Continental Congress

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1

chosen as councilor

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1

resigns Council seat

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1

returned as Taunton representative

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111

ATTORNEY GENERAL AND LEGAL CAREER

12

General Court orders

2

to prosecute treason

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2

on action against N. Thayer

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1

to prosecute ship Somerset

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1

to prosecute delinquent selectmen

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1

to procure witnesses against R. Allen

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1

to nol pros charge against A. Lopez

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1

to desist prosecution of R. F. Geyer

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1

to surcease action against B. Norton

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1

on action against B. Gould

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1

on T. Ives petition

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40

Legal cases

5

sloop Good Intent

2

Commonwealth v. Pernam

2

Commonwealth v. Hastings

2

piracy of schooner Keats

2

Commonwealth v. Brooks, Buchannon, Ross, and Spooner

2

trial of Nathaniel Danielson

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2

State v. Peirce et al.

1

State v. Baxter

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1

Crafts v. Revere

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1

Commonwealth v. Brainard

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2

Walker v. Jennison

1

trial for murder of J. Reynor

1

Gibbs v. Thayer

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1

Commonwealth v. Geyer

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2

Commonwealth v. McGregor et al.

1

Commonwealth v. Graves

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1

Commonwealth v. Hewett

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1

Commonwealth v. Woodworth

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1

Commonwealth v. Jennison

2

Commonwealth v. Stearns et al.

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1

Commonwealth v. Garcelli and Martel

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1

Commonwealth v. Sparks

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1

Commonwealth v. Faneuil, Scott, and Archibald

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1

Commonwealth v. Squire, Mathews, Steward, Evins, and Boardman

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1

Commonwealth v. Grey

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1

Commonwealth v. Shattuck, Parker, et al.

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1

trial of D. Norton

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35

Loyalist estates

14

individual estate proceedings

5

General Court directions on

1

and RTP accounts

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4

memorials to the General Court

4

and J. Temple

2

estimate of SJC business

2

chosen attorney general again

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2

declines appointment as justice

1

reshapes office of attorney general

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27

LETTERS TO:

3

Elbridge Gerry

3

Nathaniel Freeman

2

Henry Laurens

2

George Godfrey

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2

James Bowdoin

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1

Joseph Palmer

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1

Titus Hosmer

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1

Horatio Gates

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1

Robert Luscombe

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1

Caleb Strong

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1

Samuel Freeman

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1

Theodore Sedgwick

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1

Joshua Thomas

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1

Jonathan Bowman

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1

John Hancock

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1

Seth Padelford

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1

Ephraim Spooner

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1

Moses Brown

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1

Michael Hodge and Samuel Tufts

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1

John Bean

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156

LETTERS FROM:

18

Sally (Cobb) Paine

7

Joseph Palmer

4

Joseph Greenleaf

4

Samuel Freeman

4

Jeremiah Allen

3

George Godfrey

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3

John Hancock

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3

Theophilus Bradbury

3

Nathaniel Freeman

3

Jonathan Bowman

2

Massachusetts Council

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2

Oliver Ellsworth

2

Elbridge Gerry

2

William Stearns

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2

Benjamin Lincoln, Jr.

2

James Bowdoin

2

Nicholas Pike

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2

Samuel Henshaw

2

William Greenleaf

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1

Henry Laurens

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1

William Whipple

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1

Worcester County Committee

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1

Eunice Paine

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1

Roger Sherman

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1

Massachusetts General Court

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1

Samuel P. Savage

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1

Stephen Minot

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1

John Allan

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1

John Cushing

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1

Shearjashub Bourne

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1

Henry Marchant

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1

Jonathan Payson

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1

John Adams

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1

John Lowell

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1

John Brown

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1

Warwick Palfray

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1

Charles Thomason

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1

Richard Henry Lee

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1

Joseph Nye

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1

William Hunt

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1

Jonathan Dwight

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1

Joshua Brackett

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1

Eleazar Porter

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1

William Baylies

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1

John Lewis

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1

John Merchant

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1

Thomas Child

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1

Ebenezer Warren

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1

Paul Mumford

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1

Theophilus Parsons

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1

Ingraham & Bromfield

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1

Moses Gill

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1

Nathaniel Glover

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1

Joshua Thomas

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1

Richard Cranch

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1

Increase Sumner

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1

Stephen Hall

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1

William Prescott

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1

Timothy Frost

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1

William Lithgow, Jr.

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1

George Spooner

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1

Andrew Oliver

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1

Henry Knox

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1

Samuel Osgood

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1

Thomas Legate

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1

Joseph Russell

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1

Nathaniel Appleton

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1

John Sullivan

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1

Jared Ingersoll

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1

Michael Hodge and Samuel Tufts

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1

Nicholas Baylies

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1

Fisher Ames

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1

Zephaniah Leonard

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1

Daniel Newcomb

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1

Silvanus Bourne

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