Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 1
It is my Will & desire that the half of the Still house & all the Notes that have been taken in either of yr. Names from my Debtors be accepted by you as far as it will go towards Discharging the Obligation I gave in behalf of you to the Judge of Probates; also that two Tracts of Land in Connetticut1 be added to the Sum which Deeds were taken in Eunices Name And that this Sum be divided equally between you, (excepting the Land Bank Money2 wch. I give Solely to Eunice) & that you equally share the Profit & Loss that may arise upon those Effects.3
On the Paine family land in Connecticut, see RTP to Samuel Gray, Boston, Feb. 2, 1757.
Thomas Paine opposed the Land Bank concept and was not a partner in the "scheme." The money referred to here presumably resulted from a series of suits Thomas Paine instituted in December 1742 against Essex County merchants, who "published and are Still Engaged and Interested in a Scheme for Supplying a pretended want of a medium in Trade by setting up a Bank on Land Security..." (RTP Papers; Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 6:205). See also, RTP to William Stoddard, April 3,1758.
RTP visited his father in Halifax in June, leaving Boston on June 9 and returning there on July 7. He must have discussed business matters with him for on Aug. 15 RTP began a systematic attempt to collect from his father's debtors.