Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 1
I heartily wish you a pleasant & successful Journey, & safe return. Inclosed is the Note of Hand,1 which I've endorsed, but shall leave the Endorsmt. to you. I suppose it best that Fairbanks2 may be kept in ignorance of the Errors in it, not only of Factor, but Plamer, instead of Palmer. I am Dear Sir, Your affectionate Friend & very humbl. Servt.
See below, James Freeman to RTP, Aug. 27, 1756.
Joseph Fairbanks (1718–1790), originally of Sherborn, Mass., went to Nova Scotia as a lieutenant during the siege of Louisbourg in 1755. Afterwards Fairbanks settled in Halifax as a merchant (Lorenzo Sayles Fairbanks, Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family in America, 1633–1897 [Boston, 1897], 62).