Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2
Sr.,1 I make bold to send the enclosed to yr. care & pray you to deliver them to some officer (of whom I am ignorant). You will percieve that in the Writ of Francis Carman2 I have left a blank for his residence & addition, he lives at New-meadows but whether in the Township of Georgetown or Brunswick or North Yarmouth I can't learn. I pray you to inquire that matter & fill it up as also his addition wch. I suppose must be Labourer and deliver it to a proper officer directing him to attach sufficient & if possible let it them be returned as directed if it can't be please to alter it them to next Court. Excuse my giving you this trouble, my Respects to yr. Spouse & all good Freinds. Take care the French don't catch you. Yrs.
Enoch Freeman (1706–1788) of Falmouth (now Portland), Me., was a 1729 graduate of Harvard, served as major in the militia, and was practising law in York County by 1746 and at Boston by 1749. Representing Falmouth in the state legislature, he was instrumental in the division of York into three counties and became both register of deeds and judge of the court of common pleas for the new county of Cumberland created in 1760 (Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 8:572–581).
Francis Carman was listed in the 1790 census at North Yarmouth (Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States taken in the Year 1790 : Maine [Washington, D.C., 1908], 22).