Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2
I'm obliged to you for yours of the 5th Inst.1 & delivd. your answer to Ezek. who will I doubt not be well pleased. As to Blanks I can Spare you but 10 & those all originals, which I should imagine would be Sufficient to execute the Executorship in all its parts. But however if you want more & Attachments you mNicholas Sever.3 My Compls. to all Friends &c. Yrs.
P.S. You would oblige me if you'd look up that Small manuscript of the civil Law descents & Send it down in a Letter by our Rep. There are some things in it which may be of some benefit to me who live in the Country, tho perhaps you, who dwell at the Fountain head, may hardly think it worth taking into your hand.
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Joseph Cushing (1711–1767) was then representing Scituate in the General Court in his only term. A 1731 graduate of Harvard, he was schoolmaster at Scituate for many years and later served as a justice of the peace and quorum (Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 9:38–39).
Nicholas Sever (1680–1764) was chief justice of the Plymouth County Court of Common Pleas for nearly twenty years before his resignation in 1762 (Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 5:95).