Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2
I have forwarded the Letters you Committed to my care Except the Inclos'd who neither does nor ever did Live in Abington. Ive seen Mr. Brown1 who says he'll look up the rect. & shew me and Settle the accot. Soon. Wm. Tirrell2 says he'll get the rect. from Capt. Nash &75 insists upon its That the note is pd. Has Comsin3 Sail'd? I found on my arival at home I had not dld. you all my papers & had no opertunity 'till Last week to send them when I miss'd them to Mr. How wth. whom you may find 'em. Inclos'd I send a Letter from yr. Aunt Hunt4 and am yrs. &c.
P.S. Eunice is well & so we are all. Mr. Dodge desires to know what o'Clock it is. The Bearer Mr. Gloyd you may find at Mr. Coffin's waiting for my Rum. Please to lend an old Rug or Blanket to Cover the Desk we cannot do without it & have wrote Mr. How to send it done or not.
Woodbridge Brown (1714–1783), town clerk of Abington, Mass., for 27 years and a holder of other public offices (Abington and the Revolution [Abington, Mass., 1975] 89).
Capt. William Tirrell (1714–1777) of Abington. This supposed debt probably relates to the settlement of the estate of Thomas Paine.
Joseph Greenleaf on Jan. 4 wrote by Capt. Comsin to Richard Thomas Witter, a merchant in Jamaica, concerning a note against Witter. RTP wrote a cover letter to Comsin concerning this transaction, Jan. 20. Copies of both are in RTP's letterbook.
Experience Paine Hunt to Robert Treat Paine, Norton, Jan. 5, 1758, see above.