Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2
Mr. Robinson (the Bearer hereof) is coming to you expecting to receive some Money in Town due to him on a Note of Hand, in Order to Discharge the Note you have against him, but if that fails he tells me he shall not be able to do it, this therefore is to Request you to forbear him a while longer & give him oppertunity to Look out for the Recovery of what is owing to him, which he promises to be as Speedy in as possible as he has been poorly this Winter 'till lately if you can do it without damage, it will be a Favour to him.
I received yours of Jany. 18th. 1758 (if it came from you which I suppose it did by the Contents of it, for I Recd. it without any Subscription) & am ready to assist in the assorting of the Shot if Messrs. Haward1 & Orr2 78will but give me previous notice of their coming, not inclining to do it without the help of others, & will send them to you when ready if I can procure a Team. Mr. Barker has not been here yet & it is now a difficult Season to examine the Guns, as they are many of them full of Ice & Snow. With proper Respect to you & all Friends I am Sr. yr. hume. Servt.
Probably Capt. Robert Haward (1699–1779) or Daniel Haward, who were among the original proprietors of North Bridgewater furnace in 1738, five years before it was sold to Thomas Paine.
Hugh Orr (1715–1798), a skilled edged-tool maker of Bridgewater who was later a state representative from that town and, during the Revolution, superintendent of the State Furnaces there. See Hugh Orr to RTP, Nov. 14, 1776.