Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2
I receiv'd your favour per Cap. Jenkins also your power to take into my possesion your House where the late Mr. James Freeman lived. But Mr. Ferguson1 who assists Mrs. Freeman in settling her affairs, Disputes your Right to the Estate, and soposees it belongs to your Sister, and also that Mr. Freeman had in his lifetime been at considerable Expence building Teniments on the Estate by order or Leave of your father, and Therefore soposes the widdow is to have some satisfaction for such Expences. But I donot here of any written Lease or Agreement. Youl Therefore please to give me your further Instructions about the primises and I shall act Agreeable thereto. In the mean while I am Your most Huml. Servt.
Henry Ferguson (d. 1777) was a baker and merchant by trade, a deacon of St. Matthew's Church in Halifax, served in the legislative assembly, 1758–1759, and was later a justice of the peace (A Directory of the Members of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia [Halifax, 1958], 116).