Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2
I1 have been at your house Several times to see you in ordr. to Settle the Note hand you have against Phineas Jones Deceas'd but I cod. not find you and as my business calls me out of Town this Morning must beg you will write us & sent the accot. of the Note & Interest & We will pay you Imeadiately per Returne of sd. Vessell as we are settling all them affairs. Inclos'd you have your Deceas'd fathers Rect. for an Ordr. on him in favr. Mr. Jones by John Maylem wch. Note we dont understand. Please to let us Know what it means as it appears to us it was to Discharge part of what Mr Jones ow'd your Deseas'd father. However by looking into the Affair you will be able to Informe us which hope you will do soon as we want to Discharge it, & its time you was pd. I am Sir Your huml. Servt.
Richard Codman (1729–1793) of Charlestown, Mass., removed to Falmouth, now Portland, Maine. A merchant, he also became a prominent citizen there serving as deacon of the First Church for 12 years and as a selectman for 2 years (Willis, History of Portland, 795–796; Cora Codman Wolcott, The Codmans of Charlestown and Boston, 1637–1929 [Brookline, Mass., 1930], 6–7, 63–64).