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Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2

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From Cornelius Crocker
Crocker, Cornelius RTP
Barnstable Novbr. 4th 1761 Mr. Paine Sr.,

There is a Case Depending at our Inferiour Court In December wherein Eben. Gorham Junr.1 is plant. and Elisha Thacher Deft. for Defemation and If you will Come In Behalf of The Plant.2 I3 will Give you Ten Dollars And Gett you as Much more Buissiness as I posibly Can. Mr. Ephraim Berry who Gave you a Small Fee Last Court Depends Upon your Comeing at The Next Court & will Give you what Further Is Reasonable I would not have you fail of Comeing. In hast I am yr. Humble Servt.

CORNS. CROCKER 211

P.S pray Send me word as Soon as possible wheither you will Ingage to Come or Not yrs. C:C

RC ; addressed: "To Mr Robert Treat Paine In Taunton with Care & Speed"; endorsed. Several sums are tallied on the verso.

1.

Ebenezer Gorham, Jr. (1729–ca. 1772), a Barnstable mariner, later lost at sea (C. W. Swift, ed., Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, 2 vols. [Barnstable, 1888], 1:431).

2.

This action is not further identified. The Barnstable County court records were largely destroyed in an 1827 fire.

3.

Cornelius Crocker (1704–1784) operated the grist mill and a public tavern in Barnstable (Swift, ed., Barnstable Families, 1:224).