Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2
I wrote you last week from Boston by Collo. Clap to which I refer you. I intended to have seen Plymouth this Week notwithstanding wht. I wrote, but your Sister whome I left well when I went to Boston I found very much Indispos'd on my return & now she is very ill. This day she has been blooded, & has many Symptoms of her old disorder which I pray God to prevent: for 'tis Impossible (without a miracle) she should stand another Shock.
In my last I mention'd to you that the affair between Pierce & myself is to be setled by Rule of Court.1I should be glad you would attend upon it & Nominate for me, I long to have it setled. I am Sr. yrs. &c.
Samuel Pearce of Bristol, R.I., cordwainer, and Elizabeth, his wife, attached Joseph Greenleaf of Abington, merchant, in a case continued from Jan. 1762. The case concerned a debt on an obligation for £350 on demand, dated Nov. 6, 1759. At the Plymouth Common Pleas for Jan. 1765 Greenleaf confessed forfeiture and requested chancery. The plaintiffs were awarded a judgment plus costs (Plymouth Court Records, 8:141).