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Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2

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To Jonathan Ingham

12 June 1765

From Samuel Quincy

8 July 1765
From James Otis, Sr.
Otis, James Sr. RTP
Boston June the 14th 1765 Sir,

I am uncertain wheither you have a Regular Power of attorney from me or not I therefore have Inclosed one1to you Desering that you will accept the Same and Transact my Buseness from Time to Time as I Shall Request what I now desire of you is that youd be Pleased to Secure the Money due to me from Wilbour and Hack Lambert hae not Done me Justice. He has Defered from Time to time on Pretence that the Interist Should Be Paid from the Date of the Judgtm. untill I Perceive that all Hacks Estate is Gone and Wilbores attached thô he says that he Levied the Execution on Some Land near the Iron works But has not Compleated the Same and I am affraid of a Blunder or Something worse or that the Land will Be Sett off for more than it is Worth.2 Now what I Shall Be Glad to have Done is to have the Debt Secured and If With Cause Can Gett a Substantial man to Be Bound with him for the money with Interist From the date of the Judgtm. I had Rather do it then to take his Land or Imprison him and I Beg your Care In this matter. I will Stay Six or Twelve months on Good Security with Interist. I am Sir your very Humble Servtn.

JAMES OTIS
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RC ; addressed: part of address leaf missing "In Taunton These"; endorsed.

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Not located.

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Action not further identified.