Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2
You desire a State of the Case, between Wigglesworth & Delano, or rather between Gould & Delano.
When I desired you to commence the Suit on The absconding act, Delano was indebted to Gould on Execution a considerable Sum I think about £30 or 40. lmy.1 Mr. George Minot2 who did Business for him here In Expectation of receiving Sufficient to discharge the Excon. Debt beged I wd. delay issuing the Excon. & he wd. See it discharged, alledging at the Same Time that Mr. S. Wentworth,3 Gould's4 Father in Law, was indebted to him a certain sum which wd. become due in about a month from The Time I spoke to him, which he wd. venture to discount, & Said He wd. get his Directions as Attorney to Gould to Stop the Process, wch. he accordingly did, but between This & The Period he said The Sum wd. be due from Wentworth I imagine your Process was a foot & of Course held all that was due from Delano to Gould. The proposed Discount with W. notwithstanding, & to This Day W. tells me there is a Balla. of about £8 due on the Excon., so taking it in the most favorable Light D. must have perjured himself, for I don't imagine he ever put any Thing into Minot's Hand, except a Sum wch. was paid to Gould pending the original Suit. This is all at present, if there is need I will endeavour to obtain an exact State of the first Debt, The Payments made & the Balla. due yet. & Interim am Yours &c
legal money.
George Minot (1703–1783) was a Boston merchant who owned Minot's Wharf, later known as T-Wharf (Minot, Minot Family, 22).
Samuel Wentworth (1708/9–1766), a son of Lt. Gov. John Wentworth of N.H., was a merchant at Boston after his graduation from Harvard (Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 8:526–529).
John Gould, Jr., another Boston merchant, was married to Wentworth's daughter Elizabeth347(Thwing Index). He had periodic dealings with RTP along with his father and brother in a business partnership. At least twice (Mar. 7 and July 18, 1764) he assigned his power of attorney to RTP.