Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2
I1 have sued your old Client Calfe2 & attached his great Coat & sundry other things he had, all that I could come at. The Action is depending at the Infer. Court at Newburyport. I must have the note to obtain Judgmt. You gave me the Copy only. Calfe is at Newburyport at present, and suppose his body will be taken on the Exon. if you desire it. Yr. most Obedt.
Daniel Farnham (1719–1776), the first lawyer at Newburyport, Mass., graduated from Harvard in 1739. Appointed kings attorney for York County in 1744 and a justice of the peace for Essex County in 1752 (Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 10:364–366).
Daniel Calfe, trader of Boston, appointed RTP his attorney, Apr. 2, 1761 (RTP Papers).