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Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2

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From Gilbert Deblois

20 September 1765

From Richard Smith

26 October 1765
From Richard Smith
Smith, Richard RTP
Philaa. Octobr. 26th. 1765 Respectd Friend Robt. Treat Paine Esqr.,

I Reced. thine 13th. Ultimo a few Days, and Note the Contents, I have taken some Pains to find out the father of John Ingham the Unfortunate Young Man Who has for some time been a Little out of his Head.1 The father Intends to Sett off Next Week, to Come to Taunton. When he is there Must Beg thy kind354Assistance in any thing Wanting and If thou Shd. have Reced. my Quota of Natt. Whites Estate May send it per him in Johanns, If to be had in time if not, Send it to Scott & Gill in Boston I am in hast thy Frd.,

RICH. SMITH

P.S. Yesterday we had an Acct. from Jamaca that John Wormley is Dead there.

R.S.

RC ; addressed: "To Robert Treat Paine Esqr. att Taunton N.E. Via Rd. Island"; endorsed.

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John Adams noted in his diary, Aug. 30, 1774, while in Philadelphia for the First Continental Congress: "Towards the Evening, Mr. Thomas Smith, . . . and Dr. Shippen and his Brother and Mr. Reed, went with Us to the Hospital. We saw, in the lower Rooms under Ground, the Cells of the Lunaticks, a Number of them, some furious, some merry, some Melancholly, and among the rest John Ingham, whom I once saved at Taunton Court from being whipped and sold for Horse stealing" (Adams, Diary, 2:116). RTP noted more briefly in his diary that day: "PM Conducted by Dr. blank Shippen to the Hospital among the Lunaticks in their Cells I saw John Ingham."