Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2
Chas. W. Apthorp & Co.1 has a Bill Sale from Ratcliff Hellon of a Ship now in the Stocks in Swansey wch. I2 pray you woud Take Possession off to Defend agt. the Demands of any Person whatever, & Get the369Said Vessell Valued, that I may give his acct. Credit for the Valuation. Your Hble. St.
Charles Ward Apthorp (1729–1797), a Boston native, in 1755 went to New York, where he became a lawyer, was active in business and served on the governor's council (1763–1783). As a loyalist, his estates in Massachusetts and Maine were confiscated after the Revolution, although he was allowed to retain his New York lands (Leonard Foster Apthorp, Brief Records of the Lives of Certain Members of the Apthorp Family [1931]. Manuscript at Mass. Hist. Soc.).
William Molineux (1716–1774), a Boston merchant who was a member of the radical group who furthered the cause of liberty. Opposed to the arrival of the British troops in 1768, he later served on the committee appointed by the Boston town meeting on March 2, 1772, to request the withdrawal of the troops from Boston (John Richard Alden, "A Letter from William Molineux," New England Quarterly 17[1944]107–108). He was not a regular member of the bar.