Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2
If the weather should be very bad, I shall not be at Plymouth Court next week; for I am much unwell. Therefore pray ye to take the Charge of the Action Wade vs Harden. If the rule be return'd please to get it accepted, & tax the Bill of Costs. If it be in Wades favour, as it certainly must if the referees understood the affair.1
Assoon as I get my money of Mr. Whitmarsh which I expect soon, now, I shall settle with Mr. Rowe.2 I am Sr. yr. humbl. Servt.
Levi Wade of Pembroke, yeoman, attached the property of Nathaniel Harden, Jr., of Pembroke, yeoman, for a debt of £50 dated June 30, 1768. The parties had agreed to referees at the Oct. court, and at the Dec. court the referees reported that Harden should pay Wade £4.12.11 1/2, reference costs of £2.8.8, and court costs, taxed at £5.4.2 (Plymouth Court Records, 8:276). RTP notes in his diary that he attended the Plymouth court on Dec. 13–15 before going to Rhode Island for the Providence court.
Neither Whitmarsh nor Rowe is identified.