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Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2

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From Benjamin Kent

14 April 1774

From Eunice Paine

6 June 1774
537
From William Pynchon
Pynchon, William RTP
Salem May 28.1774 Dr. Sir,

I1 have secured for you & several others of the Court the best lodgings I could procure—& altho' the officers of the Customs had taken up many for themselves & friends I doubt not but the whole Court may be accomodated.2 Yr. most obedt.

WM. PYNCHON

RC ; addressed: "To Robert Treat Paine Esqr. in Boston"; endorsed; part of address sheet missing.

1.

William Pynchon (1723–1789), lawyer and loyalist who continued to reside in Salem. His friendship with RTP survived their differences in politics, and they continued to see each other after the Revolution (Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 11:295–301).

2.

The General Court was ordered to sit at Salem beginning on June 1 in consequence of the Boston Port Bill (Journals of the House of Representatives, 50:252).