Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 4
It is wished by Some Persons, that the Tories Estates in this County1 may be confiscated as Soon as possible—and as it is probable your Honour may not have had any Account of them—I beg leave to inform you that I lodged into the Secretaries Office, Sometime last Fall, Coll John Waites2 Return, which contains a particular description of them all.
Samuel Freeman (1743–1831), in 1775 while serving the Provincial Congress and acting as secretary to that body, was appointed register of probate and clerk of the county court for Cumberland County, “in both which courts his father was judge.” Freeman continued as register for thirty years, after which he became judge of probate until 1820. He continued as clerk of the county court for most of the same period (William Willis, A History of the Law, the Courts, and the Lawyers of Maine [Portland, Maine, 1863], 651–656).
Col. John Waite (1732–1820) of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine) was sheriff of Cumberland County from 1776 to 1809 (Willis, A History of the Law, the Courts, and the Lawyers of Maine, 678–685).