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Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 4

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From John Lewis

4 July 1781

From Seth Padelford

3 August 1781
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Resolve on the Petition of Rodolph Frederick Geyer, Directing the Attorney-General to Desist from Prosecution
Massachusetts General Court RTP
July 6, 1781 .

On the petition of Rodolph Frederick Geyer.1

Resolved, That the honorable the Attorney-General of this State be, and he is hereby directed, to desist from prosecuting any libel against a certain house and land at Wheeler’s Point so called, in this town of Boston, late in the occupation of Rodolph Frederick Geyer, as being the property of Frederick William Geyer, late of Boston, an absentee, for reasons set forth in said petition.

Printed as Chapter 139 [May 1781] in Acts and Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts [1780–1781] (Boston, 1890), 700.

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Rodolph Frederick Geyer (d. 1790) was the father of Frederick William Geyer, for whose estate see Commonwealth v. Frederick William Geyer, July 11, 1780 (above).