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Robert Treat Paine Papers

Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 4

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From Nathaniel Freeman

20 March 1782

To Nathaniel Freeman

29 March 1782
From John Hancock
Hancock, John RTP
Boston March 21st: 1782 Honble. Sir,

Yesterday Evening I Rec’d a Letter from His Excellency The President of Congress on the Subject of Mr. Temple’s Return to America, a Copy of which Letter, as Mr. Temple’s Case has already been Referr’d to you, I Transmit to you, & you will find Inclos’d.1 I have the Honor to be with much Esteem, Sir Your very Huml. Servt.

John Hancock

RC (Hancock Family Papers, II, 1744–1804, MHS); addressed: “To The Honble Robert Treat Paine Esqr. Attorney General &c Boston.”

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For a discussion of the John Temple case, see John Hancock to RTP, Nov. 23, 1781 (above).