Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 4
The Six complaints handed in at octr. Court last at Biddeford the Law with regard to confiscating the Estate of certain persons commonly called absentees was not to be found in that Quarter therefore the Court thot. it advisable to continue them to Jany. Inst. & then ordered them to be Published in the News Papers as you live at Boston & am acquainted with the Printers1 I2 thot. it best to Send the notification to you to have the Same Published as you See fitt as youl. See Inclosed and am with Great Esteam.
These complaints were filed against Charles Ward Apthorp of New York; Sylvester Gardiner, late of Boston; Lewis Deblois, late of Boston; William Brattle, late of Cambridge; Joseph Green, late of Boston; and William Starks, late of Dunbarton, N.H. The notices were published in the Independent Chronicle (Mar. 6, 1783) and the Boston Evening Post (Mar. 15 and 22, 1783). The case was continued to the Apr. court.
Timothy Frost (1742–1783) of York, Maine, was clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for York County.