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Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 4

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From George Spooner

12 March 1783

From Sally Cobb Paine

23 April 1783
From Andrew Oliver
Oliver, Andrew RTP
Salem 18 March 1783 Sir,

In the supplement to the Boston Gazette of 10 March current,1 you have exhibited divers complaints against several Persons for high crimes &c whereupon you claim their Estates in the County of York as forfeited to the sole use of the Common-Wealth of Massachusetts. Among which I observe one against Willm. Brattle Esqr. of Cambridge &c for an Estate lying partly 257 in Biddeford and partly in Arundell, bounded in part on Saco River. Now Sir as I have an undoubted claim to one half, at least, of that tract; which has never been divided between the heirs of Colo. Fitch,2 as one of whom he held, or pretended to hold it; the propriety of which claim is perhaps still liable to dispute: and as I take for granted that you have no desire to involve the innocent with the guilty, I thou’t the above information might not be amiss, in order to prevent it. I am Sir, with Friendship & Respect

Your most humble Servt., A Oliver

RC ; addressed: “Honble. Robert Treat Pain Esqr.”; endorsed.

1.

As noted in Timothy Frost to RTP, Jan. 12, 1783 (above).

2.

Col. Thomas Fitch (1668/9–1736) had six children including Mary (1706–1775), the wife of Andrew Oliver, and Martha (1704–1763), who married first James Allen and second William Brattle.