Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2
I1 feer you will your Hopes will be Disappointed, and that there will be no great need of Sharpe Cycles to Keep the Harvest at our October Court, for really I hardly ever knew so small a prospect but hope the Times will be better. As to yr. Question I shall take Care to answer it assoon as I Can, In the Interim am yrs. &c.
James Hovey (1712–1781) worked as a joiner until he was admitted as a attorney to the Superior Court in 1752. He was made a barrister in 1762. Hovey practiced in Plymouth County and was appointed justice of the peace in 1760 and of the quorum in 1764 (Law in Colonial Massachusetts, 1630–1800 [Boston, 1984]. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, vol. 62, 345).
I inclose you an acct. of mine against Josih. Cornish1of your place as also one of my nephews Thos. Hutchinson junr.2 against him both of which I pray you to put in suit. I am inform'd he has a House of his own. If it is not mortgag'd I desire it may be attach'd & perhaps by fourteen days before January term I may be enabled to settle wth. him & he know nothing of the attachment as I have no disposition to hurt him. If you find his House is mortgaged for near the value of it I must beg the favour of you to manage so that the mony may be secur'd if possible. I am Sir yr. hume. Se
Josiah Cornish was a Taunton shipwright. For further on this case, see Foster Hutchinson to RTP, Boston, 30 Jan. 1767.
Thomas Hutchinson, Jr. (1740–1811), son of Gov. Thomas Hutchinson, was a Boston merchant who was appointed to the Suffolk Court of Common Pleas in 1772 and as a mandamus councillor in 1774. He fled with the family to England and died there (Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 14:289–295).