Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2
I am uncertain wheither you have a Regular Power of attorney from me or not I therefore have Inclosed one1to you Desering that you will accept the Same and Transact my Buseness from Time to Time as I Shall Request what I now desire of you is that youd be Pleased to Secure the Money due to me from Wilbour and Hack Lambert hae not Done me Justice. He has Defered from Time to time on Pretence that the Interist Should Be Paid from the Date of the Judgtm. untill I Perceive that all Hacks Estate is Gone and Wilbores attached thô he says that he Levied the Execution on Some Land near the Iron works But has not Compleated the Same and I am affraid of a Blunder or Something worse or that the Land will Be Sett off for more than it is Worth.2 Now what I Shall Be Glad to have Done is to have the Debt Secured and If With Cause Can Gett a Substantial man to Be Bound with him for the money with Interist From the date of the Judgtm. I had Rather do it then to take his Land or Imprison him and I Beg your Care In this matter. I will Stay Six or Twelve months on Good Security with Interist. I am Sir your very Humble Servtn.
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You desire a State of the Case, between Wigglesworth & Delano, or rather between Gould & Delano.
When I desired you to commence the Suit on The absconding act, Delano was indebted to Gould on Execution a considerable Sum I think about £30 or 40. lmy.1 Mr. George Minot2 who did Business for him here In Expectation of receiving Sufficient to discharge the Excon. Debt beged I wd. delay issuing the Excon. & he wd. See it discharged, alledging at the Same Time that Mr. S. Wentworth,3 Gould's4 Father in Law, was indebted to him a certain sum which wd. become due in about a month from The Time I spoke to him, which he wd. venture to discount, & Said He wd. get his Directions as Attorney to Gould to Stop the Process, wch. he accordingly did, but between This & The Period he said The Sum wd. be due from Wentworth I imagine your Process was a foot & of Course held all that was due from Delano to Gould. The proposed Discount with W. notwithstanding, & to This Day W. tells me there is a Balla. of about £8 due on the Excon., so taking it in the most favorable Light D. must have perjured himself, for I don't imagine he ever put any Thing into Minot's Hand, except a Sum wch. was paid to Gould pending the original Suit. This is all at present, if there is need I will endeavour to obtain an exact State of the first Debt, The Payments made & the Balla. due yet. & Interim am Yours &c
legal money.
George Minot (1703–1783) was a Boston merchant who owned Minot's Wharf, later known as T-Wharf (Minot, Minot Family, 22).
Samuel Wentworth (1708/9–1766), a son of Lt. Gov. John Wentworth of N.H., was a merchant at Boston after his graduation from Harvard (Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 8:526–529).
John Gould, Jr., another Boston merchant, was married to Wentworth's daughter Elizabeth347(Thwing Index). He had periodic dealings with RTP along with his father and brother in a business partnership. At least twice (Mar. 7 and July 18, 1764) he assigned his power of attorney to RTP.