Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2
Your Favour1 by Mr. Smith I received, & should have sent you the money agreable to your Order, but the Sheriff had not collected it. It is very Probable that it will be ready by the Time that I hope shall have the Pleasure of of seeing you at Providence Superior Court which will be the third Monday Instant. The Cause of Green will then certainly be heard & determined.2 Our Client Green will expect your being there without fail. In the Mean Time I am Sr. Your Most Humble Servt.
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Arnold et al. v. Nathll. Green, Providence Superior Court, Sept. 1765. RTP's notes on testimony and legal citations do not indicate the outcome of the case.
I1 take this oppty. by Friend Barker to Say that I propose you should transact the common Recovery this Octr. Term if you'll do it for the Sum (to Viz 6:13:4) that you propos'd, and desire to know by the Bearer, whether you can't be at Plymouth this Week that I may See you, and if not I'll meet you at Judge Olivers next Saturday at noon with my Plan as I've had a new Survey.2 Doctr. Charles Stockbrige will be my Friend in the case; and pray let me know by Barker all thats Necessary as to the Business, now being my Second Pulling of Hemp Engages my time, that if you could See me at Plymouth, 'twould be more agreable to yr. Hum. Servt.
Nathaniel Ray Thomas (1731–1787) graduated from Harvard in 1751 and settled on the rich family estate in Marshfield. Appointed a justice of the peace in 1762, he accepted a position on the mandamus council in 1774. Remaining a loyalist, he left Boston upon the evacuation of the British troops in 1776 and settled at Windsor, Nova Scotia (Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 13:136–142).
Although he attended the October court at Plymouth, RTP apparently declined this case wherein Thomas was represented by Pelham Winslow as counsel (Plymouth Court Records, 8:171).