Narraganset Feby. 16th 1768 Sir,

Your Letter I1 Receiv'd Per Post some Time after the Date of it, But was Uncommonly & Above Measure Surpriz'd that in the Whole of it You Neglected (Not to Say Omitted) to Mention To me the Result of your Writing In my Behalf To Mr. Comee,2 In Relation To that Important Interest I Sold him In Stoutingham District, your being present at Squire Cobbs, and A Witness to the Bargain When it Was Made between Us. If you Was Afraid of your Fee In Prosecuting such A Transgressor, after the most Reiterated Promisses of Paying Me, You shoud have Told me so, When I was With you at Taunton, that I might have provided My Self other Means, To Secure that which was Unalienably My Right & Due, or if you Were under Any Præpossessions in favour of Comee, it Woud been but Honourable to have Acquainted Me therewith. In Short, as my Dependance has been Much Upon You And my Bond is in Your hands I Cant but Declare "You Dissapointed Me to a Very Great Degree." However, As We Say, Better Late than Never. If you'll with all your Vigour & Assiduity Try to Recover a Debt so Long Detain'd in Comees hands in the Unjustist & Unfairest Manner, youll prove to Me the Genuiness & Sincerity of your Friendship, And that you are the same Honest trojan that I've Ever took you to be Without Guile & Hypocrisy. And this, will be highly Meritorious not only of my Philanthrophy & Good Graces, But424procure of Me the Petition you've Laid in With me for,—as to the funeral Elegy of Mrs. Clark by her Poetical Son Who has a taste for the Muses, And Who has from his Youth Up Been Inspir'd by THE SACRED NINE, Which you may Depend On having a Transcript of, as soon as I Behold your Smiling PHIZ Again, Which Cant in all probability be now very long first.

Besides Sir, Whatever Trouble you may be at, (without its being Calld a Labour of Love) shall be Sweetn'd with its Reward, And in A Word, SUE THE WRETCH COMEE, And A Compensation shall be Made to the full. With all Respect To you, not forgeting Mrs F—rs Compliments & Mine To Capt. Cobb & Lady. I Subscribe Your Affectionate Friend & Humble Servant.

S. F AYERWEATHER

RC ; addressed: "To Robert Treat Pain Esqr. Attorney at Law In Taunton These To be Left at Mr Manns In Wrentham—To be forwarded With all Speed."

1.

Samuel Fayerweather (1725–1781). son of Thomas and Hannah (Waldo) Fayerweather of Boston, graduated from Harvard in 1743. He served first as a Congregational minister but later went to England, where in 1756 he was ordained by the bishop of London as deacon and priest in the Anglican church. He served as minister in St. Paul's Episcopal church in North Kingston, Rhode Island, 1760–1774 (Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 11:221–229; Wilkins Updike, A History of the Episcopal Church in Narragansett, Rhode Island, 3 vols. [Boston, 1907]).

2.

John Comee (1725–1815), a farmer, moved from Lexington to Milton in 1751 and soon afterwards to Stoughtonham, the part of Stoughton which was incorporated as Sharon in 1762. He signed the unsuccessful petition for the incorporation of Foxborough in 1773 (NEHGR 50[1896]: 21).

Boston 12. March 1768 Sr.,

I have recd. Information from my Father that the Whale Case 1 is left to men so that you need not be at Boston as there will be no Court of Admiralty. Parker is sent to by Mr. Auchmuty not to attend. Yours

JAMES OTIS

RC ; addressed: "For Robert Treat Paine Esqr. at Taunton"; endorsed.

1.

Doane v. Gage. See Joseph Otis to RTP, Barnstable, Jan. 10, 1766.