Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2
I have Been here a Week Expecting to See you In Town at the Tryal of our Whale Cause which is to Come on on Monday morning next and If this Reaches you Soon Enough I should Be Glad that you Would attend. I should have wrote sooner But was Told you would be here this week at the Superiour Court. If you are not here by three of the Clock after noon I am afraid it will be Too Late.1 I am Sir your Humble Sevt.
RTP notes in his diary that he was attending the Inferior Court at Taunton on Nov. 29 and was not in Boston again until Jan. 1769.
In complyance of yours of 17th. Inst.1 herewith send by Mr. Allen your Croke Charles2 which was brought here by Coll. Andrews with my Books thro mistake. Should have Sent the Same by Col. Leonard junr.3 when here at Our Genral Assembly but had not the pleasure of Waiting on that Gentleman at my House.
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Sir George Croke, Reports of Cases in King's Bench and Common Bench. Part 3: [King] Charles (London, 1657, 1669, 1680, 1683).
George Leonard (1729–1819).
Oliver Arnold (1726–1770) was a prominent lawyer in Providence, R.I., where he opened a law office in 1762. He was elected attorney general of Rhode Island in 1766 (NCAB, 9:457).