Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2
If the weather should be very bad, I shall not be at Plymouth Court next week; for I am much unwell. Therefore pray ye to take the Charge of the Action Wade vs Harden. If the rule be return'd please to get it accepted, & tax the Bill of Costs. If it be in Wades favour, as it certainly must if the referees understood the affair.1
Assoon as I get my money of Mr. Whitmarsh which I expect soon, now, I shall settle with Mr. Rowe.2 I am Sr. yr. humbl. Servt.
Levi Wade of Pembroke, yeoman, attached the property of Nathaniel Harden, Jr., of Pembroke, yeoman, for a debt of £50 dated June 30, 1768. The parties had agreed to referees at the Oct. court, and at the Dec. court the referees reported that Harden should pay Wade £4.12.11 1/2, reference costs of £2.8.8, and court costs, taxed at £5.4.2 (Plymouth Court Records, 8:276). RTP notes in his diary that he attended the Plymouth court on Dec. 13–15 before going to Rhode Island for the Providence court.
Neither Whitmarsh nor Rowe is identified.
I1 here inclose you Writt &ca. against Thos. Durfee of Freetown with the addition of yeoman, if he be intitled to the Stile of Gentleman or any other, you'l please to make the alteration and deliver them to the proper officer for service,2 and you'l oblige. Yr. hume. Sert.
Thomas Gray (1721–1774) became a very wealthy merchant and served as a Boston member of the House of Representatives in 1764–1765 (Thwing Index; Massachusetts Gazette; and Boston News-Letter, Nov. 17, 1774).
No action relating to this issue was brought before the Bristol County Court of Common Pleas.