Boston May 19th 1758

Please to deliver to Mr. John Hurd a Note of Hand you have in your possession of Benjamin Leigh to me, as also a note of William Knox to Thomas Paine & his receipt shall be your discharge & oblige your hble. Servt.

ROBERT TREAT PAINE

RC (private collection); addressed: "To Mrs. Elizabeth Freeman at Halifax"; endorsed: "Halifax 1 July 1758 Recd. the two Notes within mentiond. Jno. Hurd."

Boston June 7th. 1758 Dear Eunice,

This is to inform you of some thing I forgot to inform you off when with you vizt. that you must go before some Justice of Peace & make oath that you have taken none of the Currency of the neighbouring Goverments since March 30 1757 in order to my taking out an Execution in yr. Name & must get a Certificate from the Justice to this Purpose "These certifye that Eunice Paine this day appeared before me & took the oath relating to the Neighbouring Goverments Currency prescibed by Law in order to intitle her to take out an Execution. June—1758 before me—J. Peace" & as soon as you have gotten it pray send it me by the first Opportunity.1 Remember my Drawers. Yrs. as usual

R. T. PAINE

RC ; addressed: "To Miss Eunice Paine at Weymouth"; endorsed.

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In 1748 the General Court had passed an act drawing in bills of credit and forbidding the circulation of bills of credits from other provinces. An oath attesting to noncirculation of such bills was required of all military and civil officers, taverners, innholders, retailers, and plaintiffs suing out executions (The Charters and General Laws of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay [Boston, 1814], Appendix, Chap. 29).