Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 3
Mr. Crocker is Just going So I have only time Let you know that I recd: a line from you this morning. I wrote by Mrs. Blanchard which I hope you have recd. You desire me to get help thats not in my power to do. I Cant find any here. Miss naby thinks She can get abias mother if She Can due Bring her though it is not the one I Should Chuse but She is better then nobody. I Suppose you have Seen the docter & Settled the matter with him & when he is to return. I due insist upon it. I have Lived in Such fear Since he Left taunton that I have hardly Slept one hour but I Comfort my Self that I Shall have him. Have you forgot that you was to attend on Hall Case1 to day. Smith has been here three times day for this four days past. Why did not you send Some Beaf by murphy. I Should have Bought one Barrel of flour yesterdy but for want of money I did not. I wish I Could get at the Lone office. I would not be in Such want. My Love to all friends in haste yours
See Solomon Alden to RTP, Sept. 30, above.
Voted, That a Tax of £300,000 be levied and assessed on the Inhabitants of this State for the Year 1777, and paid into the Treasury by the first of January next. And then,
On Motion, Ordered, That Mr. Pickering,1 Mr. Dix and Mr. Paine be a Committee to prepare a Tax Bill accordingly.
Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, 53, pt. 1:96
John Pickering of Salem was excused from this committee and replaced by John Greenough of Wellfleet (Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, 53, pt. 1:99 [Oct. 6, 1777]).