Taunton Feby. 7. 1785 Sir,

I recd. yours1 with the money for which I am much obliged to you but do not mean to pay it till I have deducted something to pay you for trouble &c. Inclosed is a Receipt for the money.

I should have been in Boston E’er now if my family affairs would have admitted Mrs. Padelford is well abed now & has a fine son,2 all well she Joins me in Complts. to you & family wishing you & them Health & Happiness.

We in this Town stand in need of an other Justice of the Quorum as t[here] is but only one, in Town. I should be glad you’d mention it so that one more may be appointed. Apollos Leonard as he stands first I suppose will expect it—& I shall like it if but one is appointed, as I think it falls to him in Course—we often want one when we cannot come at one.

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As soon as I can I intend to Visit you. From your Sincere friend & Humble Servt.,

Seth Padelford

Since writing the foregoing Aps. Leonard has had an appt. of a Special Justices Comission—I could be glad, my friend James Williams might be appointed a Justice of the Quorum—& if Friend Fales was also it wou’d not be too many—we often need, one &c.

Yours as before S. Padelford

RC ; addressed: “The Honble. Robt. T. Paine Esqr. Boston”; endorsed. Brackets represent a tear to the page.

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Not located.

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Charles, the sixth of the fourteen children of Seth and Rebecca (Dennis) Padelford, died Feb. 21, 1785, aged six weeks.