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Robert Treat Paine Papers

Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 1

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From Joseph Palmer

13 March 1750

From William Tidmarsh and Andrew Oliver

1 April 1750
From Jeremiah Finney
Finney, Jeremiah RTP
Wrentham March. 26. 1750 Mr. Pain Sr.,

You have been acquanted of Our Desier of You for Our Town School Master in Bristol. Att first Your Honored Father Was at Bristol Gave Jos Russell1 Esqr. Incoragement And since I2 have Wrote to Mr. Benjm. Church to treet With You Who tels me he on Your Brother Greenleff had Wrote to You. I Wayghted tow Day, hoping to See You but had not the Happiness to See Your Self though Expacted Eevery day. Wee Are Willing to Give good Incoragement 300£ at Least per Year and all the Best treetment wee are Masters of.3 Your Answer by the Baer Bearer Will Oblige Your Most Humbll. Servt.,

JER FINNEY

RC ; addressed: “To Mr. Pain In Boston to be Left at Mr. Green Leffs Distiller South End"; endorsed.

1.

Joseph Russell (ca. 1702–1780) was town treasurer in 1747 and a member of the town council (Wilfred H. Munro, The History of Bristol, R.I. [Providence, 1880], 160, 161)

 115 2.

Capt. Jeremiah Finney (1700–1759) was elected a member of the first town council of Bristol after its transfer from Mass. to R.I. in Feb. 1746/7 (Ibid., 160).

 3.

RTP noted in his diary for Mar. 29: "Mr. Lovell made me the offer to supply the Vacancy made by Mr. Gibson's Death: I recd. a Letter from Mr. Finney of Bristol urging me to supply that Town with a School." He accepted the former offer as usher at the South Grammer School and began on Apr. 9.