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Robert Treat Paine Papers

Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 1

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From Jeremiah Finney

26 March 1750

From Joshua Green

18 April 1750
From William Tidmarsh and Andrew Oliver
Tidmarsh, William Oliver, Andrew RTP
April 1750 Ex Rostro Mercantili1 Dr. Classmate, Here are two2 of us together.

I recd. yr. agreable Letter per the Bearer & shall always esteem myself happify'd (a new Word) in having it in my power to serve you in any shape whatsoever—but more especially in that which equally distributes as much pleasure to me in the performance as it can you in the Perussal. Amen. Here comes a man I must leave of and tend upon him. Pray frapp this young Brother of mine & make a good Boy of him. Yr. most obedient,

WM. TIDMARSH Ditto ANDREW OLIVER but Learn me to have 9 Brothers to frapp

RC ; addressed: "To Mr. Robt. Treat Paine"; endorsed: "Wm. Tidmarsh Aprill 1750."

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From the mercantile platform.

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Andrew Oliver and William Tidmarsh were classmates of RTP. Andrew Oliver (1731–1799) was the son of Lt. Gov. Andrew Oliver and Mary (Fitch) Oliver. He married Mary Lynde of Salem in 1752, and they made their home in Boston. He was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1761 and was in 1774 named as one of the mandamus councillors, a position he resigned within ten days. With RTP he was one of the founders of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 12:455–461).

William Tidmarsh (1733–1759) settled in Boston as a merchant after graduation, but removed to Hull by 1756 and was married there to Mary Loring. He was lost in a privateer during the French and Indian War (ibid., 489).