Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2
There is a Case Depending at our Inferiour Court In December wherein Eben. Gorham Junr.1 is plant. and Elisha Thacher Deft. for Defemation and If you will Come In Behalf of The Plant.2 I3 will Give you Ten Dollars And Gett you as Much more Buissiness as I posibly Can. Mr. Ephraim Berry who Gave you a Small Fee Last Court Depends Upon your Comeing at The Next Court & will Give you what Further Is Reasonable I would not have you fail of Comeing. In hast I am yr. Humble Servt.
P.S pray Send me word as Soon as possible wheither you will Ingage to Come or Not yrs. C:C
Ebenezer Gorham, Jr. (1729–ca. 1772), a Barnstable mariner, later lost at sea (C. W. Swift, ed., Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, 2 vols. [Barnstable, 1888], 1:431).
This action is not further identified. The Barnstable County court records were largely destroyed in an 1827 fire.
Cornelius Crocker (1704–1784) operated the grist mill and a public tavern in Barnstable (Swift, ed., Barnstable Families, 1:224).