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Robert Treat Paine Papers

Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2

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To Reverend Joseph Palmer

September 1762

From Rachel Doane Wormley

19 September 1762
234
From Benjamin Kent
Kent, Benjamin RTP
Boston Sept. 15th 1762 Sr.,

Pray take good Care of the Cause of Mr. Power & your Fees with the Testimony of a good Conscience shall be your Reward. These from your Bror.

BENJA. KENT1

RC ; addressed: "To Robt. Treat Paine Esq; If at Barnstable Court These"; endorsed.

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Benjamin Kent (1708–1788), a 1727 graduate of Harvard, became a minister at Marlborough, Mass., but was suspended for his heretical views. As early as 1739 he entered the law in Boston. He was appointed attorney general in 1776, served as attorney general for Suffolk County (1777–1785), and continued active in the affairs of the community until he removed to Halifax in his last years (Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 8:220–230).