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Robert Treat Paine Papers

Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2

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From James Honyman

11 October 1763

From Foster Hutchinson

18 October 1763
272
From James Hovey
Hovey, James RTP
Plimo. 13 Octr. 1763 Brother Pain,

I1 feer you will your Hopes will be Disappointed, and that there will be no great need of Sharpe Cycles to Keep the Harvest at our October Court, for really I hardly ever knew so small a prospect but hope the Times will be better. As to yr. Question I shall take Care to answer it assoon as I Can, In the Interim am yrs. &c.

JAS. HOVEY

RC ; addressed: "To Robt. Treat Pain Esq. at Taunton"; endorsed. Financial sums are tallied on the verso.

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James Hovey (1712–1781) worked as a joiner until he was admitted as a attorney to the Superior Court in 1752. He was made a barrister in 1762. Hovey practiced in Plymouth County and was appointed justice of the peace in 1760 and of the quorum in 1764 (Law in Colonial Massachusetts, 1630–1800 [Boston, 1984]. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, vol. 62, 345).