Boston 18th Oct. 1763 Sir,

I inclose you an acct. of mine against Josih. Cornish1of your place as also one of my nephews Thos. Hutchinson junr.2 against him both of which I pray you to put in suit. I am inform'd he has a House of his own. If it is not mortgag'd I desire it may be attach'd & perhaps by fourteen days before January term I may be enabled to settle wth. him & he know nothing of the attachment as I have no disposition to hurt him. If you find his House is mortgaged for near the value of it I must beg the favour of you to manage so that the mony may be secur'd if possible. I am Sir yr. hume. Servt.,

FOSTER HUTCHINSON

RC ; addressed: "To Robert Treat Paine Esqr. at Taunton"; endorsed.

1.

Josiah Cornish was a Taunton shipwright. For further on this case, see Foster Hutchinson to RTP, Boston, 30 Jan. 1767.

2.

Thomas Hutchinson, Jr. (1740–1811), son of Gov. Thomas Hutchinson, was a Boston merchant who was appointed to the Suffolk Court of Common Pleas in 1772 and as a mandamus councillor in 1774. He fled with the family to England and died there (Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 14:289–295).