Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2
At the Request of Mr. John Gibbs of Sandwich I write to desire this favor of you as it will not only Serve him & me too viz to Take Justice Godfrees1 Bond for the Debt & Costs on the Judgtm. & Execution that John Lambert is now In Goal on giveing him Six or Twelve months Time on Interist from the Date of the Judgment only Lambert Should Be Credited four Pounds Sixteen that he Paid Gibbs and I Suppose has a Recept for. Your Care will much oblige your Humble Servtn.
George Godfrey of Taunton (1720/1–1793) served as a justice of the peace for Bristol Co. from 1760. During the Revolution he was Taunton's representative to the General Court and brigadier general of the Bristol County militia (Whitmore, Mass. Civil List, 144; Mass. Soldiers & Sailors, 6:526).