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Robert Treat Paine Papers

Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2

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From William Molineux

9 March 1770

From John Sprague

9 April 1770
From Gilbert Deblois
Deblois, Gilbert RTP
Bos. March 30. 1770. Sr.,

I shall take it as a favour you'l call on me before you return home, & bring our accot. with you, as will ballance the same, it being a Leasure time now. Otherwise I shall be Engaged when the Ships arrive from En-465gland & can't then attend to look into any Accounts or Settling wth. any body.1 I am Sr. your hble. Servt.

GILBT. DEBLOIS

RC ; addressed: "To Robt. Treat Payne Esqr. at Cambridge"; endorsed.

1.

RTP's cashbook for Mar. 1770 includes an entry: "Recd. of Gilbert Deblois his ballance" of £16.18.11 and then "Gilbert Deblois acct. from March 1765" crediting £33.13.2. This ended RTP's lawyer-client relationship with Deblois, who would appear later in the year as a juryman during the Boston Massacre trials (Hiller B. Zobel, The Boston Massacre [New York, 1970], 245).