Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2
I1 have secured for you & several others of the Court the best lodgings I could procure—& altho' the officers of the Customs had taken up many for themselves & friends I doubt not but the whole Court may be accomodated.2 Yr. most obedt.
William Pynchon (1723–1789), lawyer and loyalist who continued to reside in Salem. His friendship with RTP survived their differences in politics, and they continued to see each other after the Revolution (Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 11:295–301).
The General Court was ordered to sit at Salem beginning on June 1 in consequence of the Boston Port Bill (Journals of the House of Representatives, 50:252).