Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 3

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Extract from the Minutes of the Continental Congress

24 June 1775

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From Sally Cobb Paine

12 July 1775

To John Thomas

RTP Thomas, John

Philada. July 6th. 1775 Dear Sr.,

Mr. Stephen Collins the Bearer hereof a worthy Citizen here & a freind of mankind, being about to visit your Camp deserves some credentials of his great merit. His great kindness to our Country men & Zeal in the Common Cause recommends him to notice; Mr. John Kaighn reputable citizen here & promoter of military Skill among the Quakers travels with him.1

I hope your Welfare & Success & a full reward for your military Labors & am with great Regard & affection your freind & hble. Servt.

RT Paine

RC (Charles Roberts Autograph Letters Collection, coll. 720, Special Collections, Haverford College Library, Haverford, Pa.)

A similar note from RTP addressed to Gen. Artemas Ward, but misdated July 6, 1776, is at Houghton Library, Harvard College. On July 4, John Adams wrote his wife a more detailed letter of 65introduction for Collins and Kaighn (“they pronounce his Name Cain”). That letter and Abigail’s response of July 16 detailing the pair’s visit to Braintree are printed in Adams Family Correspondence , 1:238, 245–246.