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Robert Treat Paine Papers

Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 3

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Extract from the Minutes of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

6 October 1777

From William Wetmore

20 October 1777
From Meshech Weare
Weare, Meshech RTP
Sir, Exeter October 11th. 1777

At the desire of Mr. Blanchard, and Mr. Peabody our Committee1 to procure Council, & Collect Witnesses for the State on the Trial of the Persons committed for Counterfeiting the Currency &c. our Superior Court at Exeter will be adjourned to Tuesday the Eleventh day of November next, and at Dover till the Tuesday next following 403that, at which times, and places we must Rely on your assistance in behalf of the State.2

By order of the Committee of Safety, I am your very Humble Sert., Meshech Weare3 Chairman

RC ; addressed: “To The Honble: Robert Treat Paine Esqr. in Boston”; endorsed.

1.

Probably a joint committee of the Council and the House of Representatives composed of Jonathan Blanchard of Dunstable and Nathaniel Peabody representing Plaistow and Atkinson (Laws of New Hampshire, 4:65–66).

2.

See State of New Hampshire versus Stephen Holland on the charge of counterfeiting, below (November 1777).

3.

Meshech Weare (1713/4–1786) graduated from Harvard in 1735 and returned to his home in Hampton Falls, N.H., where he eventually succeeded his father as representative to the General Court, judge, and militia colonel. Weare played a major role in all five provincial congresses (1774–1776) and was president pro tempore of two of them. He was chief justice of New Hampshire (1776–1782) ( ANB ).