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Robert Treat Paine Papers

Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 4

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Resolve Directing the Sheriff of Barnstable County to Apprehend Certain Inimical Persons

27 February 1779

From Sally Cobb Paine

27 March 1779
From John Brown
Browne, John RTP
War Office 9th. Mar. 1779 Dear Sir,

The Board have complied with your request, and a Barrel of Flour, I1 cannot say how good, waits your orders.

Agreeable to your desire I shall leave this Letter with Mr. Justice Greenleaf, who no doubt will duly forward it.

Believe me to be with much regard. Dear Sir Your real Friend & very humble Servant, John Browne2

RC ; addressed: “Honble. Robt. Treat Paine Esqr. Taunton”; endorsed.

1.

Col. John Brown (1744–1780) was a graduate of Yale (A.B., 1771) and practiced as a lawyer. He represented Pittsfield in the General Court and on Feb. 9, 1779, was appointed to the newly created Board of War along with Samuel Phillips Savage, Eleazer Johnson, Isaac Phillips, and Nathaniel Gorham. Brown was later killed in battle in New York (Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College, 3:404–407; Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, 54:134).

 2.

Although Brown clearly signs his surname with a terminal “e,” most sources do not include that.