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Robert Treat Paine Papers

Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 4

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From Increase Sumner

From David Cobb

4 September 1782
From Stephen Hall
Hall, Stephen RTP
Falmo. 2 Septr. 1782 Dear Sir,

I1 have received yours of the 23d. Ulto:2 I mean to be at Boston in all this month; when I propose seeing Genl. Wadsworth, & furnishing you with materials for Mr. Langdons Case. If that will not be timely; shall take it a favor, If you will consult the Genl.; should you see him in Boston, where he frequently is. I think it necessary to have due Copies of his Commission 3 of his special orders; of his Preparation, of which however I need not inform you. I am much obliged to you for seeing Mr. Sulivan.

I am Sir, with much Respect, your very humble Servt. Stephen Hall

RC ; addressed: “Honble. Robert. T. Paine Esqr. Boston”; postal endorsement: “Falmo. 2/6.”

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Stephen Hall (1743–1794), Harvard class of 1765, had been a tutor at his alma mater from 1772 to 1778, when he was replaced after he secretly married Mary Holt in Falmouth. He then returned to Falmouth and served as chairman of that town’s Committee of Correspondence until he was chosen president of the Committee of Safety for Cumberland County in 1779. He was Gen. Peleg Wadsworth’s secretary in 1780 and temporarily relocated to Boston, where he served in the House of Representatives that year and the next. After the Revolution, he returned to Falmouth and advocated for the separation of Maine from Massachusetts (Sibley’s Harvard Graduates, 16:165–169).

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A tear in the manuscript.