Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 4
Robert Treat Paine, Esq; Granting Him
Thirty-one Pounds, Sixteen Shillings, for the Pork and Rye Mentioned in his Petition
.March 12, 1784
On the petition of the Honorable Robert Treat Paine, Esq; praying for payment for six barrels of pork and thirty-nine bushels of rye, taken out of the store of William M’Kinstry, an Absentee, by the Committee of Correspondence, of
301 Taunton, and by them delivered to Mr. Aaron Blaney, then a Commissary at Roxbury, for the use of the Provincial Army:
Resolved, That the prayer of the said petition be granted, and that there be allowed and paid out of the treasury of this Commonwealth to the Honorable Robert Treat Paine, Esq; the sum of Thirty-one pounds sixteen shillings, out of the next State Tax which may be granted, which is in full for the said pork and rye.
Acts and Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts [1782–1783] (Boston, 1890), 868.