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.

Printed as Chapter 122 [Jan. 1783] in Acts and Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts [1782–1783] (Boston, 1890), 868.

Taunton March 13. 1784

I recd. yours1 on monday & I did 2 one before the reason why I did not Send money before was that I Sent by Capt. Smith to Enquire about the Exn. which I Sent to the Officer & was in hopes he wou’d have got the money & if he had he wou’d have left it with you—but I Cannot hear any thing of the Excon. since I Sent it & do not know whether it is Setled or not. I now Send you the money with Asking your Pardon for putting you to so much trouble for & am verry Sorry that it has been So much to you—but if in my Power to serve you as much any other way shall think myself happy. Am verry well hope you are better than you have been for I hear you have been unwell. Please Present Mrs. Padelfords & my Compts. to Mrs. Paine & family And Accept the same from your Friend & Humble Servt.,

Seth Padelford

I send 28/-

RC ; addressed: “The Honbl. Robert T. Paine Esqr. Atty. Genl. Boston”; endorsed.

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