Robert Treat Paine papers, 1659-1862.

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Robert Treat Paine papers, 1659-1862.

Papers of Robert T. Paine, Mass. lawyer, politician, member of the First Continental Congress (1774), signer of the Declaration of Independence, and justice of the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court. The collection contains correspondence; account books (1751-1814); business and legal papers kept as a lawyer, attorney-general of Mass., and judge; minutes of trials, including the Boston Massacre and Shays' Rebellion trials; and documents related to his work as a local and state politician. (Cont'd) Earlier papers include his sea journals/logbooks kept from 1750-54 on the sloops Success to Cape Hatteras and Hannah to North Carolina, the Azores, and Cadiz, Spain on trading voyages and on the sloop Seaflower on a whaling voyage off Greenland; diaries (1745-1814); and sermons given in Mass. and as a chaplain on the Crown Point Expedition during the French and Indian War (1755). Also included is a significant amount of Paine family correspondence, legal, and financial papers (including the estates of Paine and his father Thomas). (Cont'd) Other papers of Thomas Paine include his annotated almanacs (1716-22, 1733-34, 1750) and sermons (1724-33). Robert T. Paine (1803-85) papers contain his astronomical observations (1833-37), and Robert Paine papers include his diary (1785-91). In addition to the above, the collection contains catalogs of private libraries and genealogical information. Among the numerous correspondents are Richard Cranch, Joseph Greenleaf, John Hancock, David Cobb, Shearjashub Bourne, Elbridge Gerry, and Robert Treat Paine (1773-1811).

13 boxes, 45 slip-cases, 2 v., 1 folder, and 3 oversize containers.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7126520

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Paine, Robert Treat, 1731-1814

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Robert Treat Paine (March 11, 1731 – May 11, 1814) was an American lawyer, politician, and Founding Father of the United States who signed the Continental Association and the Declaration of Independence as a representative of Massachusetts. He served as the state's first attorney general, and served as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the state's highest court. Paine was also a founding member of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society and had always opposed slavery. ...

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Greenleaf, Joseph, 1720-1810

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