2022-11 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/18/2022
Robert Treat Paine (1731-1814) Lawyer, politician. Paine is best known as a signer of 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. Autograph Document Signed 7 ½" x 12 ½" within text in the third person, May 2, 1771, Bristol County. The two- page document relates to a land seizure in which Paine demands from Cory Durfee "…the northerly half part of the tenth great lot in Freetown…This writ I then delivered to the within named Robert Treat Paine full seizure of the land and buildings…." There are some minor fold breaks, otherwise very good.
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