Massachusetts Historical Society
Boston, MA
Papers:
1659-1862, 13 boxes, 45 slip-cases, 2 volumes, 1 folder, and 3 oversize containers.
The collection of Robert Treat Paine contains correspondence; account books (1751-1814); business and legal papers kept as a lawyer, attorney-general of Massachusetts, 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. 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 Massachusetts 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 Robert Treat Paine and his father Thomas). 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.
Papers:
In the William Whiting Papers, 1775-1787, 1 narrow box.
Correspondents include Robert Treat Paine.
Brown University
John Hay Library
Providence, RI
Papers:
In the Boston (Mass.) Citizens Petitions, 1759-1773, 3 items.
One petition from March 12, 1759 includes a request that a town meeting consider decreasing number of houses licensed to sell strong liquor from the present 166. Signatures include those of Samuel Adams and Robert Treat Paine.
Library of Congress
Manuscripts Division
Washington, DC
Papers:
In the Elliot L. Richardson Papers, ca. 1780-1991, 238 linear feet.
Persons represented include Robert Treat Paine. A finding aid is available in the library.
Papers:
In the Meshech Weare Papers, 1776-1785, 2 volumes and 1 folder.
Correspondents include Robert Treat Paine.
Papers:
In the Henry A. Willard II Collection, ca. 1743-1888, 0.8 linear foot.
Persons represented include Robert Treat Paine. A finding aid is available in the library.
The Morgan Library
Department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts
New York, NY
Papers:
1792, 1 item.
A document signed by Robert Treat Paine on January 2, 1792.
Papers:
1792, 1 item.
A letter from Robert Treat Paine to William Channing written on March 20, 1792. In the letter, Robert Treat Paine writes Concerning a sum of money owed by Mumford.
The Rosenbach Museum & Library
Philadelphia, PA
Papers:
1780, 1 item.
A letter from Robert Treat Paine to the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk County written on January 4, 1780. In the letter, Robert Treat Paine petitions the court to confiscate the property of Henry Caner, a loyalist who has fled to British protection.
Papers:
In the Signers of the Declaration of Independence Autograph Collection, 1756-1818, 56 items.
Other authors include Robert Treat Paine.
University of Virginia
The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
Charlottesville, VA
Papers:
In the Albert H. Small Declaration of Independence Collection, 1765, 1 item.
A writ annotated and signed by Robert Treat Paine on July 5, 1765. The writ, signed by clerk Timothy Fales, orders the sheriff of Plimouth County to attach the goods of Isaac Pratt, blacksmith, of Middlebury, to the value of 12 pounds or to hold him to the next Inferior Court of Common Pleas where he is to answer charges of Thomas Chase of Beckley for an unpaid note. The verso contains a note, 1765 August 6, by Sheriff John Johnson, that he has carried out instructions. Underneath the sheriff's note are notes by opposing lawyers, Paine and T. White in Paine's hand regarding the pleas made by Isaac Pratt and Thomas Chase.
Papers:
1776, 2 items.
A letter and portrait from Robert Treat Paine to Joseph Palmer written on January 1, 1776. In the letter, Robert Treat Paine writes that he has just returned from Fort Ticonderoga where a further journey was prohibited by the autumn season and lack of assistance from General Montgomery who was otherwise engaged in the Canadian invasion. He notes that at [German Flats] Albany a treaty with the Six Nations was extended [guaranteeing their neutrality in the war against the British.]. Robert Treat Paine continues with a discussion of the necessity of setting up small saltpeter works throughout the colony, noting how it is done in Philadelphia. He will write more later but currently is agitated by the discovery of slanderous correspondence about [Thomas] Cushing and himself by John Adams and James Warren and expresses astonishment that fellow delegates in the same cause are behaving so. He has declined an appointment as a Judge of the Supreme Court [of Massachusetts], wants to know if the other appointees accepted, feels that John Adams was selected as Chief Justice for political reasons, and fears for the future if a junta destroys those who do not agree with them. Robert Treat Paine encloses an extract [not included] which Major [Joseph] Hawley will explain, requests Joseph Palmer's support and concludes by wishing "a deliverance from the Perils of public Enemy & also false Brethern ..." A portrait of Robert Treat Paine accompanies the letter.
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