Robert Treat Paine文件
1770年Robert Treat Paine (RTP), 1731-1814) stood as counsel for the prosecution in the Boston Massacre trials. Almost two decades later, he prosecuted the Shays’s Rebellion treason trials (1786-1787). While Paine is best remembered for his involvement in these two well-known cases, he was a prominent public figure in Massachusetts for over 30 years. In his long career RTP served all along the legal spectrum of the colony-turned-state: as a lawyer, 一个法官, 以及大陆会议的代表, 他在那里签署了《独立宣言. He contributed to the development of legal form and precedent in the new state when he served as the first attorney general of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1777-1790), 国家法律修改委员会委员, and as a justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1790-1804).
The MHS is happily maintaining RTP’s legacy by expanding public access to his correspondence and legal papers. With the assistance of a generous grant from the 国家历史出版物 and 记录委员会 (NHPRC), the Publications Department completed the fourth volume of the 罗伯特·特鲁·潘恩的论文 2018年春天. 用同样的资金, we are in the process of completing the last volume of the five-volume edition and developing a digital edition of all five books. A beta edition of the first three digital volumes is now live!
The NHPRC is one of the key supporters of documentary editing projects in the United States. It is the funding affiliate of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), which was created by Congress in 1934 to protect America’s historical records and make them publicly available. 通过资助, NHPRC促进保护, 出版, and digitization of significant documentary sources.
Some examples from the forthcoming digital edition
“The other day my fancy took a flight beyond the reach of my bodily Senses, & 在此期间，我的pre - ternatural Elevation, 我的想象向我呈现了这样一幅景象, 所以我在这里冒昧地谈一谈...众神...in Compassion to the giddy Errors of Mankind, have here set up the Curious & 一直都想 大脑精炼实验室”RTP (Boston) to Richard Cranch and Samuel Quincy, 30 October 1754
“It will not be in my Power to support that Friendship for you which I have hitherto done, 也不表达 & Notice towards you which you may expect; you have hitherto been of my Rank but if you descend below it you cant expect me to follow you. 我该如何保持这种社交乐趣1759年5月6日致尤妮斯·潘恩的RTP和一个男人which I have had with you, 和一个男人 so unequal to support it.”
的眼睛 世界 都在你身上. 你的决定将决定 国家. 因此，你需要非凡的智慧 & 毅力.”Joseph Greenleaf (Boston) to RTP (Philadelphia), 27 September 1774
“你所经历的生动场面”, 会议的生动目的, and the importance of your decision which must call forth Every power of the mind, & wake Every humane affection, have by this time I make no doubt rub’d off all the Taunton Rust. I anticipate the pleasure your return will afford Us as your Domesticks.”尤尼斯·潘恩(陶顿)致RTP, 1774年10月8日
“I have often been alarmed, by Gages behaviour to the town of Boston. 他的许多计划我们都看不透. 他们将以什么结束，只有时间才能决定. It seems as if fear was his greatest inducement to fortifie it in the manner he has done.”Abigail Greenleaf (Taunton) to RTP, 8 October 1774
“我们都兴高采烈 & Swear by the departed Spirits of the first Settlers of New-England we will not sheath the sword till our Liberties are fixed upon a firm & 稳定的基础. We shall have our Minute men ready to march by tomorrow day-break”William Baylies (Dighton) to RTP, 22 April 1775
“你是我的敌人 & have been labouring my disgrace I am Satisfyed; that finding yr. self discovered your implacable Temper will urge you on to your ill will I have so much Reason to think that I must necessarily take Care of my Self.”RTP (Philadelphia) to James Warren, draft, 1 January 1776
“I therefore take the Liberty breifly to state the Connection between the execution of this Law & our Political Salvation; to save time I would referr you to the Observation made last Saturday on the1777年3月3日，汤顿致威廉·贝利斯破坏Evil attending a depreciating Currency, the Embarrassment it gives to Trade & the Destruction of public Credit, the excitement to Fraud, extortion & 甚至掠夺”
I hope Some opportunity will offer for you to Send the flour from milton for their none to be had here. The report is here that you have got a house in Boston I tell them if you have I Suppose you mean to have two Wifes one for Boston the other for taunton.1780年3月8日，Sally Paine(陶顿)致RTP
“他打败了叛军，”他说. 把它们切成大块，放在煤上烤 & eat them he wished he had the Key of Hell he would turn all the dam'd Rebells & 踢他们走, he wished all our Soldiers would go to the Regulars wished we could not raise an Army”RTP审判笔记，联邦诉. 詹姆斯·休伊特(1781年10月
“我非常难过 & anxiety of mind that I have observed your Conduct for a long time past & 通知 & 你已经听过了. from致托马斯·潘恩，1794年8月12日yr. 妈妈。 & my self have produced neither reformation nor explanation; the age for laying deep the foundation of Industrious & 良好的习惯是迅速地偷走。”
“A little consideration must also satisfy us that every free government is formed and regulated by this fundamental maxim or principle, that the minority in all political transactions must consider the acts of the majority as the acts of the whole body, 并据此行事; for a perfect unanimity is never to be expected”对大陪审团的控告，1799年5月