Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 3
I am directed by the Honble. Council to Notify you that Tuesday the 22d. day of August current at 10 Clock A M. is assigned for the holding a General Council, at the Council Chamber In Watertown, and to request your attendance at time & place.1
RTP, who was already a member of the House of Representatives as well as the Continental Congress, noted in his diary for Aug. 24: “this day I accepted a Seat at the Board.” He would have automatically relinquished his seat in the House upon elevation to the Council, but no replacement appears to have been named.