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Robert Treat Paine Papers

Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 4

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From Seth Padelford

7 January 1778

From Worcester County Committee

9 January 1778
From the Massachusetts Council
Massachusetts Council RTP
State of Massachusetts Bay. Council Chamber Jany. 9th: 1778 Sir,

I am directed to inform you, of your Appointment1 this Day by joint Ballot of both Houses with the Honble. Thomas Cushing Esqr. & Mr. John Pickering2 to meet in Convention with the other States, at New Haven,3 agreeable to a late Resolution of Congress on the 15th: Jany. Inst. in Order to regulate and ascertain the Price of Labour, Manufactures &c. &c.

I am Sir, Your Humbl. Servt: John Avery Dy. Secy.

RC ; addressed: “The Honble. Robert Treat Paine Esqr. Taunton (On Public Service)”; endorsed.

1.

RTP recorded in his diary, Jan. 9: “rode to Boston horse back, found my self appointed to go to NHaven Convention of Cmttes.”

 2.

John Pickering (1740–1811), who graduated from Harvard in 1759, was for many years register of deeds for Essex County and represented Salem in the General Court frequently from 1769 to 1779, serving as Speaker in 1778 and here as one of the commissioners for the New Haven Convention (Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 14:481–485).

 3.

On the New Haven Convention, see below, Extracts from the Minutes of the Massachusetts Council, Jan. 13, 1778.