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Robert Treat Paine Papers

Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 4

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From George Godfrey

8 February 1779

From Sally Cobb Paine

17 February 1779
Resolve Allowing £900 to the Attorney General
Massachusetts General Court RTP
Passed February 9, 1779

Resolved that there be paid out of the public Treasury to the Honble. Robert Treat Paine, Esqr., for his services as Attorney General, from his first appointment in June, 1777, to the first day of January last, the sum of Nine hundred pounds.1

Printed as Chapter 480 [1778–1779] in The Acts and Resolves, Public and Private, of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, 1777–1778 (Boston, 1918), 597.

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RTP noted in his diary, “chosen Attorney General again” (Feb. 10, 1779); the previous month, “recd. a notification from the Sctry. that I was yesterday chosen Councellor in the room of Danl. Hopkins Esqr. resigned” (Jan. 14).