Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2
Election is over. One new Councellor vizt. Colo. Chandler.1We have no news. I hope you will send Down our answer as soon as possible. There is several of our friends want to see it before its put in. We have many strong friends who will do us all the service in their power it's not material whether I name any them. I beleive there will be no Difficulty. There's the fewest new members I Ever knew in any one year. I have not Time to write any thing further and am yrs. &c.
John Chandler (1720–1800), son of John and Hannah (Gardner) Chandler of Worcester, held many of the military, municipal, and judicial offices earlier occupied by his father who died in 1743. He was a loyalist and died in London (William Lincoln, History of Worcester, Massachusetts [Worcester, 1862], 230–231).