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Robert Treat Paine Papers

Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 3

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From Joseph Greenleaf

4 November 1774

From Benjamin Akin

24 November 1774
From Benjamin Lincoln
Lincoln, Benjamin RTP
Cambridge Nov. 23d 1774 Sir,

I am directed to inform you that the Congress this day Resolved that the Gentlemen of the late Continental who are also members of this Provincial Congress be joined to the committee on the State of the Province And that you are desired to attend here as soon as possible.1 I am Sir with great Esteem your Most Humble Servant

Benjamin Lincoln 19

RC ; addressed: “To Robert-Treat Pain Esqr. Taunton”; endorsed.

1.

The Provincial Congress on this day resolved that “the gentlemen who were members of the late Continental, and are of this Provincial Congress, be joined to the committee on the state of the province.” The Congress also separately resolved that John Adams and RTP attend the Congress as soon as possible ( Journals of Each Provincial Congress , 49).