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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Journals of the Continental Congress --TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1775
Met according to adjournment.
The Congress took into consideration the letter received yesterday by express from General Schuyler.
Upon motion made, Ordered, That the Secy publish an authentic account of the intelligence received.2
[Note 2: 2 A part of Schuyler's letter of September 8 was printed in Pennsylvania Packet, 25 September, 1775.]
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Upon motion, Resolved, That Mr. [Silas] Deane, Mr. [Samuel] Chase, Mr. J[ohn] Rutledge, and Mr. [John] Jay, be a committee to draught a letter to Genl Schuyler.
Agreeable to the order of the day the Congress proceeded to the election of nine to compose a committee for the purpose expressed in the resolve of yesterday. The votes being taken the following gentlemen were duly elected, viz: Mr. [Thomas] Willing, Doctr. [Benjamin] Franklin, Mr. P[hilip] Livingston, Mr. [John] Alsop, Mr. [Silas] Deane, Mr. [John] Dickinson, Mr. [John] Langdon, Mr. [Thomas] McKean, and Mr. [Samuel] Ward.
A motion being made in behalf of one Col. John Fenton, who had been taken into custody by the Convention of New Hampshire, for being concerned in measures dangerous to the rights of America, and who, by order of the General, now remains, on his parole, a prisoner at Hartford; that he may be permitted to go to Great Britain or Ireland,
Resolved, That General Washington be instructed to discharge the said Colonel John Fenton from custody, on his giving his parole of honour to proceed to New York, and from thence to Great Britain or Ireland, and not to take up arms against the good people of this Continent.
∥Resolved, That the Congress will, to Morrow, take into consideration the letters from General Washington.∥
Adjourned till to Morrow at 9 o'clock.
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