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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 --MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1775
Information being given to Congress that yesterday the honble Peyton Randolph suddenly departed this life,
Resolved, That this Congress will attend his funeral as
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mourners, with a crape round their left arm, ∥ according to the association.∥
That the Congress continue in Mourning for the space of one month.
That a Commee of three be appointed to the superintend the funeral.
The members chosen, Mr [Henry] Middleton, Mr [Stephen] Hopkins, and Mr [Samuel] Chase.
That the Committee wait on the revd Mr [Jacob] Duché, and request him to prepare a proper discourse to be delivered at the funeral.
1[Note 1: 1 And on Tuesday afternoon his remains were removed from Mr. Benjamin Randolph's, to Christ Church, where an excellent sermon on the mournful occasion was preached by the Rev. Mr. Duché, after which, the corpse was carried to the burial ground and deposited in a vault till it can be conveyed to Virginia.
The Funeral was conducted in the following order:
The three BATTALIONS, ARTILLERY
COMPANIES and RIFLE-MEN of this CITY
The CLERGY.
The BODY
with
PALL supported by
SIX MAGISTRTES.
Hon. JOHN HANCOCK, Esq;
The MEMBERS of ASSEMBLY.
COMMITTEE OF SAFETY.
NAYORm and CORPORATION.
COMMITTEE of CITY and LIBERTIES.
VESTRY of CHRIST and ST. PETR's CHURCHES.
CITIZENS.
From the Pennsylvania Packet, Oct. 30, 1775.
"On the day his Remains were interred there was a greater collection of People that I had ever seen. The three Battalions were under Arms. Their Standards and Colours were furled with black Gauze: their Drums muffled, and covered with Gauze. The Bells at Christ Church were muffled. There, Mr. Duché preached a most excellent sermon:--thence the Corpse was carried to the Burying-yard, the way being lined on each side by the Battalions, leaning on their arms reversed." Solomon Drowne to Miss Sally Drowne, 12 November, 1775.]
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The delegates for Delaware Government having been re-appointed by their Assembly, on the 21st Inst. produced the credentials of their re-appointment, which were read and approved.1
[Note 1: 1 These credentials, in the Papers of the Continental Congress, Delaware, Credentials of Delegates, are as follows:--
"In the House of Representatives for the Counties of New Castle, Kent and Sussex, upon Delaware, at New Castle
"Saturday, October 21st, 1775, P. M.
"On Motion, Resolved, Nemine Contradicente,
"That the Honorable Caesar Rodney Speaker, Thomas McKean and George Read Esquires, be, and they are hereby appointed and authorized, to represent this Government in the American Congress, now sitting at the City of Philadelphia, with full Power to them, or any two, or one of them, together with the Delegates from the other American Colonies, to concert and agree upon, such further Measures, as shall appear to them, best calculated for the Accommodation of the unhappy differences between Great-Britain and the Colonies, on a Constitutional Foundation, which the House most ardently wish for; and that they report their Proceedings to the next Sessions, of General Assembly.
"A true Copy from the Journal of the House,
"Jas Booth Clk"]
Adjourned to ten o'clock to Morrow.2
[Note 2: 2 A letter from the Provincial Congress of New Jersey was read on this day. It is in Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 68, folio 21.]
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