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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, NOVEMBER 6, 1775
The assembly of Pensylvania having appointed new delegates, the said delegates produced their credentials, which were read and approved, and are as follows:
In Assembly, November 3d, 1775
Resolved, That the Honorable John Morton, Speaker, John Dickinson, Robert Morris, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Humphreys, Edward Biddle, Thomas Willing, Andrew Allen, and James Wilson, Esquires, be, and they are hereby, appointed to serve as Representatives of this Province in the Continental Congress.
Extract from the Minutes,
Charles Moore, Clerk of Assembly.1
[Note 1: 1 The original is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, Pennsylvania, Credentials of Delegates.]
Sundry letters from the convention of New York were--
On motion made, Resolved, That a Committee of 5 be appointed to take into consideration the sundry letters lately received from the convention of New York, and the state of that colony, and report what in their opinion is necessary to [be] done.
The members chosen, Mr. R[obert R.] Livingston, Mr. [Thomas] Lynch, Mr. [Benjamin] Harrison, Mr. [Andrew] Allen, and Mr. [Samuel] Ward.
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The Congress, resuming the consideration of the report of the Committee returned from the Camp, and having agreed to sundry Articles therein contained, and come to sundry resolutions,
Ordered, That the secretary digest in order the resolutions of the Congress, as far as they have gone in the report, and lay the same before Congress to Morrow.
Resolved, That the further consideration of the report be referred till to Morrow.
On motion made, Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to examine what money remains in the continental treasury unapplied, and to form an estimate of the public debts already incurred, and which will become due on the first day of June next.
That the Committee consist of 3.
The members chosen, Mr. [Thomas] Nelson, Mr. [James] Duane, and Mr. [Thomas] Cushing.
The Committee of Claims reported that there is due,
To John Forbes, the sum of £35. 11. 10, equal to 94.9 dollars, for goods and necessaries delivered to several riffle companies, and of which sum Capt. Cluggage ought to be charged with £6.2.10, and Captain Chambers the sum of £4.10=12 dollars; and that the same ought to be paid to Blair M'Clenachan; the remainder to the Continent.
That there is due to Jane Allen, the sum of £47.0.7, and to Vendal Lands the sum of £2.0.0, both which sums being 130.7 dollars, and ought to be paid to Henry Wisner, and charged to the Continent.
That there is due to Judah Harbow, £7. 12. 4, and to Capt. Jackson £13.4.6, N. York cur[renc]y for necessaries furnished to several riffle companies, and that the same ought to be paid, to Henry Wisner, and charged to the Continent, being 52.1 dollars.
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That there is due to Andrew Graff, for waggonage, the sum of £27.2.6, and to Christopher Crawford, for blankets, the sum of £6.15, both which sums=90.3 dollars ought to be paid to George Graff, and charged to the Continent.
That there is due to Richard Backhouse, for waggonage, &c. the sum of £51.0,=136 dollars.
That there is due on several certificates produced by Miles and Wister, the sum of £26.6.4, [equal to 70.1 dollars,] which ought to be paid to them, and £13.10 part thereof be charged to Capt. Rice's company, and 3s. to Capt. Cressap's company; the remainder to the Continent.That there is due on several certificates produced by Frederick Leinbach, the sum of £58.11.5,=156 2/10 dollars, and that the same ought to be paid to George Schlosser, who is empowered to receive it, &c. of which sum Capt. Price ought to be charged with the sum of £4.13.6=[12.4] and Capt. Stevenson, the sum of £3. 15. 0=10 dollars; and also that Commissary Biddle, ought to be charged with £6. 15. 1=18 dollars, until it appears to be otherwise accounted for; the remainder to the Continent.
That there is due to John Murrow, for goods delivered to Capt. Stevenson, £71.18.10,=119 8/10 dollars and the same ought to be paid to George Davis, and charged to said Stevenson.
That there is due to Robert Erwin, waggon master, the sum of £169.9.3,=451 9/10 dollars, and that the same ought to be paid to him.
That there is due to Timothy Matlack, money paid by him to Joseph Brown, an Express to Cambridge, the sum of £17.4.1,=45 9/10 dollars.
That there is due to Jasper Stimes and Abraham Storm,
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the sum of £14.9.2, N. York curr[enc]y=36 1/10 for provisions and carriage furnished by them to the riffle battalion and that the same ought to be paid for them to John Alsop, Esqr.
Ordered, That the above sums be paid.
Application being made in behalf of the colony of North Carolina, for the sum of 3,750 dollars, in part of the expense incurred for raising a body of forces consisting of one thousand men for the support of the American Association and the safety of North Carolina agreeable to the resolve of the Continental Congress,
Resolved, That the same be paid to William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, and John Penn, Esqrs. and charged to the Colony of North Carolina, by which the same is to be accounted for.
The petition of Messrs. Sears and Randal referred to this day was postponed till to Morrow.
Resolved, That the farther consideration of the report of the Committee of conference be referred till to Morrow.
∥The several matters to this day referred being postponed, and the order of the day renewed,
Adjourned to ten o'clock to-morrow.∥
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