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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, MAY 13, 1776
A letter from General Washington, of the 9th was laid before Congress and read:
Resolved, That it be referred to the Committee on Qualifications.
Sundry petitions were presented to Congress and read, viz. One from Benjamin Church, accompanied with one from Benjamin Church, Samuel Church and Edward Church, and a certificate from three Doctors ∥respecting the health of Dr. B. Church;∥ one from John Connolly and John Smith, accompanied with a letter from Dr. [Thomas] Cadwalader:1
[Note 1: 1 The petition of Connolly is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, V, folio 39. That of Smyth is in No. 78, XX, folio 29. That of Cadwalader is in No. 78, V, folio 43.]
Resolved, That they be referred to the Committee on Prisoners.
A letter from George Morgan Esqr. May 3 [at Pittsburg,] was read, and referred to the standing Committee on Indian affairs.
Resolved, That Mrs. Connolly the wife of John Connolly have leaveat proper seasons to visit her husband in gaol.
Agreeable to order, the committee of Secret Correspondence laid before Congress a state of their proceedings.
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The committee appointed to prepare a preamble to the resolution of Congress passed the 10th instant, brought in a draught, which was read, and postponed till to morrow.
A letter of the 4th from Edmund Pendleton, president of the committee of safety of Virginia, was laid before Congress, and read.1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 71, I, folio 29.]
The Committee of Claims reported, that there is due,
To A. C. Hanson, for the expences of two gentlemen, a private soldier, and a servant, on an expedition to New York, the sum of £28 12 10=76.4 dollars:
To Rachel Stille, for boarding prisoners now in Trenton, and including Captain Chase's bill of £3 3 10=[8.5] dollars, and also a bill for waggonage, amounting to £2 9=[ ] dollars, the sum of 290.9 dollars.
To Robert Erwin, waggon master, for waggonage of powder from Egg harbour to Philadelphia, the sum of £92 12 9=247 dollars:
To Frederic Bicking, for paper for the continental bills of credit, the sum of £416=1109.3 dollars:
To Gunning Bedford, deputy muster master general, for his pay and expences to the 17th of April last, the sum of £170 16 9=455.6 dollars:
Ordered, That the said accounts be paid.
The Congress resumed the consideration of the report from the committee of the whole; and, after some debate, the determination thereon, at the request of a colony, was postponed till to morrow.
The several matters to this day referred, being farther postponed,
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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