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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 --SUNDAY, JULY 14, 1776
Two letters from General Washington, dated 11 and 12th July, were laid before Congress, and read.1
[Note 1: 1 These letters are in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 152, II, folios 197 and 213. They are printed inWritings of Washington (Ford), IV, 237, 242.]
Resolved, That an order for 20,000 dollars be drawn on the treasurers in favour of Colonel Clement Biddle, deputy quarter master general for the use of the flying camp and militia ordered to the Jerseys; he to be accountable:
That Col. Biddle ∥be directed to∥ use every method to forward the flour at Trenton to the places where it is wanted:
That Col. Biddle be empowered to appoint one assistant:
That Col. Biddle be directed to furnish tents, camp kettles, and canteens for an army of 20,000 men, including such of those articles, he has already received from Mr. James Mease:
That Col. Biddle be directed to employ an armourer or armourers for the army in New Jersey:
That application be made to the convention of New Jersey to supply all the lead they possibly can for the flying camp and militia:
That application be made to the committee of safety of Pensylvania, desiring them to supply the flying camp, and militia, in the Jerseys, with as many musket cartridges, well balled, as they can possibly spare:
That the Secret Committee be directed to supply the committee of safety of Pensylvania, with a quantity of powder, equal to that spared to the Continent in cartridges:
That an express be sent to overtake the powder wagons going to Virginia, with a letter to Colonel Fielding Lewis, to send in the return wagons, all the lead he can collect at Fredericksburg:
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That the committee, or council of safety of Virginia, be requested to send to Philadelphia, by the return of the wagons, as much of the lead they now have at Williamsburgh, as they can spare, and to order from the mines 15 or 20 tons more of lead to Philadelphia, as soon as possible:
That a letter be written to the commanding officer in the Jerseys, to march such of the militia, and flying camp, to Brunswick or other places in the Jerseys, as he may judge necessary, and most conducive to the public service; provided it does not interfere with any prior directions of General Washington:
That the committee of safety of Pensylvania be requested, immediately, to order to the several places of their destination, all the British officers, prisoners, in this city: their ladies not to be desired to go until the weather is more suitable:
That the commanding officer in Pensylvania be desired to issue fresh orders, and exert himself, to forward the immediate march of the militia to New Jersey: The service requiring their being immediately embodied, as appears by the advices received by express from General Washington:
That the deputy quarter master general be directed to request the use of some house of public worship, to cover the troops during their short stay in this city.
Adjourned to 9 o'Clock to Morrow.
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