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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 --FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1776
Two letters, of the 7th and 11th, from General Washington; and
One from General Greene of the 8th, and a resolution of the committee of safety of Pensylvania, of the 13, were laid before Congress and read.1
[Note 1: 1 The two letters of Washington are in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 152, II, folios 523 and 543. That of Greene is in No. 155, I, folio 1.]
Resolved, That they be referred to the Board of War.
The committee appointed to confer with Lord Howe, having returned, made a verbal report.
Resolved, That they be directed to make a report in writing, as soon as conveniently they can.
The Committee of the Treasury reported, that there is due,
To Peter Baker for 1,149 rations, supplied Colonel Peter Grubb's batallion of militia, and 204 meals to different companies of militia, on their march to New Jersey, 123 19/90 dollars:
To John Bates for 266 camp kettles, delivered to Gustavus Risburg, assistant to the deputy quarter master general ∥for the flying camp∥ 354 60/90 dollars:
To Richard Cheney for 291 meals supplied the militia on their march to New Jersey, 29 9/90 dollars:
To Charles Ford for ten weeks' board, lodging, and washing, for William Whiting, a wounded serjeant, from the 8th June to 17th August, ten weeks, at 10/ ∥=2/3 dollars∥ per week, 13 30/90 dollars:
To Major Regonville, Captain Duchené, Lieutenant Smith, and Lieutenant Demuraux, Canadian prisoners, for their allowance from 3d November, 1775, to 6th September, ∥1776,∥ inclusive, is 44 weeks, at 2 dollars a week, is 352 dollars, and that the same be paid to Mons. Regonville:
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To Robert Towers, for artillery stores for two 3-pound travelling cannon, ordered by Joseph Hewes, Esqr. for the state of North Carolina, 72 64/90 dollars:
To Graaf, M'Clenachan, Hollingsworth, and Grigson, for which a warrant is to be drawn in favour of the Hon. Thomas Lynch, Esqr. for their expences to and from Williamsburg, with the hire of a waggon, with money for South Carolina, 267 32/90 dollars:
To Joseph Beck going express from Philadelphia to Virginia, 340 miles, at 1/3 ∥=⅙ of a dollar,∥ 56 dollars:
To Michael Millenberger, for five days' use of his two-horse waggon, in transporting the sick troops in New Jersey, of Captain Brown's company, 13 30/90 dollars:
To Frederick Bicking, for 221 reams of paper for continental currency, at 52/ ∥=6 84/90 dollars∥ a ream, is £574.12 equal 1,532 24/90 dollars:
To William Clayton, for 338 meals of victuals, supplied the militia on their march to New Jersey, 32 72/90 dollars:
Ordered, That the said accounts be paid.
Sundry letters being received, were laid before Congress, and read.
Two letters from General Schuyler, of the 8th, with sundry papers enclosed;
One from Walter Livingston, of the 7th, and,
One from Brigadier General Armstrong, of the 12th of August:1
[Note 1: 1 The letters from Schuyler are in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 153, II, folios 331, 360. That of Livingston is in No. 78, XIV, folio 83. That of Armstrong is in No. 162, folio 249.]
Resolved, That the foregoing letters, with the papers enclosed in General Schuyler's letter, except what relates to General Montgomery's accounts, be referred to the Board of War, and that the papers relative to the said accounts be referred to the Committee of Treasury.
Congress then resolved itself into a committee of the
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whole to take into consideration the report of the Board of War; and, after some time, the president resumed the chair, and Mr. [Thomas] Nelson reported, that the committee have had under consideration the matter referred to them, but not having yet come to a conclusion, desired leave to sit again.
Resolved, That Congress will, to morrow, again resolve itself into a committee of the whole, to take into their farther consideration the report of the Board of War.
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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