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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 --WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1776
Congress being informed, that a vessel from London to Quebec, [loaden] with dry goods, among which are many blankets and coarse cloths, fit for soldier's clothing, was lately brought into the state of Rhode Island:
Resolved, That Governor Cooke be requested immediately to purchase, at continental expence, for the use of the army under General Washington's command, all the said blankets and coarse cloths; that the blankets be sent to General Washington, and the cloths made up, agreeable to the directions of Brigadier General Mifflin, quarter master general.
Ordered, That the Committee for Cloathing forward the above resolution to Governor Cooke, and acquaint General Washington and Brigadier General Mifflin therewith.
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Resolved, That two brigadier generals be appointed:
The ballots being taken, Colonel William Maxwell, and Colonel William Smallwood, were elected.
Certain resolutions, passed by the convention of Maryland, respecting the raising the eight batallions allotted to their state, were laid before Congress, and read:
Resolved, That they be referred to a committee of three, who are directed to report an answer thereto.
The members chosen, Mr. [James] Wilson, Mr. [Robert Treat] Paine and Mr. [Edward] Rutledge.
Resolved, That it be referred to the Board of War, to consider in what way Mons. De Roche Fermoy may be employed in the service of the Continent:1
[Note 1: 1 A letter from De Roche Fermoy, without date is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, IX, folio 45.]
That the application in favour of Lieutenant Von Hederich be referred to the Board of War:2
[Note 2: 2 A letter from Cornelius Haight, dated St. Croix, September 3, 1776, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, XI, folio 87.]
That Samuel Fairlamb's account be referred to the Committee of Treasury.
The Committee of Treasury reported, that there is due,
To Joseph Borden, Esq. for waggonage, boat hire, &c. transporting carpenters and their baggage from Philadelphia to Pawleshook, after deducting 15/ [= two dollars,] and the sum of £8 15 [=23 30/90 dollars,] for the hire of a 4 horse team of William Allen's, deducted for want of a voucher, and 15/ [=two dollars] paid by Captain Casedorp, 94 dollars.
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That there is due to John Dunlap, for 97 reams of cartridge paper, sent to Ticonderoga, 323 30/90 dollars:
To Alexander Rutherford, for 100 bayonet scabbards supplied Captain Ralph Falkner, of the 5 Virginia regiment, 40 dollars:
To Captain Hendrick Smock, for expences of a guard and prisoners, from head quarters, New Jersey, to Philadelphia, 44 18/90 dollars:
Ordered, That the said accounts be paid.
Upon application of the delegates from Delaware,
Resolved, That 120 dollars be advanced to Captain John Woodgate, of Colonel Patterson's batallion, he to account for the same with the pay master of the said batallion.
Congress took into consideration the report of the committee on the petition of Colonel Moses Hazen; Whereupon,
Resolved, That the sum of 966 2/3 dollars be paid to Colonel Moses Hazen, for his farming, smith's and potash, carpenters, and joiners, coopers, and stave maker's tools, and for anchors and cables, said to be taken by, and appropriated to, the use of the army under General Montgomery:
That the regiment under the command of the said Colonel Hazen, remain on the original establishment thereof, and be recruited to its full complement in any of the thirteen United States, as it was upon these terms he entered into the service, and the said regiment cannot be said to belong to any particular state, nor to be any additional expence in the mode of officering the same.
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The several matters to this day referred, being postponed,
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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