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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 --SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1776
Resolved, That 300 dollars be advanced to the secretary of the Board of War, to defray contingent expences; he to be accountable.
Resolved, That it be recommended to the convention of North Carolina, to station ∥brigadier∥ General Moore, with the regular troops under his command, in such parts of that state, or of the state of South Carolina, where they will be in a capacity to render immediate and seasonable assistance to their friends in South Carolina; and that they may be upon the spot to oppose the enemy, when, and wheresoever, they shall attempt to make their landing good in that state; and that the convention of North Carolina do, immediately, at the continental expence,
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embody five thousand militia, to compleat any military operations already begun by General Moore, to defend the state of North Carolina, or march to the relief of their neighbours in South Carolina, or Virginia, where there shall be most occasion for their support.1
[Note 1: 1 "The Representation of the delegates of South Carolina, stating the weakness of that Colony and its incompetency to its own defence, if attacked by a formidable force of the Enemy, its reliance upon North Carolina for that succour which it had little reason to expect from any other source; their apprehensions that an attack was immediately intended by General Howe upon Charlestown, have induced Congress to pass a resolve which this incloses." William Hooper to North Carolina Convention, November 16, 1776. Colonial Records of North Carolina, X, 904. The condition "at the continental expence" was made on Hooper's motion, as he "could not consent to any arrangement which might weaken our internal resources without a competent substitute in lieu of them."]
The Committee on the Lottery, brought in a report, which was read:
Ordered, To lie on the table to be taken into consideration on Monday next.
The several matters to this day referred, being postponed,
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock on Monday.
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