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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, JANUARY 1, 1777
Resolved, That 2,000 dollars be advanced to the Committee of Secret Correspondence; they to be accountable:
That 150 dollars be advanced to the Board of War; they to be accountable.
Congress being informed that [Lieutenant] Colonel Baylor, General Washington's aid de camp, who brought the despatches from General Washington, read yesterday, was at the door,
Ordered, That he be admitted.
Lieutenant Colonel Baylor being ∥accordingly∥ admitted, gave a particular account of the late action at Trenton, and withdrew.
Resolved, That a horse, properly accoutred caparisoned for service, be presented to Lieutenant Colonel Baylor, and that he be recommended to General Washington to be promoted to be colonel of a appointed to the command of a regiment of light horse; and that he rank with Colonel Sheldon, lately appointed to the same command, saving to Colonel Sheldon any preference which arises from the senior date of his commission.
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Resolved, That the sum of £7.1.7=18 79/90 dollars be paid to Colonel Walter Stewart, for his expences in going to Peeks Kill with despatches for General Lee.
Congress proceeded to the election of Commissioners to the courts of Vienna, Spain, &c, Whereupon:
Resolved, That Doctr Franklin be directed to proceed to the court of Spain and there transact in behalf of the united States such business as shall be intrusted to him by Congress agreeable to the instructions that may be given him and transmitted by the Committee of Secret Correspondence.
Ordered, That the Committee of Secret Correspondence prepare a commission for doct. Franklin.
Resolved, That the appointment of Ministers to the other Courts be postponed to Friday next.
Resolved, That all the prisoners ∥now∥ in the town of Baltimore, be sent under a guard to Lancaster, in Pensylvania, and there closely confined in the stockaded fort, erected for securing prisoners; and that it be earnestly recommended to the committee of inspection of Lancaster, not to permit any person to converse with them, except in the presence of the officer of the guard:
That the committee of inspection of Baltimore, be requested to send the prisoners under guard to Lancaster, and deliver them, with a copy of the above resolution, to the committee of that borough.
An intercepted letter from Pat[rick] Tonyn, Esqr., Governor of East Florida, to the right honble Lord George Germain, dated St. Augustine, 19 July, 1776, being laid before Congress,
Resolved, That a letter be written by the President to the president and council of the state of Georgia, enclosing a copy of the said intercepted letter, recommending
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to the said president and council, that they proceed immediately to apprehend and secure George McIntosh, and take such ∥other∥ effectual measures therein, as they shall judge necessary, for the safety of the united States of America.
The several matters to this day referred, being postponed,
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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