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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 --THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1777
A letter, of the 17, from General Washington, at the Yellow Springs, was read.2
[Note 2: 2 This letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 152, V, folio 67.]
Resolved, That the order for removing the sick and wounded, and hospital stores from Trenton, be for the present suspended.
A letter, of the 14, from Colonel J[oseph] Wood, was read:
Ordered, That it be transmitted to General Washington.
A memorial from Colonel Flower was read, together with a list of the corps of the artillery, artificers and other officers under the command, and in the department of the commissary general of military stores; Whereupon,
Resolved, That commissions be granted to the said officers, agreeable to their respective ranks.
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Resolved, That establishments be made for the hospital in the respective departments, and chaplains appointed, and that their pay be each 60 dollars a month, three rations a day, and forage for one horse:
The Rev. Mr. Noah Cook was elected chaplain of the hospitals in the eastern department.
Resolved, That Major General Armstrong be directed, forthwith, to cause all the printing presses and types in this city and Germantown, forthwith to be removed to secure places in the country, excepting Mr. Bradford's press in this city, with English types.
Resolved, That there be paid to Robert Towers, acting as commissary of military stores, and continental armourer, from 19 November, 1775, to 19 May, 1777, at two dollars per day, including the keeping a horse.
A letter, of the 16, from General Putnam, at Peekskill, was read.1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 159, folio 95.]
∥The several matters to this clay referred, being postponed,∥
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
During the adjournment, the president received a letter from Colonel Hamilton, one of General Washington's aids, which intimated the necessity of Congress removing immediately from Philadelphia; Whereupon, the members left the city, and, agreeable to the resolve of the 14, repaired to Lancaster.2
[Note 2: 2 "The question for adjournment from Philadelphia was daily agitated in Congress, but always overruled. On the night before last it received a complete decision. Intelligence was received from the General officer commanding on Schuylkill that the Enemy were then attempting to cross, and that they could not be prevented, and advising the Congress immediately to remove from the City. The movement was made not by a vote, but by universal consent, for every member consulted his own particular safety. I was wakened by a servant about two o'clock, and tho' I lost no time in preparing to depart, yet I did not choose to retreat with precipitation. I was not indeed fully pursuaded of the necessity of the measure, and not very apprehensive for my personal safety."Thomas Burke to Governor Caswell, 20 September, 1777.North Carolina Colonial Records, XI, 631.]
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