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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, JUNE 7, 1777
Resolved, That 400 dollars be paid to Captain John Hunter, and charged to the account of William Palfrey, Esq. pay master general, the same being in full of a bill drawn in his favour, by the said W.,Palfrey, dated Morristown, 21 May, 1777.
A letter, of the 13 [May,] from W. Aylett, at Smithfield; one, of this day, from Archibald M'Donald; one, of the 2d, from Henry Fisher and William Peery, with a
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muster roll of the independent company raised at Lewis, and a petition from George Hawk, keeper of a ferry on Delaware, opposite to Easton, ∥were read:∥1
[Note 1: 1 The letter of Aylett is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, I, folio 85. That of Fisher is in No. 78, IX, folio 85.]
Ordered, That the letter of Archibald M'Donald be referred to the Board of Treasury;
That the letter from H. Fisher and William Peery, with the muster roll, be referred to the Board of War; and that the petition from George Hawk be referred to the quarter master general, who is directed to settle with the petitioner, or report particularly to Congress on his petition.
Resolved, That one thousand one hundred and sixty dollars be advanced to Captain James Lees, for the use of his company of artillery; for which Captain Lees is to be accountable:
Resolved, That 4,160 dollars be advanced to Colonel John Hawkins Stone, of the 1st batallion of Maryland forces, for the use of his batallion; he to be accountable:
The Board of War brought in a report, which was taken into consideration; Whereupon,
Resolved, That the clothier general furnish each noncommissioned officer and soldier inlisted in the army of the United States, to serve three years, or during the war, with the articles of cloathing enumerated by a resolution of Congress, of the 8 of October last, or other cloathing of equal value, notwithstanding the same costs more than twenty dollars.2
[Note 2: 2 This report is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 147, I, folio 205.]
Whereas, complaint has been made, that many of the regimental pay masters absent themselves from the army, by which the public service greatly suffers,
Resolved, Therefore, that the commander in chief, and the commanders in the separate departments, be directed to take the most effectual means for compelling all regimental
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pay masters to attend punctually to the duties of their office, and that such as are negligent, be punished and displaced; and that they be respectively empowered to appoint others of ability diligence and integrity, in the room of such as are displaced.
Resolved, That 1,000 dollars be advanced to Captain John Steel, one of the four captains named by General Armstrong, by authority from General Washington, for the use of his company; he to be accountable.
A petition from Jacob Green and others, was read, praying a new hearing on the appeal brought against the judgment in the libel Job Pierce, against the brigPhoeenix:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee on Appeals.
A petition from Charles Harrison and Peter Campbell, was read:1
[Note 1: 1 This petition is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 42, III, folio 353. It has an erased endorsement: "granted, on their producing sufficient security for their good behavior." See under June 17, 1777,post.]
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War. Congress resumed the consideration of the report of the committee on the commissary's department; and, sundry amendments made therein,
Resolved, That it be re-committed.
The several matters to this day referred, being postponed,
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock on Monday next.
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