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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 --MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1777
Absent, Delaware. Maryland attended 12 o'Clock.
Georgia, 10 m. after 12.
Mr. John Penn, a delegate from North Carolina, attended, and took his seat.
A letter, of the 20, from General Washington, at Middlebrook, enclosing an extract of a letter from Colonel Jackson to General Knox, dated Boston, 8 June, and a copy of a letter from General Schuyler, at Saratoga; a letter of this day, from Doctor D[avid] Jackson, requesting leave to resign his appointment as a manager of the United States' lottery; and letter of the 20th, from Dr. W. Shippen, informing that Dr. Walter Jones, for weighty reasons, cannot accept the honour Congress did him in appointing him physician general of the hospitals of the middle department; and that he gives this information at the desire of Doctor W. Jones; also, a letter of the 28 May, from Pierre Van Cortlandt, president of the council of safety of the State of New York, were read:1
[Note 1: 1 The letter of Washington is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 152, IV, folio 277. It is printed inWritings of Washington (Ford), V, 444. The original letter of Schuyler is in No. 153, III, folio 152. That of Jackson is in No. 78, XIII, folio 43; that of Shippen, in No. 78, XX, folio 115; that of Van Cortlandt, in No. 78, II, folio 189.]
Ordered, That the letter from General Washington, with the papers enclosed, be referred to the Committee of Intelligence:who are empowered to extract therefrom and publish such parts as they judge proper.
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That the letter from Dr. Shippen lie on the table till to morrow.
Resolved, That Dr. D. Jackson, who has entered into the service of the general hospital, have leave to resign his office of manager of the lottery.
One of the delegates of New York laid before Congress a printed paper, signed "A word to the wise is sufficient," containing an extract from the minutes of Congress, and a letter signed Thomas Young, to the inhabitants of Vermont, dated "Philadelphia, April 11, 1777," which was read:
Ordered, That the letter from Pierre Van Cortlandt, and the foregoing printed paper, and the papers formerly received from the convention of New York, respecting the difference likely to arise between that State and the inhabitants of the place called the New Hampshire Grants, and also the papers received from the said inhabitants, be referred to a committee of the whole.
Resolved, That Congress will, on Wednesday, next, resolve itself into a committee of the whole, to take into consideration the aforesaid letters and papers.
Resolved, That Joseph Trumbull, Esqr. and the several persons by him lately employed in the commissary's department, be directed to supply the army with provisions in the mode which they have heretofore practised, until the commissaries general on the new establishment shall be prepared to enter upon the business.
Resolved, That the Board of War be directed to prepare the form of a commission for the officers in the commissary's department.
The Board of War brought in a report, which was taken into consideration; Whereupon,
Resolved, That Elias Boudinot, Esqr. commissary general of prisoners, have power to appoint three deputies under
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him in addition to those he was heretofore authorized to appoint:
That all commissaries or other persons in the several states, having the custody or care of prisoners of war, be obliged, at any time when required by the commissary general of prisoners, or his deputies, to deliver over to him or his deputies, all such prisoners of war as are, or shall be, in their care or custody.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, dated June 20, p.m., is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 147, I, folio 231. The members present were John Adams, Roger Sherman, Samuel Adams, and Charles Carroll.]
Agreeable to the order of the day, Congress took into consideration the articles of confederation; and, after debate,
Resolved, That the farther consideration be postponed till to morrow.
A letter of the 14, from General Schuyler, at Saratoga, with seven papers enclosed, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War.
The Board of Treasury reported, that a warrant should be drawn in favour of the Board of War for two hundred thousand dollars, to be by them sent to the deputy pay master general, Jonathan Trumbull, for the use of the army in the northern department.2
[Note 2: 2 This report is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, I, folio 205.]
Ordered, That such a warrant be drawn.
The several matters to this day referred, being postponed,
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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