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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, JUNE 25, 1777
Absent Georgia, attended at 2 o'Clock.
Mr. [Eliphalet] Dyer, Mr. [William] Williams, and Mr. [Richard] Law, three delegates from Connecticut, attended, and took their seats.
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A letter, of the 28 of May, one, of the 11, and one, of the 12 instant, from Governor Trumbull; one, of the 20th May, from General Spencer, were read:1
[Note 1: 1 The letter of Trumbull of the 11th is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 66, I, 337.]
Ordered, That they be referred to the Board of War.
Resolved, That to morrow be assigned for taking into consideration the Articles of Confederation.
Agreeable to the order of the day, Congress resolved itself into a committee of the whole, to take into consideration the letters from Abraham Ten Broeck, president of the convention of the State of New York, dated January 20th, [and] March 1, the resolutions passed in committee of safety for the said State, Fish-Kill, January 20, 1777; also a petition signed Jonas Fay, Thomas Chittenden, Heman Allen, and Reuben Jones, in the name, and in behalf of the people stiling themselves inhabitants of the New Hampshire grants, dated New Hampshire grants, Westminster, 15 January, 1777; a letter, from Pierre Van Cortlandt, Esqr., President of the council of safety of New York, dated 28 May, 1777; and the printed paper,signed "A Word to the Wise is sufficient" containing a letter signed Thomas Young;--and, after some time being spent thereon, the president resumed the chair, and Mr. [Benjamin] Harrison reported, that the committee have had under consideration the letters and papers to them referred, but not having had time to go through the same, desire him to move for leave to sit again.
Resolved, That Congress, will on Friday next, resolve itself into a committee of the whole, to take into consideration the several letters and papers aforesaid.
A letter from Monsieur du Coudray, was laid before Congress:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War.
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The Committee on Foreign Applications, brought in a report:
Ordered, That the same be taken into consideration to morrow.
The several matters to this day referred, being postponed,
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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