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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, DECEMBER 1, 1777
A letter, of the 26th November, from General Washington, enclosing a copy of a letter from General Howe to him, was read.2
[Note 2: 2 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 152, V, folio 223. It is printed in Writings of Washington (Ford), VI, 222.]
Congress having received information that General Howe, or General Burgoyne, by his direction, means to apply for leave to embark the troops (surrendered by the convention of Saratoga) at Rhode Island or some part of the sound, which application, if made and complied with, may be attended with consequences highly injurious to the interest of these United States:
Resolved, That Mr. President inform General Gates, the council of Massachusetts bay, and Major General Heath, that it is the resolution of Congress, if any such application as before mentioned is made, that it be utterly rejected, and that the said troops, when they do embark, must be shipped from the port stipulated by the convention of Saratoga and no other.
Resolved, That General Washington be informed, it is highly agreeable to Congress that the Marquis de la
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Fayette be appointed to the command of a division in the continental army.
Resolved, That the Committee of Commerce be directed to ship, with all despatch, four thousand hogsheads of tobacco to the commissioners of the United States at the court of France, to enable them to comply with the contract they mention in their letter of the 12 March last, to have entered into with the farmers general of France.
Ordered, That the letter of the 23, and that of the 26 of November, from General Washington, and the letter of the 16 November, from General Gates, with the papers severally enclosed, be referred to the Board of War.
The Committee on the Treasury brought in a report, which was taken into consideration; Whereupon,
Ordered, That a warrant issue on Thomas Smith, Esqr. commissioner of the loan office for the State of Pensylvania, in favour of John Gibson, Esqr. auditor general, for twenty thousand dollars, to enable him to discharge a part of a warrant of Congress drawn on him, in favour of the executive council of the said State; the said auditor general to be accountable:
Ordered, That a warrant issue on Thomas Smith, Esqr. commissioner of the loan office for the State of Pensylvania, in favour of Dr. William Shippen, director general of the hospitals, for fifty thousand dollars, for the use of his department; the said director general to be accountable:
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of Dr. William Shippen, director general of the hospitals, for fifty thousand dollars, for the use of his department, the said director general to be accountable:
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of William Buchanan, Esqr. commissary general of purchases, for two hundred and forty thousand dollars,
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for the use of his department, the said commissary general to be accountable:
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of Colonel Benjamin Flower, commissary general of military stores, for ten thousand dollars, for the use of his department, he to be accountable.
Resolved, That a warrant issue on Thomas Smith, Esq., Commissioner of the Continental Loan Office for the State of Pennsylvania in favour of Paul Zantzinger for 12,000 Dollars for the Payment of Cloathing purchased for the use of the Army, the said Zantzinger to be accountable.
Ordered, That a warrant issue on John Gibson, Esqr. auditor general, in favour of Thomas Taylor, adjutant to the Georgia batallion, commanded by Colonel J. White, for eight hundred dollars, the State of Georgia to be accountable, and to be considered as a part of the money directed to be sent to the said State:
Ordered, That the following warrants issue in favour of Major General Mifflin, quarter master general, amounting to four hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for the use of his department, for which he is to be accountable, viz.
One on Thomas Smith, Esqr. commissioner of the loan office for the State of Pensylvania, for 100,000 dollars:
One on Derk Ten Broek, Esqr. commissioner of the loan office for the State of New York, for 150,000 dollars:
One on Joseph Borden, Esqr. commissioner of the loan office for the State of New Jersey, for 100,000 dollars:
One on Michael Hillegas, Esqr. continental treasurer, for 100,000 dollars.
Ordered, That a warrant issue on John Gibson, Esqr. auditor general, in favour of Frederick M'Donald, a soldier, discharged at his own request from the invalid regiment, for 8 80/90 dollars, being for one month ten
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days' pay due to him, as per Colonel Nicola's certificate; the said Colonel Nicole to be accountable.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, I, folio 504.]
∥The several matters to this day referred, being postponed,∥
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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