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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, DECEMBER 18, 1777
∥Three o'Clock p. m.∥
Mr. Jonathan B[ayard] Smith, a delegate from Pennsylvania, attended and took his seat [in Congress.]
A letter, of the 3d, from General Gates, enclosing a letter to him from General Burgoyne, dated Cambridge, November 14, together with a list of the British and German troops, that surrendered by the convention of Saratoga; also, a letter of the 12, and one, of the 28 November, from R. Varick, Esqr. deputy muster master general in the northern department, with muster rolls of the northern ∥army∥, were read:1
[Note 1: 1 The letter of Gates is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 57, folio 63; that of Burgoyne is on folio 31; that of Varick, in 78, XXIII, folios 65, 69.]
Ordered, That the letter from General Gates, with the papers enclosed, be referred to a committee of five.
The members chosen, Mr. [John] Witherspoon, Mr. [William] Duer, Mr. [Francis] Dana, Mr. F[rancis] L[ightfoot] Lee, and Mr. J[onathan] B[ayard] Smith.
Resolved, That Mr. [John] Harris be added to the Marine Committee, in the room of Mr. R[ichard] H[enry] Lee, who is absent.
Congress took into consideration the report from the committee sent to confer with General Washington, and the remonstrance from the executive council and assembly of Pensylvania, and, after some time spent thereon,
Resolved, That the farther consideration thereof be postponed till to morrow.
A letter, of the 7, from General Heath, at Boston was read.2
[Note 2: 2 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 157, folio 53.]
∥The several matters to this day referred, being postponed,∥
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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