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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 --TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1777
A letter, of the 8th, and one, of the 11, from General Gates; one, of the 12, from Governor Trumbull, with a copy of a letter from R. Pigot to General J. Burgoyne, enclosed; one, of the 3, from Colonel Gansevoort, were read.1
[Note 1: 1 The letters of Gates are in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 57, folios 71 and 75; that of Trumbull, in No. 66, I, folio 355; that of Pigot, in No. 57, folio 79.]
Ordered, That the letter of Governor Trumbull, with the letter enclosed, be referred to the committee on General Heath's letter.
That the letter from Colonel Gansevoort, be referred to the Board of War.
A letter of 29 November from Eb. Hancock, with a monthly return. One of the 15 instant from Colonel Mason at Williamsburg. One of the 17 October, 1777, from John Kendrick, at Nantes, were read.
Ordered, That the two former be referred to the Board of Treasury, and the latter to the Committee of Commerce.
The delegates from Virginia laid before Congress an account of the expences incurred by the State of Virginia for prisoners:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of Treasury.
∥The several matters to this day referred, being postponed,∥
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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