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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 --STANDING COMMITTEES¹

Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
STANDING COMMITTEES¹

[Note 1: 1 See pages 1063--1068 of Vol. VI. I now give such appointments only as we were made in 1777.]

Appeals
• 30 January, 1777.

  James Wilson

  Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant

  William Ellery

  Samuel Chase

  Roger Sherman

• 12 March, 1777.

  John Adams

  George Read

  Thomas Burke

• 8 May, 1777. Old committee discharged as too numerous. New committee:

  James Wilson

  James Duane

  John Adams

  Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant

  Thomas Burke

• 13 October, 1777. A new committee appointed, because of absences

  John Adams

  Joseph Jones

  Richard Law

  Henry Marchant

  Henry Laurens

• 17 November, 1777.

  John Harvie in place of Laurens

  Francis Dana " Adams

  William Ellery " Marchant

• 10 December 1777.

  Benjamin Rumsey

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Commerce, formerly Secret Committee
• 5 July, 1777.

  Robert Morris

  Philip Livingston

  William Smith

  Thomas Heyward

  Elbridge Gerry

• 19 August, 1777.

  Henry Laurens in place of Heyward

Foreign Affairs, formerly Secret Correspondence
• 26 May, 1777.

  Thomas Heyward

  James Lovell

Foreign Applications, formerly Qualifications or Applications
• 19 March, 1777.

  James LoveIl

  Thomas Heyward

  Daniel Roberdeau

• 12 May, 1777.

  Charles Carroll

Indian Affairs
• 5 February, 1777.

  Mann Page, Jr

  James Lovell

  Thomas Burke

• 30 June, 1777.

  George Walton

  James Duane

• 6 October, 1777. A new committee:

  James Duane

  George Walton

  Thomas Burke

  Joseph Jones

  Richard Law

Intelligence
• 17 January, 1777.

  Thomas Heyward

  Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant

• 9 June, 1777.

  William Duer

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Marine or Navy
• 2 January, 1777.

  Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant

  Oliver Wolcott

• 19 March, 1777.

  Abraham Clark in place of Sergeant

• 29 April, 1777.

  Philip Livingston

  William Smith

• 5 June, 1777.

  Roger Sherman

  Henry Marchant

  Nicholas Vandyke

• 24 June, 1777.

  George Frost in place of Whipple

• 30 June, 1777.

  Richard Law " Sherman

• 17 November, 1777.

  Francis Dana

  William Ellery

  Joseph Wood

• 18 December, 1777.

  John Harvie in place of Richard H. Lee

Medical
• 3 January, 1777.

  Nathan Brownson

  Jonathan Elmer

• 27 March, 1777.

  Abraham Clark

  William Ellery

• 10 December, 1777.

  Francis Lewis

  John Penn

Treasury Committee or Board
• 6 February, 1777.

  Mann Page, Jr

  Jonathan Elmer

• 22 February, 1777.

  William Smith

• 22 March, 1777.

  Jonathan Bayard Smith

  Lewis Morris

• 8 May, 1777.

  George Clymer excused

  George Walton

• 3 December, 1777.

  Francis Dana

  Benjamin Rumsey

  Joseph Jones

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War, Board of
• 18 January, 1777.

  Samuel Adams

• 26 March, 1777.

  George Clymer

• 8 May, 1777.

  Charles Carroll

• 2 July, 1777.

  William Duer

• 17 October, 1777.

  John Harvie

  John Witherspoon

  William Williams

  Joseph Jones

• 17 November, 1777.

  Francis Dana [excused, December 3]

  Jonathan Bayard Smith

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