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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 1077--1080 of Vol. IX. I now give such appointments only as were made in 1778.]

Appeals
• 17 February, 1778.

  Thomas McKean

  Samuel Huntington

  John Henry

  James Smith

• 27 July, 1778.

  Joseph Reed

  William Henry Drayton

  Elias Boudinot

• 23 September, 1778.

  John Mathews

  Henry Marchant

• 26 October, 1778.

  Oliver Ellsworth

Commerce
• 19 January, 1778.

  James Forbes

• 20 February, 1778.

  Elbridge Gerry

  Henry Laurens

• 11 April, 1778.

  William Henry Drayton

  William Duer

  Oliver Wolcott

• 17 April, 1778.

  Thomas Adams

• 18 April, 1778.

  Richard Hutson

• 15 July, 1778.

  Edward Telfair

  John Harvie

  Andrew Adams

• 26 October, 1778.

  Meriwether Smith

• 12 November, 1778.

  William Whipple

  William Ellery

• 14 December, 1778. A new committee:

  Henry Laurens

  Meriwether Smith

  Francis Lewis

  James Searle

  John Fell

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Foreign Affairs
• 1 June, 1778.

  William Henry Drayton

  William Duer

  James or Jonathan Bayard Smith

Indian Affairs
• 29 April, 1778.

  William Henry Drayton

  Thomas Adams

  Jonathan Bayard Smith

Marine
• 19 January, 1778.

  James Forbes

• 3 March, 1778.

  Samuel Huntington

• 3 April, 1778.

  Edward Langworthy

• 29 April, 1778.

  Nathaniel Scudder

  George Plater

  Thomas Adams

• 27 May 1778.

  Josiah Bartlett

  Samuel Adams

  Gouverneur Morris

  William Henry Drayton

• 17 July, 1778.

  John Penn

• 23 September, 1778.

  Andrew Adams

• 2 October, 1778.

  James Henry

• 9 October, 1778.

  Oliver Ellsworth

• 6 November, 1778.

  William Whipple

• 20 November, 1778.

  Meriwether Smith

• 21 November, 1778.

  Daniel Roberdeau

Medical
• 13 February, 1778.

  Nathaniel Scudder

• 18 April, 1778.

  Gouverneur Morris

• 23 September, 1778.

  Samuel Holton

• 26 October, 1778.

  Josiah Bartlett

Treasury
• 19 January, 1778.

  Abraham Clark

  Daniel Roberdeau

  James Forbes

  Edward Langworthy

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• 11 March, 1778.

  Jonathan Bayard Smith, in place of Roberdeau

• 18 March, 1778.

  John Banister

• 30 March, 1778.

  Oliver Wolcott, in place of Dyer

  Nathaniel Scudder, in place of Clark

• 9 June, 1788.

  Thomas Heyward, Jr.

  Henry Marchant

  John Wentworth, Jr.

  Roger Sherman

• 13 November, 1778.

  Richard Hutson

  Oliver Ellsworth

  Francis Lightfoot Lee, discharged, November 16

War, Board of
• 14 January, 1778.

  Edward Langworthy

  Jonathan Bayard Smith

• 4 November, 1778.

  Roger Sherman

  John Mathews

• 16 November, 1778.

  Francis Lightfoot Lee, in place of Mathews

• 22 December, 1778.

  Jesse Root, in place of Sherman

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