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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 --SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1778
A letter, of 14, from Colonel Hartley, at Fort Jenkins, on the northeast branch of Susquehanna;
A letter, of 16, from General Washington, was read, enclosing a copy of a letter of 13, from Brigadier E. Hand, respecting an attack upon Colonel Alden's regiment at Cherry Valley;
Another letter of 16, from General Washington, was read, enclosing a memorial from Brigadier du Portail, on a general system of fortification for the United States;2
[Note 2: 2 The letter of Hartley is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, XI, folio 375; those of Washington, in No. 152, VI, folios 503 and 507; that of Hand, on folio 511.]
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Ordered, That the letter be referred to the Board of War;
That the memorial enclosed, be referred to the Marine Committee.
Resolved, That Mr. [Daniel] Roberdeau be appointed a member of the Marine Committee for the State of Pensylvania.
According to order, Congress was resolved into a committee of the whole, to consider farther the propositions referred to them, and after some time the President resumed the chair, and Mr. F[rancis] L[ightfoot] Lee reported, that the committee have had under their farther consideration the propositions referred to them, and have made some progress, but not having come to a conclusion, desire leave to sit again:
Resolved, That on Monday next, at one o'clock, Congress be resolved into a committee of the whole, to consider farther the propositions referred to them.
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock on Monday.
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