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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 --MONDAY, JULY 5, 1779
A letter, of 1, from General Washington, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War.
A letter, of 30th June, from N. Greene, Q. M. G., and one, of 3 instant, from J. Reed, president of Pensylvania, were read.
A letter, of 31 May, from Colonel W. Shepard and sixteen other field officers, was read:2
[Note 2: 2 Washington's letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 152, VII, folio 439; that of Greene, in No. 155, I, folio 143; that of Reed, in No. 69, II, folio 81; that of Shepard, in No. 78, XX, folio 409.]
Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee of Conference.
Congress resumed the consideration of the report of the committee on the memorial of Captain Duarti; and thereupon
Ordered, That the same, together with the memorial, be referred to a committee of five, and that they be directed to confer with the memorialist, and such of the owners of thePhoenix, as they may be able to meet with, and endeavour to adjust the claims of the memorialist, and make report as soon as may be:
The members chosen, Mr. [James] Searle, Mr. [William Henry] Drayton, Mr. [James] Lovell, Mr. [Henry] Marchant, and Mr. [Henry] Laurens.
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An appeal from the judgment of a court of admiralty for the State of Delaware, on the libel Lieutenant Colonel Philip Barratt qui tam &c.v. SchoonerPacket, &c. was lodged with the secretary, and referred to the Committee on Appeals.
Adjourned to 10 oClock to Morrow.
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