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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, JULY 20, 1779
A letter, of 9th, from the governor of Rhode Island, was read.
A letter, of June 23, from John kllan, at Machias, to J. Powell, Esq., president of council of Massachusetts bay, was read.
A letter, of 19, from J. G. Duarti, was read:1
[Note 1: 1 Governor Greene's letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 64, folio 450; that of Allan, in No. 78, I, folio 287; that of Duart, in No. 44, folio 91.]
Ordered, To lie on the table.
Congress took into consideration the report of the committee, to whom was committed the report of the committee on a memorial from J. G. Duarti; after debate,
Ordered, That it be referred to a committee of three, and that the committee report to morrow morning immediately after reading the journal, and that the report be then considered:
The members chosen, Mr. [Samuel] Huntington, Mr. [James] LoveIl, and Mr. [Gouverneur] Morris.
A petition of John Macpherson, was read:2
[Note 2: 2 This petition is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 42, V, folio 154.]
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War, and that they take order thereon.
Mr. [Henry] Marchant, one of the delegates of the State of Rhode island, &c., laid before Congress an estimate of the value of certain goods belonging to Messrs. Cromwell and Caleb Child and Moses Turner, of Warren, in the State aforesaid, destroyed the 26 of May, 1778, by the British troops blowing up a store belonging to the said Cromwell and Caleb Child, part of which was at that time in the continental use as a magazine, praying in behalf of the owners that such order may be made thereon as that justice may be done.3
[Note 3: 3 Marchant's letter, dated July 20, is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 167, folio 25. The estimate is on folio 33.]
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Ordered, That the same be referred to the Board of Treasury.
Adjourned to 10 oClock to Morrow.
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