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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 1275--1277 of Vol. XII. I now give such appointments only as were made in 1779.]

Admiralty, Board of
• 3 December, 1779.

  George Bryan

  William Floyd

  James Forbes

• 7 December, 1779.

  Francis Lewis

• 9 December, 1779.

  William Ellery, in place of William Floyd

Appeals
• 9 March, 1779.

  William Henry Drayton

  William Ellery

  John Henry

  Jesse Root

  William Paca

• 29 July, 1779.

  William Henry Drayton

  John Henry

  Jesse Root

  Henry Marchant

  Edmund Randolph

• 27 August, 1779.

  William Paca, in place of Randolph

• 14 October, 1779.

  James Mercer, in place of Drayton

  Cyrus Griffin, in place of Paca

• 7 December, 1779.

  Ezra L'Hommedieu, in place of Marchant

  William Ellery, in place of Root.

Commerce
• 22 November, 1779.

  Cyrus Griffin, in place of Laurens

  Christopher Harnett, in place of Lewis

Foreign Affairs
• 24 February, 1779.

  Eliphalet Dyer, in place of Ellsworth

• 24 November, 1779.

  William Churchill Houston

  Robert R. Livingston

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Indian
• 4 May, 1779.

  James Duane

  John Armstrong

  Thomas Burke

  Henry Laurens

  Roger Sherman

Marine
• 24 February, 1779.

  Richard Henry Lee

  John Fell

  James Searle

• 2 June, 1779.

  Samuel Huntington

  William Fleming

• 16 August, 1779.

  Samuel Holten, in place of S. Adams

  James Forbes, in place of John Henry

  Joseph Hewes, in place of Penn

• 18 August, 1779.

  John Mathews, in place of Drayton

• 28 September, 1779.

  Woodbury Langdon, in place of Whipple

  Jesse Root, in place of Huntington

  James Mercer, in place of Fleming

Medical
• 12 January, 1779.

  Thomas Burke

  Thomas Adams

• 3 September, 1779.

  Nathaniel Peabody

  Frederick A. MuhIenberg

Post Office
• 4 January, 1779.

  William Paca

  William Ellery

  Henry Laurens

• 7 October, 1779.

  Cyrus Griffin

  Samuel Holten

  William Churchill Houston

• 23 October, 1779.

  John Dickinson

  Roger Sherman

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South Carolina and Georgia [Southern Department]
• 8 July, 1779.

  Henry Laurens

  Henry Marchant

  Samuel Holten

• 23 September, 1779.

  Cornelius Harnett

  William Fitzhugh

• 10 November, 1779.

  John Mathews, in place of Laurens

• 9 December, 1779.

  Thomas Burke, in place of Marchant

Treasury
• 14 January, 1779.

  William Carmichael

• 24 February, 1779.

  Frederick Frelinghuysen.

• I March, 1779.

  Cyrus Griffin

• 27 August, 1779.

  Joseph Hewes, in place of Duane

• 6 September, 1779.

  Henry Marchant, in place of Griffin

• 30 September, 1779.

  Roger Sherman, in place of Carmichael

• 21 October, 1779.

  Samuel John Atlee, in place of Armstrong

• 9 November, 1779.

  William Churchill Houston

  William Sharpe

• 13 December, 1779.

  William Floyd, in place of Sharpe

War, Board of
• 8 April, 1779.

  Joseph Spencer, in place of F. L. Lee

  Samuel John Atlee, in place of Root

• 26 September, 1779.

  Jesse Root, in place of Spencer

• 23 November, 1779.

  Robert R. Livingston, in place of Atlee

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