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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 --WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1779
Congress being informed that Mr. J[oseph] Hewes, one of the delegates for the state of North Carolina, died this morning, and that it is proposed to inter him to-morrow evening:
Resolved, That Congress will, in a body, attend the funeral to-morrow evening, at three o'clock, with a crape round the left arm, and will continue in mourning for the space of one month:
Resolved, That Mr. [Cornelius] Harnett, Mr. [William] Sharpe, and Mr. [Cyrus] Griffin, be a committee to superintend the funeral, and that the Rev. Mr. White, the attending chaplain, be notified to officiate on the occasion.
Ordered, That the said committee be directed to invite the general assembly and the president and supreme executive council of Pensylvania, the Minister Plenipotentiary of
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France, and other persons of distinction, now in town, to attend the funeral.
A letter, of 22 of October, from Major General Lincoln, and another, of the same day, from him to the committee appointed to correspond with the commanding officer of the southern department, and enclosing extracts of his journal from the 3d of September to 21 October, were read:1
[Note 1: 1 The first Lincoln letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 158, folio 279.]
Ordered, That copies of the same be transmitted to the Commander in Chief, and that Major Clarkson, who brought the dispatches be employed to carry them forward to the General:
Ordered, That the said letters be referred to the Committee of Intelligence:
Ordered, That the said letters and intelligence be referred to the committee appointed to correspond with the commanding officer in the southern department.
Resolved, That a member be added to the said committee in the room of Mr. [Henry] Laurens, who is absent:
The member chosen, Mr. [John] Mathews.
A motion was made by Mr. [John] Mathews, seconded by Mr. [Cornelius] Harnett, that three of the frigates now at Boston be ordered by the Marine Committee to proceed immediately for Charleston, South Carolina, there to be under the direction of the commanding officer for the time being, in the southern department, until further orders:2
[Note 2: 2 This motion, in the writing of John Mathews and Samuel Huntington, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, I, folio 27.]
On the question to agree to this motion, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry,
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.
A letter, of 2d, from the governor of Connecticut, was read:1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 66, II, folio 33.]
Ordered, That it be referred to a committee of three:
The members chosen, Mr. [William Churchill] Houston, Mr. [Thomas] McKean, and Mr. [John] Mathews.
A letter, of 24 October, from the governor of Virginia, was read.
A copy of the proceedings of a convention of committees from the five eastern states, met at Hartford for the regulation of prices, and
A letter, of 15 October, from the general assembly of New York, were read:2
[Note 2: 2 The Virginia letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 71, I, folio 279; that of New York, in No. 67, II, folio 218. The proceedings of the convention at Hartford are in No. 33, folio 369.]
Ordered, That they be referred to the committee on the representation from the legislature of the State of New Jersey.
Resolved, That Mr. [Cyrus] Griffin, member for the State of Virginia, be added to that committee, in the room of Mr. [James] Mercer.
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A letter, of 10, from Arch. Blair, was read:1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, III, folio 359.]
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War.
A memorial from John Clarke, late auditor of accounts, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of Treasury.
The Board of Treasury, to whom was referred a Memorial of Major Clark, of the 10th November last, beg leave to report:
That Major John Clark, Jun. late Auditor of the Army, be allowed the sum ofDollars, in full for the Losses he sustained in that Department by the Purchase of a Waggon the Use thereof, and for other Considerations stated in his Memorial.2
[Note 2: 2 This report, in the writing of Elbridge Gerry, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 41, II, folio 280.]
A letter, of 1, from the governor of New York, was read.
The Committee on the Treasury brought in a report; Whereupon,
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of Mr. R[oger] Sherman, one of the delegates of the State of Connecticut, on his application, for three thousand dollars; for which the said State is to be accountable.3
[Note 3: 3 This report, dated November 8, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, III, folio 805.]
Colonel Grayson was put in nomination, as a commissioner of the Board of War, by Mr. [William] Sharpe.
Resolved, That the Committee on the Treasury continue in the exercise of the duties formerly enjoined them, until a Board, on the new establishment, be formed and ready to proceed to business.
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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