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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, SEPTEMBER 27, 1780
A letter, of 25, from Major General Greene was read.1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 155, I, folio 439; the enclosure is on folio 448.]
A memorial signed William Trent and stiled, "The memorial of the proprietors of tracts of land called Indiana and Vandalia" was read.
Congress proceeded in the order of the day respecting the jurisdiction of the tract of country commonly called the New Hampshire Grants, all the parties being present except Ira Alien and Stephen R. Bradley, who being duly notified, declined to attend, when the agent for the State of New Hampshire proceeded to state evidence tending to prove, that the tract of country known by the name of the New Hampshire Grants, was within the State of New Hampshire, and that therefore the people inhabiting the said tract of country, have no right to a seperate and independent jurisdiction. The gentlemen appearing in behalf of sundry inhabitants of the said Grants having nothing to add, and pressing Congress to come to a determination, withdrew.
Resolved, That the farther consideration of the subject be postponed.
The committee to whom were referred the letters from John Magnall, delivered in a report which was read; Whereupon,
Resolved, That copies of the said letters attested by the secretary of Congress, be sent to the honorable Mr. Jay, minister plenipotentiary of these United States at the Court of Madrid; and that he be instructed to endeavour to obtain, for the captors of the Dover cutter, the benefit intended by
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the resolve, passed in Congress on the 14th day of October, 1777, respecting vessels belonging to British subjects, seized and brought into any of the ports or harbours of these United States, by the master or mariners, and that he be informed it is the wish of Congress that the whole profit of the capture be divided among the captors.
A report from the Board of Treasury was read; Whereupon,
Ordered, That on the application of Mr. [Roger] Sherman, one of the delegates for the State of Connecticut, a warrant issue on the treasurer in his favour, for seven thousand dollars, for which the said State is to be accountable.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, IV, folio 595.]
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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