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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, DECEMBER 11, 1780
Mr. W[illiam] Burner, a delegate for New Jersey, attended and took his seat in Congress.
A letter from J. Gibson, commissioner of the Board of Treasury, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of Treasury to take order.
A letter, of 7, from A. Lee was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to a committee of three:
The members chosen, Mr. [Theodorick] Bland, Mr. [John] Witherspoon, Mr. [James] Duane.
A letter, of this day, from Colonel Armand was read, with sundry papers enclosed:
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Ordered, That the same be referred to the Board of War.
A letter, of 20 [November], from the president of New Hampshire to Mr. [John] Sullivan was laid before Congress and read:1
[Note 1: 1 Gibson's letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, X, folio 281; Armand's is in No. 164, folio 438. The New Hampshire letter is in No. 64, folio 152; another New Hampshire letter of the same date, read the same day, is on folio 144. Lee's letter is printed in the Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Wharton), IV, 182.]
Ordered, That it be referred to a committee of three:
The members, Mr. [James] Madison, Mr. [Thomas] Bee, Mr. [John] Sullivan.
A motion was made by Mr. [John] Witherspoon, seconded by Mr. Clark [William] Burner, to reconsider the resolution for appointing an envoy extraordinary a minister;2 and on the question, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [James] Duane,
[Note 2: 2 Thomson's marginal note: "See 21."]
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So it passed in the negative.
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Congress proceeded to the election of an envoy extraordinary a minister1 agreeably to the order of the 8th, and the ballots being taken, Colonel John Laurens was unanimously elected.
[Note 1: 1 Thomson's marginal note: "See 21."]
Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to prepare a draught of a commission and instructions to Colonel Laurens.2
[Note 2: 2 This vote and resolution were also entered in the manuscript Secret Journal, Foreign Affairs.]
The members, Mr. [John] Sullivan, Mr. [James] Madison and Mr. [John] Mathews.
Congress resumed the consideration of the report on Mr. Palfrey's letters; Whereupon,
Ordered, That the balance of Mr. Palfrey's account as it shall be settled by the Board of Treasury be paid to him out of the bills ordered to be drawn on the Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Versailles.
A letter, of 17 October, from Jonathan Williams at Nantes was read.3
[Note 3: 3 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, XXIV, folio 267.]
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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