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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, MARCH 26, 1781
A letter, of 21, from General Washington; and
A letter, of 15th October, from W. Carmichael, were read.2
[Note 2: 2 Washington's letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 152, X, folio 21. Carmichael's letter is printed in theDiplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Wharton), IV, 99.]
A letter, of 10th, from the governor of Massachusetts; and
A letter, of 10, from the senate of Massachusetts, were read:3
[Note 3: 3 The Governor's letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 65, I, folio 517; that of the Senate is on folio 521.]
Ordered, That the letter from the senate be referred to a committee of three:
The members, Mr. [Samuel] Adams, Mr. [James] Duane, Mr. [Oliver] Wolcott.
A letter, of 19, from the governor of the State of New York to the delegates of that State, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to a committee of three:
The members, Mr. [John] Sullivan, Mr. [Thomas] McKean, Mr. [William Churchill] Houston.
A petition of William Kinnan was read:4
[Note 4: 4 This petition, dated March 26, 1781, is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 41, V, folio 79.]
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Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of Treasury.
A memorial of John Henderson, in behalf of O. Pollock, was read:1
[Note 1: 1 This memorial, undated, is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 41, IV, folio 177.]
On motion of Mr. [Thomas] McKean, seconded by Mr. [Joseph] Montgomery:
Ordered, That a warrant issue on Thomas Smith, commissioner of the continental loan office for the State of Pensylvania, in favour of Joseph Carleton, paymaster of the Board of War and Ordnance, for thirty thousand dollars new emissions, to enable the Board of War to comply in part with their contract for shot and shells.
A letter, of 22 February, from the governor of Virginia, was read, with a memorial enclosed from Messrs. Stodder, Kerr and North;2 Whereupon,
[Note 2: 2 The Virginia letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 71, II, folio 45; the memorial of Stodder, Kerr, and North is in No. 41, IX, folio 133.]
On motion of Mr. [James] Madison, seconded by Mr. M[eriwether] Smith,
Ordered, That authenticated copies of the said memorial, protests and affidavits, be transmitted to the hon. John Adams, and that he be instructed to represent the case to which they relate to their High Mightinesses the States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, and to claim such redress for the memorialists as justice and the law of nations require.3
[Note 3: 3 This order and the preamble were also entered in the manuscript Secret Journal, Foreign Affairs.]
According to the order of the day, the motion of Mr. [James] Madison was taken into consideration, and after debate:
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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