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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 1229 and 1230 of Vol. XVIII. I now give such appointments only as were made in 1781.]

Admiralty, Board of
• 15 May, 1781.

  Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer

Medical
• 16 February, 1781.

  William Burnett

Treasury
• 17 January, 1781.

  George Walton, in place of Motte

• 5 February, 1781.

  George Walton excused

• 6 February, 1781.

  George Walton

  Thomas Smith

• 28 May, 1781.

  William Churchill Houston in place of Walton

• 16 June, 1781.

  Samuel Osgood in place of Houston

• 1 August, 1781.

  Ezra L'Hommedieu in place of Thomas Smith

Committee of the Week²
• 7 May, 1781.

  John Mathews

  Daniel Carroll

  James Mitchell Varnum

• 14 May, 1781.

  Samuel Johnston

  John Sullivan

  James Madison

• 21 May, 1781.

  Samuel John Atlee

  Samuel Livermore

  Nicholas Eveleigh

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• 28 May, 1781.

  William Churchill Houston

  William Few

  Artemas Ward

• 4 June, 1781.

  Oliver Ellsworth

  Isaac Motte

  Richard Newly

• 11 June, 1781.

  Roger Sherman

  Joseph Montgomery

  William Sharpe

• 18 June, 1781.

  George Partridge

  Thomas Rodney

  Richard Potts

• 25 June, 1781.

  Meriwether Smith

  James Mitchell Varnum

  Thomas Bee

• 2 July, 1781.

  Samuel Livermore

  Theodorick Bland

  George Walton

• 9 July, 1781.

  Thomas Rodney

  Richard Potts

  Joseph Montgomery

• 16 July, 1781.

  Edmund Randolph

  Oliver Ellsworth

  Nicholas Eveleigh

• 23 July, 1781.

  Elias Boudinot

  Daniel Mowry

  William Sharpe

• 30 July, 1781.

  Jonathan Elmer

  Nicholas Van Dyke

  Joseph Montgomery

• 6 August, 1781.

  George Partridge

  James Duane

  Richard Howly

• 13 August, 1781.

  Joseph Jones

  Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer

  Daniel Mowry

• 20 August, 1781.

  Samuel John Atlee

  James Madison

  Samuel Livermore

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• 27 August, 1781.

  Nicholas Eveleigh

  John Witherspoon

  Richard Howly

• 3 September, 1781.

  Meriwether Smith

  George Clymer

  Thomas Bee

• 10 September, 1781.

  George Partridge

  Daniel Mowry

  George Walton

• 17 September, 1781.

  Edward Telfair

  Elias Boudinot

  Joseph Montgomery

• 24 September, 1781.

  Abraham Clark

  John Hanson

  William Sharpe

• 1 October, 1781.

  Jonathan Elmer

  Arthur Middleton

  Noble Wimberly Jones

• 8 October, 1781.

  Joseph Jones

  Benjamin Hawkins

  Roger Sherman

• 15 October, 1781.

  Isaac Motte

  Samuel John Atlee

  Daniel Mowry

• 22 October, 1781.

  John Witherspoon

  Richard Law

  George Partridge

• 29 October, 1781.

  Samuel Osgood.

  Nicholas Eveleigh

  James Madison

• 5 November, 1781.

  Thomas Smith

  Isaac Motte

  Benjamin Hawkins

• 12 November, 1781.

  Thomas Bee

  James Mitchell Varnum

  Daniel Carroll

• 19 November, 1781.

  William Ellery

  Oliver Wolcott

  Ezekiel Cornell

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• 26 November, 1781.

  William Floyd

  Abraham Clark

  Richard Law

• 3 December, 1781.

  William Churchill Houston

  Henry Wynkoop

  Edmund Randolph

• 10 December, 1781.

  George Clymer

  James Lovell

  Benjamin Hawkins

• 17 December, 1781.

  Jonathan Elmer

  Nicholas Eveleigh

  William Floyd

• 24 December, 1781.

  Joseph Montgomery

  James Lovell

  William Floyd

• 31 December, 1781.

  Oliver Wolcott

  Henry Wynkoop

  Silas Condict

[Note 2: 2 Appointments were at first recorded in the Journal; but, beginning with November 5, 1781, they are found only in Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 186, Committee Book.]

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