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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 --INDEX

Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
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• Accounts, chambers of, complaints, 53; payment, 387.
• Active, packet, 899.
• Adams, Andrew, 222, a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 1102.
• Adams, John. Credentials, 4; letters of credence, 17, 18; instructions, 651, 746, 848, 859, 876; commission, 879. Letters, 2, 3, 41, 42, 96, 102, 174, 1032, 1053. Mentioned, 20, 41, 312, 472, 561, 563, 616, 619, 627, 648, 653, 670, 990, 993, 1138.
• Adams, Samuel, a delegate from Massachusetts. Credentials, 4, 628. Committees: McComb, 16; Massachusetts's letter, 33, 311, 421; Board of War's letter, 39; Blaine's letter, 46; German regiment, 73; Western lands, 100; Binney, 115; Harrison's letter, 142; Jones and Landais, 174; La Luzerne's letter, 225; impost, 262; French memorial, 311; Jay's letters, 437; New York letter, 420. Votes, 111, 153, 154, 175, 205, 223, 267, 279, 287, 289, 290, 293, 305, 332, 333, 338, 358, 392. Mentioned, 74, 148n, 175, 222, 228, 287, 289, 290, 305; 316, 338, 340, 368, 376, 392, 450.
• Adams, Thomas, 223.
• Admiralty, Board of, 124n, 725; salaries, 514, 728; seal of, 765; abolished, 943.
• Admiralty courts, 764, 869.
• Aertsen, Guilliam, 71, 760.
• Aitken, Robert, 91, 92, 549.
• Alexander, Samuel, 140.
• Alexander, captain, 711.
• Allen, Ira, 860, 875, 882, 886.
• Allen, John, colonel, 148.
• Allen, Joseph, 1031.
• Alliance, frigate, 318, 590, 695, 700, 769, 829, 907.
• Allison, Francis, 199, 382, 398, 462, 512.
• America, gun ship, 692, 698, 942, 1016.
• Anderson, James, 900.
• Antill, Edward, colonel, 448.
• Appeals, court of, 200, 599, 761, 861, 869.
• Appleton, Nathaniel, 108, 121, 337, 434, 484, 604, 642, 660, 681, 716.
• Arbuthnot, Marriot, admiral, 492, 621, 649.
• Archer, --, 853, 1032.
• Arendt, Henry Leonard Philip, Baron d', 29, 30n, 41, 95, 117n, 143, 144, 180, 201, 277, 286, 449, 497, 589, 700, 729, 740, 742, 948, 995n, 1020.
• Argo, sloop, 912, 915.
• Ariel, frigate, 248, 252, 318, 319, 339, 340, 342n, 486, 769, 928, 942.
• Armand de la Rouerie, Chevalier, 9, 22, 30, 75, 76, 77, 78, 86, 97, 121, 182, 198, 277, 348, 454, 468, 510, 532, 634, 678, 679, 682, 684, 720, 756, 873, 899, 906, 972, 976, 984, 994, 998, 1023, 1027, 1053.
• Armistead, Henry, 323.
• Armitage, Benjamin, 133, 532, 581.
• Armstrong, James Francis, chaplain, 997.
• Army, Continental, staff, 171, 237, 531; uniform, 206; promotions, 242, 539, 891, 1119; Western department, 279; German troops, 301; rank of general officers, 346, 1127, 1179; pay, 541, 549, 594, 1038, 1118; needs of, 583; copper for, 732; duck for, 732; southern department, 923; Pennsylvania line, 974; quotas for 1782, 1163; drummers and fifers, 1182; separated officers, 1186; rules for troops, 1200.
• Arne, --, captain, 604.
• Arnold, Benedict, major general, 40, 909.
• Arnold, Jonathan, 253.
• Artificers, 329, 537.

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• Ashe, John, 94.
• Ashby, George, 437.
• Atkinson, George, a delegate from New Hampshire. Credentials, 498; declines, 1100.
• Atlee, Samuel John, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 1103, 1131; attends, 1099. Committees: Pennsylvania line, 25; Witherspoon, 186; iron masters, 190; Army pay, 203, 892; prisoners at Charleston, 458; Moultrie's letter, 468; Diriks and Painter, 487; Gates, 515, 521; week, 520, 884, 1052, 1193, 1195; Bland's motions, 574; Yznardy, 602, 686; Campbell, 643, 679; Pettit, 649, 677; Navy, 708; Moultrie, 881; Jay, 884; Elizabeth Bergen, 908; Van Schaick and Du Buysson, 922; Board of War letter, 925; Du Buysson, 931; additional troops, 947; Pennsylvania letter, 969; Greene's letter, 970, 1059, 1083; retaliation, 972; Armand, 984; Moultrie, 1026; Hayne, 1055; Washington's letter, 1151n; quotas of men, 1163. Votes, 111, 112, 158, 154, 175, 205, 224, 392, 503, 504, 516, 524, 529, 530, 592, 593, 607, 609, 612, 613, 614, 615, 618, 619, 626, 627, 648, 650, 658, 663, 888, 924, 956, 983, 985, 1037, 1043, 1058, 1060, 1074, 1090, 1114, 1119, 1120, 1121, 1147, 1148. Mentioned, 82, 86, 158, 205n, 224, 236, 523, 523n, 532n, 534n, 582, 591, 615, 686n, 888n, 896n, 910n, 911n, 1024n, 1130.
• Atlee, William Augustus, 701, 702.
• Attorney general, proposed, 156.
• Audibert, Philip, 133, 134, 157.
• Auditors, salaries, 951; election of, 1068, 1070.
• Austria, mediation, 585.
• Avery, John, 5, 629, 1101.
• Bache, Richard, postmaster general, 22, 131, 571, 686, 716.
• Bailey, Francis, 475, 535, 542, 1201.
• Baird, Absalom, 1086.
• Bakers, superintendent of, 159.
• Baldwin, Jeduthan, colonel, 330, 452, 462, 486.
• Balfour, Nisbet, lieutenant colonel, 130.
• Banister, John, 223.
• Bank, plan, 519, 545, 545n, 546, 1200; of North America, 546, 1187.
• Bankson, Benjamin, 323, 334.
• Barber, Francis, lieutenant colonel, 460.
• Barber, Nathaniel, jr., 232, 504, 911.
• Barber, William, 1110.
• Barberis, John, 1170.
• Barclay, Thomas, 48, 698, 716, 735, 736, 1036.
• Barge, Jacob, 786.
• Barnet, William, 456.
• Barr, Thomas, 486, 487, 494.
• Barras, --, 674, 710, 745.
• Barrett, Nathaniel, 604.
• Barrett, Samuel, 945.
• Barry, John, captain, 695, 700, 711, 1050, 1143.
• Bartlett, John, 160, 273, 275.
• Bartlett, Josiah, 222.
• Bates, Thomas, 57, 64.
• Bayard, John, 463, 786.
• Bayard, Ricard & Co., 1085.
• Bayley, Jacob, 656.
• Baynton, Peter, 944.
• Beall, Samuel, 48.
• Beaulieu, Joseph Louis de, 187, 198, 369n, 1053.
• Beaumarchais, Caron de, 933.
• Beckley, John, 1104.
• Bedford, Mass., burning of, 1017.
• Bedken, Henry, 290, 306, 347, 348, 468, 734.
• Bee, Thomas, a delegate from South Carolina. Credentials, 1104; attends, 1100; Committees: Board of War's letter, 39; Greene's letter, 129; Witherspoon, 186; Army pay, 203; La Luzerne's letter, 225; courts, 234; Pettit's letter, 262; quotas, 268, 1088; Wright, 328; privateers, 348, 360; bills of credit, 351; Court of Appeals, 375, 599; Pennsylvania line, 396; imposts, 435; South Carolina letter, 493, 970; Johnson and Ross, 500; neutrality, 579; Yznardy, 602, 686; Ross, 680; post office, 686; week, 693, 930, 1194, 1195; intercepted letters, 751; Bland's motion, 761; prisoners'

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  relief, 773; money for Army, 853; Du Coudray, 905, 1014; finances, 908, 1147n, 1149; Treasury office, 912; Van Schaick and Du Buysson, 922, 931; Savage, 922; Rhode Island letter, 944; Louis, 954; John Clark, 1106n; Edison, 1160. Votes, 2, 106, 111, 112, 453, 154, 176, 205, 224, 267, 288, 289, 293, 306, 332, 334, 392, 516, 529, 530, 547, 592, 593, 607, 609, 610, 612, 613, 614, 615, 618, 619, 626, 627, 650, 663, 682, 694, 714, 726, 730, 731, 747, 752, 776, 778, 827, 854, 888, 956, 983, 1037, 1043, 1054, 1061, 1114, 1119, 1120, 1121, 1130, 1148, 1153, 1161, 1165, 1181. Mentioned, 2, 57n, 114n, 153, 158, 175, 185, 189, 199, 205, 207, 224, 252, 292, 293, 333, 345, 345n, 396, 401, 496n, 542, 659, 675, 678, 774, 775n, 818, 951n, 1026n, 1045, 1055, 1059, 1112, 1118, 1121, 1123n, 1160n.

• Belcour, La, captain, 971.
• Bellows, Benjamin, a delegate from New Hampshire. Credentials, 498, 1100.
• Bensall, G., 334.
• Benson, Egbert, 75, 354, a delegate from New York. Credentials, 1132.
• Benson, Robert, 1132.
• Bentalon, Paul, 130, 148, 149, 181, 273, 277, 278.
• Bergen, Elizabeth, 850, 718, 908.
• Bermuda, exports from, 959, 960n.
• Betsey, 1010.
• Bevins, Robert, 140.
• Bible, printing of, 91.
• Bicking, Frederick, 323.
• Biddle, John, 94, 132, 134.
• Bills of credit, funding of, 136n; emissions, 164; withdrawal of, 225, 592, 593n; redemption of, 255, 378, 473, 495, 503, 525; interest on, 263, 268, 350; legal tender, 266, 331, 501; exchange, 351, 391; one currency recommended, 364; condition of, 399; ordinance for, 438; for New York, 450; amount of, 406; cancellation of, 430, 454, 577; against further emissions, 501; signing of, 571; stamping, 591; burning of, 690.
• Bingham, William, 95, 623, 645, 781 782, 786, 915, 1007, 1059, 1065, 1123n, 1183, 1188.
• Binney, Barnabas, 115, 187, 259, 900, 1092.
• Bitting, Adam, captain, 474.
• Blaine, Ephraim, 45, 46, 57, 73, 92, 250, 264, 277, 280, 321, 336, 337, 360, 367n, 488, 515, 572, 677, 812, 839.
• Bland, Theodorick, Colonel, 182, a delegate from Virginia. Letters, 306. Credentials, 1103. Committees: Washington letter, 1, 499n, 502, 832; Pennsylvania line, 25, 396; Virginia, 95; Pettit, 121, 266; Franklin, 187, 475; Burnet, 203; Maryland, 241; Skinner, 257; quartermaster's stores, 262; Convention troops, 274, 529; bills of credit, 351, 578; commissary, 390; French loan, 399; Schuyler, 421; Hay, 464; Bland's motion, 469, 574; Articles of Confederation, 471; Diriks and Painter, 487; Army pay, 493, 506, 853; Board of War, 522; Army promotions, 539, 892; Caldwell, 620; Campbell, 643, 679; Varnum's motion, 668; Rhode Island letter, 715, 729; week, 715, 1194; marine department, 726, 728; D'Arendt, 740; prisoners, 749, 773; captures, 764; admiralty report, 769; Storey, 785; finances, 817; New Hampshire, 818; forage, 841; Spotswood, 892; Argo, 912; Navy, 919; Lomagne, 1016, 1022. Votes, 2, 3, 106, 111, 112, 153, 154, 205, 224, 267, 279, 287, 288, 289, 291, 293, 305, 338, 358, 392, 503, 504, 516, 524, 529, 530, 547, 593, 607, 609, 610, 612, 613, 614, 615, 618, 619, 626, 627, 648, 650, 658, 663, 694, 714, 726, 730, 731, 741, 742, 747, 752, 776, 778, 822, 827, 854, 888, 924, 983, 985, 1037, 1043. Mentioned, 14n, 21n, 72, 73, 74, 96, 104, 118, 134, 141n, 206, 207, 207n, 224, 226n, 235, 263n, 274, 274n, 294n, 295n, 302, 304, 304n, 305, 305n, 306, 307, 366n, 370n, 376, 392, 398, 401, 459n, 469, 476n. 484n, 490, 490n, 505, 507, 517, 527, 529n, 530, 545n, 570, 574, 577, 579, 582, 583n, 589n, 592, 612, 613, 626, 627,

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  648, 705, 710, 710n, 730, 748, 749n, 760, 766n, 774, 782, 788, 791, 821, 912n, 915, 920n, 978, 982n, 1040.

• Blair, John, a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 1103.
• Bloomfield, Moses, 981.
• Boiseé, Aeneas, 971.
• Bond, George, 56, 60n, 77n, 112, 126, 135n, 206n, 291n, 314, 329n, 353n, 365n, 389n, 394, 419n, 476n, 510n, 549n, 588n, 717, 737n, 739n, 743n, 932n, 1037n, 1091n, 1137n, 1188n.
• Bond, Thomas, jr., 118, 191, 375, 388, 467, 529, 544, 785, 1072.
• Bonetta, sloop of war, 1082.
• Bonfield, John, 464, 718, 833, 977.
• Bon homme Richard, 769.
• Boon, Hawkins, 888.
• Booth, James, 194, 1103.
• Borden, Joseph, 284, 337, 474, 522.
• Boreman, John, 20, 485, 487.
• Boudinot, Elias, a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 777, 1102; attends, 777, 1099. Money, 1021. Committees: Week, 782, 969, 1194, 1195; prisoners, 815, 829; Washington's letters, 832, 880; Vermont, 842, 1032; Virginia motion, 848; Elizabeth Bergen, 851; Moultrie, 881, 1026; prisoners, 884, 889; Morton, 952n; Pennsylvania letter, 969; South Carolina letter, 970; French memorial, 976, 986, 1052; retaliation, 978; hospital department, 984; Barry, 1050; French letter, 1063; War Department, 1070; Yorktown surrender, 1071; thanks to Washington, 1079; quotas, 1087, 1088; Southern States, 1108; Pennsylvania and Connecticut, 1115; Navy court-martial, 1143. Votes, 778, 822, 827, 854, 888, 983, 985, 1037, 1043, 1054, 1058, 1060, 1073, 1077, 1090. Mentioned, 787n, 811n, 815, 830n, 831, 831n, 837n, 846n, 876n, 886n, 890n, 971n, 974, 976, 1006, 1025, 1065, 1107, 1110.
• Boundaries of United States, 606, 608, 611, 613n, 616, 617.
• Bourbon, ship, 353.
• Bowby, Daniel, 489.
• Bowen, Oliver, 53, 142, 969.
• Bradford, John, 75, 254, 453, 732, 908, 929, 930, 936.
• Brahm, Ferd I. S. de, 690, 751, 759, 818, 835, 843.
• Branham, Edward, 687.
• Brayman, Christian, cornet, 22.
• Bremar, F., 1123n, 1124.
• Brevard, Ephraim, a delegate from North Carolina. Credentials, 1034, 1104.
• Brilliant, brigantine, 260, 531.
• Bristol, R. I., burning of, 1017.
• Brodhead (Broadhead), Daniel, colonel, 33, 158, 186, 226, 254, 279, 530, 579, 720, 726, 898, 929, 984, 996, 1113n.
• Brossard, Celerin, 971, 1123n.
• Broughton, Nicholson, 557, 759, 840.
• Brown, Andrew, 519, 520, 1044, 1048.
• Brown, Charles, lieutenant, 661.
• Brown, Jesse, 733, 743.
• Brown, John, 274, 506, 719, 815, 883, 885, 910, 912, 915, 928.
• Brown, Nicholas, 274, 719, 915.
• Brown, William, captain, 7, 24.
• Brown, --, 6.
• Brown, --, Dr., 48.
• Brown, Mr. (S. C.), 14.
• Browne, Joseph, 155.
• Brownson, Nathan, 316, 376, 388, 1015, 1055, 1105, 1106.
• Brussell, Joseph, 602.
• Bryan, Bartholomew, 233.
• Bryan, Jeremy, 233.
• Bryan, John, 815.
• Bryan, Jonathan, 199, 238, 239, 1021.
• Bryan, Samuel, 788, 911, 951.
• Bryce, John, 1202.
• Buckley, --, 828.
• Bull, Epaphras, major, 519, 520.
• Burgess, Joseph, 631.
• Burgin, Elizabeth. (See Bergen.)
• Burgoyne, John, 345, 436, 647, 889, 893.
• Burke, Thomas, a delegate from North Carolina. Money, 302, 376. Committees: executive departments, 31; Lee's letter, 32; Massachusetts letter, 33; Pennsylvania mutiny, 45; French letter, 57; Virginia letter, 95; New York

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  letter, 95; Gibson, 95; western lands, 100; Greene's letter, 129; Harrison's letter, 142, 185; Jones and Landais, 174; Southern department, 179; bills of exchange, 197; rules, 225; Treasury report, 254; quotas, 268; Morris's letter, 291, 432; lottery, 304; French memorial, 311. Votes, 2, 3, 106, 111, 112, 153, 154, 176, 205, 224, 267, 279, 287, 288, 289, 291, 293, 332, 334, 338, 358. Mentioned: 2, 26n, 67n, 105, 110, 135n, 146, 148n, 153, 205, 224, 237n, 247n, 286, 287, 290, 334, 340, 376, 402, 576n. Governor, 1034, 1035, 1104, 1181.

• Burnet, Robert (?), major, 953, 954.
• Burnet, William, a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 777; letters, 203, 226, 230, 321, 493. Committees: Medical, 155, 1193; Birney, 187; quotas, 268. Votes: 153, 154, 175, 267. Mentioned, 233, 277n.
• Burrall, Jonathan, 323.
• Bush, Moses, 353.
• Bush, Nathan, 899, 1086.
• Bush, S., colonel, 738, 749.
• Butler, Richard, colonel, 41, 80, 303.
• Byers, James, 9, 274, 475, 902.
• Cadiz, consul at, 305, 484.
• Caille, Stephen Audibert, 553.
• Caldwell, Andrew, 1188.
• Caldwell, James, 620.
• Caldwell, Samuel, 901, 933, 934.
• Cambray, 1008, 1061, 1086.
• Campbell, Arthur, colonel, 1055, 1088, 1098.
• Campbell, Donald, colonel, 52, 62, 63, 228, 643, 679, 680, 706, 901, 1044, 1060, 1159, 1161.
• Campbell, Duncan, 709, 721, 722, 758, 787, 816.
• Campbell, George, 981.
• Captures, at sea, regulations, 85, 861, 916, 921, 958, 961, 970, 985, 986, 1108, 1113; ordinance, 1141, 1147, 1152, 1153, 1200; by land, 690.
• Cardoqui, James, 163.
• Carleton, Sir Guy, 887.
• Carleton, Joseph, 20, 149, 158, 238, 312, 345, 434, 475.
• Carlisle, post at, 14, 74, 330, 538, 590.
• Carmichael, William, 140, 146, 151, 311, 437, 452, 464, 505, 519, 554, 597, 628, 693, 856, 913.
• Carne, Anthony, 922.
• Carne, John, 981.
• Carnes, Patrick, 756, 942.
• Carolina, packet, 474, 600.
• Caron, --, 486.
• Carrington, Edward, 119.
• Carroll, Daniel, a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 1103; attends, 138, 1100, 1151, 1152. Committees: Forrest, 160; prisoners, 196, 534; Luzerne, 225; Convention prisoners, 236; Stoddert, 239; Maryland, 241, 515; Forman and Gibson, 306; quartermaster's stores, 337; French loan, 399; Lafayette, 451, 531; Pennsylvania, 469; Bland's motion, 469; Articles of Confederation, 471; week, 483, 1193, 1195; South Carolina, 493; Army pay, 493, 506; Washington, 499n, 502, 1151n; Howell, 523; finances, 533, 732, 739, 781, 817, 1123; Army accounts, 549; French memorial, 562, 1009; letter to States, 585; independence celebration, 716; New Hampshire, 732, 818, 836; Melven, 753; French letters, 778, 876; forage, 841, 943; Vermont, 842; Kean, 922, 935; Rendon, 1010; Hopkins, 1042; Seagrove, 1045; South Carolina and Georgia officers, 1051, 1117; Yorktown surrender, 1071; thanks to Washington, 1079; Pollock, 1107; Southern States, 1108; Pennsylvania and Connecticut, 1115; fisheries, 1123n; courts of inquiry, 1125; Lafayette, 1131n, 1134; Duportail, 1141n; Edison, 1160; Yorktown prisoners, 1162n; quotas of men, 1163; Dartmouth College, 1169; New Hampshire letter, 1179n; Stark, 1185n. Votes, 153, 154, 175, 205, 224, 267, 279, 287, 289, 291, 293, 305, 332, 334, 338, 358, 392, 503, 504, 516, 524, 529, 530, 547, 612, 613, 614, 615, 618, 619, 626, 627, 648, 650, 658, 663, 682, 694, 714, 726, 730, 731, 741, 742, 747,

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  752, 776, 778, 822, 827, 854, 888, 924, 956, 983, 985, 1037, 1043, 1054, 1058, 1061, 1074, 1078, 1090, 1114, 1119, 1120, 1121, 1130, 1147, 1148, 1153, 1161, 1165, 1180. Mentioned, 189n, 213, 222, 224, 493, 495n, 528n, 544n, 615, 627n, 676n, 699n, 771n, 791, 825n, 847n, 923, 1089, 1090, 1113, 1117n, 1129, 1147, 1164n, 1165, 1180n.

• Carson, Joseph, 474, 600.
• Carson, Richard, 452.
• Cary, Archibald, 750, 1104.
• Carzneau, --, captain, 604.
• Castaing, Peter de, 1128.
• Castres, Marquis de, 931.
• Cattell, Benjamin, 914, 921.
• Catulippe, --, 486.
• Cedars, capitulation of, 251, 889.
• Census recommended, 1129.
• Ceronio, Stephen, 515.
• Certificates of accounts, signing of, 570.
• Champlain, Lake, 887, 892.
• Champlin, --, colonel, 446.
• Chaplains, pay, 488; arrangement, 629, 643; for light dragoons, 901.
• Charleston, capitulation of, 621; prisoners from, 748.
• Charlestown, Mass., burning of, 1017.
• Chase, Samuel, a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 1151, 1152.
• Chase, Thomas, 160.
• Chaumont, Le Ray de, 318.
• Chesnut, John, 832.
• Chester, --, 1102.
• Chinn, Edward, 6.
• Chittenden, Thomas, 875, 882; governor, letter, 1166.
• Christie, --, 580.
• Church, Thomas, 706.
• Claiborne, R., 603, 604.
• Clajon, William, 536.
• Clap, Preserved, 115, 183.
• Clark, Abraham, a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 777, 1102; attends, 995. Committees: Skinner, 24, 78; Lee, 32; Blaine, 45, 488; Atlee, 86; New York, 95; Burnet, 203; Board of War, 332; Quartermaster's stores, 337; officers' pay, 396; Scott, 430; Virginia, 449; Articles of Confederation, 471; finances, 523, 1109n. week, 996, 1149, 1195, 1196; Georgia letters, 1021; Hopkins, 1042; Walton, 1044; John Clark, 1073; supplies, 1112; New Hampshire letter, 1179n; reports of states, 1184; Stark, 1185n. Votes, 105, 111, 205, 224, 267, 290, 293, 305, 332, 334, 358, 392, 503, 504, 1037, 1043, 1054, 1058, 1073, 1077, 1090, 1119, 1130, 1147, 1148, 1161, 1165, 1180. Mentioned, 32, 65, 70, 70n; 97n, 104, 115n, 224, 230n, 267, 341n, 376n, 383, 383n, 391, 396n, 433, 434n, 458, 474, 475n, 506n, 576n, 1017n, 1149n, 1169, 1182.
• Clark, George Rogers, 489.
• Clark, Thomas, colonel, 396.
• Clarke, Daniel, 1016, 1046, 1078.
• Clarke, John, 1059, 1060, 1073, 1092, 1106n, 1112.
• Clarke, Joseph, 434, 719, 915.
• Clarkson, John Levinus, 34, 78, 238, 314, 381, 506, 574, 695, 788.
• Clay, Joseph, 7, 8, 496.
• Claypoole, David C., 291, 881, 1200, 1203.
• Clearances, signing, 514.
• Clerks, pay, 100, 362, 733, 951.
• Clingan, William, 222.
• Clinton, George, governor, letters, 36, 37, 145, 225, 236, 241, 249, 311, 353, 420, 472, 722, 747, 816, 931, 1046, 1159.
• Clinton, Sir Henry, 621, 821.
• Clothier general, bond for, 401; powers of, 667.
• Clothing department, regulations, 11, 317, 342, 662; allowances and pay, 1023.
• Clothing for soldiers, 664, 778.
• Clymer, George, bank director, 122; a delegate from Pennsylvania, 1149; Credentials, 1103, 1131. attends, 229, Committees: McComb, 16; Pettit's letter, 36; shot and shells, 55; western lands, 99; quotas, 268, 1088; finances, 381, 487, 688, 1028; Morris's letter, 429; Parsons's letter, 430; imports, 435; Lafayette's letter, 451; Sullivan's motion, 475; Lafayette, 531; bank, 545; J. P. Jones,

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  572, 942; neutrality, 579; bills of credit, 594; Caldwell, 620; Bingham, 645, 1183; gun ship, 692; agent at Havana, 698; Massachusetts letter, 702; independence celebration, 716; Holker, 717; Hazen, 721, 728; salaries, 733; consul's commission, 735; delegates' pay, 813; prisoners, 749, 773, 815, 829, 884; Parsons, 750; Sullivan, 818; merchants' memorial, 855; Brown, 883; interest, 903; Bradford, 908; Treasury office, 912; Kean, 922, 935; week, 930, 1195, 1196; William Lee, 931, 955; Bradford, 936; Silas Deane, 955; French memorial, 1009; Rendon, 1010; conference with Pennsylvania, 1018; Hopkins, 1042; consuls, 1053; Indians, 1055; secret information, 1047; Indian treaty, 1088; Nicholas, 1131; Campbell, 1159; Giles, 1171; reports for States, 1184; Washington's letter, 1185n. Votes, 2, 3, 105, 111, 112, 153, 154, 175, 205, 267, 279, 287, 289, 290, 293, 305, 332, 334, 338, 392, 503, 504, 516, 524, 529, 530, 547, 592, 593, 607, 609, 610, 612, 613, 614, 615, 618, 619, 626, 627, 648, 650, 658, 663, 681, 694, 714, 726, 741, 742, 747, 752, 776, 778, 827, 854, 888, 924, 956, 983, 1037, 1043, 1054, 1058, 1077, 1153, 1161, 1165, 1180. Mentioned, 180n, 325n, 331, 431n, 530, 545n, 615, 692n, 698, 698n, 729n, 783n, 955, 955n, 956, 1063, 1078, 1172n.

• Cochran, John, 48, 65, 160, 230, 534, 979, 981n.
• Coleman, Robert, 254, 325.
• Collins, John, 222, 882, 1013.
• Colston, Rawleigh, 1127n.
• Comegys, Cornelius, 34, 343.
• Commerce, treaty of with Great Britain, 746.
• Commercial affairs, 909.
• Commercial committee, papers, 63; accounts, 157.
• Commercial regulations. (See Impost.)
• Commissary general of military stores, 49, 100.
• Commissary of issues, 791.
• Commissary of purchases, 390, 791.
• Commissions by ministers, 755.
• Committee of the States, 229.
• Committee reports, 908.
• Compti, John, 896.
• Comptroller, salary, 951; election of, 1006, 1050.
• Conand, James F., 511.
• Condict, Silas, a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 1152; attends, 1149. Committees: Week, 1196. Votes, 1161, 1165, 1180.
• Confederacy, frigate, 899, 922, 942, 1013.
• Confederation, Articles of, ratification, 186, 190, 191, 192, 208; text, 214; enforcement, 236; publication, 475, 543; power to execute, 469, 894; exposition of, 894; enlargement of powers, 895.
• Congress, rules of, 225, 263, 476; printing of journal, 291; adjournment of, 1088; representation in, 1113.
• Connecticut, funds from, 38, 61, 1089; agrees to impost, 262, 296; credentials, 596, 1102; land cessions, 704, 784, 1077, 1098, 1113; quota of troops, 729; commissions from, 835; and Pennsylvania, 1115, 1116.
• Connecticut Farms, N. J., burning of, 1017.
• Connecticut line, 581.
• Connor, John, 233.
• Constitutions of the States, 1200, 1201, 1203.
• Consul, vice, in France, 687; in the United States, 960.
• Consuls, convention with France, 792, 804n, 845, 896, 1053; powers of, 914, 916; exequatur, 925.
• Convention troops, removal, 178, 193, 195, 259, 263, 307, 526, 529, 530, 589, 630, 900; treatment, 274; desertions, 299; exchange of, 889; report, 1199.
• Conyngham, Gustavus, captain, 511, 622.
• Cornell, Ezekiel, a delegate from Rhode Island. Credentials, 768, 1101; attends, 1123. Money, 173, 434, 946; letters, 140, 173, 429; War Board, 10, 20, 22, 30, 37, 49, 62, 74, 75, 86, 104, 106, 108n, 109, 114, 119, 128, 137, 140, 143, 145, 149, 158, 159, 181, 183, 198, 232, 327, 384,

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  434, 739, 743, 744, 754, 759, 768, 813, 826, 844, 860, 873, 994, 998, 1021, 1035, 1039, 1048, 1052, 1079, 1111, 1124, 1127. Committees: Greene's letter, 16; Bowen, 53; clothier's department, 662, 772; French letter, 769; finances, 1123; courts of inquiry, 1125; Lafayette, 1131, 1134; Duportail, 1141n; Campbell, 1159; New York finances, 1160n; Yorktown prisoners, 1162n; quotas of men, 1163; gun-powder for New York, 1181; Stark, 1185n; Washington's letter, 1185n; week, 1195. Votes, 1130, 1147, 1148, 1153, 1161, 1180. Mentioned, 815, 1011, 1122, 1164n, 1168n, 1169, 1179, 1179n, 1182, 1187n.

• Cornwallis, Charles, Lord, 335, 621, 1071, 1073.
• Coulteaux, Messrs. le, 1004, 1005.
• Court of appeals, 374, 496, 497.
• Courts for piracies, 274.
• Courts of inquiry, 1125.
• Courts martial, 1126.
• Cowpens, prisoners, 300.
• Craig, James, Dr., 48, 199, 230, 233, 489, 979.
• Croghan, George, 534.
• Crowly, Charles, 900, 909.
• Crowninshield, George, 882, 886, 1013.
• Cudreaux, --, 942.
• Culvill, Nicholas, 602.
• Cumberland, Richard, 561, 565, 566, 671, 987.
• Cunningham (see Conyngham).
• Currency, continental, destruction, 720.
• Da Costa, Isaac, 273, 329.
• Dale, Richard, 727, 755, 769, 770.
• Dana, Francis, 222, 561, 562, 688, 698, 699, 991, 1033.
• Danielson, Timothy, a delegate from Massachusetts. Credentials, 4.
• Darrell, Benjamin, 734, 756.
• Dart, John Sandford, 25, 48, 49, 91.
• Davenport, Abraham, 1102.
• Davidson, William Lee, brigadier general, 978.
• Davies, William, colonel, 254, 398.
• Davis, John, captain, 1165n, 1169n.
• Davis, Thomas, 590.
• Dayton, Elias, colonel, 812.
• Dayton, Jonathan, 244.
• Dealy, John, 1072.
• Deane, J., 881.
• Deane, Silas, 930, 931, 955.
• Debrett, J., 1201.
• Debt of United States, estimate, 101, 125, 159, 160, 354; liquidation, 266, 524; how paid, 394; statement of, 402; letter to States, 402.
• Debts, recovery of, 952.
• Decoutures, --, lieutenant, 972, 1117n.
• De Formoy, --, 905.
• De Haas, John Philip, colonel, 712.
• De la Tour, --, 116.
• Delaware, funds from, 38; militia, 1037; batallion, thanks, 1084; credentials, 1103.
• Delegates, pay of, 733.
• Deluerize, --, 486.
• Denison, N., 744.
• Depreciation of pay, 702.
• Desdevens, Maurice, 420, 1062.
• Deshon, J., 482.
• Destouches, 348, 356, 490.
• Deutrick, -- (See Uerktritz.)
• Deveaux, Peter, 97, 360, 388.
• De Wit, William, 536.
• Dickinson, John, 222.
• Diriks, Jacob Gerhard, 94, 128, 486, 487, 514, 604.
• Donaldson, William, 890.
• Donnel, Nathaniel, 720.
• Dorsey, Nathan, 881, 882.
• Douge Druin, 929.
• Dow, Alexander, 517, 532, 533, 539, 572, 1144.
• Downe, Samuel, 6.
• Doyle, John, captain, 1045.
• Doz, Andrew, 6, 94.
• Drake, 320.
• Drayton, William Henry, 223.
• Drew, William, 622.
• Duane, James, a delegate from New York. Credentials, 1132; attends, 876; money, 238, 466. Committees: Staff

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  compensation, 29; executive departments, 31; Massachusetts letter, 33, 311, 421; Pennsylvania meeting, 45; Blaine's letters, 45, 277; French letter 57, 225, 858, 928; western lands, 99, 100; public debt, 125, 402; rules, 225; courts, 234; enforcement articles of confederation, 236; Board of Admiralty's report, 242; fast day, 258; impost, 262, 435, 636; Pettit's letter, 262; convention troops, 274; Hutchins, 339; bills of credit, 351n; finance, 368; Schuyler's letter, 421; Jay's letters, 437; Maryland letter, 446; hospital staff, 464; Pennsylvania letters, 469, 1012; articles of confederation, 471; Franklin's letter, 475; week, 835, 1194; Virginia motion, 848; Indians, 881; merchants' petition, 882; old money, 884; Spotswood, 892; interest, 903; DuCoudray, 905, 1014; Howe, 907, 937; Bradford, 908; Treasury office, 912; Navy, 913, 919; Randolph's motion, 913; St. Clair, 916; Hayne, 918; French supplies, 932; J. Laurens, 934; Bradford, 936; Geddes, 944; additional troops, 947; Louis, 954; retaliation, 973; French memorial, 986, 1009; Rendon, 1010; Caughnawaga Indians, 1014; conference with Pennsylvania, 1018; French affairs, 1052, 1063; infractions of law of nations, 1136. Votes, 224, 267, 279, 287, 289, 290, 293, 822, 827, 854, 888, 924, 956, 983, 985, 1037, 1043. Mentioned, 26, 31n, 40, 44n, 53n, 61n, 70, 73n, 127n, 128n, 172, 172n, 186n, 210, 211, 213, 222, 224, 224n, 235, 252, 257, 270, 286n, 288, 315n, 331n, 368n, 421, 427n, 465n, 471, 472n, 476, 477n, 478n, 835n, 840n, 845n, 851n, 855n, 856n, 906, 909n, 919n, 920n, 932n, 935n, 943, 950n, 953, 974, 976, 983, 1014n.

• Duarti, John Garcia, 75, 109.
• Dubuysson, Chevalier, 289, 353, 768, 921, 930, 931, 935.
• Duck for Army, 453, 550.
• DuCoudray, Philippe Charles Jean Baptiste Tronson-, 899, 904, 917, 1014.
• Duer, William, 222, 909.
• Duffey, Thomas, 973.
• Du Maine & Lion, 260, 531.
• Dumas, Charles W. F., 78, 452, 597, 688, 693, 901, 1033, 1039.
• Dupee, --, captain, 98.
• Du Ponceau, Peter S., 739, 812.
• Du Portail, Louis Le Bégue, Chevalier Derford, 714n, 1008, 1121, 1123n, 1128, 1141, 1141n.
• Durkee, John, colonel, 1125.
• Dusseron, John, 1166.
• Duties on imports. (See Impost.)
• Dyer, Edward, 360.
• Eaker, Joseph, 485, 487, 544, 573, 901.
• Edison, Thomas, 332, 343, 1160.
• Edmondson, Samuel, 980.
• Edwards, Mrs., 972, 1007.
• Ege, George, 254.
• Elbert, Samuel, 160, 183, 981.
• Elizabeth, brig, 233.
• Ellery, William, 222, 429, 732; a delegate from Rhode Island. Credentials, 768, 1101; attends, 1123. Committees: Finances, 1147n, 1149; Larreguy, 1170; Peters, 1172; week, 1195. Votes, 1130, 1147, 1148, 1153, 1161, 1180. Mentioned, 1142n, 1147, 1148, 1180.
• Elliot, Robert, 64, 124, 697, 790, 791, 861, 890.
• Elliott, Charles, 1007.
• Elliott, Joseph, 751, 758.
• Ellsworth, Oliver, a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 596, 1102. Committees: Week, 598, 754, 1194; military stores, 630; Sullivan, 637; captures by land, 690; Massachusetts letter, 702; New York letter, 722; marine department, 726; salaries, 733; Greene, 755, 789; captures, 764; quotas, 773; consuls, 811, 1053; delegates' pay, 813; New York letters, 835; French memorials, 845, 925; Virginia motion, 848; Confederation, 896. Votes, 607, 609, 610, 612, 613, 614, 618, 619, 626, 627, 647, 650, 658, 681, 694, 713, 726, 730, 731, 741, 742, 747, 752, 776, 778, 821, 822, 827, 854, 888. Mentioned, 263n, 730, 744n, 776, 819n, 836n.

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• Elmer, Jonathan, a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 777, 1102; attends, 787, 1182. Committees: Week, 813, 1028, 1194, 1195, 1196; Heguy, 893. Votes, 822, 827, 854, 888, 1037, 1043, 1054, 1058, 1060, 1077. Mentioned, 820n, 1031n, 1033n, 1035n, 1041n.
• Ely, John, colonel, 31n.
• Embargo, 773, 900.
• Endeavor, schooner, 437.
• Estaing, Charles Henri Théodat, Comte d', 779.
• Etombe, Mons de l', consul general, 925, 940.
• Eutaw Springs, victory at, 1056, 1084.
• Evans, Lewis, 922.
• Eveleigh, Nicholas, a delegate from South Carolina. Credentials, 1105; attends, 437, 1100; money, 483, 521, 659, 826. Committees: Week, 520, 754, 1078, 1193, 1194, 1195, 1196; Washington's letter, 1151n; quotas of men, 1163. Votes, 503, 504, 516, 524, 529, 530, 592, 593, 626, 627, 648, 650, 658, 663, 682, 694, 714, 726, 730, 731, 741, 742, 747, 752, 776, 778, 822, 827, 854, 888, 924, 956, 983, 1037, 1043, 1054, 1058, 1074, 1078, 1114, 1119, 1130, 1148, 1153, 1161, 1165, 1181. Mentioned, 772n, 852n, 1040, 1041n, 1169n.
• Exchange, bills of, 189, 196, 310, 368, 604.
• Executive boards, 71, 123.
• Executive departments, 57, 125, 126, 169, 382.
• Fairfield, Conn., burning of, 1017.
• Falconer, Nathaniel, 132, 134.
• Fallon, James, 690.
• Falmouth, burning of, 1017.
• Fame, schooner, 429, 517.
• Fanning, John, 1036.
• Farmer, Rachael, 331n, 485.
• Farrar, Jesse, 973.
• Fast day, 257, 284.
• Faucher & Skerrett, 194.
• Fay, Jonas, 860, 875, 882, 886.
• Fayssoux, Peter, 506, 529.
• Febiger, Christian, colonel, 1, 248, 249, 359, 385, 386.
• Fegueiredo, José da Fonseca Suares de, 542, 578.
• Felex, --, 1102.
• Fell, John, 98, 118.
• Fell, Peter R., 343.
• Felten, Thomas, 133.
• Ferguson, Thomas, 914, 921.
• Ferrall, Patrick, 237, 343, 589.
• Ferris, Owen, 958.
• Few, William, a delegate from Georgia. Credentials, 1015, 1106; money, 459, 535, 689. Committees: Stoddert's letter, 239; quotas, 268. Articles of Confederation, 471; week, 550, 1194, 1196. Votes, 2, 3, 106, 112, 153, 154, 176, 224, 267, 287, 288, 289, 291, 306, 332, 334, 338, 358, 392, 503, 504, 516, 524, 529, 530, 547, 592, 593, 607, 609, 610, 612, 613, 614, 615, 618, 619, 626, 627, 648, 650, 663, 682, 694, 714, 726, 730, 731, 741, 742, 747. Mentioned, 16, 92, 201, 224, 273, 590n.
• Finance, letter to States, 58, 1068; considered, 72, 77, 85, 98, 133, 135, 136n, 137, 142, 157, 185, 236, 245, 255, 259, 266, 357, 368, 378; reports on, 92, 103, 402; loan office returns, 135; ordinance for public credit, 432, 438; superintendent of, 126, 180, 326, 337, 432, 455, 548n, 598, 708, 721, 724, 734, 783, 951; committee on plans, 502; ways and means, 507; expenses campaign, 524; restoration of credit, 588.
• Financier, 126.
• Finley, James, 911.
• Finnie, William, 331, 449.
• Fisher, George, 26, 27, 36, 873.
• Fisheries, Massachusetts' instructions, 1123n.
• Fitch, Hezekiah, 1102.
• Fitzsimmons, Thomas, 1188.
• Fleury, François Louis Teisseydre, Marquis de, 45, 114, 471, 898, 902.
• Flower, Benjamin, 9, 33, 122, 202, 538.
• Floyd, William, a delegate from New York. Credentials, 1182; attends, 1132. Committees: Gibson, 95; Binney, 115; money, 238; quotas, 268; week,

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  1149. Votes, 2, 3, 105, 111, 153, 154, 175, 205, 224, 267, 279, 287, 289, 290, 293, 1147, 1148, 1153, 1161, 1165, 1180. Mentioned, 20n, 33, 117, 180, 210, 211, 212, 213, 852, 1160, 1181.

• Fonda, Jellis, 939.
• Fontevieux, de, --, lieutenant, 185, 198, 199.
• Forage, pay for, 897.
• Foreign affairs, Department of, 42, 43; secretary, 43, 64, 65, 133, 637.
• Forman, David, brigadier general, 365, 365n.
• Forman, Ezekiel, 48, 53, 79, 124, 144, 179, 180, 184, 188, 194, 242, 253, 264, 278, 306, 341, 354, 382, 458, 508, 509, 636, 637, 784.
• Forrest, Thomas, lieutenant colonel, 74, 839.
• Forrest, Uriah, colonel, 160, 189.
• Foster, Isaac, Dr., 20.
• Fowler, A., 571.
• France, cooperation with, 310, 558, 1140; supplies from, 371, 932, 999; funds from, 398; loan, 556, 558, 597, 674, 1004; letter to, 638, 639n; on mediation, 986; consul in, 1036; treaties with, 1200, 1201, 1202.
• Francis, John, 835.
• Francis, Tench, 571.
• Franking of letters, 624.
• Franklin, Benjamin, charges, 14, 317; memorial, 264, 472; instructions, 651, 675, 780, 847; recall proposed, 900. Letters: 174, 187, 339, 341, 348, 475, 505, 549, 751, 929, 961, 973, 996. Mentioned, 22n, 67, 109, 113, 114, 144, 163, 167, 528, 553, 556, 558, 619, 628, 648, 653, 769, 878, 999, 1003, 1004, 1005, 1061, 1138, 1140.
• Franks, David S., major, 519, 520.
• French fleet, supplies for, 909.
• French, John, 233.
• Fry, Charles, Baron de, 860, 1130n, 1142.
• Fry, Joseph, 1149.
• Fuhrer, Charles Frederick, 1142n, 1159, 1162n.
• Furloughs, 656.
• Gadsden, Christopher, 914, 921.
• Galvan, William, major, 955, 1148n, 1168.
• Galvez, Bernardo de, 1009, 1107.
• Gansevoort, Leonard, 142.
• Gardner, Henry, 98, 322, 719.
• Gardner, Theophilus, 73, 237.
• Gardoqui & Sons, 833.
• Garvey, Patrick, 15.
• Gates, Horatio, major general, 37, 96, 360, 393, 431, 438, 515, 520, 521, 527, 533n, 536, 577, 1012, 1079.
• Geddes, George, 944, 968.
• Geddes, William, 48, 115, 134, 135, 332, 465, 483, 901.
• Geiger, Henry, 16.
• Geiger, Jacob, 323.
• Geographer, 738.
• Georgetown, S. C., burning of, 978, 1017.
• Georgia, public papers, 63; refugees, 782; delegates, pay, 814; distressed inhabitants, 852; letters from, 1021; credentials, 1105; arms for, 1170; line, 1122.
• Gérard de Rayneval, Conrad Alexandre, 904.
• Germain, George, Lord, 821.
• German regiment, 55, 62, 72, 84, 90.
• Germany, Emperor, mediation, 605.
• Gerry, Elbridge, a delegate from Massachusetts. Credentials, 4, 628. Mentioned, 222, 833.
• Gervais, John Lewis, 383.
• Gibson, John, 53, 94, 124, 144, 253, 306, 341, 370, 382, 452, 901.
• Gilbert, Michael, captain, 508, 509, 513.
• Giles, Aquilla, 459, 460.
• Giles, Edward, major, 158, 247, 1162, 1166, 1171, 1172.
• Gilleylen, William, 382.
• Gilman, Nicholas, 202, 694.
• Gist, Mordecai, brigadier general, 534, 542, 712, 898, 1040.
• Gist, Nathaniel, 600, 903.
• Glentworth, George, 690, 1182.
• Gloucester, packet, 692.
• Gooch, John, 695.
• Goodwin, John, 233, 246.
• Goold, William, captain, 458, 466.
• Gould, David, Dr., 86, 103, 118.

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• Gourlade & Moylan, 318.
• Gouvion, Jean Baptiste de, 1121.
• Governor Johnston, brigantine, 489.
• Govett, William, 1070, 1073.
• Grasse-Tilly, François Joseph Paul, Count de, 939, 993, 1068, 1071, 1080, 1082, 1106, 1145.
• Grayson, William, 186, 462; War Board, 52, 451, 459, 460, 490, 539, 590, 643, 702, 739, 743, 744, 754, 759, 768, 813, 815, 826, 843, 844, 860, 873, 945.
• Green, Caspar, 1123n.
• Green, F., 138, 140, 1103, 1152.
• Greene, Christopher, 785.
• Greene, Ebenezer, 231, 251, 899, 903.
• Greene, Nathanael, major general, 346, 385, 393, 533, 544, 786, 789, 823, 855, 900, 927, 954, 979, 1041, 1054, 1065, 1118; money, 449, 499, 831. Letters: 133, 139, 180, 194, 232, 245, 246, 262, 335, 357, 396, 398, 473, 519, 548, 620, 658, 755, 767, 784, 789, 828, 852, 861, 884, 929, 969, 972, 1023, 1026, 1055, 1088; testimonial for, 1059, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1088, 1127n.
• Greene, William, governor, 190, 715, 944.
• Greenwood, Joseph, 155.
• Gridley, Richard, 155, 197.
• Griffin, Cyrus, 87, 200, 485, 486.
• Grinnel, --, captain, 604.
• Grinnell, Fort, outrages at, 1018.
• Groton, --, colonel, 712.
• Groton, Conn., burning of, 1017.
• Groube, Beaumont, 275.
• Grubb, Curtis, 254.
• Guadaloupe, frigate, 1082.
• Guest, Isaac, 533.
• Hagan, Francis, 237, 534, 981.
• Hale, Daniel, 148.
• Hall, David, 744.
• Hall, George Abbott, 383.
• Hall, John, 353.
• Hall and Sellers, 543.
• Hailing, Solomon, 436, 678, 679.
• Hallock, --, captain, 711.
• Halsted, Mathias, 452.
• Hamerly, Fabian, 856, 885.
• Hamilton, James, brigadier general, 258.
• Hammond, Abijah, 557, 759, 858.
• Hancock, John, governor, 5, 148, 222, 311, 628, 744, 750, 770, 967, 1033.
• Hand, Edward, brigadier general, 39, 155, 157, 712.
• Hanging Rock, 56.
• Hanson, Benjamin, 941.
• Hanson, John, a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 138, 1103, 1151, 1152, attends, 185, 995, 1100; president, 1100. Committees: Bills of exchange, 197; quotas, 268, 1087, 1088; French memorial, 311; finances, 381, 1038; week, 996, 1195; Indians, 1055, 1088; War Department, 1070. Votes, 205, 224, 267, 279, 287, 289, 291, 305, 332, 334, 338, 358, 1043, 1054, 1058, 1061, 1074, 1078, 1090, 1114, 1119, 1120, 1121, 1130, 1147, 1148, 1153, 1161, 1165, 1180. Mentioned, 213, 222, 224, 1089n, 1146, 1176.
• Harding, Seth, 1013.
• Hardy, Jane, 888.
• Hardy, Joseph, 690, 840, 884, 942.
• Hardy, William, 888, 948.
• Harnett, Cornelius, 223.
• Harpur, Robert, 209.
• Harrison, Benjamin, 142, 148, 176, 185, 193, 750, 1104.
• Harrison, Charles, colonel, 7, 24, 1054.
• Harrison, Richard, 482, 692, 754, 856.
• Hart, Thomas, 275, 329, 360.
• Hartford, convention at, 155, 190, 235.
• Harvie, John, 223.
• Harwood, Thomas, 7, 72, 119, 336, 360, 388.
• Haryls, Abraham, 812, 815.
• Hatch, Jabez, 642.
• Hausseger, Nicholas, colonel, 143.
• Havana, agent at, 698, 705.
• Hawes, William, 815.
• Hawk, schooner, 696, 719.
• Hawkins, Benjamin, a delegate from North Carolina. Credentials, 1034, 1104; attends; 1034, 1100. Committees: Week, 1039, 1195, 1196; Heguy, 1042; quotas, 1088; Giles, 1171. Votes, 1037, 1043, 1058, 1074, 1078, 1114, 1130, 1148, 1165. Mentioned, 1112, 1126n.

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• Hay, Samuel, lieutenant colonel, 343.
• Hay, Udny, 464, 491, 832, 939, 1014n, 1074, 1086.
• Hayne, Isaac, colonel, 917, 926, 927, 941, 947, 972.
• Hazard, Ebenezer, 716, 723, 731, 899, 906, 1164n.
• Hazen, Moses, 342, 389, 413, 427, 428, 429, 448, 467, 508, 517, 542, 590, 601, 634, 660, 668, 669, 684, 689, 694, 711, 718, 721, 728, 784, 849, 998, 1056, 1163, 1187.
• Heath, William, major general, 943, 944, 948, 954, 975, 995, 1024, 1028, 1032, 1039, 1044, 1051, 1059, 1069, 1073, 1092, 1106n, 1109n, 1113n, 1117n, 1123n, 1143, 1185n, 1190n.
• Heer, Bartholomew von, captain, 660, 811.
• Heguy, Alexander, 840, 848, 893, 1042.
• Henderson, John, 32, 41, 71, 130, 142, 161, 312, 341, 491, 901, 934.
• Henry, Robert, 785.
• Heron, J. G., 938.
• Herring, --, 30.
• Hester, Daniel, 1031.
• Hetherling, Jacob, 840.
• Heyward, Thomas, jr., 223, 437, 447.
• Higgins, Samuel, 851.
• Hill, --, lieutenant colonel, 353.
• Hill, Henry, 1188.
• Hillegas, Michael, 120, 131, 329, 336, 522, 532, 599, 643, 945, 952, 976, 995.
• Hiller, --, 14.
• Hiltzheimer, Jacob, 455, 507, 519, 527, 737, 818, 899, 906.
• Hinchinbrook, brig, 982.
• Hodgden, Samuel, 8, 10, 90, 91, 100, 536, 537, 580, 746, 756.
• Hodgson, schooner, 945.
• Holker, brigantine, 921, 935.
• Holker, John, consul general, 717, 883, 899, 906, 911, 928, 942, 943, 946, 1063.
• Holland, minister to, 779; alliance with, 848, 859, 876; treaty of commerce with, 909, 1201.
• Helmet, Christian, major, 15, 34, 35, 254.
• Holten, Samuel, a delegate from Massachusetts. Credentials, 4. Mentioned, 29, 222.
• Honeyman, W., 772.
• Hoops, Adam, 845, 1035.
• Hopkins, Esek, 711.
• Hopkins, James, 1041, 1042.
• Hopkins, John, 202, 388, 581.
• Hopkins, Thomas, 716.
• Hopkinson, Francis, 303, 306, 341, 430, 783, 899, 906.
• Hosmer, Titus, 222, 597.
• Hospital department, regulations, 68, 103, 104, 292, 624, 979, 983, 1093, 1183; vacancies, 668.
• Houston, William Churchill, a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 777, 1102; attends, 289, 1142; Treasury Board, 570, 658, 1193; Comptroller, 1006. Committees: Morris's letter, 291, 432; lottery, 304; New York letter, 311, 339, 420; John Paul Jones, 386, 390; French loan, 399; Schuyler's letter, 421; Hospital staff, 464; Bland's motion, 469; Pickering's letter, 475; supplies, 556; bills of credit, 578, 594; Caldwell, 620; military stores, 630; Pettit, 649, 677; Massachusetts letter, 702; depreciation, 704; boards, 708; navy, 708; finances, 723; Campbell, 1159; New York finances, 1160; Dartmouth college, 1169; gunpowder for New York, 1181; week, 1194. Votes, 290, 293, 305, 547, 592, 593, 607, 609, 610, 612, 613, 614, 618, 619, 626, 627, 647, 650, 694, 713, 1147, 1148, 1153. Mentioned, 327n, 337n, 339n, 391n, 433n, 450n, 456n, 471, 473n, 572, 588, 591, 594, 606, 606n, 700, 708n, 1039, 1050, 1147n, 1151n, 1159n, 1162n, 1164n.
• Houstoun, John, governor, 1021.
• Howard, John Eager, lieutenant colonel, 247.
• Howe, Robert, major general, 114, 900, 907, 930, 937, 938n, 1110.
• Howe, Sir William, 366.
• Howell, Isaac, 132, 134.
• Howell, Joseph, jr., 91, 100, 150, 151, 174n, 313, 314, 461, 465, 483, 522, 523, 544.

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• Howly, Richard, a delegate from Georgia. Money, 256, 466, 535, 817, 974. Committee: South Carolina, 493; Board of War, 522; Convention troops, 529; week, 598, 835, 1194, 1195, 1196; Elliot, 791; Muscoe Livingston, 893; Pennel, 911; St. Clair and Stark, 954. Votes, 2, 3, 106, 111, 112, 176, 205, 224, 279, 287, 288, 289, 291, 293, 306, 334, 338, 392, 503, 516, 524, 529, 530, 547, 592, 593, 607, 609, 610, 612, 613, 614, 615, 618, 619, 626, 627, 648, 650, 658, 663, 730, 731, 741, 742, 747, 752, 776, 778, 827, 888, 924, 956, 983, 985. Mentioned, 2, 92, 98, 205, 224, 246, 334, 469, 602n, 628, 746, 752, 982.
• Hughes, Hugh, 930n.
• Hugon, T. B., captain, 1164, 1166.
• Humphreys, David, 1099, 1108.
• Humpton, Richard, colonel, 1046, 1049.
• Huntington, Benjamin, a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 1102.
• Huntington, Samuel, a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 1102. Committees: Articles of Confederation, 471. Votes, 2, 3, 105, 111, 153, 154, 175, 205, 267, 279, 287, 289, 290, 293, 305, 332, 333, 338, 358, 392, 503, 504, 516, 524, 529, 530, 547, 592, 593, 607, 609, 610, 612, 613, 614, 618, 619, 626, 627, 647, 650, 658, 663, 681, 694, 713, 726, 730, 731. Mentioned, 18, 42, 61n, 127n, 153, 192n, 200n, 222, 223, 345n, 445n, 450n, 526n, 639, 652, 654, 724, 743, 744, 746n.
• Huske, John, 1034, 1104.
• Hutchins, Thomas, 187, 339, 475, 738, 768, 812.
• Hutchinson, --, 786.
• Hutson, Richard, 223, 914, 921.
• Hyrne, Edmund, thanks to, 1085.
• Illinois Land Co., 253, 704, 784, 1032, 1057, 1098, 1113.
• Imlay, William, 4, 402.
• Impost, 102, 103, 105, 110, 1122 113n, 124, 136n, 295, 394, 424, 434, 435, 636, 718, 750, 1035, 1199.
• Independence, Declaration of, 475, 543, 1200, 1201, 1203.
• Indian department, eastern, 148.
• Indiana Land Co., 781, 1057, 1077, 1098, 1113.
• Indians, Delaware, 33; treaty, 262; enemies, 280; Oneida and Tuscarora, 465; Catawba, 488; education, 820, 842, 1051. Caughnawaga, 881, 917, 1014; near Schenectady, 901; memorial, 935; supplies for, 939; Cherokee, 1055, 1088; Chickasaw, 1055, 1088.
• Inglis, Samuel, 600, 1188.
• Interpreter, abolished, 859.
• Invalid regiment, 265, 717.
• Ironmasters, pay of, 149, 204, 254, 263, 278, 463.
• Irvine, William, brigadier general, 31n, 273, 677, 1169n.
• Irwin, Mathew, 922.
• Irwin, Thomas, 463, 996, 1018, 1035.
• Isaacs, --, 821.
• Jackson, David, 695, 709, 981.
• Jackson, Henry, 1128.
• Jackson, John M., 71.
• Jackson, William, 1202.
• Jacob, George, 265.
• James, John, 140.
• Jameson, John, lieutenant colonel, 460.
• January, Peter, 13, 21.
• Jardin, Tronson de, 231, 904.
• Jay, Sir James, 884, 911, 1024, 1026.
• Jay, John, 113, 151, 437, 451, 464, 472, 484, 497, 508, 551, 628, 651, 653, 676, 681, 739, 750, 856, 878, 913, 1003, 1053, 1138; secretary foreign affairs, 638.
• Jefferson, Thomas, governor, 70, 95, 96, 106, 144, 147, 175, 176, 194, 196, 232, 262, 312, 313, 323, 359, 367, 374, 396, 435, 449, 474, 499, 571, 597, 832, 914, 970, 1014; peace commissioner, 628, 648, 653, 676; declines, 1043; mentioned, 1138.
• Jenifer, Daniel, 980.
• Jenifer, Daniel, of St. Thomas, a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 138, 1103; attends, 498, 1100; Admiralty Board, 507, 1193. Committees: Greene, 519; neutrality, 579; Navy, 708; marine department, 724, 728; prisoners, 749; admiralty report, 769; prisoners' relief,

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  773; Wereat, 820; week, 856, 1194; Brown, 883; J. P. Jones, 942; Vermont controversy, 1032; Nicholas, 1131. Votes, 503, 504, 516, 524, 529, 530, 547, 592, 593, 607, 609, 610, 612, 613, 614, 615, 618, 619, 626, 627, 648, 650, 658, 663, 714, 726, 730, 731, 741, 742, 747, 752, 776, 822, 827, 854, 888, 924, 983, 985, 1054, 1058, 1061, 1090. Mentioned, 628, 739, 755n, 770n, 775n, 928n, 943n, 1029n, 1089.

• Jenkins, John, 855.
• Jenkins, Thomas, lieutenant, 134, 1124.
• Jersey, prison ship, 517, 787.
• Jewell, Joseph, 133.
• Jewell, Robert, 92, 120, 197, 486, 948.
• Johnson, Baker, 65, 66.
• Johnson, Jacob, 1016, 1041.
• Johnson, Joshua, 500, 907.
• Johnson, Robert, 506, 1063, 1072.
• Johnson, Thomas, 437.
• Johnston, Samuel, a delegate from North Carolina. Credentials, 1034, 1104; money, 325, 603; President, 732, 733. Committees: Pettit, 36; Sullivan, 53; Scott, 430; Articles of Confederation, 471; week, 500, 1193; Pennsylvania, 523; Quartermaster's certificates, 599; Hazen, 721, 728; Sullivan, 818. Votes, 2, 3, 153, 154, 176, 205, 224, 267, 279, 288, 289, 291, 293, 306, 332, 334, 338, 358, 392, 503, 504, 516, 524, 529, 530, 547, 592, 593, 607, 609, 610, 612, 613, 614, 615, 618, 619, 626, 627, 648, 650, 658, 663, 694, 714, 726, 730, 731, 747. Mentioned, 224, 505n, 508n, 517n, 520n, 731, 737, 738, 899.
• Jones, John Coffin, 19.
• Jones, John Paul, 13, 174, 175, 200, 228n, 317, 342n, 386, 390, 391, 452, 572, 590, 620, 698, 710, 711, 722, 726, 743, 758, 769, 812, 843, 884, 900, 942.
• Jones, Joseph, a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 1103; attends, 94, 1100. Committees: Washington, 133; finance, 146; Jones and Landais, 174; Harrison, 185; Brodhead, 187; Virginia, 194; prisoners, 196, 534; La Luzerne, 225; Forman and Gibson, 306; French memorial, 311, 562; Treasury, 509; Maryland letter, 515; Greene, 519; Pennsylvania, 523; finances, 533, 1147n, 1149; southern states, 548; letter to states, 585; bills of credit, 594; military stores, 630; courts-martial, 656; Massachusetts letter, 702; report War Board, 754; intercepted letters, 751; merchants' memorial, 855; week, 856, 1039, 1194, 1195; Indians, 881; old money, 884; Navy, 913; St. Clair, 916; New York letter, 931; Rhode Island letter, 944; Morton, 945; Rhode Island, 969; Caughnawaga Indians, 1014; Seagrove, 1045; South Carolina and Georgia officers, 1051; Pollock, 1107; South Carolina officers, 1117; New York finances, 1160n; Yorktown prisoners, 1162n; Peters, 1172; New Hampshire letter, 1179n; gunpowder for New York, 1181; Stark, 1185n. Votes, 106, 111, 112, 153, 154, 175, 205, 224, 267, 279, 288, 289, 293, 503, 504, 516, 524, 529, 530, 547, 592, 593, 609, 610, 612, 613, 614, 615, 618, 619, 626, 627, 648, 650, 663, 682, 694, 714, 726, 730, 731, 741, 742, 747, 752, 778, 822, 827, 854, 924, 956, 983, 1043, 1054, 1058, 1061, 1074, 1090, 1114, 1119, 1120, 1121, 1130, 1147, 1148, 1153, 1161, 1165, 1180. Mentioned, 174n, 224, 230n, 516, 534n, 548n, 848, 881n, 908, 913, 1113, 1114, 1173n.
• Jones, Nathan, 187, 343.
• Jones, Noble Wimberly, a delegate from Georgia. Credentials 1015, 1106; attends, 1015, 1100. Committees: Week, 1028, 1195: South Carolina and Georgia officers, 1051, 1117. Votes, 1043, 1058, 1061, 1074, 1078, 1090, 1114, 1119, 1120, 1121, 1130, 1148, 1153, 1161, 1165, 1181.
• Jones, Thomas, 577, 679.
• Jones, Willie, a delegate from North Carolina. Committees: Sullivan's letter, 53; Bowen, 53.

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• Jones, --, Dr., 1033.
• Jones, --, Rev., chaplain, 700.
• Jordan, John, captain, 330, 602.
• Journals of Congress, purchase of, 549; secret, 588; editions, 1203.
• Judge Advocate, pay of, 1021.
• Kalb, Baron de, 931.
• Keen, Roger, 921, 922, 935.
• Keene, L. (?) major, 451.
• Kerr, George, 312.
• King, Frederick, 944, 948.
• Kingston, N. Y., burning of, 1017.
• Kinloch, Francis, a delegate from South Carolina. Credentials, 1105.
• Kinnan, William, 40, 132, 311, 373, 535, 899, 906.
• Kinsbury, John, 1141.
• Knox, Henry, brigadier general, 8, 70, 184, 194, 538, 922, 1120, 1126.
• Lacoizqueta, John Joseph, 1170.
• Lafayette, Marquis de, 204, 389n, 520, 531, 581, 682, 828, 852, 1110, 1134, 1135, 1146. Letters: 14, 335, 338, 451, 471, 473, 499, 580, 693, 722, 767, 789, 790, 844, 855, 910, 929, 961, 973, 1131n.
• La Luzerne, Anne Caesar, Chevalier de, letters, 57, 66, 224, 231, 526, 718, 788, 854, 857, 874, 876, 904, 913, 1026; memorials, 199, 308, 341, 371, 491, 513, 543, 556, 557, 600, 601, 608, 618, 792, 846, 896, 925, 940, 946, 975, 990, 998, 1003, 1009, 1011; conference, 248, 252, 669, 1137.
• Lamb, Robert, 695.
• Land, western, 99, 210, 211, 502, 526, 704, 784, 1057, 1077, 1098, 1113.
• Landais, Pierre, 174, 318, 590.
• Langdon, John, 438.
• Langworthy, Edward, 223.
• Laumoy, de, 1008.
• Laurens, Henry, instructions, 651, a delegate from South Carolina. Credentials, 1105. Votes, 62, 129, 139, 223, 227, 345, 346, 451, 622, 623, 647, 648, 653, 676, 681, 779, 780, 893, 900, 1003, 1027, 1138, 1140, 1150.
• Laurens, John, 10, 15, 180, 550, 577, 628, 693, 695, 751, 928, 932, 935, 940, 945, 996, 999, 1053, 1063, 1068, 1069, 1081, 1106n.
• Lavigne, Coulaux, 274, 401.
• Law of nations, infractions of, 1136.
• Law, Richard, a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 1102; attends, 1068, 1099. Committees: Week, 1069, 1149, 1195, 1196; Washington's letter, 1185n. Votes, 1073, 1077, 1090, 1114, 1118, 1120, 1121, 1130, 1147, 1148, 1153, 1161, 1165, 1180. Mentioned, 125, 1144n, 1172n.
• Lawrence, John, 194, 275, 321, 323.
• Lawrence, William, 133.
• Leaden spouts, 902.
• Leafy, Daniel, 233.
• Le Brun, --, 904.
• Lee, Andrew, 456, 467.
• Lee, Arthur, 13, 15, 32, 35, 63, 65, 163, 522, 574, 832, 833, 860.
• Lee, Francis Lightfoot, 223.
• Lee, Henry, 65, 130, 137, 180, 256, 286, 756, 828, 861, 900, 942, 1026, 1032.
• Lee, Richard Henry, 223.
• Lee, Thomas, 19.
• Lee, Thomas Sim, governor, 140, 240, 264, 313, 515, 534, 597, 832, 1068.
• Lee, William, 143, 688, 740, 741, 931, 955.
• Lees, James, 970, 971.
• Le Grand, Barrere, 860.
• Letter to States, 585, 906, 1174.
• Letters of marque. (See Privateers.)
• Le Vacher de St. Marie, 321.
• Levy, Aaron, 303, 328.
• Lewis, Francis, 222, 320, 463, 743, 756.
• Lewis, Morgan, 57, 228.
• Lewis, William, major, 661.
• Lexington, brig, 769.
• L'Hommedieu, Ezra, a delegate from New York. Credentials, 1132; attends, 816; Treasury Board, 821, 1193; Committees: Treasury accounts, 976; accounts, 986. Votes, 822, 827, 854, 888, 924, 956, 983, 985, 1037, 1043. Mentioned, 1014n.

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• Lincoln, Benjamin, major general, 16, 181, 184, 277, 497, 620, 775, 782, 787, 933, 1042; Secretary of War, 1087, 1102, 1111, 1140, 1141, 1148n, 1165n, 1166.
• Lively, 98.
• Livermore, Samuel, a delegate from New Hampshire. Credentials, 498, 1100; attends, 498, 1099. Committees: Week, 520, 715, 884, 1193, 1194; Pennsylvania, 523; J. P. Jones, 758; finances, 781; Wereat, 820; Indians, 881; New York letter, 931; Rhode Island letter, 944; Morton, 952n; Rhode Island, 969; Greene's letter, 970; retaliation, 972; Caughnawaga Indians, 1014; Vermont controversy, 1032; quotas, 1088, 1089; Dartmouth College, 1169n. Votes, 503, 504, 516, 524, 529, 530, 547, 592, 593, 607, 609, 610, 612, 613, 614, 618, 619, 626, 627, 647, 650, 658, 663, 681, 694, 713, 726, 730, 731, 741, 742, 747, 752, 776, 778, 821, 822, 827, 854, 888, 924, 956, 983, 1037, 1090, 1043, 1118, 1120, 1121, 1130, 1147, 1148, 1153, 1161, 1165, 1180. Mentioned, 644n, 718n, 723n, 810n, 969n, 982, 982n, 1046n.
• Livingston, James, colonel, 554, 709, 712, 721, 755, 784, 835, 848, 1056.
• Livingston, Musco, lieutenant, 430, 727, 755, 769, 893, 906.
• Livingston, R. G., 1072.
• Livingston, Robert R., 65; Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 851, 1137; letters, 930, 1028.
• Livingston, William, governor, 103, 359, 749n, 969.
• Lloyd, John, 36, 322, 453, 401.
• Lloyd, Peter Z., 1131.
• Loan office certificates, interest on, 1062; debt, 168, 1049; salaries, 903.
• Loans, from France, 674, 1000, 1004; for refugees, 782; treasurer of, 783.
• Loizeau, Augustin, 709, 721, 722.
• Lolme, J. L. De, 1201.
• Lomagne, --, Major, 532, 551, 851, 984, 998, 1016, 1022.
• Loring, John, 605.
• Loseau, Augustine. (See Loizeau.)
• Lotbinière, Louis, 48, 97, 131, 505, 617.
• Lottery, fourth class, 123; prizes in, 304; prize numbers, 1200.
• Louis, Colonel, 945, 953.
• Louis XVI, letters, 527, 556, 928, 1063, 1136, 1145.
• Lovell, James, a delegate from Massachusetts, 4. Credentials, 628, 1101; attends, 1099. Committees: Army mutiny, 45, 57; Gibson, 95; Treasury, 254; quotas, 268; Parsons, 430; Johnson and Ross, 500; Bingham, 645; Ross, 680; Winthrop, 734; Elizabeth Bergen, 851, 908; William Lee, 931, 955; Silas Deane, 955; John Clark, 1106n; Washington's letter, 1111n; Knox, 1120; fisheries, 1123n; Edison, 1160; Giles, 1171; Bingham, 1183; week, 1196. Votes, 111, 153, 154, 175, 2237 267, 279, 287, 289, 332, 333, 358, 392, 503, 504, 516, 524, 529, 530, 547, 592, 593, 607, 609, 610, 612, 613, 614, 618, 619, 627, 647, 650, 694, 713, 726, 730, 731, 741, 742, 778, 821, 822, 854, 924, 956, 983, 985, 1037, 1054, 1058, 1060, 1073, 1090, 1114, 1118, 1120, 1121, 1130, 1165, 1180. Mentioned, 153, 154, 162, 222, 223, 430, 549, 681n, 735n, 854n, 859, 1113n, 1120, 1160n, 1166n.
• Loyalists in New York, 1181.
• Lucas, James, 306.
• Lucas, John, captain, 264, 327, 328.
• Ludwick, Christopher, 94, 159.
• Luke, brigantine, 319.
• Lyon. (See Du Maine.)
• McCall, James, 323.
• McCasky, Alexander, 462, 888.
• McClean, Archibald, 753, 856.
• McClean, John, 533.
• McClenachan, Blair, 82, 325, 463.
• McComb, James, 15, 21, 22n, 25.
• McConnell, Mathew, 23, 32, 90, 140, 194, 260, 274, 1056.
• McCrea, Stephen, 958, 1016.
• Maccubbin, James, 138, 140, 1103.

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• McDougall, Alexander, a delegate from New York. Attends, 64. Committees: Armand, 78; Skinner, 78; Atlee, 86; Hodgdon, 90; Washington's letters, 104, 133; Patton, 115; Pettit's letter, 121; Whipple's memorial, 135; Harrison's letter, 142; Southern Department, 179; d'Arendt, 181, 353; Sartine's letter, 185; Franklin's letter, 187; ironmasters, 190; Burnet's letter, 203; Hutchins, 339; courts-martial, 656. Votes, 111, 153, 154, 175, 205. Mentioned, 97n, 145n, 156, 206, 211, 213, 278n; secretary of marine, 203, 333, 334; major general, 252, 326, 327, 332, 340, 420, 900.
• McDuff, James, 261.
• McGee, James, 696.
• McHenry, James, 244, 541.
• McIntosh, Lachlan, brigadier general, 752, 772, 773, 996.
• McIntyre, Thomas, captain, 140.
• McKean, Thomas, a delegate from Delaware. Credentials, 193, 1103; attends, 193; president, 733, 1071; resigns, 1069; thanks, 1108. Committees: McComb, 16; executive departments, 31; French letter, 57; Lewis memorial, 57; Campbell, 63; Dumas's letter, 78; Pennsylvania letter, 105; courts, 234; Pettit's letter, 266; quotas, 268, 1088; lottery, 304; French memorial, 311; New York letter, 311, 339; bills of credit, 351; Board of War's letter, 359; court of appeals, 375, 599; impost, 636; burning bills, 668, 690; marine department, 726; New Hampshire, 732; captures, 764; New Hampshire letter, 836; Morton, 952n. Votes, 105, 111, 112, 153, 154, 175, 205, 224, 267, 291, 293, 805, 332, 338, 358, 650, 658, 682, 694, 726, 741, 742, 747, 752, 776, 778, 822, 827, 854, 888, 924, 956, 983, 985, 1037, 1043, 1054, 1058, 1060, 1090. Mentioned, 54n, 65, 67n, 206, 222, 224, 234, 235, 304, 304n, 312, 345, 351n, 352, 357, 648, 650, 758n, 766n, 783n, 814n, 828n, 868n, 879n, 880, 883n, 920n, 927, 928n, 941, 951n, 955n, 974n, 978n, 1050, 1064, 1064n, 1070, 1113n.
• McKenzie, James, 602.
• McKesson, John, 75.
• McKinley, John, 1017.
• McKinnan, William, 787, 788.
• McLane, Allen, captain, 39.
• McLene, James, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Committees: Bible, 91.
• McMullin, Joseph, 881.
• McMurdie, Robert, 486, 631, 643.
• McNutt, Alexander, 56, 1052.
• Macpherson, John, 32.
• McPherson, William, major, 207, 1162, 1171.
• McQueen, James, 437.
• Madison, James, a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 1103; attends, 1100. Committees: Washington, 31n; Bowen, 53; Harrison, 142; Southern department, 179; Articles of Confederation, 186, 236; fast day, 258; French memorial, 311; 745; d'Arendt, 353; Board of War, 376; Jay, 437; Maryland, 446; Madison's motion, 420; New York, 420; Morris, 429, 714; week, 500, 884, 1078, 1193, 1194, 1195; Army pay, 506; finances, 724; New Hampshire, 732; salaries, 733; Marbois, 738; Greene, 755, 789; Washington's letter, 782; impost, 787; delegates' pay, 813; New Hampshire letter, 836; South Carolina letter, 970; Pennsylvania letter, 1012; Trumbull and Greene, 1023; fisheries, 1123n; Lafayette, 1131, 1134; Duportail, 1141n. Votes, 2, 3, 106, 111, 112, 153, 154, 175, 205, 224, 288, 289, 291, 332, 334, 338, 503, 504, 516, 524, 529, 530, 547, 592, 593, 607, 609, 610, 612, 613, 614, 615, 618, 619, 626, 627, 648, 650, 658, 663, 682, 694, 714, 726, 741, 742, 747, 752, 776, 778, 822, 854, 888, 924, 956, 983, 985, 1037, 1043, 1054, 1058, 1061, 1074, 1078, 1090, 1114, 1119, 1120, 1121, 1130, 1147, 1148, 1153, 1161, 1165. Mentioned, 1, 2, 39n, 113n, 117n, 153n, 192n, 224, 270, 312, 314, 348, 349n, 359, 374, 375n, 420, 471, 493, 496, 502, 507n, 516, 555n, 599, 612n, 613, 613n, 632n, 708n, 713, 713n, 724n, 746, 746n, 814n, 848, 893, 965n, 1023, 1030n, 1045, 1058n, 1135n, 1151n.

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• Mahon, Patrick, 935.
• Malcolm, William, colonel, 5, 36, 37, 38, 289, 517.
• Malescot, Nicholas, 260.
• Marbois, François de Barbé, Marquis de, memorial, 738, 745, 769.
• Marcellir, de, 758, 812, 813.
• Marchant, Henry, 222.
• Marair, --, 486.
• Marine, agent of, 767n, 764, 943; secretary of, 124n, 126, 127, 133, 203, 724;
• Department, arrangement of, 124, 124n.
• Marion, Francis, brigadier general, 1056, 1085.
• Marquis de La Fayette, ship, 319, 999, 1004, 1139.
• Marr, Lawrence, 1109.
• Mars, 579.
• Marten, Joseph, 1089.
• Martin, Louis Daniel, 490, 1144.
• Martz, Leonard, 832.
• Maryland, funds from, 38; on Articles of Confederation, 138, 186, 992; executive council of Eastern Shore, letter, 446; letter of senate and house of delegates, 597; troops from, 635; brigade, thanks, 1084; credentials, 1103.
• Mason, David, 573.
• Massachusetts, letters, 33; funds from, 38, 61; Senate, letter, 311; quotas, 421, 729; credentials, 628, 1101.
• Massey, William, 844, 845, 1022, 1124.
• Mathews, George, colonel, 1.
• Mathews, John, a delegate from South Carolina. Credentials, 1105; attends, 1100; money, 71, 188, 336, 483, 507, 543, 696, 825, 1021; War Board, 10, 197. Committees: Pennsylvania line, 20; New York, 95, 722, 835, 931; Forrest, 160; Whole, 184, 245, 250, 253, 254, 258, 266, 364, 367; Articles of Confederation, 186, 471; rules, 225; McDougall, 253; Skinner, 257; Oliphant, 335; Board of War, 359, 367, 376, 522; John Paul Jones, 386, 390, 572; Virginia, 397; Lafayette, 451, 531; prisoners at Charleston, 458; Moultrie, 468, 881, 1026; week, 482, 1193; Greene, 519, 755, 789; Convention troops, 529; finances, 533, 688, 732, 739, 946; Southern States, 548; supplies, 556; French memorial 562, 986, 1063; bills of credit, 578; letter to States, 585; Mathews's motion, 675, 915; captures by land, 690; gun ship, 692; agent at Havana, 698; land cessions, 704n; salaries, 733; consul's commission, 735; prisoners, 749; Melven, 753; French letter, 769, 778, 858, 876, 928; prisoners' elief, 773; Washington's letter, 782; delegates' pay, 813; Sullivan, 819, 826; Wereat, 820; Jay, 884; South Carolina letter, 911, 920; Argo, 911; Hayne, 926; Southern department, 930; French supplies, 932; J. Laurens, 934; ships of war, 953; Rhode Island, 909; retaliation, 978; Treasury, 1039; Seagrove, 1045; Indians at Princeton, 1050; French affairs, 1052; Pollock, 1107. Votes, 2, 3, 106, 111, 112, 153, 154, 176, 205, 224, 267, 279, 287, 288, 289, 291, 293, 332, 334, 338, 358, 392, 503, 504, 516, 524, 529, 530, 547, 592, 593, 607, 609, 610, 612, 613, 614, 615, 618, 619, 626, 627, 648, 650, 658, 663, 682, 694, 714, 726, 730, 731, 741, 742, 747, 752, 776, 778, 822, 827, 983, 985, 1037, 1043, 1054, 1074, 1090, 1153, 1161, 1165, 1181. Mentioned, 31n, 87, 91, 97, 102n, 105, 135, 136n, 141, 156, 156n, 192n, 223, 224, 225, 236, 246, 252, 273, 274, 287, 288, 290, 292, 304, 331, 353, 357, 359, 383, 386, 395n, 468n, 471, 471n, 478n, 481n, 486n, 491, 491n, 492n, 500n, 504, 506, 507, 527n, 532, 544n, 577, 587n, 588, 619, 624, 628, 632, 647, 675, 678, 683, 699, 706n, 731, 733, 739n, 746, 748, 761, 768n, 790n, 814n, 831, 857, 887n, 915, 915n, 917, 918n, 930, 941, 953n, 977, 978n, 1017, 1018, 1027n, 1039, 1043, 1092, 1182.
• Mathews, Mary, 590.
• Matlack, Timothy, 1188.
• Mead, George, 786, 1102.
• Mease, James, 40.
• Mediation, 585, 605.
• Medical committee, discontinued, 570.

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• Meem, Mary, 753.
• Meigs, Return Jonathan, colonel, 8.
• Mechambor, Humphrey, 973.
• Melven, George, 723, 753, 767, 1031, 1041, 1042, 1046, 1052, 1078.
• Mercer, Hugh, brigadier-general, 712.
• Mercer, Richard, 747.
• Mercier, John D., 382, 984.
• Meredith, Samuel, 1188.
• Middleton, Arthur, a delegate from South Carolina. Credentials, 1007, 1105; attends, 1007, 1100. Committees: trumbull and Greene, 1023; week, 1028, 1195; Hayne, 1055; Greene, 1059, 1083; finances, 1069; Larreguy, 1170; New Hampshire letter, 1179n; reports for States, 1184; Stark, 1185n. Votes, 1037, 1043, 1054, 1058, 1061, 1074, 1078, 1090, 1114, 1119, 1120, 1121, 1130, 1148, 1153, 1161, 1165, 1181. Mentioned, 1073, 1118, 1118n, 1160, 1169n, 1180.
• Miles, Samuel, 24, 137, 140, 141, 249, 306, 307, 307n, 323, 324, 344, 573, 682, 691, 958.
• Miller, Robert, 359n.
• Milligan, James, 1050, 1061, 1068.
• Missiskoy Bay, 887, 893.
• Mississippi, navigation of, 151, 305, 554, 853.
• Mitchell, Alexander, 1049.
• Mitchell, Nathaniel, 1016, 1025, 1033, 1039.
• Montgomery, Hugh, 6.
• Montgomery, Joseph, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 1103, 1130; attends, 1099, 1130. Committees: January, 13; Washington's letters, 31n, 1111n; Board of War's letter, 39, 1059; Blaine's letter, 45, 277, 812; Lewis memorial, 57; Campbell, 63, 1044, 1060; German regiment, 73; Skinner, 78; Virginia, 95, 449; Harrison, 142; Pickering, 337; Pennsylvania line, 396n; Scott, 430; Virginia and Washington, 499; week, 625, 732, 813, 969, 1194, 1195, 1196; depreciation, 704; Sullivan, 826; Vermont, 842; Elizabeth Bergen, 851, 908; thanksgiving, 958, 1074; Simon, 971; hospital department, 984; Lomagne, 1016, 1022; Georgia letters, 1021; Walton, 1044; Desdevens, 1062; finances, 1069; John Clark, 1073; Knox, 1120; President's house, 1128; Post office, 1131. Votes, 2, 3, 105, 111, 112, 153, 154, 175, 279, 287, 289, 290, 293, 305, 332, 334, 338, 358, 503, 504, 618, 619, 626, 627, 648, 658, 663, 681, 694, 714, 726, 730, 731, 741, 742, 747, 752, 776, 778, 827, 854, 983, 985, 1037, 1043, 1060, 1074, 1077, 1090, 1114, 1119, 1120, 1121, 1130, 1180. Mentioned, 312, 396, 686, 1018, 1036, 1037, 1047, 1062, 1071.
• Montluisant, --, 485.
• Montmorin, --, 913.
• Moody, John, 1109.
• Moore, James, 785, 898, 903.
• Moore, Philip, 600.
• Moore, William, president, letters, 420, 469, 523.
• Morgan, Daniel, brigadier general, 129, 130, 133, 246, 247, 359, 393, 712.
• Morgan, George, 264, 820, 842, 1051.
• Morgan, John, Dr., 56.
• Morning Star, privateer, 945.
• Morocco, consul to, 553.
• Morris, Cadwallader, 1188.
• Morris, Gouverneur, 222, 1042n.
• Morris, James, 145.
• Morris, Joseph, major, 930.
• Morris, Robert, superintendent of finance, 180, 222, 255, 263, 287, 288, 290, 291, 326, 337, 429, 431, 449, 455, 499, 519, 530, 544, 545, 545n, 546, 548n, 597, 610, 681, 683, 688, 689, 691, 692, 695, 706, 709, 714, 723, 732, 740, 783, 844, 903, 916n, 943, 946, 953, 983, 996, 1002, 1026, 1028, 1042, 1065, 1109n, 1112, 1113n, 1123n, 1140, 1147n, 1151n, 1183, 1189n, 1200.
• Morris, --, captain, 82.
• Morris, --, Dr., 756.
• Morse Charles, 130, 146, 210, 213, 733.
• Morton, Perez, 945, 952.

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• Motte, Isaac, a delegate from South Carolina. Credentials, 1105; attends, 1100; money, 120, 340, 689, 818; treasury Board, 65. Committees: Lee, 32; quartermaster's stores, 262; commissary, 390; Hazen, 427, 590, 668; hospital staff, 464; Blaine, 488, 812; Howell, 523; Army account, 549; week, 598, 1052, 1194, 1195; quartermaster's certificates, 599; burning bills, 668, 690; Hazen, 721, 728; Armand, 984, 1023. Votes, 2, 3, 106, 111, 112, 153, 154, 176, 224, 267, 279, 287, 291, 293, 306, 332, 334, 338, 358, 392, 503, 504, 524, 547, 592, 593, 607, 609, 610, 612, 613, 614, 615, 618, 619, 626, 627, 648, 650, 658, 663, 682, 714, 726, 730, 731, 741, 742, 747, 752, 776, 822, 827, 983, 985, 1037, 1043, 1054, 1058, 1074, 1078, 1090, 1119, 1120, 1121, 1130, 1148, 1153, 1165, 1181. Mentioned, 224, 304, 331, 368, 505, 748, 818, 1055, 1062, 1073, 1165, 1182.
• Moultrie, William, brigadier general, 130, 437, 458, 465, 497, 517, 620, 881, 886, 976, 1026, 1027.
• Mowry, Daniel, a delegate from Rhode Island. Credentials, 768, 1101; attends, 768, 1190. Committees: New Hampshire, 818; week, 782, 856, 946, 1052, 1194, 1195; Pennell, 911; Simon, 971. Votes, 776, 778, 821, 822, 827, 854, 888, 924, 956, 983, 985, 1037, 1043, 1054, 1058, 1060, 1073, 1077, 1090, 1114, 1118, 1120, 1121. Mentioned: 1020, 1030, 1056n, 1060n, 1065n.
• Moylan, John, 505, 634, 636, 644, 662, 719, 852, 856, 898, 902, 948.
• Moylan, Stephen, 149, 319, 402.
• Muhlenberg, Peter, brigadier general, 660, 1040.
• Mulhallon, John, 909.
• Murfits, Henry, 133n.
• Murray, Alexander, 636, 743, 744, 755, 770.
• Nagel, George, 154n.
• Nash, Abner, governor, 39, 176, 182.
• Navarro, Diego José de, 722.
• Navy, management, 707, 708, 710, 900, 919.
• Navy Board, middle department, 47.
• Navy Boards, abolition of, 124.
• Necker, Jacques, 558, 999, 1002.
• Negro regiments, 900.
• Neilson, John, 284.
• Neill, Henry, 303.
• Nelmes, thomas, 95, 142.
• Neptune, brigantine, 1039.
• Nesbit, John Maxwell, 1188.
• Nesmith, John, 108.
• Netherlands. (See Holland.)
• Neufville, Isaac, 917, 926, 927, 941, 972.
• Neufville, John de & Son, 75, 163, 554, 828, 916, 1033, 1106, 1113n, 1123n.
• Nevill, Presley, 264, 701.
• New Hampshire, funds, 38, 61; agrees to impost, 435; credentials, 498, 1100; line, 581; quota of troops, 729; money, 1019. Grants (see Vermont).
• New Jersey funds, 38, 61; agrees to impost, 636; credentials, 777, 1102; troops from, 947; memorial of, 1132; letter, 1179.
• New London, burning of, 978, 1017.
• New York, letter from legislature, 95; funds, 38, 61; Articles of Confederation, 208, 210, 211; consents to impost, 353; instructions from, 427; paper emissions, 472; land cessions, 704, 824, 1077, 1098, 1113; credentials, 1132.
• Nicholas, Samuel, 851, 884, 912, 942, 943, 1018, 1131.
• Nicholson, George, 543, 582, 899.
• Nicholson, James, captain, 620, 636, 710, 743, 770, 900, 996.
• Nicholson, John, 253.
• Nicholson, William, 727, 755, 942.
• Nicholson, --, 687.
• Nicola, Lewis, colonel, 637, 675.
• Niles, Robert, 357, 684.
• Nixon, Andrew, 241.
• Nixon, John, 122, 545n.
• Norfolk, burning of, 1017.
• North Carolina, funds from, 38; delegates, pay, 814; credentials, 1034, 1104; agrees to impost, 1035; brigade, thanks, 1084; arms for, 1150.

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• North, William, & Co., 312.
• Norwalk, Conn., burning of, 1017.
• Nossa Senhora de Leiramento, 578.
• Nostra Senhora de Carmel et Saint Antonio, ship. (See Our Lady, etc.)
• Nourse, J., 382, 995.
• Nugent, James, 1033.
• O'Dea, James, 1190n.
• Officers, pay of, 397.
• Olyphant, David, 335, 369, 467, 506, 884, 948, 979, 1144.
• O'Neill, 140, 182, 231, 232, 823, 834, 1041, 1050.
• Orange, Prince of, 17n.
• Osgood, Samuel, a delegate from Massachusetts. Credentials, 628, 1101. Attends, 628, 1099; treasury beard, 658, 1193; money, 1021. Committees: Massachusetts letter, 702; boards, 708; Rhode Island letter, 715, 729; Holker, 717; finances, 723, 908, 1028, 1109n; Winthrop, 734; prisoners, 749; Parsons, 750; J. P. genes, 758, 789; prisoners' relief, 773; Argo, 912; treasury accounts, 976; accounts, 986; treasury, 1039; Indians at Princeton, 1050; week, 1078, 1195; quotas, 1088, 1089; President's house, 1128; supplies, 1112; Peters, 1172. Votes, 647, 650, 658, 663, 681, 694, 713, 726, 730, 731, 741, 742, 747, 776, 778, 821, 822, 827, 854, 888, 924, 956, 983, 985, 1037, 1043, 1054, 1058, 1060, 1073, 1077, 1090, 1114, 1118, 1120. 1121, 1130, 1147, 1148, 1153, 1161, 1180. Mentioned, 724n, 1051n, 1061, 1078, 1079n, 1086n, 1092n, 1179, 1188.
• Oswald, E., 1203.
• Otis & Henly, 19, 20, 783.
• Otto, Bodo, 130.
• Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and St. Antonio, 75, 900.
• Owen, John, 834, 1042.
• Painter, Gamaliel, 486, 487, 491, 492.
• Palfrey, William, 322, 687, 907, 1036.
• Parker, William, 158, 188.
• Parr James, 753.
• Parsons & Co., 593.
• Parsons, Samuel, 693, 750, 860, 883, 968.
• Parsons, Samuel Holden, major general, 114, 429.
• Parsons, --, captain, 1102.
• Partridge, George, a delegate from Massachusetts. Credentials, 4, 628, 1101; attends, 628, 1099. Committees: Week, 668, 835, 946, 1069, 1194, 1195; Winthrop. 734; Marbois, 738; French memorial, 745; St. Clair and Stark, 954; Board of War letter, 1059; Desdevens, 1062. Votes, 647, 650, 658, 663, 681, 694, 718, 730, 731, 741, 742, 747, 752, 776, 778, 821, 822, 827, 854, 888, 924, 956, 983, 985, 1037, 1043, 1054, 1060, 1073, 1077, 1090, 1114, 1118, 1120, 1121, 1130, 1147, 1148, 1153, 1161, 1165, 1180. Mentioned, 650, 678, 678n, 747, 955, 958n, 1025, 1060, 1073n, 1074n, 1119, 1147, 1152.
• Paschke, Frederick, captain, 86, 106, 107, 122, 347, 518.
• Passports for vessels, 872.
• Paterson, William, 777.
• Patterson, Ezra, lieutenant, 360.
• Patterson, John, 1203.
• Patterson, Samuel, 235, 498, 658, 851, 1024.
• Patton, John, 190, 195, 254, 278, 325, 971.
• Patton, Robert, 115, 144, 249, 252.
• Paulding, William, 401, 453, 462.
• Peabody, Nathaniel, a delegate from New Hampshire. Mentioned, 29.
• Peace, treaty of. (See treaty of peace.)
• Peace commissioners, instructions, 607, 615, 617, 652; commissions, 655n.
• Peck, William, 4, 39.
• Pemberton, Joseph, 381.
• Pendergast, William. 360.
• Pendleton, Daniel, 72.
• Pendleton, Nathaniel, captain, 52, 1085.
• Penet & Co., 241.
• Penet de Costa, frères & Co., 401, 719.
• Penet, Ignatius, 30.
• Penet, P., 1151n.
• Penn, John. 223.
• Penn, William. 254, 282.
• Pennel, Joseph, 881, 897, 911.

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• Pennsylvania, line, 20, 25, 32, 41, 44, 48, 79, 80, 108, 459, 826, 1122, 1166; bank, 122; council, letters, 105, 108, 598; funds 38, 61; troops from, 947; militia, 1037; and Connecticut, dispute, 1092, 1115, 1116; credentials, 1103, 1130.
• Pensacola, surrender, 854.
• Pepin, Andrew, 784, 816, 874, 908, 1056.
• Perceira, John Ignatius de Oliveria, 937.
• Peres, Peter, 485, 487, 898, 903.
• Perkins & McBreed, 685.
• Perkins, Joseph, 203.
• Peters, Richard, War Board, 10, 11, 20, 22, 30, 37, 49, 51, 52, 74, 75, 79, 86, 104, 106, 109, 114, 119, 128, 137, 140, 181, 182, 183, 184, 186, 197, 232, 327, 384, 451, 459, 460, 462, 488, 490, 539, 594, 643, 702, 739, 743, 744, 756, 768, 813, 815, 826, 994, 998, 1011, 1021, 1035, 1039, 1048, 1052, 1079, 1111, 1122, 1124, 1127; letters, 95, 1172, 1184n. Mentioned, 1123.
• Petition to the king, 1201.
• Pettit, Charles, 35, 36, 119, 120, 121, 137, 140, 141, 143, 145, 149, 158, 159, 161, 165, 262, 265, 266, 283, 284, 331, 341, 350, 360, 393, 447, 449, 474, 497, 499, 500, 581, 590, 591, 603, 641, 649, 659, 677, 757, 759, 851, 885.
• Philadelphia, prison at, 197.
• Phile, Charles, 245.
• Phillips, Richard, 34, 122, 188, 251, 429, 788.
• Pickens, Andrew, 247.
• Pickering, timothy, 120, 121, 137, 186, 233, 245, 284, 313, 337, 389, 447, 465, 469, 475, 521, 527, 550, 581, 603, 641, 642, 659, 786, 820, 831, 841, 875, 896, 958, 1068.
• Pierce, John, deputy paymaster general, 7, 25, 30, 31, 35, 41, 45, 46, 48, 51, 55, 58, 65, 72, 90, 92, 93, 133, 134, 157, 190, 201, 203, 204, 273, 321, 331, 332, 340, 347, 352, 384, 393, 459, 474, 494, 507, 517, 519, 520, 521, 535, 581, 784, 841, 1059, 1065, 1085.
• Pierres, Ph.-D., 1202.
• Pike, Benjamin, 94.
• Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, 933, 1008.
• Pinckney, --, major, 1052.
• Piracies and felonies, court of, 354.
• Pissot, père & fils, 1202.
• Pitt, Fort, 141, 173, 280, 900, 997.
• Plumb, William, 981, 1012.
• Pollard, Jonathan, 945.
• Pollock, Oliver, 32, 118, 119, 124, 130, 142, 312, 341, 462, 491, 697, 883, 1016, 1028, 1046, 1078, 1107.
• Pontcarner, --, 486.
• Portsmouth, action at, 349, 356.
• Portugal, loan, 739.
• Postage, rates, 191, 1066.
• Postmaster General, salary, 1067.
• Post office, regulations for, 820, 828, 1131; expense of, 1066.
• Post riders, 22, 678.
• Potter, James, 82.
• Potts, Richard, a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 138, 1103; attends, 629. Committees: Week, 668, 732, 1194; J. P. Jones, 789. Votes, 648, 650, 658, 663, 682, 694, 714, 726, 730, 731, 741, 742, 747, 752, 776, 778.
• Powell, Josiah, 572, 1041.
• President, expenses of, 252, 891, 1128; house for, 381; election, 490, 492, 1070.
• Press, superintendents of, 52, 53; inspectors of, 231.
• Price, James, 658.
• Prielay, Charles, 942.
• Prisoners, support of, 31, 147; exchange, 28, 70, 889, 973; naval, exchange of, 96; Pennsylvania, 109; Convention, the, see Convention troops; Cowpens, 300; Charleston, 458; Southern, 511; relief of, 534; British, treatment, 622; food for, 1165n; removal of, 623; marine, 725, 765, 829; rations for, 748; distresses of, 749n; relief of, 774; from South Carolina and Georgia, 808, 829, 858; retaliation, threatened, 972; at Yorktown, 1110; deserting, 1132.
• Prison ships, 829.
• Privateers, instructions, 348, 356, 361, 646, 1199.
• Prize money, 392.

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• Prizes, regulations, 66; Bermudan, 270; ordnance, 314, 1199.
• Proctor, Francis, 133.
• Proctor, thomas, Colonel, 74, 360.
• Protector, State ship, 578.
• Provaux, Adrian, 1162.
• Provision departments, 389.
• Pry, thomas, 1185n.
• Public debts, estimate. (See Debt of United States.)
• Pulaski, 107, 181, 182, 277, 468, 684, 860, 909, 1062.
• Purviance, Robert, 474, 489.
• Purviance, Samuel, 474, 489.
• Putnam, Benjamin, 945.
• Quartermaster's Department, supplies for, 120, 370; deputy, 389; arrangement of, 457; destitute, 591.
• Quatrifager, --, captain, 448.
• Quintella, Joaquin Pedro, 542.
• Quotas of money, 258, 267, 298, 439, 501, 503, 524, 589, 599, 773, 1087, 1068, 1090; of States, 418; how apportioned, 422; of supplies, 502, 1112; of men, 1177.
• Ramsay, David, 914, 921.
• Ramsay, William, 179.
• Randolph, Edmund, a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 750, 1103; attends, 750, 1100. Committees: Week, 754, 1194, 1196; court of appeals, 764; quotas, 773; reports, 788; consuls, 811; Vermont, 842; French memorial, 845, 925, 986; merchants' petition, 882; confederation, 896; Howe, 907; 937; South Carolina, 911; Navy, 913; Randolph's motion, 913; Hayne, 918; South Carolina letter, 920; Kean, 922, 935; French letter, 928, 1063; French supplies, 932; J. Laurens, 934; Geddes, 944; retaliation, 973; Campbell, 1044, 1060; Barry, 1050; French affairs, 1052; Yorktown surrender, 1071; thanks to Washington, 1079; quotas, 1088; Southern States, 1108; finances, 1109n, 1123; supplies, 1112; Pennsylvania and Connecticut, 1115; courts of inquiry, 1125; President's house, 1128; infraction of law of nations, 1136; Navy court-martial, 1143; Washington's letter, 1151n; quotas of men, 1163; Larreguy, 1170; letter to States, 1174. Votes, 752, 776, 778, 822, 827, 854, 888, 924, 956, 983, 985, 1037, 1043, 1054, 1058, 1061, 1074, 1078, 1090, 1114, 1119, 1120, 1121, 1130, 1147, 1148, 1153, 1161, 1165, 1180. Mentioned, 758n, 764n, 773, 781n, 788, 839n, 863n, 867n, 868n, 879n, 883n, 893, 901n, 913, 915n, 926n, 928n, 936n, 960, 974n, 1013n, 1043, 1045, 1046, 1053n, 1064n, 1070, 1071, 1077n, 1082, 1082n, 1107, 1108n, 1112n, 1116n, 1123, 1126n, 1129, 1131n, 1137n, 1147, 1171n, 1185n.
• Ranger, 317, 319, 320.
• Ransom, Elijah, 1125.
• Rathburne, John Peck, 135.
• Rations, extra, 383; value of, 1013.
• Ravel, John, 945.
• Read, thomas, captain, 620, 710.
• Redhead, George, 492.
• Reed, James, 17, 30, 47, 1092, 1167.
• Reed, Joseph, president, 20, 79, 222, 628, 644, 969.
• Reed, thomas, 322.
• Reed, William, 506.
• Rees, David, 1166.
• Reffert, Philip, 840.
• Register, salary, 951.
• Reid, George, 1144.
• Reigert, Adam, 701, 702.
• Rendon, Francisco, 1009, 1011, 1028.
• Resignations, applications for, 388.
• Retaliation proposed, 917, 978n, 1017, 1029.
• Rhode Island, funds, 38, 61; letter, 142; line, 581; defense of, 729; quota of troops, 729; credentials 1101.
• Richmond, Ebenezer, 812.
• Rickman, William, 103, 118.
• Risberg, Gustavus, 590, 602, 604.
• Roberdeau, Daniel, 222, 752.
• Roberts, Ann, 485, 486, 948.
• Rochambeau, Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Count de, 2, 349, 356, 446, 528, 558, 674, 932, 1071, 1080, 1081, 1145.
• Rochefermoy, Mathieu Alexandre de la, 486.

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• Rochester, Nathaniel, 275, 329, 360.
• Rodney, Cæsar, president, 160, 206, 618.
• Rodney, thomas, a delegate from Delaware. Credentials, 194, 1103; attends, 199. Committees Finances, 487; week, 668, 732, 1194. Votes, 205, 224, 392, 650, 658, 663, 682, 726, 730, 731, 741, 742, 747. Mentioned, 224, 690n.
• Rogers, William, chaplain, 486, 487, 683, 684.
• Root, Jesse, a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 1102. Committees: McComb, 16; staff compensation, 29; Washington, 31n; Pettit, 36, 262; shot and shells, 55; New York, 95; western lands, 100; finances, 146, 381; Convention prisoners, 236; Fast day, 258; quotas, 268; Army, 340; bills of credit, 351; Board of War, 359; treasury, 509; Sullivan, 637, 818. Votes: 2, 3, 105, 111, 153, 154, 175, 205, 223, 267, 279, 287, 289, 290, 293, 305, 332, 333, 338, 358, 392. Mentioned, 18n, 22n, 24n, 27, 41n, 102n, 125, 146, 223, 235, 236, 257n, 369n, 389, 402, 510n.
• Roquebenne, de, 820.
• Ross, David, 571, 580, 582.
• Ross, John, 16, 67, 68, 173, 201, 237, 319, 354, 436n, 500, 602, 675, 681, 899, 906, 1059, 1123n.
• Roux & Co., 142, 542n, 969.
• Rowan, John, 1109n.
• Royal Oak, frigate, 492.
• Rum, payment for, 88, 101, 336, 906.
• Russia and Great Britain, treaty, 863.
• Russia, mediation of, 560, 562, 585, 605, 616, 670, 779; mission to, 562.
• Rutherford, Alexander, 150.
• Rutherford, Griffith, brigadier general, 821.
• Rutledge, John, governor, 492, 496, 678, 691, 705, 900, 1105.
• Rutledge, thomas, 1144.
• St. Augustine, prisoners from, 748.
• St. Clair, Arthur, major general, 30, 44, 108, 160, 181, 182, 348, 451, 549n, 813, 913, 916, 954, 955, 970, 974, 984, 1013, 1025, 1065.
• St. Domingo, agent at, 855.
• St. Marie, Le Vacher de, 321.
• Salaries, civil, 383, 813.
• Salisbury, N. C., monument, 978.
• Sally, 1010.
• Salt, for North and South Carolina, 705, 706; importation of, 873, 951; passport for, 951.
• Sampson, captain, 578.
• Santos, Anthony Dios, 937.
• Sartine, Antoine Raymond Jean Gualbert, 185, 200.
• Sauter, --, captain, 14.
• Savage, Ransom, 973.
• Savage, thomas, 922, 952, 953, 959, 1008, 1017, 1023.
• Savannah, prisoners from, 748.
• Scammel, Alexander, 900.
• Scarborough, 320.
• Schermerhorn, Ryer, 835.
• Schott, John Paul, captain, 134; 429n, 453, 454, 1016, 1024, 1035.
• Schreiber, Jacob, 835, 844, 1041, 1042, 1078, 1111, 1131n, 1140.
• Schuyler, Philip, 26, 94, 421, 464, 715, 758, 881, 917, 955, 1014, 1062, 1117n, 1142n.
• Schweighauser, John Daniel, 590, 649, 899, 907, 996.
• Scott, Charles, 712.
• Scott, John Morin, 430, 456, 474, A delegate from New York. Credentials, 1132.
• Scott, Moses, 981.
• Scott, William, lieutenant colonel, 661.
• Screven, James, brigadier general, 979.
• Scudder, Joseph, 123, 131, 132, 522, 523.
• Scudder, Nathaniel, 222.
• Seagrove, J., 1045, 1078.
• Seamen, French, 745.
• Segur, Marquis, 731.
• Selin, Anthony, 100, 134.
• Sellick, Frederick, 187.
• Serapis, frigate, 200, 320, 391, 769.
• Sharpe, William, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 1034, 1104; money, 250, 487, 573, 1027. Committees: January, 13; Skinner, 24; Western

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  lands, 99; Binney, 115; Geddes, 115; public debt, 125; Whipple, 135; Sartine, 185; Virginia, 194; Admiralty report, 242; debts, 402; Madison's motion, 420; Parsons, 430; Johnson and Ross, 500; week, 625, 782, 996, 1194, 1195; clothier's department, 662; Ross, 680; salaries, 733; forage, 841; prisoners, 829; clothing, 777; delegates' pay, 813; prisoners, 815; money for army, 853; Brown, 883, Heguy, 893; J. P. Jones, 942; forage, 943; St. Clair and Stark, 954; Armand, 984, 1023; Nicholas, 1131. Votes, 2, 3, 106, 111, 112, 153, 154, 176, 205, 224, 267, 279, 287, 288, 289, 291, 293, 306, 332, 334, 392, 503, 504, 516, 524, 529, 530, 547, 592, 593, 607, 609, 610, 612, 613, 614, 615, 618, 619, 626, 627, 648, 650, 658, 663, 682, 694, 714, 726, 730, 731, 741, 742, 747, 776, 778, 822, 827, 854, 888, 924, 956, 983, 985. Mentioned, 2, 87, 135n, 175, 200n, 224, 333, 353, 378, 420, 482, 504, 632n, 636n, 641n, 647, 648, 700, 746n, 777n, 784n, 815, 817, 821, 887, 923, 924, 978, 1042.

• Shee, John, 6.
• Sheftall, Mordecai, 451, 473.
• Sheldon, Elisha, colonel, 149, 490.
• Sherman, Roger, a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 596; money, 599, 1021. Committees: Week, 625, 1039 1194, 1195; Bingham, 645; Pettit, 649, 677; burning bills, 668, 690; Mathews's motion, 675, 915; post office, 686; depreciation, 704; Navy, 708; Morris, 714; finances, 724, 908, 946, 1069; Marine department, 724, 728; New Hampshire, 732, 826, 836; Admiralty report, 769; reports, 788; Sullivan, 826; Washington's letter, 880; old money, 884; prisoners, 889; Army promotions, 892; interest, 903; Du Coudray, 905; Howe, 907, 937; Bradford, 908; South Carolina letter, 911, 920; Board of War letter, 925, 1059; William Lee, 931, 955; Bradford, 936; ships of war, 953; Louis, 954; Silas Deane, 955; thanksgiving, 958, 1074; Simon, 971; French memorial, 976, 986; treasury accounts, 976; hospital department, 984; accounts, 986; Pennsylvania letter, 1012; Du Coudray, 1014; Lomagne, 1016, 1022; trumbull and Greene, 1023; treasury, 1039; Barry, 1050; Indians at Princeton, 1050; French affairs, 1052; Consuls, 1053; Desdevens, 1062; French letter, 1063; quotas, 1088; Navy court martial, 1143; Bingham, 1183. Votes, 607, 609, 610, 612, 613, 614, 618, 619, 626, 627, 647, 650, 658, 663, 681, 713, 726, 730, 731, 741, 742, 747, 752, 776, 778, 821, 822, 827, 854, 888, 924, 956, 983, 985, 1037, 1054, 1058, 1060, 1073, 1077, 1090. Mentioned, 222, 658, 678, 678n, 686, 730, 748, 752, 767n, 771n, 778, 820, 823n, 828, 838n, 853, 857, 859, 921n, 937n, 938n, 946, 957, 960, 976, 977n, 986n, 995, 1012, 1020, 1022n, 1030, 1037, 1038n, 1039, 1044n, 1046n, 1047, 1049, 1050n, 1051, 1070.
• Shippen, William, Dr., 15, 544.
• Shot and shells, contract, 54, 298, 312, 463.
• Shubrick, Richard, thanks to, 1085.
• Sigougné, de, --, captain, 185, 198, 505, 720.
• Silsbee, Nathaniel, 882, 945, 1013.
• Simon, Daniel, 970, 971, 976, 977, 1017.
• Simpson, thomas, 135.
• Skinner, Abraham, 24, 27, 28, 78, 93, 96, 130, 137, 273, 256, 286, 385.
• Slough, Mathias, 701, 702.
• Smith, Daniel, 981.
• Smith, Ebenezer, 210, 213, 811.
• Smith, Isaac, 719.
• Smith, Jahleel, 1010, 1011.
• Smith, James, 264, 458n.
• Smith, Jonathan Bayard, 222.
• Smith, Lawson, 240n.
• Smith, Meriwether, a delegate from Virginia. Attends, 176. Committees: Binney, 187; Virginia, 194, 367, 397, 449; bills of exchange, 197; McDougall, 253; treasury, 254; quotas, 268; d'Arendt, 353; finances, 368, 351, 487, 523, 599; bank, 545; Holker, 717; Marine

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  department, 724; week, 930, 1194, 1195. Votes, 224, 267, 279, 287, 288, 289, 291, 293, 305, 332, 334, 338, 358, 503, 504, 516, 524, 529, 530, 547, 607, 609, 610, 612, 613, 614, 615, 618, 619, 626, 627, 648, 650, 658, 663, 682, 694, 714, 726, 752, 778, 827, 888, 924. Mentioned, 224, 259n, 263n, 269, 279n, 283, 305, 312, 333n, 378, 380, 381n, 432, 432n, 441, 445n, 450, 469, 471, 495, 526n, 555, 556n, 607, 609, 610, 613, 616n, 618, 628, 706, 707, 708n, 709n, 716n, 717, 908, 925.

• Smith, Resolve, 7, 572, 938, 1074.
• Smith, Robert, 705.
• Smith, thomas, commissioner, 5, 7, 8, 16, 25, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 39, 40, 49, 55, 63, 71, 73, 77, 87, 92, 93, 96, 98, 115, 120, 121, 122, 123, 130, 121, 132, 133, 134, 137, 141, 146, 149, 150, 158, 173, 179, 188, 190, 191, 201, 202, 204, 206, 224, 231, 238, 256, 257, 278, 291, 303, 307, 314, 324, 325, 336, 337, 340, 344, 345, 373, 375, 381, 388, 394, 451, 455, 466, 467, 482, 483, 492, 494, 506, 511, 512, 532, 535, 537, 543, 571, 574, 580, 589, 599, 637, 641, 642, 659, 662, 689, 696, 717, 724, 733, 788, 817, 818, 821, 825, 916, 946, 956, 957, 1049.
• Smith, thomas, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 1103, 1131; attends, 109, 1099, 1130; letters, 264, 283; treasury Board, 118, 821, 1193. Committees: d'Arendt's letter, 181; Brodhead, 187; Articles of Confederation, 471; Blaine, 488, 812; Quartermaster's certificates, 599; burning bills, 668, 690; week, 693, 1195; Navy, 708; boards, 708; finances, 723, 781, 946; reports, 788; Elliot, 791; prisoners in Connecticut, 884; Pennell, 911; ships of war, 953; Vermont controversy, 1032; quotas, 1088; John Clark, 1106n; Post office, 1131. Votes, 111, 112, 153, 154, 175, 205, 224, 279, 287, 289, 504, 516, 524, 529, 530, 547, 593, 607, 618, 619, 627, 648, 650, 658, 663, 681, 694, 714, 726, 730, 731, 741, 742, 747, 752, 776, 778, 854, 888, 956, 983, 1037, 1043, 1054, 1074, 1090, 1114, 1119, 1120, 1121, 1130. Mentioned, 523, 694, 696n, 733, 741, 783, 891n, 955, 1113, 1123.
• Smith, William, 690.
• Smith, --, colonel, 573.
• Snowden, Isaac, 132, 134.
• Snyder, John, 517.
• South Carolina, public papers, 63; troops for, 730; refugees, 782; arms for, 790n; delegates, pay, 814; distressed inhabitants, 852; letters of lieutenant governor and council, 911, 914, 916, 972; money, 914. Credentials, 1007, 1105; state corps, thanks, 1084; line, 1122; arms for, 1169.
• Southern Department, troops for, 176, 610; supplies, 631; relief of, 1118.
• Southwick, Solomon, 435.
• Spain, alliance with, 551; ship for, 554; loan, 739.
• Spalding, Simon, captain, 134.
• Spencer, Israel, colonel, 37.
• Spies, how punished, 1109.
• Spotswood, Alexander, colonel, 892, 912.
• Sprague, John, 1092, 1167.
• Springfield, affairs at, 14, 104.
• Springfield, N. J., burning of, 1017.
• Sproat, James, 1149.
• Spy, schooner, 357, 684, 744.
• Stark, John, brigadier general, 841, 954, 970, 984, 1019, 1185.
• Stark, Robert, 1040, 1041.
• Steel, Archibald, colonel, 393.
• Stephen, Adam, 712.
• Sterrett, Samuel, 1103.
• Steuben, Frederick Wilhelm Augustus, Baron von, 739; letters, 70, 74, 242n, 483, 722.
• Stevens, Ebenezer, lieutenant colonel, 195.
• Stevens, John, 777, 1102.
• Stevens, Robert, 93.
• Stewart, Charles, 345, 346, 435.
• Stewart, David, 489.
• Stewart, J., 382.
• Stewart, Walter, colonel, 41, 80.
• Stirk, Samuel, a delegate from North Carolina. Credentials, 1015, 1106. Mentioned: 1021.
• Stirling, William Alexander, Lord, 1109n.
• Stockdale, J., 1201, 1202.

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• Stodder, David, 312.
• Stoddert, Benjamin, 128, 146, 158, 224, 239.
• Stone, William, 916, 956, 957.
• Story, John, 757, 759, 773, 785, 823, 831, 873.
• Story, William, 485, 487.
• Stowell, --, 1025.
• Stroop, Henry, lieutenant, 33.
• Sturges, Jonathan, 6.
• Sullivan, John, a delegate from New Hampshire. Credentials, 498, 1100; money, 250, 431, 761, 843; letters, 53, 431, 818, 822. Committees: Washington, 1, 133, 782; Pennsylvania line, 20; Skinner, 24; German regiment, 72; Armand, 78; Atlee, 86; Hodgdon, 90; New York, 95, 311, 339; Western lands, 100; Patton, 115; McDougall, 121; Harrison, 142; finances, 146, 523, 533; Forrest, 160; Sartine, 185; iron masters, 190; quotas, 268; Army, 340; Virginia, 367, 397; Board of War, 376, 461, 754; Maryland, 446, 515; Hazen, 427, 590, 668; Articles of Confederation, 471; finances, 487, 688, 732, 739; Virginia and Washington, 499; week, 500, 1193; treasury, 509; Gates, 515, 521; prisoners, 534; Army promotions, 539; bank, 545; supplies, 556; bills of credit, 578; letter to States, 585; Campbell, 643; courts-martial, 656; clothier's department, 662; Varnum's motion, 668; Campbell, 679; gun ship, 692; agent at Habana, 698; Rhode Island letter, 715, 729; consul's commission, 735; d'Arendt, 740; Parsons, 750; French letter, 769, 778, 876; clothing, 777; Story, 785; Votes, 2, 3, 105, 111, 153, 154, 175, 223, 267, 279, 289, 290, 293, 305, 332, 392, 503, 504, 516, 524, 529, 530, 547, 592, 593, 607, 609, 610, 612, 613, 614, 618, 619, 626, 627, 647, 658, 663, 681, 694, 713, 726, 730, 731, 741, 742, 752, 776, 778, 821, 822, 854. Mentioned, 1, 3, 28n, 31n, 84n, 93n, 97n, 107, 131, 134, 178n, 223, 225n, 229, 240n, 244n, 246, 278n, 340, 348, 386, 387n, 398, 398n, 475, 484n, 487, 531, 542n, 548n, 589n, 632, 636, 639, 657n, 667n, 669, 669n, 680n, 705, 725, 729n, 741, 741n, 742n, 820n, 821, 828n, 831, 841.
• Summers, Peter, 641.
• Sumter, thomas, brigadier general, 56, 57.
• Sunsbury, Georgia, monument, 978.
• Supplies, for 1781, 58; magazines for, 528; impressment of, 555.
• Surrender at Yorktown, 1071, 1082n, 1099.
• Swan, John, captain, 1047.
• Swartz, Godfried, 753.
• Symsbury mines, prison act, 974.
• Taggart, John, 23, 140.
• Tarleton, Banastre, 56, 129, 246.
• Taxes, collection of, 59, 394; arrearages of, 234.
• Telfair, Edward, a delegate from Georgia. Credentials, 1015, 1105; attends, 966, 1015, 1100. Committees: Week, 969, 1195; Bowen, 969; Bingham, 1007; Clarke, 1016; Heguy, 1042; John Clark, 1073; quotas, 1088. Votes: 1043, 1054, 1058, 1061, 1074, 1078, 1090, 1114, 1119, 1120, 1121, 1130, 1148, 1153, 1161, 1165, 1181. Mentioned, 223, 978.
• Ternant, Jean Baptiste, 76, 77, 677.
• Thanksgiving, 957, 1071, 1074.
• Thomas, Hannah, 758, 768.
• Thompson, E., 499, 1101.
• Thompson, John, 235.
• Thompson, William, brigadier general, 274, 346, 508, 898, 903, 1026.
• Thomson, Charles, mentioned, 17n, 42n, 48, 61, 78n, 101n, 103n, 113n, 128n, 162n, 166n, 192n, 210, 210n, 213, 224, 229, 231, 255, 341, 356n, 373, 459n, 478n, 482n, 491n, 510n, 522n, 541n, 604n, 639, 652, 654n, 711n, 725n, 735n, 880, 880n, 901, 920n, 941, 951n, 965n, 1064, 1070, 1116, 1116n, 1146, 1175n, 1179n, 1180n, 1200.
• Thomson, Peter, 132, 134.
• Thorne, William, 649.
• Throop, Josiah, 357.
• Tilghman, Tench, lieutenant colonel, 244, 541, 1072, 1082.

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• Tillotson, Thomas, 276.
• Tilton, James, 718.
• Timothy, Peter, 1007.
• Tobacco, public, 202.
• Todd, John, jr., 632.
• Tonnage dues, 136n.
• Torrey, Joseph, major, 508.
• Townes, John, 591, 858.
• Traversie, John, captain, 32.
• Traversier, Joseph, 1072, 1079.
• Treasurer, salary, 951.
• Treasury, Board of, complaints, 53, 509; postage, 939.
• Treasury office, regulations, 947; papers, 1039; treaty of peace, 607, 1201, 1203; commissioners, 648; instructions, 625, 651, 713.
• Trent, William, 534, 696, 704, 781, 784, 1057.
• Trumbull, frigate, 607, 633, 740, 899, 911, 1036.
• Trumbull, Jonathan, governor, 99, 233, 262, 266, 353, 401, 452, 637, 684, 978, 1023.
• Trumbull, Jonathan, jr., 693.
• Trumbull, Joseph, 36, 401, 453, 693.
• Truxtun, Thomas, captain, 14.
• Tucker, Samuel, 135.
• Tucker, Thomas tudor, 981.
• Tudor, George, 323, 391.
• Tapper, Benjamin, colonel, 520, 521.
• Turnbull, William & Co., 910.
• Turner, George, 131, 910, 947, 1057.
• Tyler, Thomas Edward, ship, 754.
• Uerktritz, Baron d', 198, 199, 678, 679, 691.
• Uhtrick, Baron d'. (See Uerktritz.)
• Uniform, Army, 206.
• United Provinces. (See Holland.)
• Valette, Louis de la, 942, 971.
• Vance, John, 1069.
• Van Courtlandt, Pierre, 225, 1132.
• Vandalia land company, 1077, 1098, 1113.
• Van Dyke, Nicholas, a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 194, 1103; attends, 289, 790. Committees: Board of War, 332; privateers, 348, 360; officers' pay, 396; Pennsylvania, 469; Articles of Confederation, 471; Sullivan's motion, 475; Army pay, 493; land cessions, 704n; Elliot, 791; consuls, 811, 1053; week, 813, 1194; New Hampshire, 818; Sullivan, 819, 826; Vermont, 842; French memorial, 845, 925; merchants' petition, 882. Votes, 291, 293, 305, 332, 334, 338, 358, 822, 827, 854, 888. Mentioned, 133.
• Van Rensselaer, P, 536.
• Van Schaick, Goose, colonel, 712, 921, 922, 930, 932.
• Varnum, James Mitchell, a delegate from Rhode Island. Credentials, 768, 1101; attends, 1099. Committees: Washington, 1; executive departments, 31; Blaine, 46; Bowen, 53; shot and shells, 55; Armand, 78; Patton, 115; Greene, 129; Harrison, 185; Witherspoon, 186; Brodhead, 187; Binney, 187; Army pay, 203; Articles of Confederation, 236, 471; Stoddert, 239; Maryland, 241; Admiralty report, 242; McDougall, 253; Skinner, 257; quotas, 268; Convention troops, 274; Wright, 328; Board of War, 332, 461, 754, 925; Oliphant, 335; Army, 340; John Paul Jones, 386, 390, 572; privateers, 348, 360; finances, 368, 724, 817; Court of Appeals, 375; officers' pay, 396; Madison's motion, 420; Hay's memorial, 464; week, 483, 693, 1193, 1194, 1195; Virginia and Washington, 499; Gates, 515, 521; Howell, 523; Army promotions, 539, 892; Army accounts, 549; Bland's motions, 574; Court of Appeals, 599; Yznardy, 602, 686; Varnum's motion, 668; Mathews's motion, 678; post office, 686; captures by land, 690; Morris, 714; New York letter, 722; New Hampshire, 732; Marbois, 738; D'Arendt, 740; French memorial, 745; intercepted letter, 751;. French letter, 769, 778, 858, 876; quotas, 773, 1087, 1088; Storey, 785; Washington's letter, 832, 880; New York letters, 835; New Hampshire letter, 836; forage, 841, 943; merchants' memorial, 855; Moultrie, 881, 1926; Jay, 884; prisoners, 889;

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  Spotswood, 892; confederation, 896; Navy, 913, 919; St. Clair, 916; Hayne, 918; 926, 1055; Van Schaick and Du Buysson, 922; Savage, 922; southern department, 930; Du Buysson, 931; Geddes, 944; Morton, 945; additional troops, 947; thanksgiving, 958, 1074; Pennsylvania letter, 969; Greene, 970, 1059, 1083; retaliation, 972, 973, 978; conference with Pennsylvania, 1018; Georgia letters, 1021; Vermont controversy, 1032; Campbell, 1044, 1060; Walton, 1044; Indians, 1055; War Department, 1070; Yorktown surrender, 1071; thanks to Washington, 1079; Indian treaty, 1088; Southern States, 1108; Washington's letter, 1111n; Knox, 1120. Votes: 2, 3, 153, 154, 175, 205, 223, 287, 293, 332, 338, 503, 504, 516, 529, 530, 547, 592, 593, 607, 609, 610, 612, 613, 614, 618, 619, 626, 627, 647, 650, 658, 663, 681, 713, 726, 730, 731, 741, 742, 747, 752, 776, 778, 821, 822, 827, 854, 924, 956, 983, 985, 1037, 1043, 1054, 1058, 1060, 1090, 1114, 1118, 1120, 1121. Mentioned, 2, 3, 4n, 48, 60n, 65, 156, 175, 185, 223, 225, 226n, 236, 236n, 364n, 368, 381n, 383, 386, 386n, 397n, 433, 475, 521n, 533n, 549n, 570, 582, 583n, 588, 593n, 624, 628, 668, 681, 701n, 711n, 730, 746n, 748, 752, 764n, 773, 776, 778, 786n, 790n, 791, 791n, 820, 822, 828, 857, 859n, 896n, 897n, 906, 912, 912n, 914, 915, 918, 930, 943, 944n, 946, 952n, 953, 953n, 960n, 972n, 977, 983, 995, 1018, 1018n, 1023, 1030, 1037, 1049, 1050n, 1051, 1054, 1059, 1059n, 1060, 1060n, 1065, 1066n, 1085n, 1088n, 1992, 1110, 1113, 1114, 1117, 1119, 1121, 1121n, 1123n, 1126.

• Vauguyon, Duke de la, 993.
• Veilon, James, 260.
• Verac, Marquis de, 780, 991.
• Verdie (or Verdier), Baptiste, 873.
• Vergennes, Charles Gravier, Comte de, 41, 558, 562, 674, 986, 988, 990, 993, 1140.
• Vermont controversy, 770, 771, 771n, 824, 825, 829, 831, 831n, 860, 870, 875, 882, 886, 887, 892, 1032; progress of, 837, 1160; admission of State, 838, 842.
• Vestal, British frigate, 62.
• Vickers, Samuel, 981.
• Vigilant, brigantine, 260.
• Virginia, funds, 38; land cessions, 704, 784, 1077, 1098, 1113; agrees to impost, 750; brigade, thanks, 1084; credentials, 1103.
• Wabash land company, 253, 704, 784, 1032, 1057, 1077, 1098, 1113.
• Wales, Eleazer, 402.
• Walker, J.. 1201.
• Waller, Benjamin, 971.
• Walton, George, a delegate from Georgia. Money, 5, 231, 344, 466, 817, 1050; treasury board, 65, 117, 1193. Committees: Campbell, 63; western lands, 100; d'Arendt, 181; Articles of Confederation, 186; Wright, 328; prisoners at Charleston, 458; Moultrie, 468; finances, 599; Mathews's motion, 675; week; 715, 946, 1194, 1195; independence celebration, 716; Melven, 753; Army pay, 892; Muscoe Livingston, 893; Heguy, 893; Savage, 922; southern department, 930; Morton, 945. Votes, 2, 3, 106, 112, 153, 154, 176, 205, 224, 279, 287, 288, 289, 334, 338, 358, 524, 547, 607, 609, 610, 612, 613, 614, 615, 618, 619, 626, 627, 648, 650, 663, 682, 694, 714, 726, 747, 752, 776, 778, 822, 827, 854, 888, 924, 956, 983, 985. Mentioned, 56, 92, 104, 117, 192n, 196n, 223, 224, 229n, 302, 462, 570, 623n, 752, 761, 908, 909n, 912, 917, 922n, 960, 978, 984n, 1042, 1044, 1050.
• War Department, money, 1070.
• War, Board of, letters, 1; salaries, 186; paymaster of, 760.
• War, Secretary at, 126, 133, 206, 1030.
• Ward, Artemas, a delegate from Massachusetts. Credentials, 4, 628; War Board, 11, 20, 22, 49, 51, 62, 143. Committees: Greene, 16; Hodgdon, 90; Franklin, 187, 475; quartermaster's stores, 262;

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  commissary, 390; Board of War, 461; Hazen, 427, 590, 668; Hay's memorial, 464; Articles of Confederation, 471; Diriks and Painter, 487; week, 1194. Votes, 2, 3, 105, 153, 154, 175, 205, 223, 267, 279, 287, 289, 290, 293, 305, 332, 333, 338, 392, 503, 504, 516, 524, 529, 530, 547, 592, 593, 607, 609, 610, 612, 613, 614, 618, 619, 626, 627, 647. Mentioned, 100, 104, 223, 232, 257, 428n, 492n, 503, 614, 638.

• Ward, Henry, 769, 1101.
• Ward, Joseph, 1113n.
• Warley, Felix, 641, 659, 660, 661.
• Warren, James, 98.
• Washington, George, Letters, 1, 30, 31n, 33, 38, 52, 57, 75, 94, 104, 114, 132, 160, 180, 194, 224, 230, 242, 246, 275, 311, 338, 347, 353, 367, 374, 389, 396, 398, 434, 436, 446, 463, 482, 488, 491, 497, 499, 505, 511, 519, 527, 585, 650, 656, 693, 714, 715, 737, 749n, 777, 782, 787, 828, 832, 845, 875, 880, 886, 893, 910, 913, 927, 930, 939, 970, 1008, 1016, 1026, 1028, 1047, 1055, 1068, 1071, 1072, 1073, 1078, 1080, 1099, 1106, 1108, 1111n, 1120, 1123, 1130, 1131, 1131n, 1151n, 1162n, 1184, 1185n. Mentioned, 9, 55, 68, 82, 143, 1081, 1118, 1131, 1142, 1143; thanks to, 1071, 1080.
• Washington, William, lieutenant colonel, 247.
• Waters, Samuel, 260.
• Waters, William, 787, 788.
• Wayne, Anthony, brigadier general, 41, 79, 80, 82, 83, 275, 516.
• Weare, Meshech, president, 116, 194, 434, 482, 732, 787, 812, 818, 823, 836, 1179n, 1184n.
• Weaver, John David, 636, 656, 683, 898, 903.
• Webb, George, 431.
• Webb, Samuel, 1033.
• Wederstrandt, --, 179, 180.
• Weed, Elijah, 133, 197, 382, 461, 464.
• Weedon, William, 712.
• Weibert (See Wuibert.)
• Wemyss, Francis, major, 56.
• Wentworth, John, jr., 222.
• Wereat, John, 767, 820, 981, 1035, 1050, 1059, 1061.
• West, Edward, 90n.
• West, William, jr., 40.
• Wharton, James, 649, 708, 811.
• Wharton, John, 25, 46, 47.
• Wharton, Samuel, 264, 318.
• Wheaton, Joseph, 1011.
• Wheeler, Benjamin, 696.
• Wheeler, Bennett, 1200.
• Wheelock, John, 1169n.
• Whipple, Abraham, 135, 710.
• Whipple, William, 499, 1101.
• White, Charles, 140.
• White, John, colonel, 328, 981.
• Wiley, Robert, captain, 330.
• Wilkinson, James, clothier, general, 173, 290, 307, 313, 374, 662.
• Will, Philip, 154n.
• Will, William, 154n.
• Williams, John, 223.
• Williams, Jonathan, 318, 604, 693, 977, 1061.
• Williams, Otho H., sword for, 1085.
• Williams, William, 264, 456.
• Williamson, John, captain, 29, 154n.
• Willing, James, 697, 791, 1079.
• Willing, thomas, 1188.
• Wilson, Goodwin, 980.
• Wilson, James, 253, 1057, 1188.
• Winthrop, James, 696, 735.
• Winthrop, William, 696, 735, 883.
• Wirts, Christian, 696, 701, 702, 893, 910.
• Witherspoon, D., letters, 185.
• Witherspoon, John, a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 777; money, 842, 1047, 1021. Committees: January, 13; McComb, 16; Pennsylvania line, 20; Bible; 91; Western lands, 100; Pennsylvania, 105; Oliphant, 335; Sullivan's motion, 475; hospitals, 475; finances, 487, 523; 533, 599, 769, 778, 876; Washington, 499n, 502; bank, 545; week, 550, 1069, 1195; French memorial, 562; letter to States, 585; Randolph's motion, 913; Mathews's motion, 915; thanksgiving, 958, 1074; infraction of law of nations,

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  1136. Votes, 105, 111, 205, 224, 332, 334, 338, 358, 503, 504, 524, 547, 607, 609, 610, 612, 613, 614, 618, 619, 626, 627, 650, 694, 713, 776, 778, 956, 1077. Mentioned, 74, 83n, 110, 222, 224, 228n, 233, 490, 502n, 549, 606, 607n, 608, 609n, 611, 614, 615, 618n, 628, 704n, 783, 957, 973, 1050, 1071, 1076n.

• Woelpper, John David, 1149.
• Wolcott, Oliver, a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 1102; attends, 1117; treasury Board, 117, 118. Committees: Pennsylvania letter, 105; Public debt, 125; Whipple's memorial, 135; impost, 262; Blaine's letter, 277; Morris's letter, 291, 432; Massachusetts letter, 311, 421; finances, 381; Debts, 402; week, 1195, 1196. Votes, 2, 3, 105, 111, 153, 154, 175, 205, 223, 267, 279, 287, 289, 290, 305, 358, 1118, 1120, 1121, 1130, 1147, 1148, 1153, 1161, 1165, 1180. Mentioned, 108, 117, 222, 223, 236n, 376, 378n, 389, 431, 438, 471.
• Wood, James, colonel, 258, 289, 306, 307, 598.
• Wood, Thomas, 1044.
• Woodford, William, brigadier general, 601, 712.
• Woodson, Tarleton, 677, 705.
• Woodward, Bezaleel, 860, 875, 882, 886.
• Woolford, T., 1164.
• Worsham, Richard, 591.
• Worthington, --, colonel, 1102.
• Wright, George, 92.
• Wright, Sir James, 328.
• Wright, Turbott, a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 1151, 1152.
• Wuibert, Antoine Felix, 1109n, 1115.
• Wyllis, John Plasgrave, major, 513.
• Wyllys, George, 597, 1102.
• Wynkoop, Henry, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 1103, 1131; attends, 1142. Committees: Prisoners 196; week, 1196. Votes, 105, 111, 112 153, 154, 205, 224, 267, 332, 334, 358 1147, 1148, 1153, 1161, 1165, 1180. Mentioned, 136n, 158, 224.
• Yates, Abraham, 5, 6, 337.
• Yates, Donaldson, 447.
• Yates, Thomas, 499.
• Yorktown, monument at, 1081, 1107 surrender. (See Surrender at Yorktown.)
• Young, Charles, 9, 631.
• Young, John, 233.
• Young, Joseph, 899, 980.
• Yznardy, Lorenzo, 602, 683, 686, 933.
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