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Accounts, public, 12, 14n 34, 36, 68; hospital, 82; settlement, 83, 757, 786; commissioners, 102, 773; foreign, 308, 416, 728; public servants, 421; of States, 831; marine, 838.
Adams, Andrew, a delegate from Connecticut. Mentioned, 314, 823.
Adams, John, salary, 2n. Letters, 102, 141, 141n, 150, 579, 580, 682, 814, 831. Mentioned, 255, 257, 260, 302, 307, 374, 393, 473, 578, 585, 589, 599, 703, 741, 792, 873.
Adams, Samuel, a delegate from Massachusetts, resigns, 278.
Adjutant general, 426, 733.
Admiralty courts, 154.
Aertsen, Guilliam, 288n.
Aides de camp, rank, 358.
Aitken, Robert, 572,
Alexander, William Sir, 491.
Alexander,--, 662n.
Allan, John, 315n.
Allen, Ethan, 663.
Allen, Ira, 66n, 75n, 77n, 80, 87n, 165, 167, 170.
Alliance, frigate, 126, 213, 386, 387, 388.
Alvey, John Durham, 75, 75n, 80, 92, 121.
Amendments in Congress, 76.
America, gun ship, 543, 642.
Anderson, John, 70, 73.
Anderson, Robert, 746.
Antigua, prisoners, 34n.
Antill, Edward, lieutenant colonel, 239, 248n, 537, 537n.
Appeals, court of, 749; judges, 758, 765, 797, 862; vacancies, 844.
Appleton, Nathaniel, 208, 366.
Arendt, Henry Leonard Philip, Baron d' 72, 77n.
Armand do la Rouerie, Chevalier, 560, 793.
Armstrong, John, major, 41.
Army, promotions, 28, 33, 104, 350, 374, 453n, 650, 651n, 698, 702, 790, 859; postmaster, 80; Southern department, 201, 320, 321, 560, 646; corps of pioneers, 148; contracts, 242, 244; supplies, 177, 302, 342, 350, 888; pay, 174, 358, 540, 582, 608, 658, 713, 734, 735, 737, 740, 747, 757, 759, 786, 797, 851; staff department, 176; pension for invalids, 209; supernumerary lieutenants, 210; increase of, 222; intendant, 241; inspector, 244, 245; brigadiers, 250, 722, 836; purveyor, 276; deputy paymaster, 277; Beniousky's proposal, 297; officers for, 326; expense of, 350, 351, 536; judge advocate, 378, 379, 381; commissary of military stores, 415, 642n; Quartermaster's Department, 425, 889; adjutant general, 425, 836; arrangement, 451, 887;detached service, 529; clothing, 609; payment by States, 624, 629; reduction of, 642, 730, 736, 739; majors general, 655; retirement, 710; invalid corps, 713; lieutenant colonels commandant, 715; foreigners in, 762; discharge of soldiers, 797; half pay, 798n; rearrangement of line, 837, 889.
Arnold, Benedict, 239.
Arnold, Jonathan, a delegate from Rhode Island. Credentials, 642; attends, 642, 707. Committees: Week, 687, 782, 793, 882; issuing commissaries, 748n; pay of temporary corps, 757. Votes, 644, 648, 649, 653, 654, 655, 656, 665, 667, 668, 669, 690, 694, 695, 696, 714, 717, 718, 719, 724, 725, 738, 739, 740, 758, 763, 764, 767, 768, 769, 772, 789, 817, 818, 828. Mentioned, 666, 666n, 668, 717, 738, 748n, 789n, 817, 817n, 818, 843, 851, 857.
Arnold, Welcome, 528, 529, 535.

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Artificers, pay, 819.
Asgill, Charles, 695n, 715, 718, 719, 829n, 845.
Ashe, John, 173.
Atayataghronghta, Louis, 366.
Atlee, Samuel John, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Committees: Week, 42, 185; 200, 204, 308, 469, 871, 574, 671, 879, 880, 881, 882; Ohio representation, 115n;p Moultrie, 143; defence of frontier, 163; Secretary at War, 177; Connecticut companies, 196; Lincoln's letter, 200n/ Southern Army, 201; Washington's letter, 237n; prisoners, 242n, 245, 340n; Pennsylvania letter, 344n; enlistment of prisoners, 274; cartel, 335n, 337, 378; illicit trade, 362; Henry, 363; mail robbery, 386n; Post Office, 402, 888; De Bert, 531n; quotas, 626n; payment of troops, 629. Votes, 78, 79, 94, 97, 98, 99, 107, 108, 114, 130, 131, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 182, 188, 189, 190, 192, 193, 194, 197, 199, 200, 224, 232, 233, 234, 236, 241, 249, 251, 252, 253, 286, 294, 295, 296, 299, 300, 523, 524, 538, 539, 550, 553, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 576, 584, 593, 605, 606, 635, 636, 644, 645, 690. Mentioned, 42n, 108, 185n, 200n, 204n, 2l6n, 248, 294, 302n, 324, 386, 469n, 470n, 538, 549, 570, 572, 574n.
Avery, John, 278, 361, 372, 709, 787.
Aylett, William, colonel, 8.
Bailey, Francis, 152, 152n.
Baldwin, Jeduthan, colonel, 214, 819.
Baltimore, Lord, 489.
Banks, John, 543, 543n.
Bankson, Benjamin, 678n.
Barclay, Thomas, 39, 208, 589n, 592, 609, 730; commissioner, 595, 773, 866.
Barry, John, captain, 386, 388, 449n, 798.
Barton, William, lieutenant colonel, 42, 785n.
Barton, William, 340n.
Bayard, Stephen, 40n.
Baylis, Hodijah, major, 41.
Baynton, Peter, 55.
Beach,--, 823.
Beaulieu, Louis Joseph de, 399, 407, 428.
Beaumarchais, Caron de, 291, 292, 293, 743, 774, 776.
Bebee--, 823.
Beckley, John, 78.
Bee, Thomas, a delegate from South Carolina. Committees: Foreign coma, 9; Sproat's memorial, 33; questions, 75; McKinsey and Caldwell, 81n; Washington's letter, 86n, 87n; prisoners, 93; West Florida, 96; Alvey, 121; Pickles, 121; prize money, 126; Moultrie, 143; Greene's letter, 152n; Henry Lee, 183; Huddy, 217. Votes, 29, 61, 78, 79, 95, 114, 130, 158, 161, 163, 181, 182, 188, 189, 190, 192, 194, 197, 199, 200, 204, 224, 232, 233. Mentioned, 8n, 34, 38, 95, 156, 157, 157n, 182n, 189.
Bellows, Benjamin, 165.
Berkeley, Lord, 488.
Berkenbaash, brigantine, 141.
Bert, Claudius de, 536.
Bible, printing, 572.
Bieniewsky, Count, 243n, 261, 261n, 296, 309.
Bigalow, Joel, 596n, 645, 663, 713.
Bill, Jabez, captain, 34n.
Bills of exchange, 365.
Bindon, Joseph, 648.
Bingham, Parsons & Co., 590n.
Binney, Barnabas, 722.
Blaine, Ephraim, 176, 448.
Blake, John, 288.
Bland, Theodorick, a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 401, 708, 709; attends, 180, 708. Committees: Week, 185, 200, 204, 448, 656, 882; Lincoln's letter, 200n; Southern army, 201, 553, 559; Carrington, 206n, 215; Army contracts, 208, 244n; magazines, 216; intendant of Army, 241; Bieniewsky, 243n, 261, 261n, 296; Morris' letter, 302n; foreign contracts, 307; Army, 820n, 350n, 699n; Noel, 326, 329; publication of monies received, 336; De Witt, 336n; robbery of mail, 337; prisoners, 340n; supplies for Southern Army, 342; Van Schaick, 353n; stoppages of loans, 357; War department,

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370; Department of Finance, 371n; promotions, 374n, 553, 651n; reduction of expenses, 380, 413, 451, 540, 682, 693, 721, 887; French loans, 384; Washington's letter, 456n, 460n, 544n; troops for Fort Pitt, 457; Greene's letter, 464; clothing for New York troops, 524; detached duty, 529; cartel, 555; Pennsylvania frontier, 575; Gillon, 591; Joseph King, 592n, 607; peace, 596; Vermont, 596n, 645n, 664n, 713; Huntington, 628n; Huntington and Gray, 641; reduction of Army, 642, 730n; Army pay and Asgill, 657n; commissions for Army, 658; Army pay, 658; provisions for enemy, 697; Schreiber, 698, 712; invalid regiment, 699n; expenditures in Europe, 700; lieutenant colonels 700n; lieutenant colonels commandant, 715; naval prisoners, 732. Votes, 181, 182, 188, 189, 190, 192, 193, 194, 197, 199, 200, 204, 224, 232, 234, 237, 241, 249, 251, 252, 253, 286, 294, 295, 296, 299, 300, 343, 354, 356, 390, 391, 392, 396, 400, 401, 406, 420, 424, 450, 454, 455, 459, 460, 466, 523, 524, 538, 539, 551, 553, 563, 565, 566, 567, 568, 570, 571, 576, 578, 585, 591, 593, 605, 606, 635, 636, 644, 645, 649, 654, 655, 656, 690, 694, 696, 714, 717, 718, 719. Mentioned, 185n, 191, 193, 202n, 223, 225, 232, 234, 236, 242, 251,293, 294, 307, 311, 319, 321, 351n, 356, 357, 357n, 378, 384, 385, 385n, 416, 419n, 421, 424, 429n, 449n, 451, 453n, 524, 550, 551, 575, 605, 634, 635, 636, 641n, 644, 651n, 653, 657n, 658n, 664n, 695, 697n, 720, 843, 888, 889.
Blount, William, a delegate from North Carolina. Attends, 404. Committees: Week, 881, 882. Votes, 420, 424, 450, 454, 455, 459, 460, 466, 523, 524, 538, 539, 551, 553, 563, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 576, 578, 591, 605, 606, 635, 636, 637, 644, 645, 649, 654, 655, 656, 665, 667, 668, 669, 690, 694, 696, 714, 717, 718, 719, 724, 725, 726, 825, 828. Mentioned, 714, 717, 719, 720, 843.
Bon homme Richard, 81n, 126, 303n, 363.
Bond, George, 39n, 164n, 183, 204n, 224, 249n, 277n, 316n, 383n, 534n, 539n, 600n, 604n, 622n, 649n, 669n, 678n, 722, 723n, 800n, 811n, 812, 818n.
Bond, Thomas, jr., surgeon, 179, 722.
Booth, James, 75.
Boudinot, Elias, a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 325, 711, 712; attends, 707; President, 708, 843. Committees: Dead letter, 35n, 55; Secretary's duties, 55; Wilson's memorial, 72; quotas, 72, 626n; Perez Morton, 73; cartel, 76, 335, 335n, 337, 378, 657, 660; Vermont, 80, 105; Washington's letters, 86n, 87n, 237n, 315n, 329n; prisoners, 93, 243n, 245; Indians, 127, 646; circular letter: 132; deserters, 154; land cessions, 184, 223; Edison, 208; Huddy, 217, 691; Connecticut letter, 238n, 239n; Pennsylvania letter, 244n; enlistment of prisoners, 274; privateers, 280; Navy courts martial, 315n, 325; DeWitt, 336n; illicit trade, 362; Henry, 363; Canada, 629n; payment of troops, 629; post at Wyoming, 665; Post Office, 686n, 687, 688; Asgill, 695n, 715; Army, 699n; lieutenant colonels, 700n; lieutenant colonels commandant, 715; week, 879, 881. Votes, 11, 29, 61, 78, 79, 94, 97, 98, 99, 107, 108, 114, 130, 131, 145, 146, 147, 181,182, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 197, 199, 200, 224, 232, 233, 234, 236, 241,249, 251, 252, 253, 343, 593, 634, 635, 636, 648, 649, 653, 654, 655, 656, 665, 667,668, 669, 690, 694, 695, 696, 714, 717, 718, 719, 724, 725, 738, 739, 740, 758, 763, 764, 767,768, 769,772, 789, 817, 818, 824, 828. Mentioned, 66n, 72n, 77n, 92, 93n, 95, 95n, 113n, 114,152,154, 218n, 246n, 248, 276n, 313, 323, 324, 326n, 328, 332n, 335n, 336n, 363n, 586, 661n, 665n, 666, 749n, 752n, 756n, 757n, 770n, 785n, 837n, 843.
Bouillie, Francois Claude Armour, marquis de, 117, 368.
Boundaries of United States, 72, 474, 487.
Bourbon, frigate, 216.

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Bradford, William, 345, 351, 389, 461, 528, 529, 789, 798.
Bradley,--,170.
Brattleborough, 60n.
Bray,--, 823.
Brearley, David, 401, 528, 529, 535.
Britigny, Marquis de, 40, 41.
Brodhead, Daniel, 40n.
Brossard, Celerin, 360.
Brown, John, 239.
Brownson, N., 319.
Brussels, Joseph, 81n.
Bryson, James, 60, 66n, 750n, 813.
Buhler, John, 179, 184, 232.
Burgoyne, John, exchange, 852.
Burner, Robert, major, 41.
Burrill, Jonathan, 204, 415.
Caldwell, Joseph, 168.
Caldwell, Nicholas, 81n.
Cambray, Chevalier du, 695n, 696, 699, 757n, 762.
Cannon, sale of, 194.
Cape Sable, 491.
Capitaine, Pierre, captain, 41.
Captures on water, 3, 8, 10, 96, 98, 885. 886; on land, 825.
Carabasse,--,742.
Carew, Joseph, 370.
Carleton, Sir Guy, 263, 315n, 324, 330, 422, 462, 531n, 556, 641n, 645n, 661, 662, 662n, 720n, 844, 845, 846.
Carleton, Joseph, 682n.
Carmichael, William, 2n, 141, 141n, 250. 258, 260, 307, 380, 843.
Cames, Patrick, 561, 561n.
Carolina, charter, 497.
Carrington, Edward, lieutenant colonel, 115n, 204, 206, 215.
Carroll, Daniel, a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 772; chairman, 183; attends, 533,708. Committees: Wheelock, 11; Grand, 14n; prisoners at Antigua, 34n; Bill, 34n; Parker, 35, 35n; copper hoops, 36n; Deane's accounts, 40n; public accounts, 68, 83, 839; quotas, 72; Vermont, 80, 645n, 664n, 713; mint, 87, 105, 185; West Florida, 96; Ohio representation, 115n; Pickles, 121; circular letter, 132; Laurens, 136n; Jay and Carmichael's letters, 141n; Williams, 146; Greene's letter, 152n; defense of frontier, 163; Henry Lee, 183; Connecticut companies, 196; Mississippi, 207; Edison, 208; Southern Army, 250n; President's expenses, 340n; fisheries, 471, 472, 524n; claims against Great Britain, 481; De Bert, 537n; frontiers, 539; debts, 540; Pennsylvania frontier, 548; quotas, 564; leave for Secretary of Foreign Affairs, 583; interest, 585, 591, 706n, 794; Barclay's instructions, 592; loans in Europe, 594; peace, 596, 603, 632, 637; Lafayette's letter, 629n; Georgia letter, 640n, 646; St. Lawrence, 641n; Army pay and Asgill, 657n; Army pay, 658; commissions for Army, 658; post at Wyoming, 665; alliance with Holland, 682; Post Office, 686n, 687, 688; Army promotions, 699n, 762; Army, 699n; lieutenant colonels, 700n; lieutenant colonels commandant, 715; Pennsylvania accounts, 723n, 745n, 850; reduction of Army, 730, 732, 736n; issuing commissaries, 748n; Washington's letter, 753n; Dayton, 754n; Knoulton and Wells, 756; disclosure of loans, 770n, 791, 807; S. Metcalfe, 782; fortifications of Charlestown, 786; promotions of colonels, 790; half pay, 798n; Bond, 811n, 812; artificers' pay, 819; invalid regiment, 821n; Steuben, 833; salaries of ministers, 856; week, 879. Votes, 11, 29, 61, 78, 79, 95, 97, 98, 99, 107, 108, 114, 130, 131, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 158, 161, 163, 180, 188, 189, 190, 192, 193, 194, 197, 199, 200, 203, 224, 232, 233, 234, 236, 241, 242, 249, 251, 252, 253, 578, 584, 591, 593, 605, 606, 635, 636, 644, 645, 648, 649, 653, 654, 655, 656, 665, 667, 668, 669, 690, 694, 696, 714, 717, 718, 719, 724, 725, 726, 738, 739, 740, 764, 768, 769, 772, 790, 817, 818, 825, 828. Mentioned, 38, 65n, 121n, 136n, 140, 146n, 193, 212n, 542, 549n, 568, 586, 586n, 666, 694, 694n,

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715, 715n, 769, 791n, 812, 812n, 813, 818, 818n, 843, 859, 865, 868.
Carter, John, 814.
Carteret, Sir James, 488.
Cary, Archibald, 709.
Cazeau, Francis, 29.
Celeron, Louis, captain, 40, 41, 361, 363.
Ceremonial for foreign minister, 530.
Chain bearers, 722.
Charlestown, hospital, 752.
Chaumont, Le Ray de, 126, 214, 387.
Chittenden, Thomas, governor, 106, 110, 113, 165, 766, 766n, 866.
Church, Timothy, 766.
Clark, Abraham, a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 325, 711, 712; attends, 726. Committees: Grand, 14; Sproat's memorial, 33; prisoners at Antiqua, 34n; Bill, 34n; public accounts, 68, 83; Alvey's memorial, 75n, 80; mint, 87; Dodge, 104n;taxes, 115n; Noel, 319n; quartermaster, 129n; New Hampshire letter, 128n; quartermaster's department, 129; officials' debts, 138; Williams, 146; week, 151, 532, 543, 819, 825, 879, 880, 881, 882; lottery, 151n; New Hampshire's quota, 158; Bond, 179; Vermont, 185; Lincoln's letter, 200n; Edgar, 201; Army contracts, 208; Landsis, 213; magazines, 216; intendant of Army, 241; Bieniewsky, 243n, 261n, 296; Southern Army, 250n, 559; accounts with France, 255n, 305; French and English peace, 311; bills of exchange, 329n; salaries, 332; illicit trade, 333n, 383,393; publication of monies, 336; prisoners, 340n, 349n, 382; interest, 365n; Philadelphia seamen, 366n; Department of Finance, 370; accounts of loan officers, 376, 384; mail robbery, 386n; Parsons, 388n; Post Office, 402; British prisoners, 403; Trumbull's accounts, 404; hospital department, 408, 885, 887; revenue, 447; l'Eglise, 456; Fortune Stoddard, 526; Edison, 542; interest, 553, 554; Joseph King, 592n, 607; Pollock, 596n;Vermont, 713; salaries, 722; marine officers, 731n; issuing department, 735n; John Hall, 747; office of finance, 748, 821; commissaries of issues, 748; Steuben's letter, 783n, 833; T. Rutledge, 785; artificer's pay, 819; commerce with Great Britain, 838, 875. Votes, 11, 61, 78, 79, 94, 97, 98, 99, 107, 108, 114, 130, 131, 158, 163, 181, 182, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192 193, 197, 199, 200, 203, 224, 232, 233 234, 241, 249, 251, 252, 253, 294, 343 354, 356, 390, 391, 392, 396, 398, 400 401, 406, 420, 424, 450, 454, 466, 523 524, 538, 539, 550, 553, 562, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 576, 578, 590, 593, 605, 740, 758, 763, 764, 767, 768, 769, 772, 789, 817, 818, 824, 828. Mentioned, 1, 7n, 33, 33n, 34n, 38, 60, 82n, 86n, 87n, 92, 95, 95n, 108, 119n, 130, 131, 131n, 136n, 139n, 140, 152, 152n 156n, 158, 164, 164n, 179, 184, 184n, 191, 195n, 198, 198n, 209n, 214n, 223, 242n, 248, 249, 251, 302n, 311, 321, 336, 336n, 344n, 349n, 376n, 380n, 384, 385n, 386, 392, 403n, 412n, 416, 447n, 448n, 453, 454, 457n, 466, 533n, 538, 542, 542n, 547n, 554n, 590n, 605, 607n, 739, 745n, 766, 790n, 798n, 811, 820n, 857, 858, 864, 872, 874, 888.
Clarke and Nightingale, 561.
Clarkson, Matthew, major, 41, 367.
Clinton, George, governor, 144, 239, 470, 596n, 645n, 723, 751.
Clinton, Sir Henry, 218n, 556, 558, 662, 662n.
Clinton, James, major general, 105, 147, 648, 651n.
Clothing department accounts, 648.
Clothing, for troops, 71; for southern army, 201; transfer of, 645n; from Virginia, 679.
Clymer, George, a delegate from Pennsylvania, attends, 707. Committees: Public accounts, 12, 68, 82; Grand, 14; New Jersey memorial, 14n; consular convention, 17; Vermont, 54, 73n, 80, 105, 185, 713. Morris's letter, 66n; Washington's letter, 66n; traders at Yorktown, 70; clothing, 71; Anderson,

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73; mint, 87; captures on water, 96; Army contract, 173; Army supplies, 177; merchants' memorial, 218n; Connecticut letter, 238n; finances, 279, 289, 353, 407, 423; privateers, 280; Hancock, 280n; Department of Foreign Affairs, 370, 586; treaty with Holland, 376n, 393; Beaulieu, 407n, 428; week, 418, 881; Joseph Trumbull, 415, 465n, 631, 631n, 692n; quotas, 564; Watson, 687n; issuing department, 733; West Indian trade, 747. Votes, 11, 29, 61, 94, 97, 98, 99, 130, 131, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 158, 161, 163, 182, 188, 189, 190, 192, 193, 194, 197, 199, 200, 203, 224, 232, 233, 234, 236, 241, 242, 249, 251, 252, 253, 286, 294, 295, 296, 354, 356, 390, 391, 392, 396, 420, 424, 450, 454, 458, 460, 466, 523, 524, 550, 553, 562, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 576, 578, 584, 590, 593, 635, 636, 644, 645, 648, 649, 653, 654, 655, 656, 665, 667, 668, 669, 690, 694, 695, 696, 717, 718, 719. Mentioned, 34, 71n, 73n, 86n, 173n, 177n, 188n, 289, 353, 425, 465n, 631n, 668, 692, 735n, 747n, 843, 869.
Coins, value, 8, 9, 810, 821.
Collins, John, a delegate from Rhode Island, attends, 787; credentials, 787. Committees: Week, 819, 882. Votes, 789, 817, 818, 824, 828.
Colombe, P. de la, Captain, 41.
Comegys, Cornelius, 66n, 288n.
Commerce of United States, 263, 264; with England, 481, 875; state of, 238.
Commissaries of issue, 733.
Committees to continue, 711.
Concklin, Jacob, 68n.
Condict, Silas, a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 325, 711, 712; attends, 832. Committees: Week, 7, 8, 42, 80, 95, 96, 119, 120n, 212, 232, 235, 309, 373, 571, 574, 640, 879, 880, 881, 882; Post Office Department, 370, 547; issuing commissaries, 748n. Votes, 11, 29, 61, 78, 79, 94, 97, 98, 107, 108, 114, 130, 131, 144, 146, 147, 158, 160, 163, 181, 182, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 197, 199, 200, 203, 224, 232, 234, 236, 241, 242, 249, 251, 252, 253, 343, 354, 356, 390, 391, 392, 396, 398, 400, 401, 406, 420, 424, 450, 454, 458, 460, 466, 538, 539, 550, 553, 562, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 576, 578, 584, 590, 593, 605, 634, 635, 636, 644, 645, 648, 649, 653, 654, 655, 656, 665, 667, 668, 669. Mentioned, 119n, 121n, 130, 218, 232n, 235n, 370n, 386, 386n, 402, 420, 423, 605, 635, 655.
Confederacy, frigate, 370, 413, 416, 742.
Confiscations of property, 479.
Congress, representation, 301; secrecy, 829, 830.
Connecticut, companies, 115; land cessions, 191, 240, 423; pay of troops, 196, 404; line, officers, 418; boundaries of, 488; charter, 497; quota, 564; credentials of delegates, 314, 708, 823.
Connecticut and Pennsylvania, dispute, 343, 345, 351, 355, 359, 389, 392, 461, 466, 528, 533.
Connor, William, 3n.
Consul in France, 2n.
Consul, salary, 260.
Consular convention, 17, 25n, 43, 46.
Cooper, Benjamin A.(?), captain, 328.
Coren, Mary, 723n, 813.
Cornell, Ezekiel, a delegate from Rhode Island. Credentials, 322, 323. Committees: Public accounts, 12; New Jersey memorial, 14n; inspector's department, 30,885; Sproat's memorial, 33; Bill, 34n; prisoners at Antigua, 34n; Parker, 35, 35n; dead letter, 35n, 55; Secretary at War's letter, 36; Edgar, 61; Virginia letter, 67n, 73; quotas, 72; Alvey's memorial, 75, 75n, 80; cartel, 76; Vermont, 80; mint, 86; Washington's letters, 86n, 87n, 460n, 544n; prisoners, 93, 105, 340n, 403; accounts, 102; Ohio representation, 115n; Elliot, 119; Noel, 119, 326, 329; quartermaster, 128; New Hampshire letter, 128n; finances, 132; Laurens, 136n; week, 140; Moultrie, 143; Williams, 146; Greene's letters, 152n, 464; deserters, 154; New Hampshire's

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quota, 158; South Carolina resolution, 161; defence of frontier, 163; Army supplies, 177; Secretary. at War, 177; Henry Lee, 183; Connecticut companies, 196; Lincoln's letter, 200n; rations, 204; supernumerary officers, 210; magazines, 216; Connecticut letter, 239n; Southern Army, 250n; deputy paymaster, 277n; Bond, 277n; Hancock, 280n; supplies, 302n; De Witt, 310n, 336n; Army, 320n, 350n, 351n: cartel, 335, 422n, 555; robbery of mail, 337n; Laurens, 340; Roth, 344n; Van Schaick, 353n; War Department, 370; promotions, 374n, 553, 651n; reduction of expenses, 380, 413; Parsons, 388n; Trumbull's accounts, 404; Beaulieu, 407n, 428; garrison for York and Gloucester, 415n, 531; Connecticut officers, 418n; Steuben, 419n, Webster and Judd, 423; expenditures, 451, 540; l'Eglise, 456; troops for Fort Pitt, 457; treason laws, 461; Gates, 465; clothing for New York troops, 524n; detached duty, 529; De Bert, 537n; Southern Army, 559; Pennsylvania frontier, 575; leave for Secretary of Foreign Affairs, 583; Steuben's letter, 783n; week, 879. Votes, 11, 29, 61, 78, 79, 94, 107, 108, 114, 180, 131, 144, 145, 147, 158, 160, 162, 180, 181, 182, 188, 189, 191, 192, 193, 197, 198, 199, 200, 203, 224, 232, 233, 234, 236, 241, 242, 249, 251, 252, 253, 286, 294, 295, 296, 298, 299, 300, 343, 354, 356, 390, 391, 396, 398, 400, 401, 406, 420, 424, 450, 454, 458, 459, 466, 524, 538, 550, 552, 562, 565, 566, 567, 568, 570, 571, 576, 578, 584, 590. Mentioned, 33, 37n, 38, 39n, 79, 80, 104, 105n, 128n, 140n, 143n, 148, 152, 156n, 161n, 164n, 176n, 183n, 197, 198, 232, 237n, 244, 294, 319, 321, 323, 326n, 378, 397n, 423n, 457, 465, 530n, 531n, 538, 551, 566, 885, 887.
Cornwallis, Charles, Lord, 77, 93, 95, 95n, 380, 583, 606, 607, 608, 661, 749, 753, 852, 854, 886.
Cotton,--, captain, 217.
Court of Appeals, 118, 154.
Courts-martial, naval, 314.
Couteulx, Messrs Le, 291, 292.
Cox, John, 712.
Crawford, Bellamy, 363, 448, 782, 796.
Croghan, George, colonel, 228.
Cunningham, James, 527.
Curtis, Abel, 75n, 77n, 87n.
Cuyler, Jacob, 819n, 822.
Dana, Francis, 2n, 257, 259, 260, 301, 589n, 741.
Dauphin, birth of, 235, 248, 278.
Davison, John, 120.
Dayton, Elias, colonel, 248, 315n, 753n, 791.
Dayton, Jonathan, 318.
Dead letters, 55.
Deane, Barnabas, 37.
Deane, James, 369, 376.
Deane, Silas, 37, 39, 319n, 588, 590n.
Delaware, credentials of delegates, 75; approves impost, 379; quota, 564.
Denning, William, 425, 639.
Departments, civil, investigation, 334; expenditures, 451.
Desdevens, Maurice, 235, 239.
Deserters, British, 154.
De Witt, Simeon, 336.
De Witt, William, 310.
Deye, Thomas Cockey, 609, 773.
Dickinson, Philemon, a delegate from Delaware. Credentials, 75; attends, 87. Committees: Secretary at War, 177, 370; rations, 204; Carrington, 206n, 215; supernumerary officers, 210; deputy paymaster, 277n; Hancock, 280n; De Witt, 310n; Laurens's expenses, 340; provisions for enemy, 697; Schreiber, 698n, 712; invalid regiment, 699n; issuing commissaries, 748n; week, 879, 882. Votes, 95, 97, 98, 99, 107, 108, 114, 130, 131, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 163, 181, 182, 188, 189, 190, 197, 199, 200, 203, 241, 242, 249, 251, 252, 253, 286, 343, 354, 356, 390, 391, 392, 396, 398, 400, 401, 690, 694, 695, 696. Mentioned, 179n, 277n, 340n.
Digby, Robert, admiral, 463, 556, 661,844.
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Dodge, John, 104n, 152.
Donier, Colckart, 369.
Douglass, Asa, 120, 127.
Drew, William, 78.
Duane, James, a delegate from New York. Credentials, 750; attends, 345, 707. Committees: Foreign contracts, 307n; Greene's letter, 347n; week, 349, 352, 363, 881; prisoners, 349n; Army, 350n, 887, 888, 889; Van Schaick, 353n; cessation of hostilities, 359; Philadelphia seamen, 366n; Department of Finance, 370; promotions, 374n; treaty with Holland, 376n, 393; reduction of expenses, 380, 413, 451, 540, 682, 693, 721; Trumbull's account, 404; public credit, 423; Jay's instructions, 449; claims against Great Britain, 468; fisheries, 524n; Francis Maxwell, 531; Sir Guy Carleton, 531n; frontiers, 539; Washington's letter, 544n; Pennsylvania frontier, 548; cartel, 555; quotas, 564; Aitken, 572; loan in Europe, 572n, 577, 578; Dumas, 583; exchange of Cornwallis, 583n; Laurens, 584; interest, 585n; expenditures in Europe, 591; treaty with Sweden, 592, 610; Barclay's instructions, 592; Barclay's drafts, 594; peace, 596, 603, 632, 637; Pollock, 596n, 680; Canada, 629n; Lafayette's letter, 629n; St. Laurence, 641n; Indians, 646; Lippincott and Huddy, 661, 662, 691; Post Office, 686n, 687, 688; Watson, 687n; Asgill, 695n, 715; naval prisoners, 732; marine officers, 735n; issuing department, 735n; Pennsylvania legionary corps, 744; John Hall, 745n, 747; Pennsylvania debts, 745n; commissaries of issues, 748; office of finance, 748; S. Metcalfe, 782; land valuation, 850; salaries of ministers, 850. Votes, 343, 354, 356, 390, 391, 892, 396, 398, 400, 401, 406, 420, 424, 450, 454, 458, 459, 466, 524, 538, 550, 553, 562, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 576, 578, 584, 593, 605, 634, 635, 636, 644, 645, 648, 649, 653, 654, 655, 656, 665, 667, 668, 669, 690, 694, 695, 696, 714, 717, 718, 719, 724, 725, 738, 739, 740. Mentioned, 165, 349n, 351n, 353n, 359n, 361, 363n, 373, 378, 392, 397, 400, 405, 405n, 420, 420n, 423, 453n, 550, 551, 558n, 573, 577, 578, 579n, 583n, 585n, 592n, 595n, 607n, 608, 608n, 632, 635, 639n, 648, 654, 657, 657n, 663, 664n, 681n, 689n, 696, 707, 707n, 710, 714, 716, 718, 724, 725, 735n, 744, 744n, 747n, 748n, 755, 756n, 843, 844, 853.
Dudley, John, 338.
Duffield, George, 573.
Duffield, Samuel, 4.
Duggan, James, 574.
Dumas, Charles W. F., 2n, 260, 583, 589n, 792, 814.
Dundas, James, 288n.
Dunmore, Lord, 506.
Dyer, Eliphalet, a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 314, 708, attends, 314, 707. Committees: Post Office Department, 370, 547; finances, 407; public credit, 423; interest, 553n, 554; quotas, 564; Vermont, 645n, 664n, 713; Watson, 687n; issuing department, 733; week, 880, 881. Votes, 343, 356, 390, 391, 396, 398, 400, 401, 406, 420, 424, 450, 454, 458, 459, 466, 523, 524, 538, 550, 552, 562, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 576, 578, 584, 590, 593, 605, 634, 635, 636, 644, 648, 649, 653, 654, 655, 656, 665, 667, 668, 669, 690, 694, 695, 696, 714, 717, 718, 719. Mentioned, 346, 351, 352n, 357, 383, 389, 398, 459, 461, 528, 529, 552, 563, 655, 655n, 694n, 714, 716, 843.
Eaker, Joseph, 81, 82n, 100n.
Edgar, John, 61, 201.
Edison, Thomas, 29, 194n, 209, 349. 542, 629, 632.
Edwards, Timothy, 173.
Eersten, brig, 116, 117.
Eglise, Dominique l', 404, 404n, 406, 456, 457.
Ellery, William, a delegate from Rhode Island. Committees: captures on water, 396; Grand, 14n; Marquis de la Fayette, 40n; Wilson's memorial, 43; Vermont,

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54; privateers, 65; public accounts, 68, 83; Philadelphia merchants, 73n; Department of Foreign Affairs, 87; quartermaster, 128, 128; de Neuf, 141n, 150; Franklin and Adams's letters, 150; finances, 150n; Wynkoop, 195; merchants' memorial, 218n; Connecticut letter, 238n; privateers, 280; Hancock, 280n; Morris's letter, 302; foreign contracts, 307; Virginia resolutions, 308n; passports for tobacco, 309; Navy courts martial, 315n; week, 880. Votes, 11, 29, 61, 78, 79, 94, 97, 98, 99, 107, 108, 114, 130, 131, 144, 145, 147, 158, 160, 162, 180, 181, 188, 189, 191, 192, 193, 197, 198, 199, 200, 203, 224, 232, 233, 234, 236, 241, 242, 249, 251, 252, 253, 286, 294, 295, 296, 298, 299, 300. Mentioned, 11, 45n, 60n, 90n, 97, 98, 107, 151n, 188, 191,196n, 232, 251, 263, 281n, 293, 307, 307n, 311, 319, 357.
Elliot, James, captain, 96n, 119, 120, 183.
Ellsworth, Oliver, a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 325, 822; attends, 822. Votes, 824, 828. Mentioned, 45.
Elmer, Jonathan, a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 711, 712; attends, 161, 794. Committees: Week, 29, 179, 185, 200, 879, 880; Bond, 179. Votes, 11, 29, 181, 182, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 197, 199, 200, 824, 828. Mentioned, 29.
Estaing, Charles Henri Théodat, Comte d', 742.
Etchemins, 491.
Evans, Henry, 692n, 723, 724, 766.
Eveleigh, Nicholas, a delegate from South Carolina. Committees: Grand, 14n; Bill, 34n; prisoners at Antigua, 34n; Virginia letter, 67n, 73; public accounts, 68, 83; week, 74, 127,131,136, 879; Department of Foreign Affairs, 87; Williams, 146; circular letter, 150n. Votes, 11, 29, 61, 78, 79, 97, 98, 99, 107, 108, 114, 130,131, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148. Mentioned: 88n, 90n, 92n, 136n.
Ewing, John, 373n.
Exchange, bills of, 329.
Express riders, 831.
Fallen, James, 4, 8.
Fame, schooner, 367, 368.
Fanning, Nathaniel, 72.
Farrell, Thomas, 715.
Fast day proclamation, 137, 886.
Fay, Jonas, 66n, 75n, 77n, 80, 87n, 157, 158, 162, 165, 167, 168, 185, 203.
Felch, --, 823.
Ferrall, Patrick, 66n.
Few, William, a delegate from Georgia. Credentials, 220; attends, 220. Committees: Washington's letter, 237n; prisoners, 243n; Pennsylvania letter, 244n; cartel, 335, 378; illicit trade, 362; week, 571, 574, 880, 881, 882. Votes, 224, 232, 233, 234, 241, 242, 249, 251, 252, 253, 286, 294, 295, 296, 299, 300, 354, 356, 390, 391,392, 396, 398, 400, 401, 406, 420, 424, 450, 454, 455, 459, 460, 466, 523, 524, 551, 553, 563, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 576, 578, 585, 591, 593, 605, 606, 635, 636, 637. Mentioned, 319, 541, 570.
Finance, letter to States, 132, 149; expenses for year, 149, 624, 659; moneys borrowed and not paid, 219; state of, 279; representation to States, 289, 397, 771; application of loans, 293; money received, 336; Committee to Southern States, 353; deficiencies in revenue, 363; Department of, examination of, 370, 748, 821; public credit, 408, 423; accounts of public servants, 416; national credit, Morris's letter, 429; taxes recommended, 546n; payment of interest, 553; foreign funds, 575, 773; accounts of States, 586, 591; money for Army, 591; loans in Europe, 594; ways and means of payment of interest, 642; expenditures in Europe, 701, 742; reduction of expenditures, 721; issuing commissaries, 748; disclosures of, 769, 791, 812, 813, 814, 817, 868; public funds necessary, 809; requisitions, 869; receipts and expenditures, 889.
Fishing rights in treaty, 44, 471, 477, 482, 870.

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Fitzherbert, Alleyne, 870.
Fitzsimmons, Thomas, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 726; attends, 726. Committees: Department of finance, 370n, 748, 821; Pennsylvania debts, 745n; Rhode Island letter, 783, 789n, 790n, 798; T. Rutledge, 785; officers' accounts, 786; interest, 794; deputation for Rhode Island, 811; coins, 821; Virginia repeal of impost, 831; merchants in Georgia, 834; promotions, 836n; rearrangement of line, 837; public accounts, 839n, 882. Votes, 738, 739, 740, 758, 763, 764, 767, 768, 769, 772, 789, 817, 818, 824, 828. Mentioned, 45n, 761, 765, 810n, 811n, 831, 836n, 855, 865.
Fleming, Charles, 76.
Florat, I. A. de, 326, 351, 351n.
Flower, Benjamin, 42, 276.
Floyd, William, a delegate from New York. Credentials, 750; attends, 754. Committees: Grand, 14; Edgar, 61; public accounts, 68, 83; Vermont, 80, 105; mint, 86; week, 127, 131, 136, 276, 783, 793, 879, 880, 882; Baldwin, 214. Votes, 11, 29, 61, 78, 79, 94, 97, 98, 99, 107,108, 114, 130, 131, 144, 145, 147, 158, 160,163,180, 181, 188, 189, 191, 192, 193, 197, 198,199, 200, 203, 224, 232, 233, 234, 236, 240, 242, 249, 251,252, 253, 758, 763, 764, 767, 768, 769, 772, 789,817, 818, 824, 828. Mentioned, 62n, 104, 107, 108, 127n, 131n, 136n, 277n, 783n, 793n.
Fonda, Jellis, 470.
Foreign Affairs, department of, 1, 2n, 87, 101, 105, 255, 370, 586, 759, 819, 869.
Forman, E., 116.
Fort Pitt, troops for, 457.
Fort Stanwix, treaty, 475.
Fox, Edward, 645.
France, consular convention, 17, 25n; birth of a dauphin, 278; minister, ceremonial, 246, 262; accounts, 254; funds from, 290, 291, 292, 384; negotiations for peace with England, 302, 312; relations toward peace, 870; alliance with, 887.
Francis, Tench, 173.
Franking privilege, 770, 770n, 793, 820, 863.
Franklin, Benjamin, salary, 2n. Instruction for treaty with Sweden, 622. Letters, 141,141n, 150, 179,183, 290, 293, 591, 592, 832, 852, 870, 874. Mentioned, 63, 179, 183, 214, 254, 255, 257, 260, 291, 292, 321, 337, 369, 387, 404, 584, 585, 589, 599, 606, 607, 621, 661, 741, 742, 743, 837, 873.
Franklin, William Temple, 662n, 703, 741, 832.
Franks, David S., major, 574, 679, 680.
Frelinghuysen, Frederick, a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 711, 712.
French minister, conference, 62, 200.
French troops, quarters for, 798.
Frink, Thomas, 749.
Frinke, Calvin, 81, 82.
Frost, Joseph, 574, 639.
Fynje, --, 579, 580.
Galvan, William, major, 40, 41, 148.
Galvez, Bernardo de, 121, 631.
Gansevoort, Peter, colonel, 80, 116, 349.
Gardner, David, 72.
Gates, Horatio, brigadier general, 41, 129, 466; letters, 465, 531n.
Gates, Sir Thomas, 500.
Gautier, John Guy, 468n.
Geddes, George, 260.
Geddes, William, 60, 66n, 468.
Geographer, main army, 120, 721.
Georgia, arms and clothing for, 190; credentials of delegates, 220; letter, 233n. 640n; accounts, 280, 281; boundaries of, 489; charter, 497; quota, 564; impost, 643; protection of, 646: merchants in, 835.
Gérard de Rayneval, Conrad Alexandre, 589n.
Gervais, John Lewis, a delegate from South Carolina. Credentials, 233; attends, 360, 708. Committees: Week, 369, 373, 687, 881, 882; Hollingsworth, 723n, 746; marine department, 748; T. Rutledge, 785; fortifications of Charlestown, 786. Votes, 551, 553, 563, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 576, 578, 585, 591, 593,

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605, 606, 635, 636, 637, 644, 645, 649, 654, 655, 656, 665, 667, 668, 669, 690, 694, 696, 714, 717, 718, 719, 724, 725, 726, 739, 740, 790, 817, 818, 825, 828. Mentioned, 374n, 696, 697n, 828, 843.
Gibson, --, captain, 184.
Giles, Aquila, major, 41.
Giles, Edward, major, 41.
Gillon, Alexander, captain, 141, 150, 309, 378n, 591, 632, 703, 705.
Gilman, John Taylor, a delegate from New Hampshire. Credentials, 338, 708; attends, 338, 707. Committees: Week, 349, 363,399,403, 448, 532, 543, 657, 664, 678, 881,882; Post Office Department, 370, 547; money, 407,423, 564; clothing, 645n, 679; Army promotions, 699n, 790; marine department, 748; officers' accounts, 786; Howell's case, 819, 821: Tichenor, 819n, 822; Department of Foreign Affairs, 823; secrecy in Congress, 829n. Votes, 318n, 343, 354, 356 390, 391, 396, 398, 400, 401, 406, 420 424, 450, 454, 458, 459, 523, 524, 538 550, 552, 562, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569 570, 571, 576, 578, 584, 593, 605, 634. 635, 636, 644, 648, 649, 653, 654, 655 656, 665, 667, 668, 669, 714, 717, 718 719, 724, 725, 738, 739, 740, 758, 763 764, 767, 768, 769, 772, 789, 817, 824, 828. Mentioned, 352, 543n, 548n, 564, 565, 763, 782n, 824, 843, 866.
Gimat, -- de, lieutenant colonel, 40, 41.
Glen, John, 276.
Glentworth, George, 4.
Gloucester, garrison for, 415n.
Glover, John, brigadier general, 388n, 397, 399, 400, 405.
Gordon, James, major, 310n.
Gore, --, 823.
Gorham, Nathaniel, a delegate from Massachusetts. Credentials, 786; attends, 786. Committees: President's expenses, 340n; department of finance, 370n; Pennsylvania debts, 745n; coins, 811n, 821; week, 819, 825, 882; office of finance, 821. Votes, 824. Mentioned, 546n.
Gostelowe Jonathan, 136.
Govett, William, 260.
Graham, Michael, 200.
Grand, Ferdinand le, 291, 293, 741.
Grant, Jesse, 140.
Gray, Ebenezer, lieutenant colonel. 627, 641.
Great Britain, troops at Charlestown, 460; claims against, 468; commerce with, 838.
Greaton, John, 318, 764, 791.
Green, Ebenezer, captain, 15.
Green, Elizabeth, 825n.
Greene, Nathanael, major general, 127n, 129, 183, 202, 251, 319, 399, 410, 461, 526, 528, 827; letters, 65n, 74, 152n, 201, 248n, 250n, 347n, 359, 378, 464n, 529, 562, 632n, 786n, 825, 835.
Greene, William, governor, 785n, 814.
Grenville, Thomas, 600.
Griffin, Cyrus, 461, 528, 529, 535.
Guilford, New York, 60n.
Gunn, James, 526.
Hagan, Francis, 8, 81, 82n.
Halbon, Etienne, 722.
Hall, John, 723n, 744, 745, 747, 813.
Hamilton, Alexander, lieutenant colonel, 40, 41. A delegate from New York. Credentials, 750; attends, 750, 760. Committees: Pennsylvania debts, 745n, 860; issuing commissaries, 748n; Cambray, 757n; Post Office, 757n; J.P. Jones, 759, 761; subsistence money, 759; Pennsylvania memorial, 761; Schreiber, 762; Rhode Island letter, 783; Steuben, 783n, 833; officers' accounts, 786; fortifications of Charlestown, 786; Rhode Island, 789n, 790n, 798; Stewart, 797; half pay, 798n; deputation to Rhode Island, 811; coins, 811n, 821; Howell's case, 819, 821; invalid regiment, 821n; recaptured horses, 825; finances, 831n; promotions, 836n; commerce with Great Britain, 838, 875. Votes, 758, 763, 764, 767,768, 769,772, 789, 817, 818,824, 828. Mentioned, 331n, 758, 760n, 761, 761n, 762n, 766n, 770, 771n, 784n, 797n, 810n, 811n, 812n, 814n, 818, 834n, 837n, 854, 855, 856, 862, 863, 864, 865, 867, 868, 869, 874.
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Hamilton, James, 127.
Hanchett, Oliver, 322n, 365.
Hancock, John, governor, 143, 184, 280, 340, 371, 786.
Hand, Edward, adjutant general, letter, 176n, 185, 190n, 836, 837.
Hanson, Alexander Contee, 746.
Hanson, John, a delegate from Maryland. Attends, 708. Committees: Public credit, 408n, 423. Votes, 11, 29, 61, 78, 79, 95, 97, 98, 99, 107, 108, 114, 130, 131, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 158, 161, 163, 286, 294, 295, 296, 299, 300, 343, 354, 356, 390, 391, 392, 396, 398, 400, 401, 406, 420, 424, 450, 454, 455, 459, 460, 466, 523, 524, 538, 539, 551, 553, 563, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 576, 578, 584, 591, 593, 605, 606, 635, 636, 644, 645, 648, 649, 653, 654, 655, 656, 665, 667, 668, 669, 690, 694, 696. Mentioned, 54, 60, 67, 180, 536, 580, 582, 622, 664n, 715, 843; President, thanks, 710.
Harding, Seth, 384, 413, 416, 740, 742.
Hardy, J., 392.
Harpur, Robert, 281, 751.
Harrison, Benjamin, governor, 415, 531.
Harrison, Richard, 589, 589n.
Harvey, Thomas, 136.
Havens, Selah, 72.
Hawkins, Benjamin, a delegate from North Carolina. Credentials, 491; attends, 823. Committees: Grand, 14; week, 29, 879, 882; public accounts, 68, 83; Vermont, 80, 105; mint, 87. Votes, 11, 29, 61, 78, 79, 97, 98, 107, 108, 114, 825, 828. Mentioned, 40, 54. Hazard, Ebenezer, postmaster general, 35n, 55, 60, 66n, 337, 547, 679n, 686n, 687, 750n, 812.
Hazen, Moses, 82, 287, 372, 407, 468n, 571, 721, 735.
Heath, William, major general, 41. 42n, 174n, 349, 422n, 661n, 722.
Heer Adams, ship, 581n.
Hemsley, William, a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 609; attends, 609, 708. Committees: Week, 640, 722, 882. Votes, 635, 636, 644, 645, 648, 649, 653, 654, 655,. 656, 665, 667, 668, 669, 690, 694, 696, 714, 717, 718, 719, 724, 725, 726, 738, 739, 740. Mentioned, 843.
Henderson, P., 402.
Henry, William, 244n, 362.
Higginson, Stephen, a delegate from Massachusetts. Committees: Issuing commissaries, 748n.
Hill, --, 860.
Hillegas, Michael, 73, 156.
Hiltzheimer, Jacob, 288.
Hodgdon, Samuel, 723n, 813.
Holland, loan, 292; treaty, 374, 394; alliance with, 682.
Hollingsworth, Henry, 723n, 746.
Hopes, George, 66n, 288n.
Hopkins, Roswell, 168.
Hopson, Jordan, 212.
Horses killed, compensation, 795.
Hosmer, Titus, 749.
Hospital, General, plan, 4; department, arrangement, 322, 408, 645, 885, 886.
Hotzendorf, Baron, 749.
Houston, William Churchill, a delegate from New Jersey. Committees: Wheelock, 11. Mentioned, 12n, 461,528, 529, 535, 642n.
Howe, Robert, major general, 46, 78, 79, 80, 700, 783, 885.
Howe, Sir William, 557.
Howell, David, a delegate from Rhode Island. Credentials, 320; attends, 320, 707. Committees: Week, 326, 469, 880, 881; bills of exchange, 329n; illicit trade, 333n; department of marine, 370, 748; accounts of loan officers, 376, 384; French loans, 384; money, 407, 540, 564, 706n; public credit, 423; fisheries, 524n; Fortune Stoddard, 526; Francis Maxwell, 531; Gillon, 591; Vermont, 664n, 720n, 723; expenditures in Europe, 700; Hollingsworth, 723, 746; Pennsylvania accounts, 723n, 745n, 850; pay of temporary corps, 757. Votes, 343, 354, 356, 390, 391, 396,398, 400, 401,454, 458, 459, 466, 523, 524, 538, 550, 552, 562, 565, 566, 567,568, 569, 570, 571, 576, 578, 584, 590,

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593, 644, 648, 649, 653, 654, 655, 656, 665, 667, 668, 669, 690, 694, 695, 696, 714, 717, 718, 719, 724, 725, 738, 739, 740, 758, 763, 764, 767, 768, 769, 772, 789, 817, 818, 828. Mentioned, 356, 357, 383, 398, 538, 552, 566, 586, 644, 655, 666, 667, 668, 690, 695, 711, 714, 717, 720, 725, 738, 739, 740, 748n, 758, 758n, 761, 766, 767, 768, 769, 771, 785, 785n, 789, 793, 793n, 812, 813, 814, 817, 817n, 832, 833n, 837, 843, 849, 851, 856, 858, 863, 865, 867, 868; admits disclosures, 819.
Howell, Richard, 586, 629.
Huddy, Joshua, 217, 652, 662, 662n, 689, 690, 716, 845.
Humphreys, David, 374, 721.
Huntington, Andrew, 370.
Huntington, Benjamin, a delegate from Connecticut. Attends, 314, 707; credentials, 822, 823. Committees: Navy courts-martial, 315n; bills of exchange, 329n; illicit trade, 333n; week, 344, 532, 543,880, 881,882; department of marine, 370; accounts of loan officers, 376, 384; lottery, 449n, 543. Votes, 343, 354, 356, 390, 391: 396,398, 400, 401, 406, 420, 424, 450, 454, 458, 459, 466, 523, 524, 538, 550, 552, 562, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 576, 578, 584, 590, 593, 605, 634, 635, 636, 644, 648, 649, 653, 654, 655, 656, 665, 667, 668, 669, 690, 694, 695, 696, 714. Mentioned, 347, 356n, 656,843.
Huntington, Ebenezer, lieutenant colonel, 627, 641.
Huntington, Joshua, 370.
Huntington, Samuel, a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 822, 823.
Hutchins, Thomas, 120.
Illinois land company, 184, 191, 223, 228, 230, 240.
Impost, 5 per cent, 72, 81n, 361,366n, 379, 388, 447, 546, 643, 643n, 850, 860, 863; letter to Rhode Island, 199; repealed in Virginia, 831.
Independence celebration, 361.
Indiana land company, 184, 223, 228, 240.
Indians, Mohawk and Stockbridge, 120, Stockbridge or River, 127,185; clothing for, 525, 603; Oneidas and Tuscaroras, 470; Catawba, lands, 706.
Innis, James, 378, 572.
Inspectors' department, 30, 885.
Irvine, William, 163.
Izard, Ralph, a delegate from South Carolina. Credentials, 233; attends, 320, 708. Committees: Washington's letter, 237n; prisoners, 243n; Pennsylvania letter, 244n week, 326, 657, 664, 678, 722, 880, 882; illicit trade, 333n, 362; civil departments, 334; cartel, 335n, 378; Greene's letter, 347n; Army, 350n, 351n, 887; interest, 352n; Van Schaick, 353n; cessation of hostilities, 359; Department of Foreign Affairs, 370, 586; promotions, 374n; reduction of expenses, 380, 413, 451, 540, 682, 693, 721; expenditures in France, 416n, 591; ceremonial, 531; Maxwell, 531n; treaty with Sweden, 592, 610; peace, 596; naval prisoners, 732; Harding, 740; salaries of ministers, 850. Votes, 343, 354, 356, 390, 391, 392, 396, 398, 400, 401, 406, 420, 424, 450, 454, 455, 459, 460, 523, 524, 538, 539, 551, 553, 563, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 576, 578, 585, 591, 593, 605, 606, 635, 636, 637,644, 645, 649, 654, 655, 656, 665, 667, 668, 669, 690, 694, 696, 714, 717, 718, 719, 724, 725, 726, 739, 740, 758, 763, 764, 767, 768, 769, 772, 817, 818, 825, 828. Mentioned, 359n, 368, 405, 584, 590n, 710, 722, 722n, 744n, 771, 772, 843, 888, 889.
Jackson, David, 70, 81.
Jackson, Jonathan, a delegate from Massachusetts. Credentials, 371; attends, 371. Committees: French loans, 384; public credit, 407, 423; Trumbull, 415n, 465n, 631, 631n, 692n; week, 448, 881; lottery, 449n, 543; claims against Great Britain, 460, 468; quotas, 564; Dutch contract, 579; interest, 585n, 591; Gillon, 591; expenditures in Europe, 700; West Indian trade, 747. Votes, 390, 391, 396, 398, 400, 401, 406, 420, 424, 450, 454,

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458, 459, 466, 523, 524, 538, 552, 562, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 578, 584, 590, 593, 605, 634, 635, 636, 644, 648, 649, 653, 654, 655, 656, 665, 667, 668, 669, 714. Mentioned, 415, 505, 580n, 703.
Jay, John, salary, 2n; letters, 141, 870; instructions, 449, 450, 455. Mentioned, 96n, 143,249, 250, 256, 259,260, 307, 428, 585, 622, 637, 857, 873.
Jefferson, Thomas, governor, 67, 74; minister to France, 720, 848, 851, 857, 873.
Jenifer, Daniel of St. Thomas, a delegate from Maryland. Committees: Land cessions, 184, 223; Jersey line, 608.
Jersey, prison ship, 733.
Johnson, William Samuel, 347.
Jones, Abraham, 221.
Jones, Daniel, 168.
Jones, John Paul, 150, 151, 642, 758, 761, 859.
Jones, Joseph, a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 709; attends, 547, 726. Committees: Captures, 3; public accounts, 12, 68, 83; New Jersey memorial, 14n; Grand, 14n; dead letter, 35n, 55; Virginia letter, 67n; 73; mint, 87; West Florida, 96; Pickles, 121; de Neuf, 141n, 150; Franklin and Adams's letters, 141n, 150; department of marine, 370; peace, 596; week, 469, 881, 882; Edison, 542. Votes, 11, 61, 78, 79, 97, 98, 99, 107, 108, 114, 130, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 158, 161, 163, 181, 182, 188, 189, 190, 192, 193, 194, 197, 199, 200, 204, 224, 232, 233, 593, 605, 606, 635, 636, 644, 645, 649, 667, 668, 669, 738, 739, 758, 767, 768, 769, 772, 817, 818, 825, 828. Mentioned, 3n, 14n, 55n, 74n, 142, 142n, 203, 219, 350, 422, 461, 528, 529, 535, 593, 851.
Jones, Noble Wimberly, a delegate from Georgia. Committees: Vermont, 54; week, 74, 151, 308, 349, 363, 879, 880, 881; Bond, 179; Edgar, 201; Landais, 213; Army, 320n; illicit trade, 333n; Edison, 349n; Pennsylvania frontier, 575. Votes, 11, 29, 61, 78, 79, 95, 99, 107, 108, 114, 130, 131, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 158, 161, 163, 181, 182, 188, 189, 190, 192, 193, 194, 197, 199, 200, 204, 224, 232, 233, 234, 237, 241, 242, 249, 251, 252, 253, 286, 294, 295, 296, 299, 300, 343, 354, 356, 390, 391, 392, 396, 398, 400, 401, 406, 420, 424, 450, 454, 455, 459, 460, 466, 523, 524, 551, 553, 563, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 576, 578, 585, 591, 593, 605, 606, 635, 636, 637, 644, 645, 649, 665, 667, 696. Mentioned, 79, 152n, 201n, 220, 308n, 366n, 397, 570, 570n, 571.
Jones, Samuel, 34n.
Jordan, John, 81, 81n, 376.
Journals of Congress, 57.
Judd, William, 404n, 418, 423.
Kentucky, 532.
Keran, Edward, 418.
King, Joseph, 607.
Knoulton, Luke, 756, 854.
Knox, Henry, major general, 27, 105, 115, 143, 662n.
Kosciuszki, Thaddeus, 827.
La Fayette, Marquis de, letters, 38n, 148n, 184n, 870. Mentioned, 40, 41, 302n, 387, 585n, 592n, 637, 661, 852.
La Fayette, ship, 386.
Lake Pontchartrain, capitulation, 121.
La Luzerne, Anne Caesar, Chevalier de, conference, 62; letters, 65. 66, 597. Mentioned, 303, 307, 321, 543, 589n, 590n, 594, 870.
Lamb, John, colonel, 794.
Lancaster treaty, 475.
Land, western, 184, 191, 223, 225, 234, 240, 423, 545, 550, 551, 552, 558n, 604, 809, 859; New York, 694, 695. Land tax, 545. Land, valuation of, 540, 850.
Landais, Pierre, 213.
Lande, de la, --, 579, 580.
Langdon, John, 42, 708, 709.
Laumoy, de, colonel, 116n, 119.
Laurens, Henry, 2n, 94, 95, 95n, 136n, 183, 259, 260, 291, 307, 340, 380, 556, 583, 584, 585, 589, 593, 606, 608, 700, 753, 843, 852, 873.

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Laurens, John, lieutenant colonel, 41, 128, 384, 387, 589.
Lavaney, --, 678.
Law, Richard, a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 822, 823. Committees: Captures, 3; Grand, 141; Secretary at War's letter, 36; Marquis de la Fayette, 40n; Wilson's memorial, 43; Vermont, 54, 80, 105, 185, 713; privateers, 65; public accounts, 68, 83; week, 80, 95, 96, 276, 277, 879, 880; McKinsey and Caldwell, 81n; Resolution, 116. Votes, 11, 29, 61, 78, 79, 94, 97, 98, 99, 107, 108, 114, 130, 131, 144, 145, 147, 158, 160, 162, 180, 181, 182, 188, 189, 191, 192, 193, 197, 198, 199, 200, 203, 224, 232, 233, 234, 236, 240, 249, 251, 252, 253. Mentioned, 11, 81n, 96n, 115n, 117n, 197, 206, 276n.
Lawrence, John, 314.
Lee, Arthur, a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 77, 78, 709; letters, 55. Committees: Taxes, 115n; Resolution, 116; prize money, 126; de Neuf, 141n, 150; Franklin and Adams's letters, 141n, 150; circular letter, 150n; foreign contracts, 307n; bills of exchange, 365n; Department of Finance, 370, 370n; prisoners, 382; illicit trade, 383, 393; memorial, 404; public credit, 407, 423; expenditures in France, 416n, 591; accounts of public servants, 421n; loan office certificates, 447; fund for debts, 447; Washington's letter, 460n; prisoners, 462; Gates, 465; ceremonial, 531; quotas, 564; Dumas, 583; treaty with Sweden, 592, 610; soldiers' clothing, 609n; accounts in Europe, 728; Harding, 740; West Indian trade, 747; week, 879, 881; Votes, 78, 79, 95, 97, 98, 99, 107, 108, 114, 130, 131, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 158, 161, 163, 181, 182, 188, 190, 192, 193, 194, 197, 199, 204, 354, 356, 390, 391, 392, 396, 398, 400, 401, 406, 420, 424, 450, 454, 455, 459, 460, 466, 523, 524, 538, 539, 551, 553, 563, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 576, 578, 585, 593, 605, 606, 635, 636. Mentioned, 117, 117n, 126n, 179, 179n, 180, 183, 183n, 191, 193, 386, 388, 390, 415, 416, 421, 448n, 458, 464n, 465n, 529n, 550, 551, 562, 564, 575, 589, 595, 611n, 613n, 624n, 634, 636, 639, 727, 744n, 851.
Lee, Henry, lieutenant colonel, 141n, 183, 417.
Lee, Thomas Sim, governor, 723n; a delegate from Maryland. Committees: Issuing commissaries, 748n.
Lee, William, 293, 318, 368, 369.
Lees, James, 640.
Leibert, Philip, captain, 29, 403, 407, 571, 572n.
Leslie, Alexander, 359.
Letitia, brig, 628.
Lexington, 81.
L'Hommedieu, Ezra, a delegate from New York. Credentials, 750; attends, 707, 833. Committees: Joseph King, 592n, 607; week, 722, 881, 882; Hollingsworth, 723n, 746. Votes, 538, 550, 553, 562, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 576, 578, 584, 590, 593, 605, 634, 635, 636, 644, 648, 649, 653, 654, 655, 656, 665, 667, 668, 669, 690, 694, 695, 696, 714, 717, 718, 719, 724, 725, 738, 739, 740; letters, 152, 179n, 209, 243, 248n, 316, 321, 388n, 422n, 456n, 657n, 665, 744, 783n, 786n; leave of absence, 783. Mentioned, 165, 648, 690, 725, 746n, 755, 843.
Lincoln, Benjamin, major general, 41, 75, 136.
Lippincott, Richard, 652, 662, 662n, 690, 716.
Livermore, Samuel, a delegate from New Hampshire. Credentials, 42. Committees: Wheelock, 11; Grand, 14n; Perez Morton, 73; Vermont, 80, 105, 185, 713; accounts, 82; mint, 86; officials' debts, 138; land cessions, 184, 223; resignation, 218; week, 879. Votes, 11, 29, 61, 78, 79, 94, 97, 99, 107, 108, 114, 144, 145, 147, 158, 160, 162, 180, 181, 182, 188, 189, 191, 192, 193, 197,198, 199, 200, 203, Mentioned, 82n, 128n, 160, 164, 185.
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Livingston, James, 119, 119n, 344.
Livingston, Muscoe, 382, 417.
Livingston, Robert R., Secretary Foreign Affairs, resigns, 100, 759, 823, 857, 869. Letters, 255, 249, 301, 302. Mentioned, 64, 115, 303, 305n, 585, 870.
Livingston, William, governor, 385.
Livingston, William Smith, lieutenant colonel, 627.
Lloyd, Peter Zachary, 726.
Loan, Holland, 65, 67, 374, 578, 580; French, 68, 307, 357, 384, 596; Spanish, 68; Virginia, 357; for 1783, 577; Beaumarchais, 744.
Loan office certificates, destroyed, 276; interest, 352, 447, 545, 555, 585.
Loan officers' accounts, 376, 384.
Loans, foreign, 293, 769; Morris's letter, 429.
Loseaux, Augustin, captain, 36n.
Lottery, public, 151, 543; fourth class, 706; value of prizes, 824.
Lovell, James, a delegate from Massachusetts. Attends, 161. Committees: Ministers abroad, 1; inspector's department, 30, 885; Deane's accounts, 40n; John Temple, 101; fisheries, 472. Votes, 11, 29. Mentioned, 33n, 35, 36n, 45, 183.
Lowell, John, a delegate from Massachusetts. Credentials, 278; attends, 278. Committees: Week, 288,290,880; circular letter,279; Pennsylvania letter,244n; prisoners, 243n; Washington's letter, 237n, 460n; quotas, 289; Virginia resolutions, 308n; passports for tobacco, 309; Middleton's motion, 324; salaries, 332; illicit trade, 333n, 340, 362; cartel, 335n, 337, 378, 422n; De Witt, 336n; Arthur Lee, 337, 386n, 404; robbery of mail, 337n; prisoners, 340n, 349n, 360n, 361; loans, 357; Philadelphia seamen, 366n; Department of Foreign Affairs, 370; Steuben, 419n; treason laws, 461; court of appeals, judge of, 765, 862. Votes, 294, 295, 296, 298, 299, 300, 343, 354, 356, 390, 391, 396, 398, 400, 401, 406, 420, 424. Mentioned, 288, 290, 293, 299, 343, 343n, 354, 361, 378n, 384, 386,427,428, 428n, 586n.
Lowry, Thomas, 173.
Loyalists, return of, 480.
Lyman, Daniel, major, 41.
McClenachan, Blair, 373n, 376n, 429.
McClure, James, 72.
McConnell, Mathew, 328n.
McCoskey, A., 236.
McCoskey, W., 236.
McDougall, Alexander, major general, 41, 468.
McDougall, Stephen, major, 41.
McIntosh, Lachlan, major general, 105, 144, 147.
McKean, Thomas, a delegate from Delaware. Credentials, 75; attends, 708. Committees: Perez Morton, 73; Philadelphia merchants, 73n; captures on water, 96; Noel, 119n; quartermaster, 128; de Neuf, 141n, 150; Franklin and Adams's letters, 141n, 150; deserters, 154; week, 326, 880, 882; publication of monies, 336; robbery of mail, 337; Roth, 344n; Department of Finance, 370; British prisoners, 403; public credit, 407, 423; garrison for York and Gloucester, 415n, 531; Connecticut officers, 418n; Webster and Judd, 423; lottery, 449n, 543; Sir Guy Carleton, 531n; debts, 540; quotas, 564; Aitken, 572; Dutch contract, 579; Lippincott and Huddy, 662; provisions for enemy, 697; interest, 706n; Pennsylvania accounts, 723n; Livingston's resignation, 759n, 858; recaptured horses, 825; Pennsylvania creditors, 850. Votes, 97, 98, 99, 107, 108, 114, 130, 131, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 158, 161, 354, 356, 390, 391, 392, 406, 420, 454, 455, 459, 460, 466, 550, 553, 562, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 576, 578, 584, 591, 593, 690, 694, 695, 696, 714, 717, 718, 719, 724, 725, 758, 763, 764, 767, 768, 769, 790, 817, 818, 825, 828. Mentioned, 73n, 326n, 344n. 403, 450, 544n, 550, 552, 580n, 695, 716, 718, 758, 798, 843, 854, 856, 863.
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Macmeehann (Macmecken), James, 363.
McMullen, Joseph, 204.
Macpherson, William, major, 40, 41, 115n, 243.
Madison, James, a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 709; attends, 708. Committees: Secretary at War's letter, 36; Deane's accounts, 40n; Washington's letters, 66n, 456n, 460n; Morris's letter, 66n, 314n, 344n; clothing, 71; Anderson, 73; accounts, 102; New Hampshire letter, 128n; officials' debts, 138; Jay and Carmichael's letters, 141n; New Hampshire's quota, 158; South Carolina resolution, 161; Mississippi, 207; military preparations, 221; Bieniewsky, 244n, 308; accounts with France, 255n, 305; German prisoners, 276n, 316; public credit, 279, 289; foreign contracts, 307n; French and English peace, 311; salaries, 316; illicit trade, 333n, 340; civil departments, 334; cartel, 335, 422n; De Witt, 336n; robbery of mail, 337n; Greene's letter, 347n; cessation of hostilities, 359; prisoners, 360n, 361; Department of Finance, 370n; Department of Foreign Affairs, 370: 586,823; treaty with Holland, 376n, 393; prizes, 377; release of Laurens, 380, 584; exchange of prisoners, 388n; accounts of public servants, 421n; Jay's instructions, 449; claims against Great Britain, 460, 468; treason laws, 461; Pennsylvania and Connecticut, 461n, 466; fisheries, 472, 524n; America, 543; land cessions, 553n, 604; loan in Europe, 572n, 577, 578; Dumas, 583; exchange of Cornwallis, 583n, 607n, 608, 852; peace, 603, 632, 637; quotas, 626n; payment of troops, 629; Lafayette's letter, 629n; St. Lawrence, 641n; alliance with Holland, 682; accounts in Europe, 728; marine officers, 735n; issuing department, 735n; John Hall, 745n, 747; commissaries of issues, 748,748n; information for foreign ministers, 751; J.P. Jones, 759, 761; Pennsylvania memorial, 761; disclosure of loans, 770n, 791, 867; S. Metcalfe, 782; Rhode Island, 783, 790n, 798, 811; Stewart, 797n; half pay, 798n; Howell's case, 819, 821; Tichenor, 819n, 822; office of finance, 821; recaptured horses, 825; impost, 831n; merchants in Georgia, 834; promotions, 836n; rearrangement of line, 837; commerce with Great Britain, 838,875; notes of debates, 843; land valuation, 850; salaries of ministers, 850; intelligence for foreign ministers, 851; Pennsylvania debts, 860. Votes, 11, 29,61, 78, 79, 95, 97, 98, 99, 107, 108, 114, 130, 131, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 158, 161, 163, 181, 182, 188, 189, 190, 192, 193, 194, 197, 199, 200, 204, 224, 232, 233, 234, 237, 241, 242, 249, 251, 252, 253, 286, 294, 295, 296, 299, 300, 343, 354, 356, 390, 391, 392, 396, 398, 400, 401, 406, 420, 424, 450, 454, 455, 459, 460, 466, 523, 524, 538, 539, 553, 563, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 576, 578, 585, 591, 593, 605, 606, 635, 636, 644, 645, 649, 654, 655, 656, 665, 667, 668, 669, 694, 696, 714, 717, 718, 719, 724, 725, 726, 738, 739, 740, 758, 763, 764, 767, 768, 769, 772, 790, 817, 818, 825, 828. Mentioned, 1, 37n, 80, 104, 115n, 139n, 141, 142, 142n, 161, 193, 203, 203n, 208n, 216n, 219, 219n, 223n, 234, 236, 237n, 244, 250, 251,252n, 263, 279, 280n, 295, 301, 301n, 307n, 309n, 311, 313n, 318n, 319, 319n, 323, 324, 324n, 333n, 334, 334n, 335, 336, 336n, 337, 342n, 362n, 368, 373n, 376n, 380n, 385n, 390, 396, 458, 459, 462n, 469n, 471n, 481n, 543n, 562, 562n, 563n, 577, 577n, 589n, 593, 612n, 624n, 631n, 639n, 663, 663n, 715, 716, 716n, 717, 720, 721n, 744, 749, 749n, 752n, 753n, 761n, 771n, 782n, 793n, 822n, 828n, 838n, 843, 844, 848, 851, 852, 854, 855, 857, 858, 859, 862, 871, 872, 874.
Magazines, 216.
Magnifique, gun ship, 543.
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Maine, province of, 491.
Mallet, Daniel, 174.
Marbois, François de Barbé, Marquis de, 870.
Marchant, Henry, 862.
Marine, department, inquiry, 370, 748; pay of officers, 735.
Marnay, Louis, 151.
Marquis de la Fayette, ship, 40n, 43.
Martin, Alexander, governor, 402.
Martinique, 368.
Maryland, agrees to impost, 388; boundaries of, 489; quota, 564; credentials of delegates, 609, 772; general assembly, report, 664n.
Massachusetts, credentials of delegates, 278, 371, 709, 786, 787; passes impost, 361, 366n; instructions on fisheries, 471; boundaries, 487, 491; charter, 497; quota, 564; letter from assembly, 754n; quota of emissions, 854.
Massey, William, 207, 213, 735.
Mathews, John, a delegate from South Carolina. Committees: Public accounts, 12; New Jersey memorial, 14n.
Matlack, Timothy, 346, 389.
Maxwell, Francis, 531n, 532.
Merchants' memorial, 218n, 237.
Mercier, John Dyer, 60, 66n, 260.
Metcalfe, Simon, 127, 185, 640n, 782.
Middleton, Arthur, a delegate from South Carolina. Credentials, 233; attends, 233. Committees: Week, 42, 212, 879, 880, 881; Secretary's duties, 55; Edgar, 61; quotas, 72; Vermont, 80, 105; mint, 87; finances, 132; de Neuf, 141n, 150; Franklin and Adams's letters, 141n, 150; South Carolina resolution, 161; merchants' memorial, 218n; military preparations, 221; Hancock, 280n; Morris's letter, 302n; foreign contracts, 307; Arthur Lee, 337, 386n, 404; Laurens's expenses, 340; loans, 357; Vermont, 596. Votes, 11, 29, 61, 78, 79, 95, 97, 98, 99, 107, 108, 114, 131, 144, 145,146, 147, 148, 158, 161, 163, 181, 182, 188, 189, 190, 192, 193, 197, 199, 200, 204, 224, 232, 233, 234, 237, 241, 242, 249, 251, 252, 253, 286, 294, 295, 296, 299, 300, 343, 354, 356, 390, 391, 392, 396, 398, 400, 401, 406, 420, 424, 450, 454, 455, 459, 460, 466, 523, 524, 538, 539, 551, 553, 563, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 576, 578, 585, 591, 593, 605, 606, 635, 636, 637, 644, 645, 649, 654, 655, 656. Mentioned, 78, 93, 94, 95n, 98, 189, 207, 207n, 242, 281, 323, 324, 324n, 335, 336, 400, 405, 648, 652, 656.
Middleton, J., 399.
Middleton, William, Cornet, 417.
Mifflin, Thomas, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 726; attends, 739. Committees: Deputation to Rhode Island, 772, 865. Votes, 772, 789.
Mint, plan, 87.
Mississippi, navigation of, 142, 207, 219, 873.
Mitchell, John, 468, 470.
Money, Continental, destruction, 560, 590.
Montgomery, John, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 726; attends, 812. Votes, 824, 828.
Montgomery, Joseph, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Committees: Ministers abroad. 1; week, 74, 179, 879, 880; Alvey's memorial, 75n, 80; John Temple, 101; accounts. 102; Elliot, 119; Noel, 119n; 120n;Alvey, 121; fast day, 137; lottery, 151n; Wynkoop, 195; rations, 204; Carrington, 206n, 215; Baldwin, 214; deputy paymaster, 277n; Parsons. 388n; public credit, 408n, 447n; hospital department, 408, 887; garrison for York and Gloucester, 415n, 531; Connecticut officers, 418n; Webster and Judd, 423; Jay's instructions, 449; troops for Fort Pitt, 457; Greene's letter, 464; fisheries, 471, 524n; claims against Great Britain, 481; clothing for New York troops, 524n; detached duty, 529; Francis Wade, 530; packet to Europe, 537; interest, 553; land cessions, 553; Army promotions, 553, 651n; troops in Southern department, 553; money, 554, 572n, 577, 578, 594; Southern Army, 559; Barclay's instructions,

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592; Vermont, 596n, 645n; peace, 603, 632; land cessions, 604; Cornwallis and Laurens, 607n, 608; Huntington, 628n; Lafayette's letter, 629n,' Georgia letter, 640n; Huntington and Gray, 641; reduction of Army, 612; protection of Georgia, 646; thanksgiving and prayer, 646; cartel, 657; Vermont, 664n, 713; Huddy, 691; Asgill, 695n, 715; exchange of Cornwallis, 852. Votes, 11, 29, 61, 78, 79, 94, 97, 98, 99, 107, 108, 114, 130, 131, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 181, 182, 188, 189, 190, 192, 193, 194, 197, 199, 200, 203, 224, 232, 234, 236, 241, 242, 249, 251, 252, 253, 286, 294. 295, 390, 391, 392, 396, 420, 424, 450, 454, 458, 466, 523, 524, 538, 539, 550, 553, 562, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 576, 578, 584, 606, 635, 636, 644, 645, 690. Mentioned, 75n, 97, 121n, 125n, 179n, 188, 193, 215n, 219, 240, 248, 289, 386, 396, 416, 421, 458n, 523, 530n, 539, 554n, 585n, 591, 641n, 643n, 670n, 860.
Montgomery, Richard, major general, 456.
Moore, William, president, 244n, 345, 389.
Morgan, Maurice, 263.
Morning Star, sloop of war, 73.
Morris, Lewis, jr., lieutenant colonel, 41.
Morris, Robert, letters, 136n, 142n, 152, 237, 241, 253, 261n, 263, 289, 291, 292, 313, 363, 415n, 429, 687n; reports, 156.
Morris, --, lieutenant, 179.
Morse, Charles, 723.
Morton, Perez, 73.
Motte, Isaac, a delegate from South Carolina. Committees: Inspectors' department, 30, 885; copper hoops, 36n; week, 70; Noel, 119; Elliot, 119; quartermaster, 128; week, 879. Votes, 11, 29, 61, 78, 79, 95, 97, 99, 107, 108, 114, 130, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, Mentioned, 144, 156, 161.
Moultrie, William major general, 105,136, 143, 144, 145, 147, 648, 652, 656.
Moylan, John, clothier general, 732.
Moylan, Stephen, 386, 387.
Moyria, Le Chevalier de, captain, 783n.
Mumford, Thomas, 37.
Nash, Abner, governor, 96n, 569n, 642n; a delegate from North Carolina. Credentials, 401; attends, 708. Committees: Week, 715, 882; marine department, 748; issuing commissaries, 748n: Post Office, 749n, 750n, 754, 764, 770n, 793, 812, 813, 820; deputation to Rhode Island, 772, 865; land valuation, 850. Votes, 714, 738, 739, 740, 758, 763,764, 767, 768, 769, 772, 790, 817, 818. Mentioned, 813, 843.
Neilson, Thomas, 528, 529, 535.
Neuf, Ary de, 141, 141n, 150, 151.
Neufville, John de, & Son, 308n, 374n, 589n, 703.,
New Hampshire grants. (See Vermont controversy.)
New Hampshire, credentials of delegates, 42, 338, 708, 709; quota, 158, 564, 854; boundaries of, 488; line, 837.
New Jersey, memorial, 14n; credentials of delegates, 325, 711; grant, 503; quota, 564; payment of troops, 629; line, 837.
New York, land cessions, 191, 226, 240, 283,423, 694, 695, 849, 859; staff officers, 320n, 533; boundaries of, 488, 507; levies, 525; quota, 564; credentials of delegates, 750.
Nicholas, Samuel, 735, 747.
Nicholson, James, captain, 216.
Noel, Nicholas, 119, 119n, 326, 329.
North Carolina, credentials of delegates, 401; boundaries of, 489; quota, 564; troops, 710.
Nourse, Joseph, 889.
Nova Scotia, 491.
Olcott, Peter, 167.
Olyphant, David, 753, 797.
Order of the day, 240.
Osborne, Henry, 345, 351, 389, 461.
Osgood, Christopher, 756, 760.
Osgood, Samuel, a delegate from Massachusetts. Credentials, 709; attends, 707. Committees: Foreign coins, cf., 811n; public accounts, 12, 68, 82, 839; New Jersey memorial, 14n: Grand, 14n; week, 29, 418, 879, 881; Superintendent

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of Finance, letter, 66n, Washington's letter, 66n, 753n; clothing, 71, 645n, 679; quotas, 72; Anderson, 73; questions, 75; cartel, 76; taxes, 115n; Alvey, 121; finances, 132; Army supplies, 177, 208, 244n; Baldwin, 214; merchants' memorial, 218n; intendant of Amy, 241, 887, 888, 889; Morris's letter, 314n, 344n; salaries, 816; Noel, 326, 329; illicit trade, 333n; supplies for Southern Army, 342; Edison, 349n, 542; Army, 350n, 351n, 658,699n; interest on loans, 352n, 764; Van Schaick 353n; Department of Finance, 870; Army promotions, 374n, 699n, 762, 790; prizes, 377; reduction of expenses, 380, 413, 451, 540, 682, 721; debts, 447; Jay's instructions, 449; fisheries, 524n; Fortune Stoddard, 526; packet to Europe, 537; America, 543; land cessions, 553, 604; leave for Secretary of Foreign Affairs, 583; Georgia letter, 640n; protection of Georgia, 646; Army pay and Asgill, 657n; Vermont, 664n, 720n, 723; alliance with Holland, 682; Huddy, 691; expenditures, 693; Asgill, 695n, 715; Schreiber, 698n, 712, 762; invalid regiment, 699n; reduction of Army, 730n, 732n, 736; naval prisoners, 732; Pennsylvania legionary corps, 744; office of finance, 748; issuing commissaries, 748n; Dayton, 754n; Knoulton and Wells, 756; Post Office, 757n; Cambray, 757n; Livingston's resignation, 759n, 858; subsistence money, 759; J. P. Jones, 759, 761; deputation to Rhode Island, 772, 865; Stewart, 797n; half pay, 795n; commerce with Great Britain, 838, 875; land valuation, 850; salaries of ministers, 851. Votes, 11, 29, 61, 78, 79, 94, 97, 98, 99, 107, 108, 114, 130, 131, 144, 145, 147, 158, 162, 180, 181, 182, 188, 189, 191, 192, 193, 197, 198, 199, 200, 203, 224, 232, 233, 234, 236, 241, 242, 249, 251, 252, 253, 286, 294, 295, 296, 298, 299, 300, 343, 354, 356, 390, 391, 396, 398, 400, 401, 406, 420, 424, 450, 454, 458, 459, 523, 538, 550, 552, 562, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 576, 578, 584, 590, 593, 605, 634, 635, 636, 644, 648, 649, 653, 654, 655, 656, 665, 667, 668, 669, 690, 694, 695, 696, 714, 717, 718, 719, 724, 725, 738, 739, 740, 758, 763, 764, 767, 768, 769, 772, 789, 817, 818. Mentioned, 8n, 9n, 27, 152, 160, 192, 215n, 240, 316n, 354, 382n, 405, 416, 427n, 453n, 505, 541, 591, 658n, 693n, 711, 713n, 714, 722n, 733n, 749, 756n, 761n, 763, 764, 764n, 798n, 831, 843, 844, 852, 854, 867.
Ostrander, David, 68n.
Oswald, Richard, 600, 870.
Paca, William, governor, 746, 749; resignation as judge, 746.
Paine, Elisha, 167.
Palmer, --, 367.
Parker, William, 35.
Parsons, Alston & Co., 367.
Parsons, Samuel H., major general, 271, 367, 383n, 388, 397, 399, 400, 405.
Partridge, George, a delegate from Massachussetts. Committees: Vermont, 80, 105; mint, 86; Dodge, 104n; Indians, 127; week, 127, 131, 136, 151, 879, 880; lottery, 151n; Lincoln's letter, 200n; Edgar, 201; Landais, 213; magazines, 216. Votes, 11, 29, 61, 78, 79, 94, 97, 98, 99, 107, 108, 130, 131, 144, 145, 147, 158, 160,162, 180, 181, 182, 188, 189, 191, 192, 193, 197, 198, 199, 200, 203, 224, 232, 233, 234, 236, 241, 249, 251, 252, 253. Mentioned, 35, 45n, 79, 97, 106n, 120n, 121n, 151n, 183, 251, 276, 277n, 278.
Passports for tobacco, 309.
Patton, Robert, 657.
Paulding, William, 212.
Paymaster's department, regulations, 174.
Peace, treaty of, 11; attitude of France, 222, 632, 637; commissioners, 585; instructions, 336, 428, 458, 482, 872; conditions of, 463; instructions on claims. 479; reports from, 663; negotiations, 594, 596.
Pearson, Joseph, 42, 338, 708, 709.
Peck, William, major, 785.
Pendleton, Edmund, 872.
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Penn, William, 489, 512.
Pennsylvania, motion, 429; boundaries, 489; debts due, 539; troubles on frontier, 548, 575; quota, 564; accounts, 723n; credentials of delegates, 726; legionary corps, 744; creditors, 745, 850, 860, 864; memorial, 761; line, 837.
PennsylvAnia and Connecticut dispute, 343, 345, 351, 355, 359, 389, 392, 461, 466, 528, 533.
Pepin, Andrew, 288, 288n.
Peters, Richard, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 726; attends, 726. Committees: Army promotions, 699n, 762, 790; Army reduction, 732n, 736; Pensylvania legionary corps, 744; issuing commissarieS, 748n; Post Office, 749n, 750, 754, 757n, 793, 812, 813; information for foreign ministers, 751, 851; Dayton, 754n; Cambray, 757n; subsistence money, 759; Schreiber, 762, 764; franking, 770n, 820; half pay, 798n; Tichenor, 819n, 822; invalid regiment, 821n; secrecy in Congress, 829n, 882. Votes, 738, 739, 740, 763, 764, 767, 768, 769, 817, 818, 828. Mentioned, 737n, 739, 744n, 755n, 791n, 798, 822n, 828, 829n, 830n.
Phelps, Charles, 645n, 713, 720n, 723, 724.
Phelps, Oliver, 173.
Phelps, Seth, 572, 641.
Phelps, Timothy, 766.
Pickering, Timothy, quartermaster general, 118, 127, 129; letters, 138, 208.
Pickles, William, captain, 96, 121, 121n.
Pierce, John, 152, 736n.
Pierce, Thomas, captain, 206.
Plaigneurs, F. P. de la, 604n, 626.
Plater, George, 609, 773.
Platt, Richard, major, 41.
Plymouth charter, 497.
Pollock, Oliver, 40n, 121, 340n, 546n, 680.
Pont Gibeau (see Pontgibeaud).
Pontiere, Louis de, captain, 41.
Pontgibeaud, Moré, Chevalier de, captain, 41.
Popple's map, 492.
Portugal, minister to, 249.
Post office, 1, 547; ordinance, 121, 402, 632, 669, 687, 688, 754, 757, 764, 770, 823, 830, 888; examination of, 370; robbery of mail, 385, 386; extension of, 541; accounts, 813; post to Savannah, 831.
Postmaster general, election of, 60; expenses of, 542.
Potan, Matthew, 373, 374n, 377.
Powell, Lawrence, 136.
Power, Alexander, 131, 131n, 137.
Prioleau, --, Mr., 75.
Prisoners, marine, 76, 413, 738; accounts, 77, 336n, 463; cartel, 95n, 334, 337,378, 421,462, 551,555, 581, 657, 660; American, in England, 243n, 245; exchange, 246, 844; enlistment, 274, 275; German, 316; British, 321; rations, 323, 335; Simsbury mines, 340n; naturalization of, 344; at Philadelphia, 349; supplies for, 360; indulgences, 362; courts-martial for commissaries, 372; Spanish aid to, 373; pardon for American, in British service, 378; British, passports for, 382; recall of, 403; commissary, 413; American, provision for, 469; expense, 558; 558n, 641n, 661; from Canada, 753; British, employment, 785, 867.
Privateers: ordinance, 65, 66, 74, 280.
Prizes, marine, 378, 379; ordinance, 886, 887.
Property, loss of, 563.
Proveaux, Adrian, 276.
Pulaski, Casimir, Count, 8, 185, 334, 368, 407, 428.
Purcel, Henry, 96.
Putnam, Rufus, 791.
Quartermaster's Department, 119, 129, 130, 152, 425, 682, 693, 888.
Quebec act: 475, 496.
Quotas, of men and money, 72; rule for, 159; of money, 289, 545, 564, 571, 624, 631,659,665; apportionment of, 413, 886; of troops, 453; of emissions, redemption of, 854.
Ramsay, David, a delegate from South Carolina. Credentials, 233; attends, 708. Committees: Bieniewsky, 244n,

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308; contracts for Army, 244n; accounts with France, 255n, 305; Morris's letter, 314n; Washington's letters, 315n, 329n; salaries, 316; supplies for Southern Army, 342; Post Office, 370, 547, 749, 750n, 754, 764, 793, 812, 813; hospital department, 408, 887; lottery, 449n, 543; clothing, 609n, 645n, 679; week, 657,664, 678, 782, 793, 881, 882; post at Wyoming, 665; taxes, 668; Pennsylvania debts, 745n; franking, 770n 820. Votes, 234, 237, 241, 242, 249, 251,252, 253, 286, 294, 295, 296, 299, 300, 343, 354, 356, 390, 391, 392, 396, 398, 400, 401, 406, 420, 424, 450, 454, 455, 459, 460, 466, 523, 524, 538, 539, 551, 553, 563, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 576, 578, 585, 593, 635, 636, 637, 644, 645, 649, 654, 655, 656, 665, 667, 668, 669, 690, 694, 696, 738, 739, 740, 758, 763, 764, 767, 768, 769, 772, 790, 817, 818, 825, 828. Mentioned, 321, 343n, 361, 386, 399, 399n, 448, 541, 542n, 632n, 639, 657n, 679n, 689, 754, 783n, 794n, 812, 813, 814n, 821n, 843, 854, 866, 868.
Ramsey, William, 66n, 288n.
Randolph, Edmund, a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 709. Committees: Ministers abroad, 1; captures, 3; coins, 9; consular convention, 17; Bill, 34n; prisoners at Antigua, 34n; Parker, 35, 35n; copper hoops, 36n; Marquiz de la Fayette, 40n; Wilson's memorial, 43, 72, Vermont, 54, 80, 105; secretary's duties, 55; privateers, 65; questions, 75; Department of Foreign Affairs, 87; John Temple, 101; quartermaster's department, 128, 129; Williams, 146; fisheries, 471, 524n; claims against Great Britain, 481. Votes, 11, 29, 61, 78, 79, 95, 97, 98, 99, 107, 108, 114, 130, 131. Mentioned, 1n, 3n, 8n, 25n, 27, 35n, 43n, 45n, 72, 72n, 76n, 80, 88n, 98, 118n, 120, 129n, 136n, 142n, 521n, 872.
Ravel, John, 73.
Raymond, Jesse, 276.
Read, George, 869; judge Court of Appeals, 765, 797, 821n, 862.
Recaptured property, 870, 872.
Redhead, George, 34.
Reed, Joseph, president, 81n, 163, 345, 388, 528, 529.
Reed, William, 461.
Rees, David, 657, 700.
Refugees from South Carolina, 330, 520.
Reib, Nicholas, 243n, 277.
Representation in Congress, 104.
Resolution, ship, 116, 117.
Retaliation, 716, 720, 847.
Reynolds, John, 7.
Rhode Island, credentials of delegates, 320, 322, 642, 787; motion, 359, 361; boundaries of, 488; quota, 564; impost, 643, 864, 871; deputation to, 771, 789, 811, 831; letter to, 783, 789, 856, 867: letters from assembly, 788, 832; line, 837.
Robertson, James, general, 662n.
Robinson, Moses, 157, 203.
Robinson, Robert (?), 387, 388.
Rochambeau, Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Count de, 870.
Roderigue Hortales & Co., 742, 774.
Rodney, Cæsar, a delegate from Delaware. Credentials, 75. Committees: Vermont, 80, 105.
Rodney, George Brydges, admiral, 34n. 61.
Rodney, Thomas, a delegate from Delaware. Attends, 54.
Rogers, D., colonel, 184.
Root, Jesse, a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 822, 823; attends, 244. Committees: Public credit, 279, 289; Hancock, 280n; week, 399, 403, 881. Votes, 249, 251, 252, 253, 286, 224, 295, 296, 390, 391, 396, 398, 400, 401, 406, 420, 424, 450, 454, 458, 459, 466, 523, 524. Mentioned, 289, 347, 352, 386, 383, 396, 397n, 398, 399n, 403n, 404n, 420, 423, 424, 425n, 453, 458, 461, 528, 529.
Ross, David, 292.
Roth, Francis Charles, lieutenant, 185, 309, 344.
Rubsamen, Jacob, 311, 530.
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Russia, mediation of, 63; mission to, 301.
Rutledge, Hugh, 234.
Rutledge, John, governor, 213n, 260n, 640n; a delegate from South Carolina. Credentials, 233; attends, 233, 708. Committees: Audience, 261; Washington's letters, 237n, 460n, 753n; prisoners, 243n, 245, 882, 388n, 462; Bieniewsky, 243n, 261n, 296; Pennsylvania letter, 244n; contracts for Army, 244n; enlistment of prisoners, 274; German prisoners, 276n, 816; public credit, 279, 407, 423; Hancock, 280n; deputation to South, 289, 853; Virginia resolutions, 308n; passports for tobacco, 309; President's expenses, 340n; Henry, 363; bills of exchange, 365n; War Department, 370; release of Laurens, 380; Steuben, 419n; accounts of public servants, 421n; cartel, 422n; Loan Office certificates, 447; Say's instructions, 449; claims against Great Britain, 460, 468; Gates, 465; fisheries, 524n; Francis Wade, 530; packet to Europe, 537; America, 543; troops in Southern department, 553, 559; land cessions, 553, 604; quotas, 564; Dutch contracts, 579; Laurens, 584; interest, 585n, 591; peace, 603, 632, 637; Cornwallis and Laurens, 582n, 607n, 608, 852; Huntington, 628n; Lafayette's letter, 629n; Huntington and Gray, 641; cartel, 657, 660; Lippincott and Huddy, 662, 691; Vermont, 664n, 720n, 723; Asgill, 695n, 715; accounts in Europe, 728; issuing commissaries, 748n; Knoulten and Wells, 756; Livingston's resignation, 759n; Pennsylvania memorial, 761; coins, 811n, 821; Department of Foreign Affairs, 823; merchants in Georgia, 834; commerce with Great Britain, 838, 875; land valuation, 850; Pennsylvania debts, 860; week, 880. Votes, 234, 237, 241, 242, 249, 251, 252, 253, 286, 294, 295, 296, 299, 300, 354, 356, 390, 391, 392, 396, 398, 400, 401, 406, 424, 450, 454, 455, 459, 460, 466, 523, 524, 538, 539, 551, 553, 563, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 576, 578, 585, 591, 593, 605, 606, 635, 636, 637, 644, 645, 649, 654, 655, 656, 665, 667, 668, 669, 690, 694, 696, 714, 717, 718, 719, 724, 725, 726, 738, 739, 740, 758, 763, 764, 767, 768, 769, 772, 825, 828. Mentioned, 104n, 242, 260n, 289, 290n, 295, 295n, 301, 301n, 810n, 853, 353n, 372n, 422, 427, 427n, 450, 455, 459, 460, 461, 465, 485n, 523, 524n, 528, 537n, 540n, 545n, 546n, 549, 551, 552, 560n, 563n, 564n, 577, 577n, 578, 583n, 584, 595, 596n, 634, 636, 643n, 648, 651n, 659n, 662, 666n, 690, 691n, 698, 706n, 715n, 720, 722, 722n, 724n, 729n, 754, 754n, 770, 828, 831, 831n, 832n, 843, 845, 848, 850, 853, 854, 855, 862, 872.
Rutledge, T., 785.
Sagadahock, 491.
St. Clair, Arthur, major general, 3n, 41, 128.
St. Croix River, 491.
St. Eustatius, capture, 60.
St. John River, 491, 823.
St. Lawrence, free use of, 641n.
St. Mary's Bay, 491.
Salaries, 306, 808, 313, 316; of ministers, 253, 256, 306, 332, 741, 850; of secretaries, 259; civil list, 288.
Saltpeter, 311.
Sands, Comfort, & Co., 173.
Savannah, post to, 831; merchants in, 835.
Schermerhorn, Reyer, 783, 791, 819.
Schreiber, Jacob, 36, 40n, 151, 152n, 218, 449, 664, 678, 691, 698, 712, 713n, 714, 715, 750n, 757, 762.
Schuyler, Philip, 240, 369, 646, 869.
Scott, Charles, brigadier, 812.
Scott, John Herin, a delegate from New York. Credentials, 750; attends, 75. Committees: Week, 80, 95,308, 879, 880; Resolution, 116; prize money, 126; fast day, 137; Jay and Carmichael's letters, 141n; Wynkoop, 195; Mississippi, 207; supernumerary officers, 210; Huddy, 217; military preparations, 221; Connecticut letter, 239n; Bieniewsky, 244n,

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308; German prisoners, 276n, 316; De Witt, 310n; Washington's letters, 315n, 329n, 456n, 460n: refugees from South Carolina, 330; Beaulieu, 407n; accounts of public servants, 421n; illicit trade, 333n, 340, 383, 393n; prisoners, 360n, 361; War Department, 370; release of Laurens, 380; mail robbery, 386n; Post Office,402, 888; Pennsylvania and Connecticut, 461n, 466. Votes, 94, 97, 98, 99, 107, 108, 114, 130, 131, 144, 145, 147, 158, 160, 163, 180, 181, 182, 188, 189, 191, 192, 193, 197, 198, 199, 200, 203, 224, 232, 233, 234, 236, 240, 242, 249, 251, 252, 253, 286, 294, 295, 296, 299, 300, 343, 354, 356, 406, 420, 424, 450, 454, 458, 459, 466, 523, 524. Mentioned, 96, 107, 115n, 117n, 144, 145, 147, 158, 161, 162, 180, 185, 186, 189, 192, 193, 211, 212n, 214n, 224, 252, 277n, 281, 286n, 323, 356, 380n, 382n, 384, 385, 386, 403n, 429n, 468n, 678n.
Seal of the United States, 57, 338.
Seamen, Philadelphia memorial, 366n; captured, 564.
Searle, --, 141, 703.
Secretary of Congress, duties, 55; salary of deputy, 115n.
Segond, James, captain, 8, 9, 664n, 688n, 713n, 714, 715.
Seleron. (See Celeron.)
Serapis, 376.
Sergeant, Jonathan Dickinson, 345, 351, 389, 401, 528, 529.
Serril, Isaac, 119.
Shattuck, William, 723, 724, 766.
Shee, Bertles, 628, 640.
Sheftall, Mordecai, 640.
Shepard, William, colonel, 651n, 764.
Sherman, Roger, a delegate from Connecticut. Committees: Consular convention, 17. Mentioned, 60.
Silsbee, Nathaniel, 73.
Simmons, William, 66n, 288n.
Six Nations, lands of, 226, 430.
Smallwood, William, major general, 41, 322n.
Smith, James, 376n, 470.
Smith, P., 862.
Smith, Robert, 92, 93.
Smith, Seth, 60n.
Smith, Thomas, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Attends, 707. Committees: Week, 70, 119,120n, 288, 399, 403, 640, 879, 880, 881, 882; Wilson's memorial, 72; McKinsey and Caldwell, 81n; land cessions, 184, 223; illicit trade, 333n; De Witt, 336n; Post Office Department, 370, 547. Votes, 79, 94, 97, 98, 107, 108, 114, 131, 144, 145, 146, 147, 158, 163, 181, 182, 188, 189, 190, 192, 193, 194, 197, 199, 200, 224, 232, 233, 234, 236, 241, 242, 249, 251, 252, 253, 286, 294, 295, 296, 299, 300, 343, 354, 356. 390, 391, 392, 396, 398, 420, 424, 450, 454, 458, 460, 466, 523, 524, 538, 539, 550, 553, 562, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 576, 578, 584, 590, 593, 605, 606, 635, 636, 648, 649, 653, 654, 655, 656, 665, 667, 668, 669, 690, 694, 695, 696, 714, 717, 718, 719, Mentioned, 70n, 119n, 184, 225, 288n, 290, 313, 352n, 390, 429n, 549, 549n, 563, 564n, 570, 640n, 665, 843.
Smith, William, 4.
Smith, William S., lieutenant colonel, 41, 367.
Sophia Philippina Elizabeth Justina, Princess, of France; death, 327.
Sourigois, 491.
South Carolina, 309, 632, 703.
South Carolina, credential of delegates, 233; refugees from, 330; motion, 354; boundaries of, 489; quota, 564.
Spain, alliance with, 142, 207, 843; treaty with., 449, 455.
Spooner, Paul, 157.
Sproat, James, 33, 733.
Stackly, Charles, lieutenant, 706.
Staff departments, 176.
Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Augustus Henry Ferdinand, Baron de, 33, 419, 420, 733n, 833.
Stevens, John, 325.
Stevenson, J. R., 326.
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Stiles, Ezra, 168.
Stoddard, Darius, 383.
Stoddard, Fortune, 527,
Stratton, Aaron, 179, 195.
Strong, Jedediah, a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 823.
Sullivan, John, a delegate from Massachusetts. Credentials, 278. Mentioned, 34n, 104, 239.
Sweden, treaty with, 592, 610, 621, 622.
Sweers, Cornelius, 280.
Sweers, Hannah, 277, 280.
Symmetry, transport, 532.
Talbot, Silas, colonel, 681.
Tarleton, Banastre, 583.
Tax, land, 439; excise, 441; poll, 441.
Taxes for funds, 115n; recommended, 546; Federal, 666, 668, 669.
Telfair, Edward, a delegate from Georgia. Committees: Grand, 14; week, 70, 232, 235, 879, 880, 881; Vermont, 80, 105; accounts, 83; mint, 87; public credit, 408, 423; Trumbull, 415n, 465n, 631; lottery, 449n, 543: Francis Wade, 530; quotas, 564. Votes, 11, 29, 78, 79, 95, 97, 98, 99, 107, 108, 114, 130, 131, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 158, 161, 163, 181, 182, 188, 189, 190, 192, 193, 194, 197, 199, 200, 204, 224, 232, 233, 234, 237, 241, 242, 249, 251, 252, 253, 286, 294, 295, 296, 299, 300, 390, 391, 392, 396, 398, 400, 401, 406, 420, 424, 450, 454, 455, 459, 460, 466, 523, 524, 538, 539, 551, 563, 565, 566, 567, 568. Mentioned, 60, 93, 147, 190n, 220, 250, 293, 296, 299, 455, 459, 523.
Temple, John, 1, 2, 101.
Texier, Felix, 363.
Thanksgiving and prayer, 646; proclamation, 888.
Thompson, Ebenezer, 709.
Thompson, --, captain, 117n.
Thomson, Charles, 7, 40n, 47n, 54, 54n, 57, 67, 91n, 92n, 102n, 104n, 163n, 173n, 203, 223n, 301n, 321n, 326n, 329n, 340n, 363n, 373n, 376n, 380n, 384n, 411n, 425n, 448n, 536n, 537n, 545n, 554, 554n, 581n, 606n, 622n, 667n, 716n, 717, 720n, 722n, 810n, 814n, 822, 837, 886.
Tichenor, Isaac, 157, 819n.
Tilghman, Tench, lieutenant colonel, 41.
Tobacco, export of, 71, 73; trade, 271; public, 309.
Totten, 382.
Tousard, Louis, lieutenant colonel, 321.
Town, John, 235.
Trade, illicit, with enemy, 341, 362, 383, 384, 392.
Traversier, Joseph, 374, 407, 456, 457.
Treason laws, 462.
Trumbull, Jonathan, governor, 34n, 115, 115n, 163, 196, 238n, 243n, 280, 319n, 333n, 340, 370, 404, 794, 886.
Trumbull, Joseph, 45, 212, 404, 415, 464, 631, 691, 692n.
Tucker, Thomas Tudor, doctor, 752.
Turberville, John, 127.
Turnbull, Charles, 687.
Turnbull, William, & Co., 185,185n, 194.
Turner, David, 571.
Turner, George, 290, 290n.
Tyler, John, 709.
Vacher, John, 308.
Valnais, -- de, 43.
Vandalia land company, 184, 191, 223, 228.
Van Schaick, Goose, colonel, 34n, 287, 352, 353n, 721.
Van Staphorst, Jacob, 579, 580.
Van Staphorst, Nicholas, 579.
Varick, Richard, 152.
Varnum, James Mitchell, a delegate from Rhode Island. Committees: Land cessions, 184, 223. Mentioned, 104, 104n.
Vaubrun, Levacher de, 322n, 323.
Vaudreuil, Louis Phillipe de Rigaud, Marquis de, 543, 758, 761.
Verdier, Baptiste, lieutenant, 793, 793n, 794.
Vergennes, Charles Graylet, Comte de, 62, 63, 141, 221, 262; 290, 291, 321, 596, 597, 600, 602, 695n, 715, 741, 742, 845, 870.
Vermont controversy, 54, 157, 162, 282, 713, 714, 723, 724, 756, 760, 765, 766, 766n, 777, 782, 849, 858, 862; committee reports, 57, 80, 104, 106; boundaries, 107, 109; independence, 108, 186;

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terms of union, 164; disturbances, 596n; 645n, 663, 856.
Vernon, William, 369.
Virginia, credentials of delegates, 77, 78, 401, 709; land cessions, 191, 227, 240, 423; resolutions, 308n, 311; foreign loan, 357; quotas, 413, 564; garrison for York and Gloucester, 415n, 531; boundaries of, 489; charter, 497; accounts, 590; line, paymaster, 700n; repeals impost, 831, 871.
Wabash laud company, 184, 191, 223, 228, 230, 240.
Wade, Francis, 449, 530.
Wadsworth, Jeremiah, 8.
War, Secretary at, 177; assistants, 36.
War department, examination of, 370.
Ward, Artemas, a delegate from Massachusetts, 278.
Ward, Henry, 320, 323, 642, 787.
Warren, Gideon, 168. Warren, Joseph, 280, 369.
Washington, George, audience, 140, 141. Letters, 46, 66n, 86n, 87n, 93, 140n, 217, 218n, 237n, 315n, 818, 320n, 334, 357n, 388n, 397, 456, 460n, 462, 531n, 550, 551, 572n, 581n, 592n, 609n, 629n, 641n, 645n 646, 695n, 711n, 720n, 722, 733, 753n, 783n, 829n, 843, 848, 854, 856; cartel. 581.
Washington, ship, 537, 572n.
Watson, Jacob, 687.
Wayne, Anthony, brigadier general, 835, 875.
Weare, Meshech, president. 128n, 165, 290, 888.
Webster, Noah, 423.
Webster, Pelatiah, 404n, 418.
Wells, Jeremiah, 72.
Wells, Samuel, 756.
Wentworth, Benning, 488, 521n.
West Indian trade, 747.
Wharton, Samuel, a delegate from Delaware. Credentials, 75; attends, 96, 708. Committees: Week, 119, 120n, 715, 879, 880, 881, 882; audience, 261; French and English peace, 312; salaries, 332; illicit trade, 333n, 340; Morris's letter, 344n; prisoners, 360n, 361; Department of Marine, 370, 748; prizes, 377; Department of Finance, 370n, 821; expenditures in France, 410n; Harding, 740; office of finance, 748; coins, 811n, 821; Bond, 811n, 812. Votes, 97, 98, 99,107, 108, 114, 130, 131, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 158, 161, 163, 181, 182, 188, 189, 190, 192, 193, 194, 197, 199, 200, 224, 232, 238, 241, 242, 249, 251, 252, 253, 286, 343, 354, 856, 390, 391, 392, 396, 398, 406, 424, 450, 454, 455, 459, 466, 523, 524, 538, 539, 550, 553, 562, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 648, 649, 653, 654, 655, 756, 690, 694, 714, 717, 718, 719, 724, 725, 738, 739, 740, 758, 763, 764, 767, 768, 769, 825, 828. Mentioned 333n, 380n, 715n, 843.
Wheelock, John, 11.
Whipple, William, 461, 528, 859.
White, Phillips, a delegate from New Hampshire. Credentials, 709; attends, 707. Committees: Week, 715, 882; issuing commissaries, 748n. Votes, 714, 717, 718, 719, 724, 725, 738, 739, 740, 758, 763, 764, 767, 768, 769, 772, 789, 817, 818, 824, 828. Mentioned, 717, 843, 865.
White, William, 573.
Whiteside, Phineas, 168.
Wiley, Robert, captain, 236.
Willet, Marinus, colonel, 525.
Williams, Bedford, 70.
Williams, Jonathan, 387.
Williams, Otho H., brigadier general, 36n, 146, 248. 252.
Williams,--, Dr., 81. Williamsburg, hospital. 752.
Williamson, Hugh, a delegate from North Carolina. Credentials. 401; attends. 401, 708. Committees: Week, 418, 687, 881, 882; public credit, 407, 493; fisheries, 524n; ceremonial, 531; quotas, 564; interest, 585n, 591; Pollock, 596n, 680; Cornwallis and Laurens, 607n; Canada, 629n; Joseph Trumbull, 631n, 692n; Army reduction, 642; Indians. 646; thanksgiving and prayer, 646; information for foreign ministers, 751. 851; disclosure of loans, 770n, 791, 867;

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Bond, 811n, 812; secrecy in Congress, 829n; salaries of ministers, 851. Votes, 420, 424, 450, 454, 455, 459, 460, 466, 523, 524, 538, 539, 551, 553, 563, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 576, 575, 585, 591,593,605, 606,635,636,637, 644, 645, 654, 655, 656, 665, 667, 668, 669, 690, 694, 698, 717, 713, 719, 724, 725, 726, 738 739, 740, 758, 763, 764, 767, 768, 769, 772, 790, 817, 818, 825, 828. Mentioned, 419n, 523, 577, 642, 642n, 681n, 687n, 689, 689n, 695, 695n, 710, 710n, 720, 752n, 753n, 766n, 769, 770n, 792n, 843, 850, 853, 854, 864.
Willink, Jan., 579, 580.
Willink, Wilhelm, 579, 580.
Wilson, James, memorial, 40n, 72, 72n.
Wilson, James, 345, 351, 389, 528. A delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 726.
Winchester, Va., memorial, 35n.
Witherspoon, John, a delegate from New Jersey. Credentials, 325; attends, 324, 707. Committees: Illicit trade, 333n, 340; civil departments, 334; Arthur Lee, 337,386n, 404; week, 344, 880; interest on loans, 352n; prisoners, 360n, 361, 388n, 462; Department of Foreign Affairs, 370, 586; public credit, 407, 423; cartel, 422n; claims against Great Britain, 460, 468; Washington's letter, 460n; Pennsylvania and Connecticut, 461n, 466; fisheries, 524n; frontiers, 539; Pennsylvania frontier, 548; land cessions, 553n, 604; quotas, 564; Aitken, 572; thanksgiving and prayer, 646; Lippincott and Huddy, 661; Vermont, 664n, 713. Votes, 343, 354, 356, 390, 391, 392, 396, 398, 400, 401, 406, 420, 424, 450, 458, 460, 466, 523, 524, 538, 539, 550, 553, 562, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 576, 578, 584, 590, 634, 635, 636, 644, 645, 648, 649, 653, 654, 655, 656, 695, 696. Mentioned, 331n, 336, 338n, 352n, 361, 392, 399, 416, 421, 423, 459, 523, 524n, 549, 552, 574n, 635, 645n, 647n, 652, 666n, 690, 707, 843.
Wolcott, Oliver, a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 822; attends, 822. Committees: Week, 7, 8, 179, 212, 880, 882; mint, 86; Dodge, 104n; Indians, 127; fast day, 137; Southern Army, 201; issuing commissaries, 748n. Votes, 11, 29, 61, 78, 79, 94, 97, 98, 99, 107, 108, 114, 130, 131, 144, 145, 147, 158, 160, 162, 180, 181, 182, 188, 189, 191, 192, 193, 197, 198, 199, 200, 203, 824, 828. Mentioned, 8n, 38, 97, 107, 127n, 152n, 197, 198. 198n, 212n, 874.
Woodhull, Nathan, 72.
Woodward, Bezaleel, 165, 168.
Worthington, --, 823.
Wright, Turbett, a delegate from Maryland, attends, 217, 470. Committees: Merchants' memorial, 218n; Navy courts martial, 315n, 325; week, 232, 235, 288, 290, 880, 881; illicit trade, 333n; De Witt, 336n; robbery of mail, 337; department of maxine, 370; soldiers' clothing, 609n; Lippincott and Huddy, 661. Votes, 224, 232, 233, 234, 236, 241, 242, 249, 251, 252, 253, 286, 294, 295, 296, 299, 300, 343, 354, 356, 523, 524, 538, 539, 551, 553, 563, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 591, 593, 605, 606, 635, 636, 644, 645, 648, 649, 653, 654, 655, 656. Mentioned, 326n, 562, 568, 593, 635, 652, 653.
Wyllys, George, 347, 708, 823.
Wynkoop, Henry, a delegate from Pennsylvania attends, 707. Committees: Week, 7, 8, 344, 369, 373, 879, 880, 881. Votes, 11, 29, 343, 354, 356, 420. Mentioned, 344n, 717, 718, 719, 843.
Wynkoop, Jacobus, captain, 151, 152n, 196.
York, Duke of, 488.
Yorktown, garrison for, 415n.
Young, Charles, 628, 640.
Young, Moses, 583.

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