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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Journals of the Continental Congress --Monday, 18 November, 1782
The court met pursuant to adjournment, and opened in form. Present, the honourable William Whipple, Welcome Arnold, David Brearley, William Churchill Houston, and Cyrus Griffin, esquires.
The honourable William Whipple, Welcome Arnold, and Cyrus Griffin, esquires, took the oath prescribed by the 9th Article of the Confederation, and recited in the commission, before the honourable David Brearley, esquire, chief justice of the State of New Jersey, a certificate whereof was endorsed on the commission.
John Neilson, esquire, was appointed clerk.
The court adjourned till to-morrow morning ten of the clock.
The certificate endorsed on the commission is as follows:
I, David Brearley, esquire, chief justice of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that on the eighteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty two, personally appeared before me the honourable William Whipple, Welcome Arnold, and Cyrus Griffin, esquires, and were severally sworn well and truly to hear and determine the matter in question between the States of Pensylvania and Connecticut, agreeably to the tenor of the within commission, according to the best of their judgment, without favor,
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affection, or hope of reward. Dated at Trenton, the day and year above.
David Brearley.
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