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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 --FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1783
On the report of the committee, consisting of Mr. Holton, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Carroll, Mr. S. Huntington
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and Mr. Duane, appointed to confer with the Commander in Chief and to report the proper manner of receiving him, Resolved.
Ordered, That Colonel G. Morgan be, and he is hereby authorised, to engage a house for the accommodation of the Commander in Chief, during his attendance on Congress.1
[Note 1: 1 From this point the entries in the Journal are by George Bond.]
The Committee of the week [Mr. Theodorick Bland, Mr. John Francis Mercer and Mr. Stephen Higginson] report,
That the Memorial of P. Dejean be referred to the Secretary at War, to take order so far as relates to granting a protection to Mrs. Dejean, and a permit for her to dispose of his property, and a passport for her and her family and that the said Secretary at War receive from the said Dejean such information as he can give relative to the Indian nations in the Western and North Western Frontiers and report the same to Congress.2
[Note 2: 2 This report, in the writing of Richard Peters, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, II, folio 43. The indorsement and the record in Committee Books No. 186 and No. 191 indicate that Dejean's memorial was referred to a special committee August 6, who returned this report, August 8. See ante August 6, note, and post, August 9.
On this day, as the indorsement states, was read a letter of August 6, from the Superintendent of Finance, inclosing a letter of July 30 from J. Pierce, Paymaster General, and answer to questions relative to pay of the army. It is in No. 137, II, folio 771, and a copy of Pierce's letter is on folio 777.
Also, a letter of August 8 from the Secretary at War. It is in No. 149, III, folio 119.]
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