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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875

Journals of the Continental Congress --INDEX

Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
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• Accounts, 140n, 447, 538; adjustment 162, 620, 922; commissioners, 180n, 265n, 523, 562, 808; delay, 397; settlement, 153, 340, 358, 361, 367, 369, 380, 388, 392n, 402, 406, 414, 415, 425, 426, 427, 434, 435, 436, 440, 498, 499, 500, 511, 512, 516, 519n, 523, 535, 590n, 626, 636, 669, 673, 677, 697, 719, 748n, 757, 759, 761, 801, 802, 806, 807, 808, 828, 829, 830, 831, 832, 833, 834, 835, 961, 966; States with United States, 134, 135, 137, 162, 255.
• Adams, John, 33, 34, 66, 67, 68, 103, 241, 243, 245, 250, 251, 286, 290, 321, 645, 784, 858, 878, 878n, 936, 939; authority to negotiate, 531; commission to negotiate treaties, 321, 405n, 824; conduct as peace commissioner, 924; loan negotiation, 848; resignation, 225, 952. Letters, 50, 183n, 225, 320, 346, 587, 588n, 617, 618, 620n, 621, 628, 629, 630, 758, 812n, 813n, 857, 957.
• Adams, John, Benjamin Franklin and John Jay, letter, 588, 588n.
• Adams Samuel, 609, letter, 890.
• Adjutant General, agrees to accept commutation of pay, 786.
• Adjutant General's department, allowance of horses, etc. to officers, 176.
• Admiralty Court, judges, 109, 110; ordinance establishing, 109, 110.
• Agent of Marine, 573, 573n, See also under Morris, Robert.
• Agents, commercial, 372; Indian, 690, 693.
• Alexander, James, petition, 267, 267n, 268, 272.
• Alexander, William, Earl of Stirling, 26, 31, 184; Congress's sense of merit, 96; death, 96, 866.
• Algiers, procuring of ship passports from, 404.
• Aliens, property rights, 823.
• Allan, John, memorial, 379, 380; commission, 379; reappointed, 379. Letters, 362n, 620n.
• Allen, Ebenezer, letters, 504n, 681.
• Alliance, 342, 536n, 826; expense, 446; inquiry into cruise with the Bonhomme Richard, 619, 631, 755; officers, 451n; prizes, 588, 619, 631, 755; repairs, 533, 840.
• Alvey, John Durham, 229; memorial, 285n, 315, 316.
• Amazon, 82, 83; passport for, 141n, 145; supplies for British prisoners in, 128n, 141.
• Amazone, chaplain of, 817n,
• America, French and British colonies, boundary, 554.
• Amity and commerce, treaties, 50, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 404, 405, 457, 477n, 531, 613, 618, 619, 630, 631, 754, 821, 824, 826. 857, 858.
• Ammunition, sale of, 479.
• Annapolis, Congress at, 484, 507, 767, 770, 802, 807; ceded for permanent residence of Congress, 381; permanent residence of Congress, 526n, 537, 670, 707, 708, 709, 712, 714, 809.
• Annemours, Chevalier d', 554.
• Antill, Edward, letter, 483n.
• Appeals, Court of, 185, 212, 627; places of holding, 98; judge, 186n.
• Appointments, 620; collectors of customs, 920, 924; loan officer, 445.
• Archives, return of, 517, 518.
• Argote, Antonio, 548; brig captured, 227; memorial, 546, 548n; redress, 228; letters, 228, 386.

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• Armand-Tuffin, Charles, Marquis de la Rouerie, 344, 400; letters, 211, 212n, 645, 680, 680n; memorial, 752, 753n; rank, 212, 623; services, 212.
• Armand's Legion, mutineers, 971; officers, 633, 645n, 680.
• Armed vessels, Virginia, 456.
• Armistead, Henry, 539, 590.
• Arms, given to furloughed and discharged soldiers, 360, 364, 963, 965; for Indians, 492; not to be allowed to furloughed mutineers, 453; sale of, 479.
• Arms and accoutrements, given to soldiers, 270.
• Armstrong, James F., 786.
• Armstrong, John, 986.
• Armstrong, John, jr., 412n.
• Armstrong, William, letter, 145n.
• Army, accounts, 392n, 406, 499, 806; allied, damage committed, 567; anonymous address, 294, 926; arms and accoutrements allowed to men serving to end of war, 270; auditor, 316; clothing, 93, 536, 590n, 606, 646, 695n, 702, 863; condition, 181n; confidence in Congress, 310; Congress's power to support an, 723; Congress's sense on, 47; debt to, 261, 286, 955; deputation from, 850, 851; disbanded, 253, 361, 448, 449; disbanding proclamation, 703; discharges, 270, 358, 364, 365, 606, 715n, 753, 963, 965, 966; enlistment period, 269; expense, 103, 230, 230n; feeling in, 293, 851, 875, 906, 954; forage, 213; furloughs, 364, 403, 483, 483n, 590n, 963, 967; general orders, 297, 298n; land to, 376, 383, 385, 677, 678, 682, 694, 968; memorials, 93, 202, 207, 209, 290, 291, 293n, 426, 846, 862, 864; merit, 305; Newburgh Addresses, 294, 926; officers, see Officers; pay, 94, 140, 186, 187, 207, 208, 209, 209n, 213, 253, 270, 284, 302, 310, 325, 327, 331, 333, 403, 414, 415, 421n, 432, 441, 442, 454, 483, 483n, 488, 496n, 519, 520, 728, 732, 794n, 800, 851, 861, 862, 865, 875; pay advance, 847; pay arrears, 801, 898, 899, 900, 902; pay compared with civil list, 852; pay commutation, 889, 926, 954; pay deficiencies, 863; pay discontent, 851, 875; pay memorial, 93, 857, 866; pay ordered, 863, 864; pay from the States, 964; peace arrangement, 492, 494, 501n, 504n, 522, 524, 525, 549, 722, 724, 725; plan, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736, 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 744n, 836n, 954; postmaster, 229; promotions, 343, 344, 345, 345n, 366, 367n, 383, 435n, 438n, 512n, 533, 534, 623, 632, 633, 634, 645n, 680, 800; property disposed of, 253, 254; provision for, 938; rank, see Rank; rations, 93, 863; recruiting, 228; reduction of, 284, 304n, 325, 806; return of men to their homes, 275, 364, 365; return of troops to West Point, 519; returns (for 1782), 213n; sense of defects of the Federal Government, 853; thanked by Congress, 48, 703; situation of, 906; Southern, 47, 48, 181n, 182, 213, 273, 275, 304n, 316, 332n, 365n, 806; staff, 139, 213, 740; States forbidden to maintain an, 723; subsistence, 213; supplies, 808; three-months' men, 270, 271; Washington's feeling for, 301, 307, 309.
• Army, British, carries off slaves, 363, 364, 967; embarkation at New York, 422n; evacuation of America, 964; property destroyed by, 483n; recovery of slaves and property from, 242, 347n; surrender of posts in United States, 242, 252, 532n.
• Army, French, embarkation, 1; Congress's sense of its conduct, 1, 2, 317; return to France, 262; harmony with American forces, 317.
• Arnold, Jonathan, a delegate from Rhode Island. Credentials, 411; attends, 411. Committees: Connecticut loan office certificates, 37n; Grand, 93, 114n, 376n; Hall petition, 153; week, 343, 346, 392, 395, 427, 977, 978, 979; Maryland letter, 378n; Superintendent of Finance

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  letter, 380n; New York and Maryland cessions for seat of government, 381; land grants to Army, 383; McMechen memorial, 433. Votes: 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 94, 120, 127, 129, 131, 132, 135, 137, 154, 155, 165, 166, 167, 179, 192, 201, 205, 210, 215, 216, 217, 219, 224, 226n, 233, 240, 243, 252, 255, 256, 261, 266, 275, 313, 314, 315, 328, 331, 338, 352, 353, 355, 356, 359, 360, 372, 429, 431. Mentioned: 42, 45, 46, 46n, 209, 209n, 261, 268, 327, 340, 340n, 367, 367n, 388, 392n, 396n, 864, 866, 887, 889.

• Arnold, Welcome, 6, 8, 9, 32, 34n.
• Arsenals and magazines, 737.
• Articles of Confederation, see Confederation.
• Artificers, 206; see also Artillery-artificers.
• Artillery, Corps of, 275, 362n, 704, 725.
• Artillery, presented to Greene, 701; sale of, 479.
• Artillery-artificers, 519, 534, 534n.
• Aurora, 590.
• Austria, Emperor of, commercial treaty with United States, 901.
• Avery, John, 107, 108, 153, 510, 795, 796, 811, 815.
• Bailey, Benjamin, 597, 599.
• Bailey, Jacob, 761.
• Baldwin, Loammi, 752.
• Bank of North America, mutinous soldiers' designs against, 971, 974.
• Bankson, Benjamin, 482, 838n; extra allowance, 772; memorial, 638n, 772.
• Barbary States, ship passports from, 531.
• Barber, William, 786.
• Barclay, Thomas, 574, 587, 620, 636, 757, 826, 846; appointed consul, 3; letters, 3, 813n.
• Barlow, Joel, letters, 211n, 327n.
• Barney, Joshua, 369n, 924; conduct of, 341, 342, 343.
• Barry, John, 536n, 840.
• Bassett, --, 798.
• Bayard, --, claim, 827, 828.
• Baylor, George, non-commissioned officers of regiment, letter, 389n, 400; mutiny, 400.
• Beatty, John, a delegate from New Jersey. Committees: Secretary for Foreign Affairs letter, 221n; Superintendent of Finance letters and reports, 512n, 809n, 835n.
• Beaulieu, Louis I. de, 621, 680, 786; petition, 378n, 633.
• Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 954.
• Beckley, John, 111, 798.
• Bedel, Timothy, 802.
• Bedford, Gunning, jr., a delegate from Delaware. Credentials, 177; attends, 177. Committees: Week, 184, 185, 262, 378, 380, 626, 977, 978, 979; officers' pay, 203n, 207; officers' memorial, 207; Bland motion, 271, 381; Pennsylvania letter, 373; Madison and Hamilton motions, 375n; Grand, 376n; Virginia cession, 381n, 406, 559, 988; land grants to Army, 383; compelling public accounting, 399; Jones memorial, 625. Votes: 179, 192, 201, 205, 206, 210, 215, 216, 217, 219, 243, 252, 255, 257, 261, 266, 275, 372, 407, 429, 431, 601, 613, 622, 635, 637, 641, 643, 644, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 655, 656, 657, 658, 659, 665, 666, 667, 668, 670, 671, 672. Mentioned: 625n, 626n, 652, 654, 658, 664, 972.
• Beef, export duty on, 255.
• Bell, Thomas, memorial, 362, 362n, 437.
• Bellecomb & Bongaree, 600.
• Bellecour, Le Brun de, 633.
• Belsches, James, jr., letter, 347n.
• Bentalou, Philip, 786.
• Beresford, Richard, a delegate from South Carolina. Credentials, 369; attends, 369, 799. Committees: Child letter, 483; Superintendent of Finance report, 491n, 513, 514n; Weare letter, 604; Indian affairs, 692n; Bond letter, 705n, 761, 762; week, 979. Votes: 372, 478, 479, 481, 482, 493, 494, 505, 507, 508,

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  509, 515, 525, 526, 537, 540, 542, 552, 553, 559, 564, 573, 579, 580, 581, 582, 584, 613, 622, 637, 641, 643, 644, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 655, 656, 657, 658, 660, 665, 666, 667, 668, 670, 671, 672, 699, 706, 707, 708, 709, 710, 712, 713, 765, 766, 768, 769, 771, 807. Mentioned: 713, 762n.

• Bergen, Denmark, prizes sent to, 619, 631, 755.
• Bert, Claudius de, letter, 645n.
• Biggs, Thomas, petition, 512.
• Bills of exchange, drawn on United States ministers abroad, 102, 105n.
• Bindou, Joseph, memorial, 262n.
• Bird, Mark, memorial, 585n, 626.
• Bird's Mills, Pennsylvania, 841.
• Blaine, Ephraim, expenses, 158; letter, 157, 158, 158n.
• Blake, John, Joseph Bindou, John Dyer Mercier, and Benjamin Thompson, memorial, 262n, 271.
• Bland, Theodorick, a delegate from Virginia. Committees: Inquiry into War Department, 37n, 669, 803; week, 95; Washington letters, 126n, 142, 210n, 265n, 269, 305n, 382, 392n, 402, 405n; Shreve memorial, 159n; Secretary at War letters or reports, 161n, 164n, 183n, 254, 254n, 272, 394n, 395, 400, 401n, 497n, 500, 620, 632, 644, 680, 704; Metcalf memorial, 194, 212; Armand letter, 211; Mortimer memorial, 212; sale of the Duc de Lauzun, 241; Superintendent of Finance letters or reports, 263, 427n, 442, 451n, 477, 483, 491n, 513, 514n, 519; Superintendent of Finance continuance in office, 268, 283; Du Cambray letter, 285n; Du Cambray memorial, 323; Hazen's regiment, 312n; Lucas memorial, 358, 358n, 719; Ville-franche, L'Enfant, and Du Cambray memorial, 323; promotions, 345n; Tetard's memorial, 847; instructions to Dana, 348n; Connecticut sergeants' petition, 367n, 382; Virginia resolutions and Pennsylvania letter, 372; Madison and Hamilton motions, 375n; compelling public accounting, 399; Assistant Secretary at War, Washington and Putnam letters, 405n; week, 409, 977, 979; Pennsylvania mutiny, 412n; Higginson motion, 430, 431n; Dejean memorial, 492n; report of committee of the week, 492n; Irwin petition, 498n, 499; Sargent letter, 512n, 527; Jackson letter or memorial, 538n, 580n, 701; New York's claim for damages, 567; Weare letter, 604; Varick letter, 632n, 760; Platt memorial, 644; Williamson motion, 970n. Votes: 94, 116, 129, 131, 132, 135, 137, 148, 150, 151, 155, 156, 163, 166, 167, 179, 192, 201, 205, 206, 210, 216, 217, 219, 224, 226n, 233, 240, 243, 252, 255, 257, 261, 266, 276, 314, 315, 329, 331, 339, 352, 359, 360, 361, 372, 407, 429, 431, 478, 479, 481, 482, 484, 493, 494, 505, 507, 508, 509, 515, 525, 526, 537, 540, 542, 543, 544, 552, 553, 559, 564, 573, 579, 580, 581, 582, 584, 586, 587, 613, 622, 635, 637, 641, 643, 644, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 655, 656, 657, 658, 895, 900n, 904. Debate on revenue measure, 884. Mentioned: 43n, 83, 96n 97, 106, 106n, 109, 109n, 131n, 135, 137, 139, 139n, 150, 154, 155, 155n, 165, 165n, 178n, 203n, 204, 205, 215, 224, 229n, 252, 256, 271, 272n, 311n, 324, 328, 333, 344, 344n, 347n, 372, 381, 382n, 384, 386, 395n, 399, 406, 406n, 421n, 431n, 478n, 480, 484, 494, 506, 514n, 517, 521, 524, 528, 539, 539n, 553, 573, 581, 586, 589, 590, 606n, 640, 641, 643, 648, 653, 701n, 858, 864, 868, 870, 872n, 879, 881, 884, 886, 887, 888, 889, 890, 891, 893, 897, 900, 902, 917, 919, 920, 928, 933, 934n, 937, 941, 945, 948, 949, 951, 952, 960, 963, 964, 969, 970, 970n, 972.
• Bleiswyk, P. V., 66, 67.
• Blount, William, a delegate from North Carolina. Committees: inquiry into marine agent, 37. Votes: 36.

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• Boat, mechanical propulsion, 433, 434.
• Bond, George, 42, 68n, 95n, 182, 195n, 220n, 227, 251n, 257n, 266n, 280n, 316n, 343n, 397n, 410, 428n, 496n, 515, 557n, 587n; extra pay, 762; letters, 519n, 705, 705n, 771n; resignation, 762, 777; services approved by Congress, 771.
• Bonds, privateer, 377, 378.
• Bonhomme Richard, 787, 788, 826; inquiry into cruise, 619, 631, 755, 826, 827; prize money, 631, 756; seamen's memorial, 347n, 568, 569.
• Books for Congress, 83, 92n, 858, 859.
• Boor, John Abraham de, 758.
• Booth, James, 177.
• Borden, Joseph, letter, 322.
• Boston, merchants, memorial, 585n.
• Boston, frigate, 827.
• Boudinot, Elias, a delegate from New Jersey. Attends, 797. Votes: 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 94, 116, 120, 127, 129, 131, 132 135, 137, 148, 150, 155, 163, 165, 166 167, 179, 192, 201, 205, 206, 210, 215 216, 217, 219, 224, 226n, 233, 240, 243 252, 255, 257, 261, 266, 275, 313, 314 315, 329, 331, 338, 352, 353, 355, 356, 359, 360, 372, 407, 429, 431, 478, 479 481, 482, 484, 493, 494, 505, 507, 508 509, 513, 525, 536, 559, 564, 573, 579 580, 581, 582, 584, 586, 592, 593, 596, 601, 613, 622, 635, 637, 641, 642, 644, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 654, 655, 656, 657, 658, 659, 665, 666, 667, 670, 671, 672, 675, 676, 679, 698, 706, 708, 709, 710, 713, 718, 719, 763, 764, 765, 766, 768, 769, 771; letter, 521, 813n; letter to, 539; thanked for conduct as President of Congress, 799. Mentioned: 64, 66, 67, 95n, 97n, 113n, 118, 125n, 187n, 191n, 209n, 226n, 227n, 251, 267n, 273n, 275n, 285n, 338n, 350n, 365n, 382n, 383n, 395n, 413n, 430, 439, 456n, 476, 495n, 497n, 499n, 500n, 506n, 510n, 522n, 563n, 565, 569n, 606n, 614, 632n, 634n, 651, 688n, 694n, 698, 701, 703, 706, 748n, 762n, 768n, 770n, 778, 788n, 820n, 879, 888, 891, 969, 983, 984, 988, 989.
• Boundary, French and British, colonies in America, 554; Indian lands, 643, 686; Northwest Territory, 691; United States, 555, 684, 685, 962; United States and Great Britain, 246, 250; Western, 942, 944, 956.
• Bounty, 286, 955; export, 927.
• Bourbon, expense, 446; sale of, 447, 447n.
• Bradford, William, jr., 9, 12, 13, 16, 24, 25, 26, 27.
• Brandy, French duty diminished, 589.
• Brassier & Chevrier, 599.
• Brearley, David, 6, 7, 8, 9, 32.
• Brevet rank, see Rank.
• Brodhead, Daniel, 225, 451n; accounts, 175; court-martial expense, 225; lawsuit against, 157, 174; memorial, 224; petition, 157.
• Brookhouse, Nathaniel, 368.
• Brooks, John, 310, 847, 850, 851; speech on pay for army, 852.
• Brown,--, 341, 342.
• Bruin, Peter Bryan, 786.
• Brussel, Joseph, 569; memorial, 396, 568.
• Buchanan, John, memorial, 95, 96n; petition, 174.
• Buchanan, William, letter, 154n, 311.
• Buckley, John, court-martial, 840.
• Buhler, John C., petition, 316n.
• Bull, --, 681.
• Bullock, Joseph, letter, 528.
• Burgoyne, John, 947.
• Burnet, Robert, 786, 857.
• Burnet, William, 439, 912.
• Butler, Richard, 38n; letters, 47, 405n, 413.
• Cambray, J. L. Du, letter, 285n; memorial and promotion, 324.
• Campaign (of 1783), inexpediency of preparation for, 142.
• Canada, affairs in, 890; joining the Confederacy, 570.
• Canadian refugees, 273, 483n, 496, 966; case of, 213; memorial, 268, 955; compensation

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  by Great Britain, 348; petition 497; New York citizenship, 497; aid for, 497n.

• Canadian regiment, Hazen's, memorial, 268; Congress's sense of services, 269.
• Canary Islands, sea captures north of, 518, 518n.
• Cape François, San Domingo, 440.
• Captures, sea, 518, 518n, 757; recaptures, 857.
• Carberry, Henry, 565, 565n, 974.
• Carleton, Sir Guy, Correspondence with Washington, 329n, 340n, 363, 364; holding of New York, 361; carries away negroes, 361; complaint to, 912; failure to conform to treaty, 967.
• Carleton, Sir Guy and Robert Digby, letter, 211n.
• Carleton, Joseph, 804, 805.
• Carman, William, 565, 566.
• Carmichael, William, 587, 620, 636, 757; letter, 531.
• Carrington, Edward, 986.
• Carroll, Daniel, a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 177;attends, 492, 797. Committees: Inquiry into War Department, 37n, 669, 803; regulation of Quartermaster Department, 45n; Superintendent of Finance letter, 49, 49n; Grand, 93, 114n; memorials of Pennsylvania representatives, 99; Chittenden letter, 108n, 241, 367; Ross memorial, 108n; Washington letter, 138n, 501n, 526n; Hall petition, 153; George Clinton letter, 164n, 285n; Buchanan petition, 174n; report of Grand committee, 178; IIancock letter, 219; Indian Affairs, 264n, 677, 680, 681, 689, 689n, 747; Edison letter, 265; Hazen memorial, 268; Bland motion, 271, 381; ministers' salaries, 312; Invalid corps, 321; Franklin and Adams letter, 346; Washington reception, 495, 501n; Schuyler letter, 501n; Williamson motion, 503, 505; Allen letter, 504n; Paine letter, 513n; Assistant Secretary of War letter, 517n, 534n; Gerry motion, 518n, 627; Rendon letter, 546; conference with Commander in chief, 548; instructions to Pennsylvania delegates, 591; ordinance for Indian trade, 693; Peters motion, 717; Fowler memorial, 746; Van Berckel letter, 748; conference with Boor, 758; residence of Congress, 770; Wilson motion, 790; land valuation method, 855, 886; conference with Superintendent of Finance, 886; instructions to ministers abroad, 934n; Western country, 957; Hazen memorial, 957. Votes: 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 94, 116, 121, 127, 129, 131, 132, 135, 137, 148, 150, 151, 155, 156, 163, 166, 167, 179, 217, 219, 233, 240, 243, 252, 255, 257, 261, 266, 275, 314, 315, 339, 352, 353, 354, 355, 356, 357, 359, 360, 361, 493, 494, 505, 507, 508, 509, 515, 525, 537, 540, 542, 543, 544, 545, 552, 553, 559, 564, 573, 579, 580, 586, 593, 596, 613, 622, 635, 637, 641, 643, 644, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 655, 656, 657, 658, 659, 665, 666, 667, 668, 670, 671, 672, 674, 675, 676, 679, 699, 706, 707, 708, 709, 710, 712, 713, 719, 763, 764, 765, 766, 768, 769, 771, 807. Elected chairman of Congress, 539, 799. Mentioned: 34, 39, 49, 98, 98n, 105, 108, 109, 117, 119, 120, 123, 126n, 128, 128n, 139, 141, 143, 178n, 265n, 354, 356, 359, 502n, 506, 543, 552, 554, 559, 568, 616, 627, 652, 656, 670, 671, 679n, 702, 707, 711, 744, 745, 752, 768, 770n, 791n, 854, 879, 887, 891, 906, 940, 948, 965, 966, 967.
• Cartel ship, from North Carolina, captured, 318.
• Cary, Wilson Miles, 798.
• Castaing, Peter, letter, 402, 402n; promotion, 839n.
• Cato, privateer, 368.
• Cavalry, return home, 275; Second Light dragoons, accept commutation of pay, 786; dragoon deserters, 794n.
• Cayuga, N. Y., lands granted to soldiers, 642, 687.
• Cazeau, Francis, memorial, 117; letter, 402, 402n.
• Cedars (The), hostages, 673.

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• Census, 118, 119, 124, 191, 197, 215, 215n, 223, 260; States to take, 191, 197; population of various States, 953.
• Ceremonial, of reception of foreign ministers, 390, 392n.
• Chain, for Hudson River, 626, 627.
• Chaplains, Army memorial, 332, 345, 346.
• Charles Town, Maryland, inhabitants, memorial, 816, 817n.
• Charleston, South Carolina, evacuated by British, 48, 855, 857.
• Chase, Jeremiah Townley, a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 813, 814; attends, 813. Committees: Taylor memorial, 590n; Superintendent of Finance letter, 623n; commerce, 664n; Heineken memorial, 672n; Indian affairs, 672n; government of western territory, 693n; New York memorial, 815; week, 815, 817, 980; Patton memorial, 818n. Mentioned, 818n, 842.
• Chase, Samuel, a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 812. Votes: 819.
• Chaumont, Donatien Leray de, 826.
• Chesapeake Bay, loyalist outrages, 912.
• Chester, capture, 815.
• Chever, John, memorial, 817, 818n.
• Child, Caleb, letter, 483, 483n.
• China, consul to, 816.
• Chittenden, Thomas, 138n, 856; correspondence with Washington, 108n, 138n; letters, 108n, 241n, 367.
• Christie, James, sentenced, 566.
• Church & Haydon, 228; violation of neutrality, 227, 386, 387.
• Citizens, 620.
• Citizenship, 497; Natchez settlers, 437; Northwest Territory, 560.
• Civil list and civil service, see Departments, civil.
• Claims, Commissioners, 255; private, 969.
• Clark, Abraham, a delegate from New Jersey. Committees: Superintendent of Finance letter or report, 38n, 168n, 181n, 194n, 195n, 442, 512n, 622n, 695n, 807; Howell and Jones motion, 114n; week, 160, 161, 585, 977, 979; Secretary at War letter or report, 175n, 224, 254n, 330, 500n; Washington letter, 186, 186n, 294n, 340n, 926; Desdevens representation, 213n, 273; Gilmer letter, 229n, 265; Grand, 230, 376n; Blake and others memorial, 262n, 271; Dyer motion, 327, 330, 366, 383; indemnification for military destruction, 330; chaplains' memorial, 332n, 345; Potts letter, 332n, 515; Greene letter, 332n, 388; Paine letter, 402n, 409n, 512; officers' petition for western lands, 421n; Moore petition, 428n, 614; Mercer petition, 435n; Assistant Secretary at War letter, 438n; Van Ingen petition, 440n, 502; President's household expenses, 337n, 500; naval officers' memorial, 347n, 516; Lucas memorial, 358n, 719; Allan memorial, 379; land grants to army, 383; Weare letter, 445, 446n, 606n, 637; Killbuck memorial, 491; New Brunswick inhabitants address, 501, 501n; Massachusetts legislature memorial, 572n; reduction of civil departments, 577n, 580n, 623; Bird memorial, 585n, 626; Taylor memorial, 590n; Varick letter, 632n, 760; Mesplet memorial, 636n; Remsen and Bankson memorial, 638n, 772; Platt memorial, 644; Lytle memorial, 646n; residence of Congress, 659, 841n; Pierce letter, 659n; New Hampshire legislative proceedings, 672; Hall petition, 672n, 696; Howell motion, 676n, 677n; ordinance for Indian trade, 693; Durant memorial, 697; letters from peace commissioners, 714; Van Berckel letter, 748; Armand memorial, 752; Nourse memorial, 759n, 802; Paymaster General letter, 800; Secretary of Foreign Affairs letter, 936; indemnification of officers, 963. Votes: 155, 163, 165, 166, 167, 179, 192, 201, 205, 206, 210, 215, 216, 217, 219, 224, 226n, 233, 240, 243, 252, 255, 257, 261, 275, 313, 314, 315, 329, 331, 338, 352, 353, 355, 356, 359, 360, 372, 407, 429, 431, 478, 479, 481, 482, 484, 493, 494,

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  505, 507, 508, 509, 513, 559, 564, 579, 581, 582, 584, 592, 593, 596, 601, 613, 622, 635, 637, 641, 642, 644, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 654, 655, 656, 657, 658, 659, 666, 667, 670, 671, 672, 674, 675, 676, 679, 698. Speech on the separate article of treaty, 941. Mentioned: 160n, 161n, 162, 205, 217, 221, 232, 232n, 233, 243, 276, 276n, 330n, 339n, 346n, 366n, 368, 372, 382, 383n, 384, 407, 429, 479, 492, 498, 499n, 501n, 516n, 585n, 626n, 638n, 644n, 677, 679n, 689n, 697, 698, 752, 760n, 772n, 809n, 927n, 929, 937, 939, 941, 945, 946. 948, 956, 965, 968, 969, 972.

• Clark, Daniel, 122.
• Clark, George Rogers, land grants to him and his troops, 560, 972.
• Clarke & Nightingale, 600.
• Claypoole, David C., 539.
• Clerks, see under Departments, civil.
• Clinton, George, letters, 108n, 164n.
• Clinton, James, 38, 786.
• Clothier general, 397, 537.
• Clothing, 537; Army memorial, 93; deficiencies, 426, 863; for Indians, 491, 688, 689; purchases, 536; from Europe, 574, 575; for troops, 590n, 606, 695n, 702; sale suspended, 646; peace establishment, 737.
• Clymer, George, nominated for Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 969.
• Cocoa, duty on, 927.
• Coffee, duty on, 927.
• Coffin, Edward, 597, 598.
• Coin, specimen, 273; foreign exchange rate, 443.
• Collectors of customs, 171, 189, 920, 924; of revenue, 883.
• Colles, Christopher, petition, 427, 427n.
• Collins, Isaac, letter, 412n.
• Collins, John, a delegate from Rhode Island. Committees: On inquiry into Agent of Marine, 37, 37n; week, 108, 262, 977, 978; Superintendent of Finance letter, 168; Nantucket memorial, 182n, 187, 206; Pennsylvania Supreme Executive Council letter, 184; Grand, 230; naval officers' memorial, 347n. Votes: 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 94, 120, 127, 129, 131, 132, 135, 137, 148, 150, 154, 155, 162, 163, 165, 166, 167, 179, 192, 201, 205, 215, 216, 217, 219, 224, 226n, 233, 240, 252, 255, 256, 261, 266, 275, 313, 314, 315, 328, 331, 338, 352, 353, 355, 356, 359, 360, 372, 407; letter, 268n. Mentioned: 32, 41, 46n, 891, 911.
• Collins, W., letter, 409n.
• Colonels, lieutenant, promoted, 185, 633.
• Commander in chief, see Washington, George.
• Commerce, 662, 756; French protection of, 3; French West Indies permits, 46; with Hamburg, 64n, 758; treaties, 320, 321, 404, 405, 405n, 587, 613, 618, 619, 630, 631, 754, 821, 901, 958, 964, 966, see also Amity and commerce; committee, 511, 590n; West India, 532n, 587; with France, 589, 746; jealousy of America's, 617, 628, 629; restraint of, 617; with Europe, 621; address to States on, 629; reciprocity, 720, 721; convention of neutral maritime powers, 756; with Madeira, 779; improper for United States to engage in, 792; impost on, 875, 881, 884, 923.
• Commissary General Department, commissioner for settling accounts, 64.
• Commissary of military stores, 340, 804; settlement of accounts, 154n; commission on purchases, 158.
• Commissaries, issuing, memorial, 170; letter, 748, 748n; field commissaries of military stores, petition, 794.
• Commission, on purchases, 158; to negotiate treaty with Great Britain, 405n.
• Commissioners, of accounts, 49, 406, 407, 523, 535, 562, 808, 828, 829, 830, 831, 832, 833, 834, 835, 961; United States abroad, 204n; to superintend British embarkation at New York, 274, 422n, 436; to negotiate with Indians, 643, 689, 690, 693, 695; for negotiating

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  peace, 364, 518, 518n, 714, 754, 825, 929, 930, 931, 932, 933, 934, 935, 935n, 936, 938, 939, 940, 941, 943, 944; to value land, 887, 899.

• Committees, of the Whole, 97, 98, 105, 109, 890, 891; to proceed to headquarters, 253, 270; reports, 266; States, 791; of last Congress, 800; standing, 977.
• Commutation of pay, see Pay.
• Comptroller of the Treasury, see Treasury, Comptroller.
• Condict, Silas, a delegate from New Jersey. Committees: Week, 36, 392, 395, 446, 626, 638, 977, 978, 979, 980; inquiry into Post Office, 37n, 329; Grand, 93, 602; postmaster's letter, 110; Hall petition, 110; Secretary for Foreign Affairs letter, 156; Postmaster General letter, 228; Superintendent of Finance letter, 315; prohibition of settlement on Indian lands, 506n; Jones memorial, 625. Votes: 35, 36, 40, 41, 42. 94, 116, 120, 127 129, 131, 132, 135, 137, 148, 150, 155, 163, 205, 206, 313, 314, 431, 478, 507, 508, 582, 584, 635, 637, 650, 651, 658, 659, 165, 166, 167, 179, 192, 201, 210, 255, 257, 261, 266, 275, 315, 329, 331, 372, 407, 429, 479, 481, 482, 493, 494, 505, 509, 525, 573, 579, 580, 581, 586, 592, 593, 596, 601, 613, 641, 642, 644, 647, 648, 649, 652, 653, 654, 655, 656, 657, 665, 666, 667, 670, 671, 672, 674, 675, 676, 679, 698, 763, 764, 765, 766, 768, 769, 771. Mentioned: 146, 148, 209, 317, 579, 586, 699, 762, 771n.
• Confederacy, 346.
• Confederation, Articles of, eighth, 114, 114n, 124, 130, 130n, 135, 138, 162, 173, 191, 201, 214, 223, 260, 527, 529, 922; ninth, 130; amendment, 173, 214, 215n, 223, 259, 260, 403, 404, 404n, 527, 529, 570, 571n, 871, 874, 916, 922; number of States necessary to determine action, 403, 570, 571, 848; powers of Congress to support a military establishment, 723; mode of settling land valuation, 854; continuance of, 952.
• Confiscation, in treaty of peace, 249; of loyalist property, 373; of British debts, 857.
• Congress, secrecy, 44, 45, 313, 850; permanent residence, 229n, 376, 378n, 422n, 428, 438n, 439, 444n, 451n, 521, 526n, 537, 548, 553n, 603, 604, 616, 647, 648, 649, 654, 655, 656, 657, 658, 659, 695n, 697, 698, 705n, 707, 708, 709, 712, 714, 768, 770, 816, 841; powers, 285n, 524, 532, 591, 763, 826, 866--884, 872, 878, 907, 908, 909, 910, 920, 921, 970n; open sessions, 313; papers from files, 317; voting procedure, 344; rank precedence, 391, 392n; threatened by mutineers, 410, 973, 974; adjournment, 410, 420, 424, 484, 507, 666, 675, 767, 802, 971, 973, 974; attendance, 422, 436, 439, 442, 444, 445, 486, 752, 790, 791, 814, 815, 819, 836, 842; jurisdiction by Congress over place of permanent residence, 428, 603, 604, 654, 656, 657, 698, 707, 712, 714; at Princeton, 507; return to Philadelphia, 508, 530, 665, 666, 670; protection for, 530; accommodations in Philadelphia, 530, 531; Chairman, 537, 539, 799; secret papers, 568, 585n; applications for papers from Finance Office, 576, 577; Washington granted access to secret papers, 585n; order of the day, 641; alternate residence at Annapolis and Trenton, 708, 709, 714; buildings for, 707, 708, 712, 714, 770; President, 799; no powers over spiritual matters, 826; feeling in, 845, 848, 850, 860, 861; jealous of its importance, 848, 850, 860, 861; inability to enforce secrecy, 850; taxing powers, 866--884, 868, 869, 870, 871, 920; States' jealousy of, 872, 878; debate on powers, 909, 910; indecision, 916; asks for power, 920, 921; attitude toward proceedings of peace commissioners, 924, 925; anxiety of, 926.
• Connecticut, 215n, 230, 544, 883, 964; dispute with Pennsylvania, 845; proceedings in Pennsylvania dispute,

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  6--32; Connecticut's case, 16; decision, 31; petition of loan-office certificate holders, 37n; officers of the line, 43n, 170; line officers' memorial, 202; officers' resignations, 304n; officers deranged, 857; cession of western lands, 104; vote in Committee of the Whole, 118, 119, 120n, 125, 126; delegates' motion, 139; failure to levy taxes, 161n; annual proportion of public debt, 172; act, 211n, 529; population and quota, 231, 953; quota of public debt, 259, 953; line sergeants' petition, 367n, 382; repeal of eighth article of Confederation, 529; recommended to settle pay of artificers, 534; permanent residence of Congress in, 650; line troops accept commutation of pay, 786; executive, to be informed of need of attendance of delegates to Congress, 836; delegates, 847, 916; impost, 884; refusal to comply with requisitions of Congress, 911; attitude toward revenue measure and land abatements, 914n; loan-office debt, 915n; feeling on half pay to Army, 938.

• Consuls, 440, 816; Franco-American convention, 3; trade privileges, 3, 4, 335, 846; minister to act as, 334; vice consuls, 334, 335; French consul general, 554; Jay's opinion of American, 587; convention with France, 846; United States citizens only to be appointed, 620, 637.
• Conte, Stephen, address, 626, 626n; memorial, 664.
• Continental currency, see Currency.
• Contraband of war, 76, 822, 823.
• Conyngham, Gustavus, memorial, 672n, 676.
• Cooper, Samuel, court-martial, 362n, 380, 386n.
• Copyright, 180, 211n, 326, 327; memorials, 326.
• Cormorant, 444n.
• Cortlandt, Pierre Wan, 293.
• Cotton, manufactory, 532n.
• Counterfeiters, trials, 509n, 533n.
• Counterfeiting, 485.
• Couriers, expense, United States ministers abroad, 346.
• Court of Admiralty, see Admiralty court.
• Court of Appeals, see Appeals.
• Courts-martial, sentences suspended, 509, 510n; British, 533n; of Pennsylvania mutineers, 535, 541, 564, 565, 565n, 566.
• Cowper, Edward, claims, 425; letter, 425n.
• Cowper, John, petition, 841n.
• Cowper & Ballard, claim, 435.
• Cox, John, 424; letter, 412n, 423.
• Craig, Thomas, and others, petition, 705, 705n.
• Craik, James, letters, 347n, 387.
• Crane, John, 293.
• Crane's artillery, officers' resignations, 304n.
• Credit, public, support of, 214; notes issued against, 813n.
• Creditors, British, payment of, 204n; public, suggested permission to purchase discarded army property, 254; recovery of debt under Definitive treaty, 370.
• Creutz, Philip de, 457, 473, 476.
• Crèvecoeur, St. John de, 816.
• Crime, punishment of, 485; names of criminals, 485, 486.
• Croghan, George, executors, 332n.
• Cummings, John N., 293.
• Currency, 183n; Continental bills, 181; lack of, 253; retirement of Continental, 357; report on notes issued, 541, 543, 839.
• Curson, Samuel, letter, 161n.
• Customs, duties, 97, 126, 171, 918, 920, 927; Virginia on merchandize and prizes, 96; collectors, 128, 189, 258, 901, 904; the 5 per cent impost, 128, 170, 171n, 196, 199, 920; valuations, 140, 141; importers in collusion with collectors, 901; exceptions under the 5 per cent, 170; on sugars, liquors, etc., 171; power to levy, 188, 195, 198, 257;

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  articles and amount of duty, 188; applied to U. S. debt, 258, 261; to be credited to States, 921.

• Dabade, Pierre, 546, 548.
• Dalton, Tristram, 609.
• Damages, by troops allowed, 511, 567; indemnification of officers, 963, 964.
• Dana, Francis, 380n, 587, 757, 957, 958, 966; letters, 225, 267, 348, 348n, 545, 545n, 813n; return to United States, 226, 227, 267; instructions to, 349, 350, 351, 354, 357, 393, 394, 545, 619, 631; conduct approved, 545.
• Dart, John Sandford, 276n, 316, 369, 396.
• Dayton, Elias, promoted, 38; letter, 521n, 548.
• Deane, Silas, 792.
• Debates, notes of, 845.
• Debernardi, John, memorial, 816, 817n.
• Debt, public, see Finance, Public debt.
• Debts, individual, recovery under preliminary treaty, 248, 373, 374, 375; due British subjects, 825; confiscation of British, 856, 857; British payment of, 936.
• Defense, common, expenses, 214, 223.
• Definitive treaty of peace, 632; signing of, 746; conclusion urged, 756; substance of Provisional treaty adopted as, 632. See also Peace, treaty.
• Dejean, Peter, memorial, 409n, 492n, 496, 498.
• Delap, Samuel and J. H., 235, 237.
• Delaware, 552; delegates, 143, 177, 969; quota of public debt, 172, 231, 259, 953; vote, 215n; population, 231, 953; troops, 390, 786; amendment to treaty with Sweden, 477; loyalist outrages in, 912; attitude toward revenue measure and land abatements, 914n; loan office debt, 915n.
• Delaware Indians, see Indians.
• Delaware River, permanent residence of Congress near, 652, 654, 656, 657, 658, 659, 697, 707, 708, 712, 714, 768, 770, 841.
• Delegates, Finance Office information for, 544, 544n.
• Denmark, United States prizes sent to, 588; treaty with, 588, 618, 630, 630n, 720, 721, 821; restitution of prizes sent to, 619, 631, 755; trade reciprocity, 720, 721.
• Departments, civil, 139, 802; inquiries into conduct of, 37, 37n, 541, 543, see also under the various departments, pay, 140, 573, 582, 583, 608, 609, 611, 612, 852; committees on, 217; reduction of expense, 337, 577, 577n, 584, 584n, 612, 623, 624; clerks' pay from income from public lands, 386; clerks, 571, 572, 573, 624, 789; Secretaries, 572, see also under heads of the various departments; discontinued, 573; reports, 676; pay regularity compared with Army, 852; expenses, 972.
• Depontiere, Louis, see Du Pontiere.
• Depreciation, 365, 366, 367, 443, 488, 809; British table of, 365; settlement, 440; Treasury certificates, 487; pay, 502, 512, 516, 532, 534, 569, 570, 697; tables, 535.
• Desdevens, Maurice, 133n; representation, 213, 213n, 273, 273n.
• Deserters, South Carolina dragoons, 794n.
• Detroit, 498, 691, 816; judge of, 492n, French inhabitants, 689, 692.
• DeWitt, Simeon, letters, 401, 402n, 567n.
• Deye, Thomas Cockey, 145, 159, 389.
• De Zest, --., 600.
• Dickinson, John, a delegate from Delaware. Votes: 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 94. Letters: 267n, 319, 319n, 320, 427n, 442n. Mentioned: 27, 405n, 412n, 861, 973.
• Dickinson, Philemon, a delegate from Delaware. Committees: St. Clair letter, 2n; inquiry into Post Office, 37n; Grand, 93; postmaster's letter, 110; Hall petition, 153. Mentioned: 96. Digby, Robert, 951; joint letter with Carleton, 211n, letter, 957.
• Diplomacy, instructions to peace treaty commissioners, 518, 518n; instructions to United States ministers abroad, 637.

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• Diplomats (ministers), United States abroad, 139, 221, 587; pay, 140, 175, 176, 312, 334; instructions to, 193, 194, 598, 598n, 619, 620, 627, 631, 637, 821, 825, 958; Congress's sense of their abilities, 193, 194; rank, 312, 334; powers, 320, 821; consular duties, 334; not allowed to engage in trade, 334; secretaries to embassies, 335; allowance to, 346; dispatches and letters from, 587, 588n, 617, 621, 622, 627, 628, 661, 664, 814, 821; commissions, 821, 824, 825; at variance with France, 926; resignation, 952; not to be employed except on extraordinary occasions, 967.
• Diplomats, foreign to United States, reception ceremonial, 390, 392n, 750; objections to, 967.
• Dorsey, J., 812, 813.
• Douglass, Ephraim, 681; report, 517n; letters, 438n, 536n, 699n; pay, 699n.
• Dragoons, see Cavalry, and also Baylor, George, for First Continental Dragoons.
• Drew, William, 111, 799.
• Duane, James, a delegate from New York. Attends, 435, 797. Committees: Inquiry into Agent of Marine Department, 38n, 443; Grand, 39, 602; Howell and Jones motion, 114; Indian affairs, 264n, 677, 680, 681, 689, 689n, 695, 747, 989; mint, 273n, 487; Governor of New York letter, 285n; promotions, 345n; Secretary at War and Commander in chief's letters, 367n; Secretary at War letters or reports, 401n, 492n, 498n, 534n, 567n, 626n, 673, 787n; Castaing letter, 402n; Assistant Secretary at War, Washington, and Putnam letters, 405n; petition of officers for western lands, 421n; Washington letter, 367n, 405n, 501n, 526n, 532n, 590n, 644, 646n, 673, 702; Putnam letter, 405n; Superintendent of Finance letter, 422n, 443, 454, 483n, 695n, 771n, 792, 802; permanent residence of Congress, 428n, 444n, 603, 659; Moore memorial, 428n, 614; Assistant Secretary at War letter, 405n, 438n, 517n, 534n; week, 440, 979; Philadelphia citizens' address, 444n; Carleton letter, 451n, 485, 517n; Hazen, Antill and Torrey letter, 483n; Gesselin petition, 483n, 496; Massachusetts General Court letter, 483n, 572n, 582, 585, 612n. Jay instructions, 486; Kill. buck memorial, 491; Dejean memorial, 492n; Washington reception, 496, 501n; report of committee of the week, 492n. Schuyler letter, 501n. Williamson motion, 503, 505; Allen letter, 504n; prohibiting settlement on Indian lands, 506n; Dayton letter, 521n, 548; New York resolutions, 532; courtmartial of mutineers, 541n; Rendon letter, 546; conference with Commander in chief, 548; Pennsylvania mutiny, 564; Stuart memorial, 567n; reduction of civil departments, 577n, 580n, 584n, 623; dispatches from United States ministers abroad, 587, 617, 621, 628, 661; communications from French minister, 588, 589n, 638, 745; instructions to Pennsylvania delegates, 591; application from Rhode Island delegates, 597, 600n; address to States, 629; commerce, 630; treaties, 630; instructions to United States ministers abroad, 631; Segond letter, 633; report on Commander in chief's letter, 644; Greene letter, 664n, 701; Dupertail letter, 668; Heineken memorial, 672n; Kosciuszko letter, 673; government of Western Territory, 695; thanksgiving proclamation, 699; Agent of Marine letter, 699n; Jones letter, 715, 787; Preliminary Peace treaty, 716; Peters motion, 717; Denmark treaty, 720; Van Berckel letter, 748; Lincoln letter, 753; instructions to peace commissioners, 753; Hamburg letter, 757; Nourse memorial, 759n, 802; Secretary for Foreign Affairs report, 778, 778n; Wilson motion, 790; Stewart memorial, 793. Votes: 478, 479, 481, 482, 484, 493, 505, 507, 508, 509, 513, 525, 536,

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  540, 542, 543, 544, 545, 552, 553, 559, 564, 573, 579, 580, 581, 582, 584, 586, 592, 593, 596, 601, 613, 622, 637, 640, 642, 643, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 654, 655, 656, 657, 658, 659, 665, 666, 667, 670, 671, 675, 676, 679, 698, 706, 708, 709, 712, 713, 718, 719, 763, 764, 765, 766, 768, 769, 770. Mentioned: 114n, 440n, 444, 445, 477, 477n, 486n, 498n, 508, 510n, 516n, 518n, 522n, 523, 524n, 541, 546n, 548n, 572n, 577, 577n, 584n, 588, 589, 589n, 593, 596, 596n, 603n, 612n, 620n, 625n, 642, 645n, 646, 650, 655, 666, 667, 688n, 692n, 701n, 702n, 703n, 709, 717, 717n, 718n, 746n, 749n, 750n, 753n, 757n, 758n, 763, 779n, 788n, 793, 799, 802.

• Du Cambray, J. L. See Cambray.
• Duc de Lauzun, 323n, 341, 342, 343; sale of, 241, 263, 446; lent to France, 262.
• Dudley, John, 457.
• Dumas, Charles William Frederick, 34, 841n; letters, 392, 393, 813n.
• Dumont, Andrew, 546.
• Dunlap, John, continued as printer to Congress, 772; letter, 772n.
• Duperien, --, 600.
• Du Pontiere, Louis, promotion, 633, 680.
• Duportail, Louis Le Beque, 738; corps officers, 590n; letters, 590n, 668, 669n, 839n; accounts, leave to retire and Congress's sense of services, 669; passage to France, 695; memoir on fortifications, 744n.
• Du Quesne, Chevalier, 210.
• Du Radieu, letter, 378, 378n.
• Durant, Cornelius, memorial, 697.
• Du Simitière, Pierre Eugene, letter, 175n.
• Dutch inhabitants of Kentucky, memorial, 625, 625n.
• Duties, see Customs.
• Dyer, Eliphalet, a delegate from Connecticut. Committees: Inquiry into Post Office, 37n, 329; Grand, 39, 114n; postmaster's letter, 110; Hazard letter, 121n, 133; week, 133n, 142, 322, 358, 361, 362, 977, 978; Hamilton motion, 138; Liston memorial, 143n, 151; Webster and Judd memorials, 154n, 169; Secretary for Foreign Affairs letter, 156; Secretary at War reports or letters, 175n, 224, 227n, 230, 347n, report of Grand committee, 178; Washington letter, 186, 186n, 232n, 234, 294, 294n, 387, 926; Superintendent of Finance letter, 195n, 315; officers' pay, 203n, 207; officers' memorial, 207; Postmaster General letter, 228; Tetard memorial, 347; Dyer motion, 366, 383. Votes: 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 94, 116, 120, 127, 129, 131, 132, 135, 137, 148, 150, 154, 155, 162, 163, 165, 166, 167, 179, 192, 201, 205, 210, 215, 216, 217, 219, 224, 226n, 233, 240, 243, 252, 255, 256, 261, 313, 314, 315, 328, 331, 338, 352, 353, 355, 356, 359, 360, 904. Frustrates commutation of half pay, 936. Mentioned: 9, 10, 11, 13, 23, 24, 25, 29, 135, 170, 176, 203n, 207, 232, 243, 254, 327, 327n, 330, 331, 347n, 359, 360, 366, 383, 533, 541, 845, 849, 851, 854, 869, 887, 888, 888n, 889, 891, 893, 899, 911, 916, 918, 923, 938, 939, 947, 957, 960, 964, 965.
• Economy, in public expenditures, 624.
• Eddy, George, 121, 122.
• Edison, Thomas, letter, 43n, 265, 265n.
• Edmonston, --, 798.
• Education, seminaries to be established from proceeds of sales of public lands, 386; of Indian boys, 660.
• Elbert, Samuel, promotion, 800.
• Elizabethtown, New Jersey, inhabitants, resolves, offering residence to Congress, 521, 548; Congress's sense of address, 548.
• Elk, Head of, Maryland artillery at, 362n; military stores at, 804, 805.
• Ellery, William, a delegate from Rhode Island. Credentials, 411, 796, 796n; attends, 411, 796. Committees: Inquiry into Agent of Marine, 38n, 443; Superintendent of Finance reports or letters, 276n, 488n, 623n, 660, 771n, 802,

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  840n; navy officers' memorial, 347n, 516; compelling public accounting, 399n; Washington letter, 422n, 439, 528n; week, 427, 532, 979; Pennsylvania letter, 442n;Pennsylvania and Howe letters, 452; Virginia Assembly resolve, 483n, 533; Paine letter, 513n; Agent of Marine letter, 536n, 537; Pierce letter, 553n; to receive communications from the French minister, 588; Greene letter, 664n, 701; Conyngham memorial, 672n; Preliminary Peace treaty, 716; letter of Risberg and others, 748n, 758; Adam letter, 758; Stewart letter, 759n; Duportail letter, 711n; Read resolution, 787n, 788; Secretary at War letter, 794n; Adams, Franklin, and Jay letter, 812n; permanent residence of Congress, 841. Votes: 429, 431, 478, 479, 481, 482, 484, 493, 505, 507, 513, 525, 536, 540, 542, 543, 544, 545, 552, 553, 559, 564, 573, 579, 580, 581, 582, 584, 586, 591, 592, 593, 596, 601, 613, 622, 635, 637, 640, 641, 642, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 654, 655, 656, 657, 658, 659, 665, 666, 667, 670, 671, 674, 675, 676, 679, 698, 706, 708, 709, 712, 713, 718, 719, 763, 764, 765, 766, 768, 769, 770, 807, 819. Mentioned: 380, 480, 492, 493, 504, 524, 538n, 579, 585, 591, 593, 598, 600n, 635, 648, 669, 675, 678, 679n, 708, 711, 712n, 752, 758n, 762, 762n, 763, 763n, 764, 788n, 790, 790n, 810.

• Elliot, James, 711n; petition, 567n, 710, 711.
• Ellis, John, 786.
• Ellsworth, Oliver, a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 796, 797; attends, 222. Committees: Arnold's motion, 36, 45; Connecticut loan office certificates, 37n; inquiry into Department of Foreign Affairs, 37n; Adams letter, 64, 320; Bland's motion, 106; Virginia resolutions, 106, 121; Gilmer letter, 229n, 265; Grand, 230, 376n; Clark motion, 232; President of Pennsylvania letter, 264, 267; Collins and Arnold letter, 268n; return home of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania line troops, 273n; Superintendent of Finance reports or letters, 273n, 380n, 421n, 427n; Hamilton motion, 275; address to States, 277; Governor of New-York letter, 285n; Tilghman letter, 315; Washington statue, 330n, 494; chaplain's memorial, 332n, 345; Greene letter, 332n, 388; Department of Foreign Affairs arrangement, 334; Washington letter, 337; Rhode Island accounts, 339, 427n; Rhode Island delegates motion, 340n, 343, 388; Secretary of War letter, 362n, 401n; J. Arnold's accounts, 367n; carrying out Definitive treaty, 369; Maryland letter, 378n; Virginia cession of western lands, 381n, 406, 559, 988; New York and Maryland cessions for residence of Congress, 381; land grants to Army, 383; Secretary for Foreign Affairs letter, 392; compelling public accounting, 399; conference with Pennsylvia Executive, 405n, 416, 971; Pennsylvania mutiny, 412n; Buffer letter, 413; permanent residence of Congress, 428n; Moore memorial, 428n; Weare letter, 446n; Army pen establishment, 722; Adams letter, 857; week, 977, 978; circular letter to States, 986. Votes: 36, 40, 41, 42, 94, 224, 226n, 233, 240, 243, 252, 255, 256, 261, 266, 275, 313, 314, 315, 328, 331, 338, 352, 353, 355, 356, 359, 360, 407, 431. Mentioned: 34n, 37n, 64, 140n, 232n, 266, 338n, 340n, 349n, 355, 355n, 356, 388n, 389n, 432, 856, 871, 872, 882, 888, 960, 965, 966, 968, 972.
• Elmer, Jonathan, a delegate from New Jersey. Committees: Inquiry into Finance Department, 37, 222n; Grand, 114n; week, 977. Votes: 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 120, 127, 129, 131, 132. 135, 137, Mentioned, 887.

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• Emigration, 794n.
• Engineers, 702; furlough, 621; French, 668; Corps, 725; agree to accept commutation of pay, 786.
• Enlistments, guards, 444n, 455.
• Espeleta, Josef de, correspondence with Pollock, 695n.
• Estaing, Charles Henri Théodat, Comte d' 210, 940.
• Estates confiscated, 371; restoration of, 370.
• Esteve, Jean Baptiste, 599.
• Ettween, John, Andrew Hübner and Hans Christian de Schweiniz, Memorial 794n.
• Europe, exports to America, 286; situation of United States affairs in, 926.
• Eustis, William, 293.
• Exchange, bills of, 715, lost, 539; relief for loss of, 590.
• Excise on spirituous liquors, 881, 923.
• Expenditures, see Finance.
• Export, duties, 255; of goods for United States, 263; bounties, 927.
• Fagel, H., 784.
• Fame, 122; tobacco shipped in, 106.
• Farmers General, France, 589n, 954; loan to United States (1777), 792, 793.
• Felt, David, 368.
• Fernee, Joseph, letter, 451n.
• Finance, state of the public, 44, 103, 104, 325, 848, 849, 862, 885, 928; support of credit, 97, 98, 124, 127, 127n, 134, 139, 141, 143, 170, 188,190n, 195, 197, 198, 204, 205, 214, 222, 231, 257, 288, 920; inability of Congress to pay public creditors, 102; failure to pay public debts, 99, 102, 487, 488; interest, 100, 605, 606n, 715; expedients, 102, 105n, 397, 898, 480, 481, 482, 483n, 489, 664, 664n, 851; State diversion of public funds, 105n, 454, 455; State quotas, 112, 113, 113n, 115, 118, 120, 125, 133, 134, 136; report on, 181, 181n, 216, 218, 232, 256; estimates, revenue and revenue measures, 204, 205, 254, 255, 256, 281, 289, 290, 532, 866, 868, 869, 870, 871, 872, 879, 880, 881, 882, 883, 885, 896, 900, 902, 906, 907, 908, 909, 910, 911, 913n, 914n, 917, 921, 923, 926, 927, 937, 943, 945, 947, 951, 952, 953, 954, 955, 961, 962; receipts and expenditures, 216, 218, 483n, 983; address to States, 277, 986, 987; collection of revenue, 180n, 281, 478, 866; reduction of expenses, 337, 483n; retirement of Continental bills, 357; reforms, 397; econorates, 398; redemption of notes, 431n, 432, 434, 441, 451, 477, 478, 483; notes to pay Army, 450;instructions to Continental receivers of revenue, 478; notes taken in payment of taxes, 480, 481, 482; liquidation, 487, 488, 829, 830, 831, 832, 833, 834, 835; loan office certificates, 489, 517, 535, 605, 606n; State payment on requisitions, 491; plan, 513; national credit, 526, 527, 849; war expense, 527, 529; revenue resolve, 532; notes issued and in circulation, 541, 543, 544n, 839; foreign accounts, 574, 619, 628, 631, 755, 773, 848, 849, 850, 857, 943; public expenditures, (European loans, etc.), 624, 980; partial measures for relief of of public creditors refused, 664, 664n; bills of exchange, 715; European loans ordered stopped, 755; accounts between United States and States, 807, 808; notes issued on credit of United States, 813n; deficiency of funds, 848; secrecy respecting, 848, 849; pay of Army made a consolidated debt, 851; revenue debate, 866--884, 879, 901; revenue collection, 883; revenue powers of Congress, 907, 908, 909, 910; revenue report, 920; war expenses, 947; civil expenses, 972.
• Finance, Department of, inquiry into, 37, 37n, 222, 387; arrangement of, 165, 167; list of officers, 180, 180n; clerks perform business of Marine Department, 180; report on, 396, 970; business delayed, 576, 577.
• Finance, Public Debt, 170, 172, 181, 188, 231, 232, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 487, 488, 514, 638, 715, 792, 880, 902, 903, 904, 915n;

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  conversion of certificates, 39; redemption of State quotas, 40; funding of, 94, 95, 104, 127, 127n, 139, 141, 170, 188, 195, 198, 201, 204, 214, 222, 863; payment of, 99, 100, 101; State quotas, 138, 231, 259, 638; estimates of, 139, 180, 181, 181n, 285, 716n, 954; discussion in secret, 140; discharge of, 171, 189, 190, 190n, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 256, 257, 258, 259, 261, 421n; collectors, 180n; State payment of, 189, 190, 190n, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199; Treasury certificates, 276; interest, 277, 279, 286, 605, 606n, 638, 715, 955; domestic and foreign, 280, 512, 715, 883; domestic, 282, 286, 955; foreign, 282, 285, 286, 954; to the Army, 282; division of creditors, 905; agitation to provide for public debt, 926.

• Finance, Superintendent of, 3, 38, 38n, 47, 48, 49, 50, 83, 92n, 93, 106, 117, 121, 122, 123, 139, 140n, 143, 152, 157, 160, 170, 171n, 181, 181n, 182, 186, 203, 204, 208, 213n, 220, 221, 224, 225, 232, 237, 253, 262, 262n, 265, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271n, 272, 273, 273n, 274, 275, 276, 276n, 287, 315, 316, 316n, 322, 323, 326, 327, 331, 333, 338, 339, 358, 869, 380, 389n, 399, 401n, 402, 402n, 406, 422n, 425, 427, 427n, 428, 430, 431n, 432, 434, 441, 442, 443, 446, 447, 448, 455, 478, 479, 480, 482, 485, 487, 491, 491n, 492, 499, 500, 512, 513, 514, 514n, 517, 521, 536, 536n, 541, 539, 539n, 543, 553n, 568, 590, 597, 606n, 622n, 628, 636, 646, 661, 673, 697, 699n, 715, 747, 748, 749, 750, 758, 759, 759n, 761, 788, 793, 801, 807, 828, 836, 841n, 849, 850, 853, 855, 857, 863, 877, 923, 970, 983; extracts from letters, 33; praised, 33; letters, 43, 49, 49n, 92n, 106, 151, 161n, 165, 167, 168, 169, 171n, 181n, 182, 183n, 194n, 222, 229, 229n, 241, 262, 263, 265n, 315, 316n, 323n, 329n, 337, 341, 345, 358, 358n, 362, 363, 363n, 380n, 400, 412n, 421n, 438, 443, 454, 455n, 479, 483n, 496n, 502, 519, 539, 589, 590n, 623n, 636n, 639, 661n, 695n, 759n, 771n, 792, 802, 813n, 840n, 841n, 848, 861, 923, 928; overdraws European loans, 44; authorized to draw bills on Europe, 44; resignation, 92n, 151, 861, 862, 926; secrecy injunction on intended resignation, 151; continuance in office, 268, 270, 271, 284, 329, 448, 449; report requested from, 216, 218, 950; conduct investigated, 263, 397; retirement of Continental bills, 357; report, 365, 426, 477, 483, 535, 536n, 574, 807, 828; rank precedence, 391, 392n; power to compel accounting, 398, 399; request to be excused from acting as Agent of Marine, 444; conference with committee of Congress, 448, 449, 847, 848, 849; publication of instructions, 478, 480; letter to, 479; notes taken in payment of taxes, 480; correspondence with Secretary at War, 480n; instructions to receivers of Continental taxes, 480, 481, 482; complaint, 520; information from, 544, 544n; notes issued by, 839; arrangements for paying Army, 865; conference on land valuation, 886. See also Morris, Robert.
• Finney, Walter, account against United States, 503; letter, 503.
• Fish, duty on, 255; drawback on, 957.
• Fisheries, 942; Newfoundland and other, 247; salt, 917.
• Fishkill, New York, mail guard to Morristown, 110.
• Fitzherbert, Alleyne, 957.
• Fitz Simons, Thomas, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Committees: Barclay letter, 3; inquiry into Finance Department, 37n, 222, 222n, 387; Superintendent of Finance letters or reports, 38, 38n, 49, 49n, 181n, 213n, 263, 273n, 345, 362, 365, 380n, 427n, 443, 622n; Secretary at War letters or reports, 38, 222n; Grand, 39; French minister's notification, 46n; Army memorial, 95; report of Grand committee, 95n, 145; memorial of Pennsylvania representatives, 99; Bland's motion, 106; Virginia

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  resolutions, 106, 121, 372; restoring public credit, 143n, 170, 188, 190n, 911, 916; Pollock letter, 149n; Franklin letter, 175, 176n; finance, 181; Nantucket memorial, 182n, 187, 206; Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania letter, 204n, 372; Virginia General Assembly letter, 204n; Washington letter, 204n; Clark motion, 232; Pollock memorial, 234; sale of Duc de Lauzun, 241; Secretary for Foreign Affairs letters or reports, 267, 348, 964; return home of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania lines, 273n; mint, 273n, 387; Hamilton motion, 275, 375n; Geddes letter, 276n; Dart account, 316; Hawkins and Williamson memorial, 318; Kirk memorial, 328n; Dana letters, 348, 958; instructions to Dana, 348n; Russian treaty, 357; week, 358, 361, 362, 978; Holten motion, 368, 377; Madison and Hamilton motions, 375n; Du Radieu letter, 378n; Governors of New Orleans and Havana letters, 386; compelling public accounting, 399; draft of treaty with Great Britain, 404; Higginson motion, 430; Halsted petition, 553n, 596; French minister's memorial, 554; Bird memorial, 585n, 626; dispatches from U. S. ministers abroad, 587, 617, 621, 628, 661, 865; to receive communications from the French minister, 588; Taylor memorial, 590; address to States, 629; commerce, 630; committee report on dispatches from United States ministers abroad, 661; half pay, 865; Virginia and Pennsylvania instructions to delegates, 936; Rhode Island refusal to agree to impost, 986. Votes: 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 94, 116, 120, 127, 129, 131, 132, 135, 137, 148, 150, 155, 156, 163, 166, 167, 179, 192, 201, 205, 206, 210, 215, 216, 217, 219, 224, 226n, 233, 240, 243, 252, 255, 257, 261, 266, 275, 314, 315, 329, 331, 352, 353, 355, 356, 359, 360, 372, 407, 429, 431, 494, 552, 553, 559, 564, 579, 580, 581, 582, 584, 586, 592, 593, 596, 613, 622, 655, 656, 657, 658, 659, 665, 666, 667, 670, 671, 672, 675, 676, 679, 719, 904. Mentioned: 3n, 46n, 105n, 114, 123n, 171n, 191n, 237, 263n, 267n, 275n, 286n, 323n, 358, 362, 363n, 378n, 399n, 405n, 406, 429, 554, 593, 664n, 856, 861, 864, 868, 870, 874, 876, 878, 886, 894, 899, 903, 905, 906, 912, 937, 958, 969.

• Flag, see Cartel ship.
• Flagg, Josiah, jr., accounts, 340, 344.
• Flags, of truce, 340n.
• Fletcher, Patrick, court-martial, 840.
• Fleury, François Louis Teisseydre, Marquis de, 644; letter, 386n; accounts, 399.
• Florida, West, Congress indifferent to ultimate ownership of, 193; boundary, 250; application to Spanish governor, 437.
• Flowers, Thomas, 565, 566.
• Floyd, William, a delegate from New York, Committees: Inquiry into Agent of Marine, 37, 37n; Metcalf memorial, 194, 194n, 212; week, 203, 213, 977; Secretary at War letter, 227n, 230; Grand, 230; Tilghman letter, 315. Votes: 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 94, 116, 120, 127, 129, 131. 132, 135, 137, 148, 150, 155, 162, 163, 165, 166, 167, 179, 192, 201, 205, 210, 215, 216, 217, 219, 224, 226n, 233, 240, 243, 252, 255, 257, 261, 266, 275, 962. Mentioned: 119, 162, 213n, 955.
• Foreign affairs, system for, 954.
• Foreign Affairs, Department of, 515, 523, 967; inquiry into, 37n, 443; list of officers. 108n; committee of arrangement, 334, 516; report on, 334, 965; clerks, 516, 572; papers deposited with the Secretary of Congress, 524, 524n; abolished, 571, 572. Secretary for, see Foreign Affairs, Secretary for.
• Foreign Affairs, Secretary for, 3, 4, 5, 32, 35, 45, 132, 139, 142, 176, 193, 211n, 226, 238, 242, 274, 317, 318, 321, 390, 516, 524,

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  826, 899, 925, 942, 950, 951, 957, 958, 959, 964; report, 1, 392; letter, 32, 33, 156, 221, 267, 269, 336, 348, 386, 387, 389, 714, 928, 930, 933, 936, 938; extra pay, 221; head of diplomatic corps, 334; salary, 334, 572, 965; continuance in office, 336; resignation, 382; papers deposited with Secretary of Congress, 382; letter to, 389n; election, 390, 524n; rank precedence, 334, 391, 392n; authorized to communicate secret article of peace treaty, 928; appointment, 969. See also Livingston, Robert R.

• Foreign officers, see Officers, foreign.
• Forster brothers, claim, 826.
• Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania, 225; Brodhead's actions at, 174; suits against Brodhead. 224, 225; garrison, 715n, 753.
• Fortifications, 737; Duportail on, 744.
• Foster, Abiel, a delegate from New Hampshire. Credentials, 456, 795; attends, 456, 795. Committees: Massachusetts General Court letter, 483n, 571; week, 503, 512, 532, 705, 979, 980; prohibition of settlement on Indian lands, 506n; reduction of civil list 584n; Grand, 602; Allan letter, 620n; Superintendent of Finance letter, 695n. Votes: 478, 479, 481, 482, 484, 493, 505, 507, 508, 509, 515, 525, 536, 540, 542, 552, 553, 559, 564, 573, 579, 580, 581, 582, 584, 586, 591, 592, 593, 596, 601, 613, 622, 635, 640, 641, 642, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 654, 655, 656, 657, 658, 659, 665, 666, 667, 674, 675, 676, 679, 698, 706, 712, 713, 718, 719, 763, 764, 765, 766, 818. Mentioned: 486, 647, 648, 810, 814, 815, 819, 842.
• Foundries and manufactories, military, 739.
• Fowler, Alexander, memorial, 746.
• Fox, Edward, letter, 329n.
• France, 1, 3, 5; minister to United States, 3, 4, 5, 46, 102, 105n, 228, 262, 263, 287, 288, 317, 387, 554, 588, 638, 745, 746, 749, 845, 942; United States minister to, 3, 32, 33, 34, 588; United States consuis in, 3; King, 4, 5, 6, 50, 290, 773, 826, 827, 925, 954; reputation of United States in, 32; extracts of letters from United States ministers to, 32, 33; treaty, 50, 51, 487, 556, 824, 878; loans, 50, 51, 57, 102, 103, 105n, 284, 287, 288, 289, 825, 326, 328, 451, 589n, 639, 792, 848, 849, 850, 851, 864, 944, 963, 986; separate article of Preliminary treaty to be divulged to, 193, 194, 714, 715 938; financial aid from, 194n, 285, 792, 793; minister to United States, letter, 262, 287, 288, 317, 386; amounts owed to, 285, 792, 793; aid in obtaining ship passports from Algiers, 404; consul general in Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, 554; memorial from minister from, 554; boundary of American possessions, 554; refusal to sign Definitive treaty except in concert with United States, 588, 746; communications from minister to United States, 588, 638, 745, 746, 845; commerce with United States, 589, 629, 746, 826; articles of treaty with Great Britain to be communicated to France before signing, 715; bears expense of Bonhomme Richard cruise, 755; wishes of, 826; resentments against, 845; Congress vote of thanks to minister from, 845; consular convention with, 846; friendship, 848; dependence on, 849; feeling against, 851; assistance from, 861; interest due discontinued, 885; blamed for delaying peace, 926; distrust of, 932, 935, 936; conduct of United States peace commissioners toward, 929, 930, 931, 935; attitude toward United States debts, 943; displeased at separate article of treaty, 943, 944; opposes United States trade relations with Great Britain, 944; Farmers General, 589n, 792, 793, 954; peace with Great Britain, 957, 959.
• Franking of letters, 156, 157.
• Franklin, Benjamin, 51, 52, 57, 58, 63, 241, 244, 245, 250, 251, 290, 320, 342, 457, 473, 476, 477, 477n, 614, 639, 773,

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  778, 792, 813n, 825, 826, 925, 944; letters, 3, 175, 183n, 194n, 238, 287, 346, 422n, 588, 588n, 613, 617, 618, 620n, 628, 630, 812n, 813n, 826, 928, 957; agreement with Vergennes, 49n, 50; commission to negotiate treaty, 321, 405n, 531, 824; leave to return home, 588; expression disapproved by Congress, 590; extract of letter for South Carolina delegates, 856; conduct as peace commissioner, 924; extravagant demands on France, 943.

• Franklin, William T., 250, 251.
• Franks, David S., 786.
• Frazer, Persifor, memorial, 82.
• Frederick, Maryland, British prisoners at, 818.
• Freedom of the seas, see Neutrality.
• Frontier, western, 203, 848, 427n, 526n; protection, 203, 526n; posts evacuated by British, 338, 427n; garrison for, 338; prohibition of naval force on northern and western lakes, 348; forts, 386; Indians on, 496.
• Frothingham, Richard, petition, 392, 392n, 794, 794n.
• Fullerton, Richard, 789, 789n, 790.
• Furloughs to troops, 364, 365, 496, 702; to mutinous troops, 453; to Pennsylvania line, 621.
• Fynje, --, letter, 389n.
• Galvez, Bernardo de, 237; portrait presented to Congress, 333, 333n, 964.
• Gamble, James, letter, 748, 748n, 758.
• Garanger, Lewis, letter, 133n, 402n, 794n.
• Gardner, Joseph, memorial, 82.
• Garrisons, maintenance, 745.
• Gates, Horatio, 306, 311, 802.
• Geagan, James, letter, 444n; petition, 451.
• Geddes, William, letter, 276n, 316, 379n; resignation, 379.
• Gelder, F. G. Van Dedemtotden, 66, 67.
• General officers, see Officers.
• Genoa, treaty with, 821.
• Geographer, 710; pay, 567n, 710; assistant, 710; surveys, 711.
• Georgetown, Maryland, residence of Congress near, 654, 698, 707, 708, 712, 714.
• Georgia, representation in Congress, 143; annual proportion of public debt, 172, 953, 954; population and quota of public debt, 231, 953, 954; quota of public debt, 172, 231, 259, 953, 954; French consul general in, 554; residence of Congress in, 654; attendance of delegates, 836; noncompliance with impost, 882; attitude toward revenue measure and land abatements, 915n; loan office debt, 915n.
• Germantown, Pennsylvania, ground offered for permanent residence of Congress, 451n; inhabitants, address to Congress, 553n.
• Germany, treaty with, 587, 588n, 618, 630, 821; friendship with United States, 754.
• Gerry, Elbridge, a delegate from Massachusetts. Credentials, 510, 795, 814; attends, 508, 795. Committees: Secretary for Foreign Affairs letter, 221n, 778, 778n; Superintendent of Finance report, 276n, 488n, 512n, 695n, 807, 809n, 835n; Massachusetts General Court letter, 483n, 571, 572n; Agent of Marine letter, 536n, 537; Halsted petition, 553n, 596; French minister's memorial, 554; Paine letter, 513n; Gerry motion, 518, 627; reduction of civil departments, 577, 580n, 584n, 623; dispatches from United States ministers abroad, 587, 617, 621, 628, 664n, 813n, 821; to receive communications from the French minister, 588; Washington letter, 590n, 644, 702; report on Weare letter, 606n, 637; Allan letter, 620n; week, 638, 979, 980; report on Commander in chief letter, 644; residence of Congress, 659, 770, 841; report on dispatches from United States ministers abroad, 664n; commerce, 664n; Dupertail letter, 668; New Hampshire legislative proceedings, 672; Heineken

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  memorial, 672n; Durant memorial, 697; conference with Boor, 758; Nourse memorial, 759n, 802; Adams, Franklin and Jay letter, 812n; mail robbery, 817n; public audience of Washington, 819; Netherlands minister letter, 841n. Votes: 515, 536, 542, 543, 544, 545, 564, 573, 579, 580, 581, 582, 584, 586, 591, 592, 593, 596, 601, 635, 637, 640, 641, 642, 643, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 654, 655, 656, 657, 658, 659, 665, 666, 667, 670, 671, 674, 675, 676, 679, 698, 706, 708, 709, 712, 713, 718, 719, 807, 818. Mentioned: 518, 518n, 539, 572n, 573, 577, 579, 579n, 581, 589, 590n, 591, 592, 597n, 627, 627n, 634n, 636, 642, 646, 647, 648, 654, 665, 671, 673n, 678, 678n, 680, 693n, 697, 698n, 702, 706, 707, 708n, 711, 718, 802, 805, 806, 810, 820n, 841n.

• Gervais, John Lewis, a delegate from South Carolina. Committees: Barclay letter, 3; Superintendent of Finance letter, 38, 38n, 213n, 222, 229, 323n. 365. Army memorial. 95; report of Grand committee, 95n, 145; Bland motion, 106; Virginia resolutions, 106, 121; Ross memorial, 108n; week, 133n, 142, 977; Liston memorial, 143n, 151; Pollock letter, 149n, 234, 333; Buchanan letter, 154n, 311; Blaine letter, 158n; Shreve memorial, 159n; Mortimer memorial, 212; Kirk memorial, 213n, 328n; Laurens, Jefferson, and Dana letters, 225; Grand, 230; Collins and Arnold letter, 268n; Buhler petition, 316n; Dyer motion, 327, 330; Rhode Island delegates motion, 339, 340n, 388; conduct of Greene and Barney, 341; J. Arnold's accounts, 367n; half pay, 865. Votes: 35, 36, 40, 41 42, 94, 116, 121, 127, 129, 131, 132, 135, 137, 148, 150, 151, 155, 156, 163, 166, 167, 192, 201, 205, 206, 210, 216, 217, 218, 219, 243, 252, 255, 257, 261, 266, 276, 314, 315, 329, 331, 339, 355, 356, 357, 359, 360, 361. Mentioned: 40, 116, 130, 143, 143n, 254, 274, 311n, 366n, 856, 865, 895, 954.
• Gibraltar, Howe's expedition against, 857.
• Giles, Aquila, 786.
• Giles, Edward, a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 177.
• Gill, Erasmus, memorial, 332, 339.
• Gilman, John Taylor, a delegate from New Hampshire. Committees: Arnold motion, 36, 45; inquiry into Finance Department, 37, 222n; Grand 39, 114n; Williamson motion, 98, 185; Chittenden letter, 108n, 241n; report of Committee of the Whole, 124, 124n, 135n; Washington letter, 138n, 186, 186n, 294n, 926; George Clinton letter, 164n; Superinintendent of Finance letter, 195n. Votes: 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 94, 116, 120, 127, 129, 131, 132, 135, 148, 150, 154, 155, 162, 163, 165, 166, 167, 179, 192, 201, 205, 210, 215, 216, 217, 219. Mentioned: 34, 34n, 35, 39, 42, 94, 120n, 131, 143, 144, 144n, 146, 147n, 167, 187, 187n, 204, 220, 887, 889, 895, 896, 911, 912, 918, 940.
• Gilman, Nathaniel, 605.
• Gilmer, George, letter, 229n, 265.
• Glasgow, J., 341.
• Gloucester, Virginia, leveling military works at, 483n.
• Good Fortune, prize, case of, 597, 598, 598n, 599, 600.
• Goodale, Nathan, 673; promotion, 405n, 674; memorial, 585n, 674.
• Goods for Indians, 747.
• Gorham, Nathaniel, a delegate from Massachusetts. Committees: Inquiry into Finance Department, 37, 37n, 222, 222n, 387; European loans. 48; memorials of Pennsylvania representatives, 99; Bland motion, 106; Virginia resolutions, 106, 121; Chittenden letter, 108n, 241n, 367; Grand, 114n; report of Committee of the Whole, 124, 124n, 135n; Assistant Secretary of War letter, 128n; Washington letter, 138n, 382; restoring public credit, 144n, 170, 188, 190n, 911, 916;

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  Superintendent of Finance letter, 151n, 165, 168n, 194n, 222, 229, 273n, 345, 358, 362, 915; George Clinton letter, 164n; Franklin letter, 175, 176n; finance, 181; Nantucket memorial, 182n, 187, 206; Pennsylvania Supreme Executive Council letter, 184; Griffin letter, 212; Hancock letter, 219; reduction of expense of military department, 230, 230n; Secretary at War letter, 254, 254n, 358, 395; Secretary for Foreign Affairs letter, 267, 269, 348, 936; Carleton letter, 274; Governor of New York letter, 285n; Hawkins and Williamson memorial, 318; Potts letter, 332n; reduction of expenses, 337; Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Dana letters, 348; Connecticut sergeants' address, 367n; Maryland letter, 378n; Virginia cession of western lands, 381n, 406, 559, 988; New York and Maryland cessions for residence of Congress, 381; Commander in chief's letter and sergeants of Connecticut line petition, 382; letters from peace commissioners, 714; Peters motion, 851; seizure of supplies over Washington's passport, 897; William Lee letter, 901; Morris letter, 915; Dana letter, 958; discharge of army, 966. Votes: 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 94, 116, 120, 127, 129, 131, 132, 135, 137, 150, 154, 155, 162, 163, 165, 166, 167, 179, 201, 205, 210, 215, 216, 217, 219, 224, 226n, 233, 240, 243, 252, 255, 256, 261, 266, 275, 315, 328, 331, 338, 352, 353, 355, 356, 359, 360, 372. Debate on revenue, 881. Mentioned: 125, 126n, 128n, 132, 150, 187n, 212n, 220n, 355, 356, 357, 358n, 367n, 399, 399n, 854, 854n, 856, 862, 865, 868, 869, 881, 886, 887, 888, 895, 896, 898, 899, 900, 905, 906, 909n, 910, 939, 947, 948, 951, 952, 957, 969, 970.

• Gosselin, Clement, petition, 483n, 496.
• Gouvion, Jean Baptiste, 668; accounts, 669; Congress's sense of services, 669; leave to retire, 669; passage to France, 695.
• Government, energy in, 618, 629; strengthening, of, 952.
• Grand, Ferdinand, 574; account statement, 716.
• Grand, Henry, 53, 59.
• Grand committee, 230.
• Granniss, Enos, petition, 752, 752n.
• Gratz, Michael, memorial, 332, 332n.
• Gray, George, letter, 811n.
• Grayson, William, 786.
• Great Britain, naval victories may check peace desires, 5; subjects detained at Trenton, 108n; treaty of peace with, 193, 194, 369, 588, 619, 632, 645, 714, 746, 812, 821, 964, 984, 985; acknowledgement of independence, 245; exports to America, 286; treaty of commerce with, 320, 321, 404, 405n, 531, 587, 958; treaty with Holland, 392; boundary of American possessions, 554; United States minister to, 587; jealous of American commerce, 617, 628, 662, 663; proclamations restraining American commerce, 617; colonies' trade, 617, 628; separate article in treaty with, 714; debts due subjects, 825; property carried away by, 825; King's speech, 898; expedition against West Florida, 936, 939; trade with, 944; peace with France, 957, 959; peace with Spain, 957; accounts with, 966; interest on debts, 967, 968; good faith suspected, 963, 965, 966.
• Great Lakes, agreement not to keep a naval force on, 966.
• Greaton, John, 293; promoted, 38.
• Green, John, letter, 402, 402n.
• Greene, Ebenezer, petition, 672; accounts, 673.
• Greene, John, conduct of, 341, 342, 343.
• Greene, Nathanael, 275, 340n, 789, 912; letters, 46n, 47, 48n, 181n, 332n, 388, 389n, 447, 488, 489n, 664n, 701, 702n, 788, 789n, 809, 836n, 855; Congress' sense of services, 47, 48, 855; thanked by Congress, 48, 857; separate command, 182; appreciates thanks of Congress,

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  332n; cannon presented to, 701; leave granted to, 702.

• Greene, Thomas, accounts, 380.
• Grey, George, letter, 811n.
• Gridley, Richard, 168, 169.
• Griffin, Cyrus, 6, 8, 9, 32; Letter, 212, 212n.
• Guards, enlistment of, 444n, 445, 456.
• Hague, United States minister to The, letter, 33, 64.
• Hague, sale of, 438, 446.
• Haldimand, Frederick, 681; correspondence with Steuben, 532.
• Half-pay, see Pay.
• Hall, John, a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 813, 814; attends, 813.
• Hall, John, petition, 672n, 696.
• Hall, Lyman, letter, 722n.
• Halsted, John, petition, 553n, 596, 597n, 636; payment for services, 677.
• Hamburg, commerce with, 64n, 758; Burgomaster and Senate letter, 757, 758; consul to, 816, 817n; treaty with, 821.
• Hamilton, Alexander, a delegate from New York. Committees: St. Clair letter, 2n; Barclay letter, 3; Arnold motion, 36, 45; inquiry into War Department, 37n, 669, 803; Secretary at War report on later, 38, 164n, 185n, 254, 254n, 358, 362n, 367n, 394n, 400n, 401n, 438n, 567n, 704, 787; regulation of Quartermaster Department, 45n; Adams letter, 64, 320, 857; Grand, 93, 114n, 376n; Army memorial, 95; report of Grand committee, 95n, 145; memorial of Pennsylvania representatives, 99; Bland motion, 106; suits against Pickering, 106; Virginia resolutions, 106, 121; Wiggens memorial, 108n, 192; Cazeau memorial, 116; Washington letter, 126n, 142, 210n, 211, 232n, 265n, 269, 305n, 337, 340n, 367n, 392n, 402, 405n; Superintendent of Finance letter, 140, 358; restoring public credit 144n, 170, 188, 190n, 911, 916; Hall petition, 153; Webster and Judd memorials, 154n, 169; Buchanan petition, 174n; finance, 181; officers' pay, 203n, 207; officers, memorial, 207; Armand letter, 211; Desdevens representation, 213n, 273; Laurens, Jefferson, and Dana letters, 225; reduction of expense in military department, 230, 230n; President of Pennsylvania letter, 264, 267; Superintendent of Finance continuance in office, 268, 283; Secretary for Foreign Affairs letter, 269, 389, 392, 936; return home of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania lines, 273n; Carleton's letter, 274; Hamilton motion, 275; address to States, 277; Governor of New York letter, 285n; Du Cambray letter, 285n; Hazen regiment, 312n; Invalid corps, 321; Villefranche, L'Enfant and Du Cambray memorials, 323; arrangement of Foreign Affairs Department, 334; reduction of expenses, 337; chaplains' memorial, 345; Ternant's promotion, 345n; promotions, 345n; Tetard memorial, 347; Superintendent of Finance and Secretary at War letter, 358; Secretary an Wax mud Commander in chief's letter, 367n; carrying out Definitive Treaty, 369; Maryland letter, 378n; New York and Maryland cessions for permanent residence of Congress, 381; land grants to Army, 383; Castaing letter, 402n; amendment to Articles of Confederation, 404n; Assistant Secretary at War, Washington and Putnam letters, 405n; conference with Pennsylvania executive, 405n, 416, 971; Pennsylvania mutiny, 412n; Butler letter, 413; Franklin letter, 477n, 613; proclamation of treaty with Sweden, 613; Ternant memorial, 623; letters from peace commissioners, 714; Army peace establishment, 722; pay advance to Army, 853; half pay, 865; peace arrangements, 953; ratification of Preliminary treaty, 958; discharge of army, 966; Williams n motion, 970n, 971; circular to States, 986; Rhode Island refusal to agree to impost, 986.

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  Votes: 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 94, 116, 120, 127, 129, 131, 132, 135, 137, 148, 150, 155, 162, 163, 165, 166, 167, 179, 192, 201, 205, 210, 216, 217, 219, 224, 226n, 233, 240, 243, 252, 255, 257, 261, 266, 275, 313, 314, 315, 329, 331, 338, 352, 353, 355, 356, 359, 360, 372, 962. Resignation from Army, 183; declines pay for military service, 183; on State vote in the Confederation, 848; speech on public revenue, 868, 869; discloses cause of State jealousy of Congress, 872; in debate on revenue measure, 884; speech on impost, 902; opinion of Washington, 907; speech on separate article of treaty of peace; 932; letter, 986. Mentioned: 35, 36, 38n, 41, 45n, 46n, 64, 95n, 114, 114n, 115, 115n, 117n, 127n, 138, 138n, 139, 140n, 142n, 148, 149, 152, 162, 162n, 163, 170, 191, 192n, 194, 194n, 197, 201, 201n, 209n, 212n, 222, 230n, 242n, 252, 254n, 264n, 266, 267n, 271n, 273n, 274, 274n, 275, 285n, 306n, 312n, 313, 314, 321, 322n, 325, 326, 335n, 338n, 348, 348n, 350n, 360, 363, 364, 364n, 366n, 368, 368n, 371, 375n, 376n, 382, 382n, 383n, 384, 395n, 403n, 411n, 413n, 415n, 416, 421, 422, 422n, 424, 424n, 440, 441n, 503, 504n, 623n, 744n, 816n, 854, 854n. 855, 861, 862n, 864, 865, 868, 869, 870, 872, 877, 878n, 879, 884, 887, 888, 891, 892, 897, 898, 899, 901, 902, 904, 905, 906, 910, 912, 913n, 914, 919, 923, 932, 937, 942, 952, 955, 959, 960, 962, 963, 965, 966, 967, 968, 969, 973.

• Hancock, John, 107, 510, 810, 811, 815, 990; letters, 219; payment for services as President of Congress, 220.
• Hand, Edward, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 811; attends, 839. Committees: Duportail letter, 839n. Mentioned: 310.
• Hannum, John, memorial, 82.
• Hansen, John, a delegate from Maryland. Committees: Grand, 39.
• Harding, Seth, memorial, 346, 346n, 361.
• Hardwick, George, 597, 598, 598n, 599, 600.
• Hardy, Samuel, a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 798, 799. Committees: Secretary for Foreign Affairs letter, 221n; New York memorial, 815; week, 815, 817, 980; Patton memorial, 818n. Votes: 819. Mentioned: 798, 810.
• Harris, Ephraim, 409.
• Harrison, Benjamin, 985; letter, 425n.
• Harrison, John, letter, 817n.
• Harrison, Richard, letter, 211n.
• Hartford, Connecticut, Court of Appeals to be held at, 98.
• Hartley, Thomas, 531.
• Hartshorne, William, account, 322, 323.
• Harvey, Reuben, letter, 422n, 439; thanked by Congress, 440.
• Harwood, William, 178, 812, 814.
• Haskell, Elnathan, 634.
• Havana, Governor of, letter from, 227, 386; United States agent at, 345, 362, 363, 372, 376, 377.
• Hawkins, Benjamin, a delegate from North Carolina. Credentials, 341; attends, 341, 799. Committees: Week, 36 95, 157, 158, 262, 977, 979; inquiry into Agent of Marine, 37n, 38n, 443; Grand, 114n, 376n, 602; Secretary at War report, 161n, 183n; War Office report, 272; Geddes letter, 276n; Dart account, 316; Superintendent of Finance letter, 323n, 345, 362, 422n, 454, 623n, 660; Gill memorial, 332n, 339; Greene letter, 332n, 388; conduct of Greene and Barney, 341; carrying out Definitive treaty, 369; land grants to army, 383; Paine letter, 402n, 409n, 512; petition of officers for western lands, 421n; Washington letter, 427n, 501n, 526n, 532n; Schuyler letter, 501n; Finney letter, 503n; Allen letter, 504n; prohibition of settlement on Indian lands, 506n; Assistant Secretary at War letter, 517n, 534n; Carleton letter, 517n; Stewart memorial, 567n, 793; Phelon memorial, 571n, 634; Bird memorial, 585n, 626; instructions

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  to Pennsylvania delegates, 591; Remsen and Bankson memorial, 638n, 772; Conte letter, 626n, 664; Indian Affairs, 677, 680, 681, 689, 689n, 692n, 747, 989; Durant memorial, 697; Indian Affairs memorial, 747; residence of Congress on the Delaware, 770; Adams, Franklin and Jay letter, 812n. Votes: 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 94, 116, 121, 127, 129, 131, 132, 135, 137, 148, 150, 151, 155, 156, 163, 166, 167, 179, 192, 201, 205, 206, 210, 216, 217, 218, 219, 224, 226n, 233, 240, 243, 252, 255, 257, 261, 266, 276, 314, 315, 329, 331, 339, 352, 353, 354, 355, 356, 357, 359, 360, 361, 372, 407, 429, 431, 478, 479, 481, 482, 484, 493, 494, 505, 507, 508, 509, 515, 525, 526, 537, 540, 542, 543, 544, 545, 552, 553, 559, 564, 573, 579, 580, 581, 582, 584, 586, 587, 592, 593, 596, 601, 613, 622, 635, 637, 641, 643, 644, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 655, 656, 657, 658, 660, 665, 666, 667, 668, 670, 671, 672, 675, 676, 679, 699, 706, 707, 708, 709, 766, 318, 710, 712, 733, 719, 763, 764, 765, 768, 769, 771, 807, 819. Memorial, 318n. Mentioned: 35, 262n, 316n, 53, 364, 372, 372n, 428, 455n, 480, 513, 581, 661n, 664n, 794n, 810, 887.

• Haydon, William, 548.
• Haydon, see Church and Haydon.
• Hazard, Ebenezer, letter, 110n, 121n, 133, 699n, 817n.
• Hazen, Moses, 293; memorial, 268, 269n, 955, 957; letter, 312, 483, 497; regiment, 304, 312, 312n, 435n, 438n, 497, 786.
• Headquarters, Committee of Congress at, 270; postmaster at, 316.
• Heer, Bartholomew von, maréchaussée corps, 786.
• Heineken, Jan Hendrick Christian, memorial, 672n.
• Heintz, Chevalier Jean de, letter, 528n.
• Hemp, 966.
• Hemsley, William, a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 145, 177; attends, 145. Committees: Inquiry into Finance Department, 37n, 222, 387; Pollock letter, 149n, 234; week, 157, 158, 267, 977. Superintendent of Finance letter, 222, 229, 273n; permanent residence of Congress, 229n; Grand, 230; Geddes letter, 276n; Dart account, 316; Navy officers' memorial, 347n; Governor of New York letter, 376; draft of treaty with Great Britain, 404; Secretary for Foreign Affairs report, 964. Votes: 148, 150, 151, 155, 156, 163, 166, 167, 179, 192, 201, 205, 206, 210, 216, 217, 219, 224, 226n, 266, 275, 314, 315, 329, 339, 352, 353, 354, 355, 356, 357, 359, 360, 361. Mentioned: 157n, 158n, 159n, 267n, 946.
• Henry, William, letter, 405n.
• Hicks, Charles, 185, 186n
• Higginson, Stephen, a delegate from Massachusetts. Credentials, 153; attends, 153. Committees: Inquiry into Finance Department, 37n, 222, 387; inquiry into Agent of Marine, 37n, 38n, 443; week, 160, 161, 267, 332, 409, 977, 978, 979; commissaries memorial, 170n; Superintendent of Finance report, 213n, 263, 323n, 337, 365, 422n, 442, 442n, 443, 451n, 477, 483, 483n, 519; Stevens letter, 222n; permanent residence of Congress, 229n; sale of Duc de Lauzun, 241; Bland motion, 271, 381; mint, 273n, 487; Buhler petition, 316n; Dyer motion, 327, 330; Kirk memorial, 328n; Gill memorial, 332n, 339; President's household expenses, 337n; conduct of Greene and Barney, 341; treaty with Russia, 357; Governor of New York letter, 376; draft of treaty with Great Britain, 404; amendment to Articles of Confederation, 404n; Livingston and other letters, 412n, 423, 424, 425; Higginson motion, 430, 431n; Mercer petition, 435n; Newark inhabitants address, 439; Pennsylvania letter, 442n, 452; Philadelphia citizens address, 444n; New Jersey militia officers

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  address, 445; Carleton letter, 451n, 485, 517; Pennsylvania and Howe letters, 452; Franklin letter, 477n, 613; Secretary at War letter, 479; Irwin petition, 498n, 499; New Brunswick inhabitants address, 501, 501n; Huntington motion, 516, 523; Laurens and Carmichael letters, 531; Washington letter, 532n; Williamson motion, 571n; dispatches from United States ministers aboard, 587, 617, 621, 628; Franklin letter and proclamation of treaty with Sweden, 613; contract with France, 773; Secretary for Foreign Affairs report, 964. Votes: 154, 155, 162, 163, 165, 166, 167, 179, 192, 201, 205, 210, 215, 216, 217, 219, 224, 226n, 233, 240, 256, 261, 266, 275, 313, 314, 315, 328, 331, 338, 352, 353, 355, 356, 359, 360, 407, 429, 431, 478, 479, 481, 482, 484, 493, 505, 507, 508, 509, 515, 525, 536, 540, 542, 543, 544, 545, 552, 553, 559, 564, 573, 579, 580, 581, 582, 584, 586, 591, 592, 593, 596. Mentioned: 331n, 332n, 333, 333n, 357, 364, 424, 428, 429, 430, 431, 432, 432n, 434, 434n, 478n, 479, 500n, 502n, 514, 519, 519n, 524n, 532, 539, 544, 552, 572n, 580, 580n, 592, 592n, 778n, 934, 937, 947, 948, 952, 969.

• Hillegas, Michael; 368, 430, 478.
• Hillhouse, --,797.
• Historiographer, 513.
• History of the war, 513.
• Hodgdon, Samuel, 804, 805.
• Hoge, --, 526.
• Holland, 80; loan, 33, 55, 61, 103, 285, 286, 288, 290, 954, 986; treaty with, 33, 50, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 80, 393, 824, 857, 858, 862, 878, 983; United States minister to, 102, 105n; exports to America, 286; treaty with Great Britain, 392; diplomatic propositions, 392, 393; treaties with Russia, Sweden, and Denmark, 393; aid in obtaining ship passports from Algiers, 404; and the Definitive treaty, 588; minister to United States from, 748, 749, 750, 753, 753n; letter from minister from, 815, 841n, see also Van Berckel; letter to Congress, 783; bills drawn on, 885.
• Holten, Samuel, a delegate from Massachusetts. Credentials, 107; attends, 107. Committees: Inquiry into Agent of Marine, 38n; Hamilton motion, 138; Superintendent of Finance letter, 168, 483n; commissaries' memorial, 170n; week, 232, 322, 585, 977, 978, 979; Edison letter, 265; Hawkins and Williamson memorial, 318; Potts letter, 332n, 515; Pollock letter, 333; arrangement of Foreign Affairs Department, 334; Secretary at Wax letter, 362n; Holten motion, 368, 377; Grand, 376n, 506n, 602; land grants to Army, 383; officers' petition for western lands, 421n; inquiry into Agent of Marine, 443; Child letter, 483, Washington reception, 495, 501n; prohibition of settlement on Indian lands, 506n; Sargent letter, 512n, 527; conference with Commander in chief, 548; application from Rhode Island delegates, 597, 600n; Mesplet memorial, 636n; Remsen and Bankson memorial, 638n, 772; thanksgiving proclamation, 699; Army peace establishment, 772. Votes: 116, 120, 127, 129, 131, 132, 135, 137, 148, 150, 154, 155, 162, 163, 165, 166, 167, 179, 192, 201, 205, 210, 215, 217, 219, 224, 226n, 240, 243, 252, 256, 261, 313, 314, 315, 328, 338, 216, 255, 352, 353, 355, 356, 359, 360, 372, 407, 429, 431, 478, 479, 481, 482, 484, 493, 505, 507, 508, 509, 515, 525, 536, 540, 542, 543, 544, 545, 552, 553, 559, 564, 573, 579, 580, 581, 582, 584, 586, 591, 592, 593, 596, 601, 613, 622, 635, 637, 641, 642, 643, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 654, 655, 656, 657, 658, 659, 665, 666, 667, 670, 671, 674, 675, 676, 679, 698, 706, 708, 709, 712, 713, 718, 719, 763, 764, 765, 766, 768, 769, 770. Mentioned: 108, 148, 165, 169n, 216, 264n, 335, 337n, 344, 352, 355, 368, 369n, 377, 378n, 390, 428, 431, 432, 436, 477, 483n,

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  485, 486, 498, 518n, 519, 524, 525, 536, 537, 541, 543, 549n, 552, 579, 584, 592, 606, 613, 647, 655, 665, 669, 671, 673, 674, 678n, 760, 764, 768, 794, 794n, 910, 917, 930, 939, 949, 950.

• Horn, --, 565, 566.
• Horses, disposal of Army, 253, 254; presented to dragoon guard of the Commander in chief, 647; stolen, 794n.
• Hospital department, officers, 208; accounts, 340, 340n, 367, 388, 397; halfpay commutation, 346, 362; surgeon mates petition, 362; military, 740.
• Hostages, The Cedars, 673.
• Hostilities, cessation of, 211, 238, 681, 957, 959, 984, 985; proclamation of cessation, 238, 241n, 242n, 957; Indians notified of cessation, 681; British refuse to cease, 951; British proclamation of cessation, 957.
• Houdin, Michael Gabriel, memorial, 816, 817n,
• House tax, 923.
• Houston, William Churchill, 6, 7, 8, 9, 32; letter, 332n,
• Howard, --, 310.
• Howe, Richard, Lord, expedition against Gibraltar, 857.
• Howe, Robert, 453, 510, 512n, 535, 634, 634n; instructions for suppressing Pennsylvania mutiny, 411; letters, 412n, 428n, 438n, 442n, 451n, 452, 509, 509n, 512n, 519n, 533n, 535n; orders to, 519; thanked by Congress, 566; conduct approved, 604.
• Howell, David, a delegate from Rhode Island. Credentials, 411, 796, 796n; attends, 442, 796. Committees: Connecticut loan office certificates, 37n; Grand, 39, 506n, 602; week, 446, 676, 745, 747, 752, 759, 794, 979, 980; Secretary at Wax letter, 479; prohibition of settlement on Indian lands, 506n; Jackson memorial, 580n, 701; Taylor memorial, 590n; Superintendent of Finance letter, 623n; Conte letter, 626n, 664; Quaker address, 660n; Howell motion, 676n; Indian affairs report, 747n; mail robbery, 817n; McHenry letter, 836n, Votes: 35, 36, 478; 479, 481, 482, 484, 493, 505, 507, 508, 513, 525, 536, 540, 542, 543, 544, 545, 552, 553, 559, 564, 573, 579, 580, 581, 582, 584, 586, 591, 592, 593, 596, 601, 613, 622, 635, 637, 640, 641, 642, 643, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 654, 655, 656, 657, 658, 659, 665, 666, 667, 670, 671, 674, 675, 676, 679, 698, 706, 708, 709, 712, 713, 718, 719, 763, 764, 765, 766, 768, 769, 770, 807, 819. Conduct, 849..Mentioned: 3, 34n, 35, 36, 45, 114n, 222n, 479, 480, 481, 484, 492, 499, 499n, 504, 504n, 506, 508, 512, 514, 514n, 524, 539, 540, 544, 564, 573, 585, 586, 598, 601, 622, 648, 649, 654, 666, 670, 675, 676, 676n, 678, 679, 679n, 718, 762, 762n, 763, 763n, 764, 766, 768, 768n, 770, 800, 810, 839, 842, 845, 950.
• Howell's Ferry, New Jersey, 841.
• Howland, Obediah, petition, 519n.
• Hubard, --, 798.
• Hübner, Andrew, Memorial, 794n,
• Hudson River, chain across, 626, 627; residence of Congress on, 655; troops on, 702.
• Humpton, Richard, orders to, 425n,
• Hunterdon County, New Jersey, militia, officers' address, 445, 445n; Congress's approval of address, 445.
• Huntington, Benjamin, a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 796, 797; attends, 457, 796. Committees: Laurens and Carmichael letters, 531; Pierce letter, 553n; Halsted petition, 553n, 596; Jackson memorial, 701; week, 745, 747, 752, 759, 794, 979, 980. Votes: 478, 479, 481, 482, 484, 493, 505, 507, 508, 509, 513, 525, 536, 540, 542, 543, 544, 545, 552, 579, 580, 581, 582, 593, 596, 601, 613, 641, 642, 643, 647, 652, 653, 654, 655, 665, 666, 667, 670, 679, 698, 706, 708, 553, 559, 564, 573, 584, 586, 591, 592, 622, 635, 637, 640, 648, 649, 650, 651, 656, 657, 658, 659, 671, 674, 675, 676, 709, 712, 713, 718,

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  719, 763, 764, 765, 766, 768, 769, 770, 807. Mentioned: 508, 677, 696, 745n, 748n, 752, 752n, 759n, 794n,

• Huntington, Benjamin or Samuel, 764.
• Huntington, Ebenezer, 293.
• Huntington, Jedidiah, 293.
• Huntington, Samuel, a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials 796, 797; attends, 457, 796. Committees: Governor of New York letter, 285n; amendment to Artcles of Confederation, 404n; permanent residence of Congress, 428n, 444n, 603, 659; Hazen, Antill and Torrey letter, 483n; Gosselin petition, 483n, 496; Superintendent of Finance letter, 483n, 695n, 792; Massachusetts General Court letter, 483n, 571, 572n, 582, 612n; Washington's reception, 495, 501n; prohibition of settlement on Indian lands, 506n; Huntington motion, 516, 523; New York resolution, 532; Varick and Trumbull petitions, 538n, 569, 570; Dana letter, 545; conference with Commander in chief, 548; New York claim for damages, 567; Williamson motion, 571n; reduction of civil departments, 577, 580n, 584n, 623; Jackson memorial, 580n; to receive communications from the French minister, 588, 589n, 638, 745; Washington letter, 590n, 644, 702; grand, 602; report on Weare letter, 606n, 637; Secretary at War letter, 626n; treaties, 630; instructions to United States ministers abroad, 631, 753; report on Commander in chief letter, 644; Pierce letter, 659n; Duportail letter, 668; Hall petition, 672n, 696; Indian affairs, 695; government of western territory, 695; thanksgiving proclamation, 699; Agent of Marine letter, 699n; Jones letter, 715n, 787; Preliminary Peace treaty, 716; Denmark treaty, 720; Lincoln letter, 753; instructions to peace commissioners, 753; Hamburg letter, 757; Nourse memorial, 759, 802; Wilson motion, 790; Paymaster General letter, 800. Votes: 478, 479, 481, 482, 484, 493, 505, 507, 508, 509, 513, 525, 536, 540, 542, 543, 544, 545, 552, 553, 559, 564, 573, 579, 580, 581, 582, 584, 586, 591, 592, 593, 596, 601, 613, 622, 635, 637, 640, 641, 642, 643, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 654, 656, 657, 658, 659, 665, 666, 667, 670, 671, 674, 675, 676, 679, 698, 706, 708, 709, 712, 713, 718, 719, 763, 764, 765, 766, 768, 769, 770, 807. Mentioned: 516, 523, 524n, 545, 604, 604n, 638n, 639n, 678n, 794n, 801n, 807.
• Huston, William, sentenced, 566.
• Hutchins, Anthony, 437; memorial, 402, 402n, 436.
• Hutchins, Thomas, 711n, 841; memorial, 567n, 710.
• Illinois, French inhabitants, 689, 692; Virginia's jurisdiction over the Illinois country, 956.
• Imports, 263; duty on, 128, 170, 171, 188, 195, 205, 257, 278, 286; valuation, 140, 141; the 5 per cent impost, see Impost; States grant of power to Congress to levy duty on, 195; collectors of duty on, 278; from Europe, 286. See also Customs, also Impost.
• Impost, 205, 231, 608, 609, 986; the 5 per cent, 101, 128, 170, 171n, 182, 188, 196, 199, 287, 526, 868, 871, 875, 896, 897, 899, 901, 902, 903, 904, 916, 920, 923, 937, 945, 983, 984, 986; collectors, 189, 196, 199; on salt, 254; on fish, 255; on export beef and pork, 255; estimate of, 286; tax levy, 752n; on trade, 875, 881, 882, 883; unjust, 884; limitation, 902, 905.
• Indemnity, for military damage, 330.
• Independence, 756; acknowledged by Great Britain, 245.
• Indiana, land tract, 276n.
• Indians, presents to, 225, 688, 689; Delaware, 225, 660; peace with, 264, 504n, 591, 594, 595, 596, 681, 954; trade, 264, 550, 686, 690, 693, 763; affairs, 264, 501n, 517n, 534n, 636n, 642, 677, 680, 681, 688n, 689, 689n, 747, 954, 988, 989;

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  hostilities suspended against, 264; agents, 264, 690, 693; districts, 264; hostile, 319, 681; treaty with, 319, 591, 718, 763, 766, 767; threat against, 320; Northern Department, 320, 681, 684, 687; commissioners, 320, 689, 690, 693; superintendent, 379, 380; Eastern Department, 379, 380; debts, 380; Oneida, 380n, 491, 687; clothing, 491, 646; Tuscarora, 491, 687; supplies, 492; Congress' sense of services, 492; information respecting, 496; lands settled on by whites, 503, 534, 602, 689, 692; message to, 517n, 681; war, 534, 640, 681, 683; negotiations with, 591, 592, 643, 646, 683, 684, 687, 688, 689, 692, 695, 747; lands, 591, 592, 594, 596, 602, 612, 643, 660, 681, 682, 684, 686, 687, 688, 692, 717, 762, 766, 767, 988; education of boys, 623n, 660, 661, 745; erection of a territory in the Indian country, 677, 679; western, 681; northern, 681, 684, 687; Middle Department, 681, 684, 687; to be informed of Great Britain's relinquishment of claim to United States, 684; to release prisoners, 684; friendship, 687; trade ordinance to be prepared, 690, 693; difficulties with, 690, 694; Southern Department, 692, 692n; Cherokees, 692; goods for, 747.

• Ingalls, George, petition, 512.
• Intendant of revenues, 454.
• Interest, loan office certificates, 232, 446, 489, 513, 514, 605, 606n; payable on Europe, 514.
• Invalid corps, reduction of, 321; pay, 321, 680; disabled men, 321, 322; officers, 401n; report on, 680.
• Invention, power boat, 433, 434.
• Ireland, exports to America, 286.
• Iron, 966.
• Irvine, William, 319, 320; letters, 323n, 534n, 681.
• Irwin, John, petition, 498n, 499, 500.
• Irwine, William, see Irvine.
• Issues, Commissary General of, 222n; accounts, 499, 801.
• Izard, Ralph, a delegate from South Carolina. Credentials, 396. Committees: Inquiry into Foreign Affairs Department, 37n; European loans, 48; copyright, 180n, 326; Lafayette letter, 211n; Barlow letter, 21ln; Laurens, Jefferson, and Dana letters, 225; Indian affairs, 264n; Superintendent of Finance report, 273n, 337n, 443; mint, 273n, 487; Governor of New York letter, 285n; chaplains memorial, 345; week, 358, 361, 362, 978, 979; carrying out Definitive Treaty of Peace, 369; DuRadieu letter, 378; Maryland, 378n; New York and Maryland cessions for seat of government, 381; Philadelphia citizens address, 444n; address of New Jersey militia officers, 445; Hazen, Antill and Torrey letter, 483n; Gosselin petition, 483n, 496; President's household, 500; Williamson motion, 503, 505; Carleton letter, 517n; Washington letter, 528n, 532n; Laurens and Carmichael letters, 531; New York resolutions, 532; Dana letter, 545; Peters motion, 851; William Lee letter, 901. Votes: 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 94, 116, 121, 127, 129, 131, 132, 135, 137, 148, 150, 151, 155, 156, 163, 166, 167, 179, 192, 201, 205, 206, 210, 216, 217, 218, 219, 224, 226n, 233, 240, 243, 252, 255, 257, 261, 266, 276, 314, 315, 329, 331, 339, 352, 353, 354, 355, 356, 357, 359, 360, 361, 372, 407, 429, 431, 478, 479, 481, 482, 484, 493, 494, 505, 507, 508, 509, 515, 537, 540, 542, 543, 544, 545, 552, 553, 699, 706, 707, 708, 709, 710, 712,713. Mentioned: 109, 143, 361, 361n, 363, 371, 382n, 391n, 424, 425n, 442, 444, 445, 445n, 487n, 518n, 877, 953, 965, 966, 977, 973.
• Jackson, Jonathan, a delegate from Massachusetts (1782). Committees: Grand, 39.
• Jackson, William, 416; report, 534, 534n; letter, 538; instructions to, 415, 416n; memorial, 580n, 701; pay, 701.
• Jarvais, see Gervais.
• Jarvis, Leonard, 547.

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• Jay, John, 241, 243, 244, 245, 250, 251, 286, 320, 487, 620, 636, 757, 933; commission to negotiate a treaty of commerce with Great Britain, 321, 405n; instructions, 389, 486; authority to negotiate, 531; letters, 587, 588, 588n, 620n, 812n, 845; accounts, 620, 757; conduct as peace commissioner, 924, 925; amount borrowed in Spain by, 954.
• Jefferson, Thomas, a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 798, 799; attends, 803. Committees: Massachusetts Legislature letter, 572n; reduction of civil departments, 577n; commerce, 664n; Indian affairs, 692n; government of Western Territory, 693n; Indian affairs report, 747n; Nourse memorial, 759n; Greene letter, 809n; Adams, Franklin and Jay letter, 812n; letters from United States ministers in Europe, 813n, 821; Massachusetts letter, 815n; public audience to Washington, 819. Votes: 807, 819. Instructed to delay voyage to Europe, 132; letters, 132, 225, 898; excused from going abroad, 226, 227n; commission to negotiate treaties, 824; trip to Europe suspended, 899; nominated as Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 969. Mentioned: 244, 810, 822n, 823n, 824n, 825n, 836, 839, 952.
• Johnson, William Samuel, 9, 10, 11, 13, 23, 24, 25, 30.
• Johnston, Zachariah, 798.
• Jollibois, John, 786, 794n.
• Jones, Amasa, memorial, 625.
• Jones, John Paul, 568, 569, 787, 789; letters, 362n, 699n, 715, 787; agent to collect prize-money, 787, 788.
• Jones, Joseph, a delegate from Virginia. Committees: Jefferson letter, 132; week, 538, 979; instructions to United States ministers abroad, 934. Votes: 94, 116, 121, 127, 129, 131, 132, 135, 137, 148, 150, 151, 155, 156, 163, 166, 167, 179, 192, 216, 217, 219, 224, 226n, 233, 240, 243, 252, 255, 257, 261, 266, 276, 314, 525, 526, 559, 554, 573, 579, 580, 581, 582, 584, 586, 587, 592, 593, 596, 601, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 655, 656, 657, 658, 660, 895, 900n, Mentioned: l14n, 898, 962.
• Jones, Nathan, 772; letter, 772n.
• Jordan, John, 569; memorial, 396, 568.
• Journals, 991; entry expunged, 311.
• Judd, William, 339, 857; petition, 43n 154n, 169.
• Kaskaskies, expense in capturing, 406, 407, 560.
• Kean, John, letter, 748, 748n, 758.
• Kelelamund, see Killbuck, John.
• Kentucky, Low Dutch inhabitants, memorial, 625, 625n.
• Killbuck, John (Kelelamund), address, 438n; memorial, 491; Congress' sense of services, 492.
• Killbuck, John, 660, 661.
• Killbuck, Thomas, 660, 661; letters, 745, 745n, 813n,
• Kingston, New York, corporation act, 229n; offer of land to Congress for seat of government, 376, 382.
• Kirk, John, memorial, 213, 213n, 268, 327, 365.
• Knowlton, Luke, seizure of, 866.
• Knox, Henry, 206, 293, 310, 677n; letter, 186n, 394n, 534, 534n, 590n, 696, 704; pay, 704, 705, 760, 761; Congress' sense of his services, 705; memorial, 711; extra allowance, 711.
• Kosciuszko, Thaddeus, accounts, 447, 488, 489; merit, 489; promotion, 498n; letter, 646n, 673; brevet, 673; Congress' sense of his services, 673.
• Lafayette, Marquis de, 323, 677n; letters 2n, 33, 210, 211n, 528n, 816; Congress approves of his stay in Europe, 234; sends news of signing of the Preliminary Treaty of Peace, 940.
• La Luzerne, Anne César, Chevalier de, letter, 194n, 290, 588, 589, 925, 944; note from, 4, 5; letter, 318n,
• Lamb, John, Artillery officers' resignations, 304n.

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• Lamberton, Seraphine, Abbé, petition, 816, 817n,
• Lamberton, New Jersey, 841.
• Land, valuation as basis for State quotas, 105, 112, 113, 113n, 114, 114n, 115, 117, 124, 125, 129, 130, 130n, 133, 134, 136, 527, 529, 847, 850, 853, 854, 855, 886, 887, 888, 890, 891, 892, 893, 895, 896, 899, 912, 913, 913n, 914n, 948, 952; value with buildings and improvements, 105; commissioners to value, 130, 130n, 133, 134; cessions by States, 104, 105, 256, 259, 271, 381, 384, 406, 408, 444, 552, 554, 558, 559, 560, 947, 956, 961, 962, 968, 972, 987, 988; Western, 256, 259, 271, 381, 384, 385, 386, 406, 421n, 444 526n, 534n, 552, 554, 558, 559, 560, 561, 562, 681, 947, 955, 956, 962, 969 972, 973, 987, 988; for Canadian refugees, 268, 269; Indiana tract, 267n; Vandalia tract, 322; grants to Army, 376, 382, 383, 385, 595, 625, 642, 677, 678, 682, 688, 694, 968, 972; bounty to sergeants, 382; proceeds of sale of, 386; reserved for public domain, 386; officers' petition for, 421n; sale of, 386, 421n; Indian, 503, 505, 506, 506n, 642, 681, 682, 687, 688, 692, 717, 762, 766, 767, 988; settlement, 503, 505, 506, 506n, 528, 534n, 602, 683; basis of Continental quotas, 527, 529; purchase, 528, 602, 762, 766, 767; settlers' titles, 562, 746, 747; Indians in western country, 681; titles in Western Territory subject to fulfillment of engagements of royal proclamation (of 1763), 746, 747; for soldiers, 561, 752; tax, 876n, 877, 877n, 879, 880, 923, 927; returns by States, 887; valuation abatements, 913, 913n, 914n; debate on western, 956; private companies, 969; crown titles to, 969; bounty, 972; Virginia boundaries, 973; State, 983, 986.
• Land Office, establishment of, 558.
• Landais, Pièrre, 826.
• Lande, -- de la, letter, 389n,
• Lands, Pennsylvania-Connecticut dispute, 6--32; public, 98, 386, 682, 683, 854.
• Laumoy,--, 668, 669; Congress's sense of services, 669; passage to France, 695.
• Laurance, John, 816n.
• Laurens, Henry, 241, 243, 244, 245, 250, 251; letters, 225, 532n, 620, 620n, 940; resignation, 226, 953; leave to return to the United States, 226; authority to negotiate, 531.
• Laurens, John, 574, 701; letter, 531; secretary of, 580n,
• Lauzun, Armand Louis de Gontaut Biron, Duc de, legion, 317, 898.
• La Vauguyon, Paul François de Quélen, Duc de, 878n,
• Law, Richard, a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 796, 797.
• Law, common, judges of court competent to sit as Court of Admiralty, 109.
• Lawrence, Jonathan, letter, 276n.
• Lawrence, Thomas, letter, 705n.
• Leavenworth, Nathan, petition, 538, 538n.
• Le Brun, see Bellecour, Le Brun de.
• Lee, Arthur, a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 798, 799; attends, 96,435, 797. Committees: Inquiry into Finance Department, 37n, 222, 387; Grand, 39, 602; week, 108, 322, 440, 977, 978, 979; Chittenden's letter, 108n, 241n, 367; Assistant Secretary at War letter, 128n, 517n,534n; Hamilton motion, 138, 913; Washington letter, 138n, 501n, 526n, 528n, 532n; Superintendent of Finance letter, 140, 337n, 483n, 512n, 623n, 807, 809n, 835n; Blaine letter, 158n; G. Clinton letter, 164n; Griffin letter, 212; Laurens, Jefferson, and Dana letters, 225; indemnification for military destruction, 330; Washington statue, 330n, 494; President's household expenses, 337n; Philadelphia citizens address, 444n; Carleton letter, 451n, 485, 517n; Massachusetts General Court letter, 483n, 582, 612n, 815n;

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  Schuyler letter, 501n; Finney letter, 503n; Allen letter, 504n; ordinance prohibiting settlement on Indian lands, 506n; Huntington motion, 516, 523; Gerry motion, 518, 627; Agent of Marine letter, 536n, 537, 699n; Dana letter, 545; Stewart memorial, 567n, 793; Elliot petition, 567n, 710; Taylor memorial, 590n; instructions to Pennsylvania delegates, 591; Secretary at War letter, 626n, 794n; address to States, 629; commerce, 630, 664n; treaties, 630; instructions to United States ministers abroad, 631; Mesplet memorial, 636n; Quaker address, 660n; committee report on despatches from United States ministers abroad, 661, 664n; Greene letter, 664n; Conyngham memorial, 672n; Heineken memorial, 672n; Indian affairs, 677, 680, 681, 689, 689n; Superintendent of Finance letter, 695n; Hutchins memorial, 710; De Witt letter, 711; Jones letter, 715n, 787; Denmark treaty, 720; Indian affairs, 747, 747n, 989; Armand memorial, 752; instructions to peace commissioners, 753; Hamburg letter, 757; Secretary of Foreign Affairs report, 778, 778n; Read resolution, 787n, 788; memorial of Ettween and others 794n; Moore memorial, 816n; McHenry letter, 836n; Netherlands minister letter, 841n; seizure of supplies over Washington's passport, 897; indemnification of officers, 963. Votes: 121, 127, 129, 131, 132, 135, 137, 148, 150, 151, 155, 156, 163, 166, 167, 179, 192, 201, 205, 206, 210, 216, 217, 219, 261, 276, 314, 329, 331, 339, 478 479, 481, 482, 484, 493, 494, 505, 5O7, 542, 581, 641, 652, 666, 706, 763, 508, 509, 515, 525, 526, 537, 540, 543, 544, 545, 552, 553, 559, 564, 582, 584, 587, 613, 622, 635, 637, 643, 644, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 653, 655, 656, 657, 658, 660, 665, 670, 671, 672, 674, 675, 676, 679, 699, 707, 708, 709, 710, 712, 713, 719, 764, 765, 766, 768, 769, 771, 807, 889, 895, 900n, 904, 913. Debate on revenue measure, 884; speech on separate article of peace, 930; nominated as Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 969. Mentioned: 108n, 117, 130, 130n, 131, 148, 148n, 152, 152n, 165, 215, 216, 217, 218, 317, 317n, 322n, 330n, 333, 337n, 391n, 456n, 480, 485, 494, 495n, 496, 499, 512, 512n, 514, 514n, 515, 516n, 517, 518n, 536, 536n, 537, 537n, 541, 541n, 604n, 640, 643, 648, 675, 689n, 697, 711, 722n, 767, 768, 768n, 769, 798, 810, 861, 871, 872n, 877, 882, 884, 888, 890, 892, 893, 895, 896, 898, 898n, 902, 903, 905, 909, 910, 912, 913, 919, 931, 933, 934n, 939, 940, 942, 945, 949, 950, 963, 964.

• Lee, Thomas Sim, a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 159, 177; attends, 159. Committees: Week, 160, 161, 977; commissaries' memorial, 170n; Board of War report, 213n; Stevens letter, 222n; Argote case, 228n; Washington letter, 232n, 234; Secretary at War letter, 479. Votes: 163, 166, 167, 179, 192, 201, 205, 206, 210, 216, 217, 219, 224, 226n, 233, 240, 243, 252, 255, 257; 261, 266.
• Lee, William, letter, 901.
• Leibert, P., 43.
• Leiper, Thomas, memorial, 816, 817n.
• L'Enfant, Pierre Charles, 324.
• L'Estrade, Claude Amable de Rocplant, Baron de, memorial, 312n,
• Levy, Eleazer, petition, 361, 362, 362n.
• Lewis, Mordecai, 322.
• Lewis, Morgan, 816n; claim, 227n, 230.
• L'Hommedieu, Ezra, a delegate from New York. Attends, 492. Committees: Week, 503, 512, 538, 979; Varick and Trumbull petitions, 533n, 569, 570. Votes: 493, 505, 507, 508, 509, 513, 525, 536, 540, 542, 543, 544, 545, 552, 553, 559, 564, 573, 579, 580, 581, 582, 584, 586, 592, 593, 596, 601, 613, 622, 637 640, 641, 643, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 654, 655, 656, 657, 658, 659,

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  665, 666, 667, 670, 671, 674, 675, 676, 679, 698, 706, 708, 709, 712, 713, 718, 719, 763, 764, 765, 766, 768, 769,770. Mentioned: 503n, 538n, 569n, 570, 709, 760n,

• Library, for Congress. See Books for Congress.
• Lieutenant colonels commandant, rank, 185, 787.
• Lilly, --,565, 566.
• Lincoln, Benjamin, 327, 365, 366, 401, 806; letters, 753, 805; resignation, 753; Congress' sense of his services, 753; settlement of accounts, 806.
• Lisbon, Portugal, American sailors, prisoners, assisted, 828.
• Liston, Thomas, memorial, 142, 151, 152, 186, 204, 275.
• Livingston, James, 809n; regiment, officers' resignations, 304n,
• Livingston, Robert R., 176n, 925, 950; letter, 336, 348n; continuance in office, 336, 968; resignation, 382; thanked by Congress, 382; salary, 968.
• Livingston, William, 29, 409; letter, 412n, 423.
• Lloyd, Edward, a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 812. Committees: Massachusetts letter, 815n, Mentioned: 810.
• Lloyd, Peter Z., 594, 811.
• Loan office, certificates, 37n, 99, 232, 446, 489, 490, 513, 514, 517, 535, 605, 606n, 885; creditors, 905; debt, 915n, 955.
• Loan officers, Continental, appointment, 445, 489, 513, 605; to take over duties of receiver of taxes, 580; salary, 580.
• Loans, foreign, 34, 35, 45, 46, 48, 50, 103, 619, 628, 631, 754, 755, 848, 849, 850, 857, 954; slow payments of, 44; French, 50, 51, 57, 284, 325, 326, 328, 589n, 639, 773, 864, 944, 963, 986; Holland, 55, 61, 290, 986; interest payments, 232, 638; five million florins, 290; repayment, 326, 328; stopped, 628, 631, 755; contracts, 639, 986; six million livres, 639; acknowledgments in French ratification, 864; Dutch contract, 986.
• Lochman, John, memorial, 358.
• L'Orient, a free port, 589.
• Lottery, 528.
• Lowell, John, 186n, 212.
• Loyalists, outrages, 152, 912; recovery of estates, 248, 370, 371, 373, 964, 965, 966; prosecution of, 371; in peace negotiatilons, 856.
• Lucas, John, 720; memorial, 358, 358n, 719.
• Lytle, Andrew, memorial, 646, 646n.
• McCall, James, 222, 222n, 229.
• McComb, Eleazer, a delegate from Delaware. Credentials, 177; attends, 177. Committees: Week, 194, 203, 213, 378, 380, 392, 395, 977, 978, 979; Metcalf memorial, 194n, 212; Grand, 230; McMechen memorial, 433; Child letter, 483; mail robbery, 817n, Votes: 179, 192, 201, 205, 206, 210, 215, 216, 217, 219, 224, 226n, 255, 257, 261, 266, 275, 372, 407, 429, 431, 819. Mentioned: 194n, 203n, 213n, 378n, 380n, 434n, 445, 810.
• McCormick, William, 531, 532n.
• Maccubbin, James, 178.
• McDougall, Alexander, 202, 311, 847, 850, 851; speech on pay for Army, 851, 852, 853.
• McHenry, James, a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 389, 812; attends, 389, 797. Committees: Ternant's promotion, 345n, 623; promotions, 345n; Secretary at War and Commander in chief letter, 367n; Secretary at War letter, 395, 400n, 401n, 438n, 498n, 534n, 541, 567n, 632, 644, 680, 787n, 794n; week, 401, 638, 978, 980; DeWitt letter, 402n; Hutchins memorial, 402n, 436; Castaing letter, 402n; Assistant Secretary at war 'Washington and Putnam letters, 405n; petition of officers for western lands, 421n; Washington letters, 367n, 405n, 422n, 439, 528n; Livingston and other letters, 412n, 423, 424, 425; permanent residence of Congress, 428n, 444n, 603; Higginson

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  motion, 431n; Newark, New Jersey, address, 439; Van Ingen petition, 440n, 502; Superintendent of Finance report, 442n, 451n, 477, 483, 519; prohibition of settlement on Indian lands, 506n; Dayton letter, 521n, 548; New York resolutions, 532; Jackson letter, 538n; Varick and Trumbull petitions, 538n, 569, 570; Phelon memorial, 571n, 634; Massachusetts Legislature letter, 572n, 815; reduction of civil departments, 577n; Grand, 602; War Office letter, 620; Ternant memorial, 623; Varick letter, 632n, 760; Segond letter, 633; Platt memorial, 644; Howell motion, 677n; Indian affairs, 692n; Government of Western Territory, 693n; Adam letter, 758; Nourse memorial, 759n; public audience of Washington, 819; McHenry letter, 836n, Votes: 407, 478, 479, 481, 482, 484, 493, 494, 505, 507, 508, 509, 525, 537, 540, 542, 543, 544, 545, 552, 553, 559, 564, 573, 579, 580, 581, 582, 584, 586, 635, 637, 641, 643, 644, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 655, 656, 657, 658, 659, 665, 666, 667, 668, 670, 671, 672, 674, 675, 676, 679, 699, 706, 707, 708, 709, 710, 712, 713, 719, 763, 764, 765, 766, 768, 769, 771, 807, 819. Mentioned: 407, 422n, 425n, 442, 445, 478, 481, 484, 486, 500n, 502, 502n, 532n, 537, 537n, 541n, 544n, 552, 554, 558n, 568, 584, 585, 602n, 632n, 634n, 638n, 644n, 646, 646n, 656, 670, 672, 673, 674n, 679n, 695, 695n, 702, 707, 787n, 790n, 799, 802, 806, 810, 819, 819n, 839n, 972.

• McKean, Thomas, a delegate from Delaware. Committees: Grand, 39.
• McKenzie, James and others, memorial, 347n,
• McKinsey, James, 569; memorial, 396, 568.
• McLane, Allan, 786.
• McMechen, James, memorial, 433, 434, 434n,
• Macpherson, William, 786.
• Madeira, United States agent at, 778, 779, 780; commercial privileges with, 779.
• Madison, James, a delegate from Virginia. Committees: Inquiry into Foreign Affairs Department, 37n; Secretary at War report, 38, 185n, 362n, 787; Superintendent of Finance letter, 43, 181n, 421n, 422n, 443, 454, 792; French minister's notification, 46n; Adams letter, 64, 857; Hannum, Frazer and Gardner memorial, 82; books for Congress, 83, 858; Grand, 93, 114n; to meet Pennsylvania Assembly committee, 109; Howell and Jones motion, 114; restoring public credit, 143n, 170, 188, 190n, 911, 916; Hall petition, 153; amendment of ordinance for trial of piracy, 160; copyright, 180n, 326, Barlow letter, 211n; Secretary for Foreign Affairs letter, 221, 267, 348, 389, 392, 964; Argote case, 228n; Clark motion, 232; Washington letter, 232n, 265n, 269, 337, 340n, 392n, 402, 422n, 427n, 436; Blake and others memorial, 262n, 271; President of Pennsylvania letter, 264; Superintendent of Finance continuance in office, 268, 283; Hazen memorial, 268, 957; mint, 273n, 487; address to States, 277; governor of New York letter, 285n; week, 332, 446, 977, 978, 979; arrangement of Department of Foreign Affairs, 334; Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Dana letters, 348; carrying out Definitive treaty, 369; Virginia cession of Western lands, 381n, 406, 559, 988; governors of New Orleans and Havana letters, 386; draft of treaty with Great Britain, 404; amendment to Articles of Confederation, 404n; permanent residence of Congress, 428n, 444n, 603; Franklin letter, 477n, 613; Massachusetts General Court letter, 483n, 585, 612n; Jay's instructions, 486; Dayton letter, 521n, 548; French minister's petition, 554; Phelon memorial, 571n, 634; reduction

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  of civil list, 584n; to receive communications from French minister, 589n, 638, 745, Franklin letter and proclamation of treaty with Sweden, 613; Greene letter, 664n, 701; Indian affairs, 692n, 695; government of Western Territory, 695; Army peace establishment, 722; contract with France, 773; pay advance to Army, 853; land valuation method, 855, 886; conference with Pennsylvania Executive, 859, 889; conference with Superintendent of Finance, 848, 886; peace arrangements, 953; western country, 957; Dana letter, 958; ratification of Preliminary Articles of Peace, 958; Williamson motion, 970n, 971; circular to States, 986; Rhode Island's refusal to agree to impost, 986; Votes: 36, 40, 41, 42, 94, 116, 121, 127, 129, 131, 132, 135, 137, 148, 150, 151, 155, 156, 163, 166, 167, 179, 192, 201, 205, 206, 210, 216, 217, 219, 224, 226n, 233, 240, 243, 252, 255, 257, 261, 266, 276, 329, 331, 352, 353, 354, 355, 356, 357, 359, 360, 361, 372, 407, 525, 526, 559, 564, 573, 579, 580, 581, 582, 584, 586, 587, 592, 593, 596, 601, 613, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 655, 656, 657, 658, 660, 665, 666, 667, 668, 670, 671, 672, 679, 699, 719, 895, 900n. Notes of debates, 845; on State vote in the Confederation, 848; speech on public revenue, 872, 916, 946, 947, 986; on powers of Congress, 907, 908, 909; on land abatements, 913, 913n, 914n, 915n; speech on separate article of treaty of peace, 934, 935. Mentioned: 4n, 43, 44n, 82n, 92n, 118, 119n, 127n, 149, 149n, 155, 174, 189n, 215n, 218, 218n, 221, 256, 283, 322n, 335, 335n, 348, 348n, 352, 354, 354n, 356, 359, 375n, 422, 446n, 455n, 477n, 604n, 609n, 610n, 612n, 614n, 645n, 695, 717n, 846, 850, 854, 854n, 855, 856, 859, 861, 862, 870, 872, 877, 878, 878n, 879, 887, 889, 892, 893, 896, 898, 899, 902, 903, 906, 907, 912, 913, 916, 934, 939, 946, 948, 949, 950, 952, 954, 956, 958, 960, 962, 963, 966, 969, 972, 973.

• Madrid, United States Minister to, see Spain, United States minister to.
• Magazines, military stores, 395, 395n, 479, 480, 804, 805.
• Mail, guard for, 110; packet ships from England, 699n; stolen, 790, 816, 817n; to be sent when required by the President of Congress, 839.
• Malcom, William, 786.
• Manufactures, steel, 515; cotton, 532; encouragement of, 927n.
• Map of the war, 402, 711.
• Marbois, Françcois de Barbé, Marquis de, 845, 878n, 925; letters, 386n, 941n.
• Marchant, Henry, a delegate from Rhode Island. Credentials, 411.
• Marine affairs, accounts, 622n.
• Marine, Agent of, 139, 145, 232, 242, 262, 343, 343n, 346, 347n, 362, 362n, 369n, 377, 380, 425, 435, 437, 438, 444n, 447n, 486, 538, 568, 573, 573n, 622n, 676, 695, 699n, 787, 789, 839, 957; inquiry into, 37, 37n, 38n, 443; ordered to recall armed vessels, 211; report, 227, 361, 446; letters, 362n, 386n, 444n, 536n, 537; rank precedence, 392n; Superintendent of Finance request to be excused from acting as, 444; salary and clerks, 572. See also Morris, Robert.
• Marine captures, explanation of declaration (of Jan. 20, 1783), 627.
• Marine certificate, 79; passport, 78; sealetter, 79.
• Marine Department, commissioner to settle accounts, 49, 262; list of officers, 180, 180n; business performed by clerks of the Finance Department, 180; accounts, 49, 262, 361, 402, 436, 512; pay, 262; expenses, 434; discontinued, 571, 573.
• Marine, merchant, see Merchant marine.
• Marine, Secretary of, 392n. See alsoMarine, Agent of.
• Martin, Alexander, 341.

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• Martin, Hugh, 786.
• Maryland, 119, 230; Executive, 49, 770; representation in Congress, 143; delegates, 145, 159, 177, 178, 389, 442n, 526n, 537, 969; annual proportion of public debt, 172, 231, 259, 455, 953; vote, 215n; permanent residence of Congress in, 229n, 378n, 381, 537, 652, 656; population, 231, 953; troops, 273, 275, 390, 421n, 454, 496; officers, 304n, 401; legislature, 378n, 454, 503; legislature's letter, 378n; cession of site for permanent residence of Congress, 381; pay of troops, 401, 421n, 454; intendent of revenue, 454; interference with public finance, 454, 455; delegates letter, 526n; French Consul-general in, 554; poll-tax, 880; impost, 884; attitude toward revenue measure and land abatements, 914n; loan orifice debt. 915n.
• Mason, Stevens Thomson, 798.
• Massachusetts, 957; legislature's letter, 39, 483n, 571, 572n, 578, 581, 582, 585, 606, 607, 609; officers, 43n, 170, 202, 304n, 578, 857; commissioner to settle public accounts, 49; delegates, 107, 153, 510, 510n, vote in Committee of the Whole, 118, 119, 120n, 125, 126; quota of public debt, 172, 231, 259, 953; officers memorial, 202; officers' resignations, 304n; vote, 215n; supreme executive, 228; population, 231, 953; governor, 387; troops' pay, 428, 430, 432, 519, 520, 607, 608; prize case in Court of Appeals, 548; clothing for troops, 575; list of half-pay officers, 578; legislature, 607, 608, 609, 611, 752n,' objects to commutation of half. pay, 607, 608; complains of pay scale of civil officers of government, 608; unable to agree on impost, 608, 609, 897; hints at secession, 608, 611; permanent residence of Congress in, 649; soldiers' and sailors' pensions, 719; recommended to compensate Lucas, 720; act granting Congress power to levy an impost tax, 752n; troops accept commutation of pay, 786; anxious to settle land valuation, 854; tax-collection method, 869; expenditures for troops, 886; citizens' loan to United States, 905; attitude toward revenue measure and land abatements, 913n; loan office debt, 915n; vote on impost law, 937; denial of sanction of militia operations against Burgoyne, 947; land values in, 948; call for Convention of States, 951; favors Russian treaty, 966.
• Mathews, John a delegate from South Carolina. Committees: Instructions to United States Ministers abroad, 934n.
• Matlack, Timothy, 27.
• Maxwell, Hugh, 293.
• Mayrant, John, commission, 786; promotion, 788.
• Measam, George, 771n, 802; estate willed to the United States, 803.
• Medical Department, expense, 398.
• Medical officers, 621.
• Menerson, John, petition, 213, 213n, 221.
• Mentges, Francis, 664n.
• Mercer, Grace, petition, 427, 427n 434, 442, 443.
• Mercer, Hugh, 50.
• Mercer, John Francis, a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 111, 798, 799; attends, 110, 797. Committees: Chittenden's letters, 108n, 367; Washington letter, 138n, 186, 186n, 204n, 294n, 367n, 405n, 926; Secretary at War letter, 164n, 367n, 400n, 567n; Superintendent of Finance letter, 195n, 422n, 623n, 660; Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania letter, 204n; Kirk memorial, 213n; Grand, 230, 376n; week, 232, 332, 409, 676, 977, 978. 979, 980; Gill memorial, 332n; 339; Ternan'ts promotion, 345n; promotions, 345n; navy officers memorial, 347n, 516; instructions to Dana, 348n; Secretary at War and Commander in chief letter, 367n; Virginia resolutions and Pennsylvania letter, 372, 373, 375n; Madison and Hamilton motions,

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  375n; land grants to Army, 383; Castaing letter, 402n; Assistant Secretary at War, Washington and Putnam letters, 405n; Massachusetts General Court letter, 483n, 585, 612n; Irwin petition, 498n, 499; Sargent letter, 512n, 527; reduction of civil list, 584n; Bond letter, 705n, 762; Fowler memorial, 746; permanent residence of Congress on the Delaware, 770; Virginia and Pennsylvania instructions to delegates, 936. Votes: 116, 121, 127, 129, 131, 132, 135, 137, 148, 150, 151, 156, 163, 166, 167, 179, 192, 201, 205, 206, 210, 216, 217, 219, 224, 226n, 233, 240, 257, 261, 266, 276, 314, 315, 329, 339, 352, 353, 354, 355, 356, 357, 359, 360, 361, 372, 407, 431, 493, 494, 515, 525, 526, 537, 540, 542, 543, 544, 545, 552, 553, 559, 564, 581, 582, 584, 586, 587, 592, 593, 596, 601, 613, 635, 637, 641, 643, 644, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 655, 656, 657, 658, 660, 665, 666, 667, 668, 670, 671, 672, 674, 675, 676, 699, 706, 707, 708, 709, 710, 712, 713, 719, 763, 764, 765, 766, 768, 769, 771, 807, 900n, 904, 913. Debate on land valuation, 893; speech on separate article of treaty of peace, 929, 931, 941. Mentioned: 135, 149, 179, 228, 240, 328, 338, 339n, 352, 361, 424, 429, 430, 486, 539, 541, 543, 544, 544n, 584, 604, 604n, 612n, 627, 641, 646, 664, 671, 675, 702, 708n, 709, 747n, 770, 771, 798, 824n, 891, 892, 893, 894, 895, 897, 898, 899, 900, 903, 905, 906, 907, 910, 912, 916, 917, 929, 932, 939, 951, 952, 954, 956, 957, 963, 966, 971.

• Mercer, Richard, 427, 434.
• Mercer, --, 50.
• Merchandise, British, imported clandetinely, 83; duties, 96.
• Merchant marine, passports from Morocco, 404; ships and vessels, 438, 446; establishment of, 486.
• Merchants, memorial, 585n.
• Mercier, D., letter, 802, 803.
• Mercier, John Dyer, memorial, 262n; letter, 771n.
• Mesplet, Fleury, memorial, 636n.
• Metcalf, Simon, memorial, 212; letter, 519.
• Middlesex County, New Jersey, militia, officers, address, 445, 445n; Congess's approval, 445.
• Mifflin, Thomas, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 811. Committees: Inquiry into Agent of Marine, 38n; regulation of Quartermaster Department, 45n; Greene letter, 47; books for Congress, 83, 858; Washington letter, 126n, 142, 367n, 405n; Secretary at War letter, 164n, 330, 367n, 400n, 567n; report of Grand committee, 178; Hazen's regiment, 312n; Buhler petition, 316n; Washington statue, 330n, 494; Pollock letter, 333; week, 343, 346, 978; Ternant's promotion, 345n; promotions, 345n; Castaing letter, 402n; Assistant Secretary at War, Washington, and Putnam letters, 405n; Votes: 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 94, 116, 120, 127, 129, 131, 132, 150, 155, 156, 163, 166, 167, 179, 215, 216, 217, 219, 240, 252, 255, 275, 331, 355, 356, 372, 819. Elected President of Congress, 799. Mentioned: 333n, 343n, 346n, 810, 813n, 896, 951.
• Miles, --, 797.
• Military Academy, 164n, 738.
• Military Department, reduction of expense, 230, 230n.
• Military establishment, 402n.
• Military system of United States, observations on, 164n.
• Militia, 741, 947; rangers, 203; officers address, 445, 445n.
• Minerva, ship, 672n.
• Ministers, diplomatic, see Diplomats.
• Mint, establishment of, 273, 487; regulation of, 443.
• Mississippi River, navigation, 250; boundary of French and British colonies, 554; navigation of, 555.

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• Mitchell, Stephen Mix, a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 796, 797.
• Molasses, duty on, 927.
• Money, see Currency.
• Monied interest, 916.
• Monroe, James, a delegate from Virginia. Credentials, 798, 799. Committees: Frothingham petition, 794n; Ward memorial, 817n; Houdin memorial, 817n; Thacher memorial, 817n; Chever memorial, 818n; Duportail letter, 839n. Votes: 819. Mentioned: 798, 810, 819.
• Montgomery, John, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Attends, 332. Committees: Week, 95, 133n, 142, 203, 213, 343, 346, 378, 380, 401, 538, 585, 745, 747, 752, 759, 794, 917, 978, 979, 980; postmaster's letter, 110; Liston memorial, 143n, 151; Metcalf memorial, 194; Postmaster General's letter, 229; Jay instructions, 486; prohibition of settlement on Indian lands, 506n; Grand, 602; ordinance for Indian trade, 693; Massachusetts letter, 815n. Votes: 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 94, 116, 120, 127, 129, 131, 132, 135, 137, 148, 150, 155, 156, 163, 166, 167, 179, 192, 201, 205, 206, 210, 215, 216, 217, 219, 224, 226n, 339, 352, 353, 355, 356, 359, 360, 372, 407, 429, 431, 478, 479, 481, 482, 484, 493, 494, 505, 507, 508, 509, 525, 537, 552, 553, 559, 564, 579, 580, 581, 582, 584, 586, 592, 593, 596, 601, 613, 622, 635, 637, 641, 642, 644, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 655, 656, 657, 659, 665, 666, 667, 670, 671, 672, 674, 675, 676, 698, 706, 708, 709, 710, 712, 713, 719, 763, 764, 766, 768, 769, 771. Leave of absence, 227. Mentioned: 672, 708, 712, 719, 969.
• Montserrat, West Indies, 46.
• Moore, Philip, memorial, 816, 816n.
• Moore, Stephen, memorial, 428n, 614; letter, 528n, 604n; property damaged, 614, 615; property purchased from, 616.
• Morant, see Mayrant.
• Morgan, George, 425, 496, 600, 661, letter, 412n, 425n, 623n.
• Morgan, John, letter, 532n.
• Morocco and Fez, Emperor of, procuring of ship passports from, 404, 531; treaty and friendship with, 824.
• Morris, Cadwalader, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 811. Committees: Taylor memorial, 590n; Superintendent of Finance letter, 623n, 695n, 840n; government of Western Territory, 693; Massachusetts letter, 815n; Moore memorial, 816n. Votes: 819. Mentioned: 810.
• Morris, Lewis, jr., 97, 148, 786, 984; memorial, 705n.
• Morris, Robert, 34, 253, 288, 361, 401, 435n, 569n, 835, 862, 864, 876n; letters, 168, 222n, 263n, 454n, 716, 915, 916, 919, 920; conference with Grand committee, 847; injunction of secrecy on letter, 915, 916; resignation, 919, 920; administration disparaged and upheld, 919. See also Finance, Superintendent of.
• Morrisania, offered for permanent residence of Congress, 705n.
• Morrison, John, 565, 566; court-martial, 509; petition, 514n.
• Morristown, New Jersey, mail guard to Fishkill, 110.
• Mortimer, Charles, memorial, 158, 212.
• Mosely, --, 797.
• Moylan, Stephen, 748n; letter, 800.
• Muhlenberg, Frederick A., 595.
• Murmand, Jean Bernard de, letter, 380; brevet, 567.
• Murray, William, 235, 238.
• Muster deportment, 220; officers' accounts, 440; deranged officers and pay depreciation, 504.
• Mustermaster General, deputy, pay, 569.
• Mutiny, Baylot's regiment, 400; pardon for mutineers, 400; Pennsylvania troops, 405n, 410, 412n, 413, 416, 418, 419, 420, 424, 425n, 506, 535, 541, 971, 972, 974; report on, 413, 416; St. Clair's orders, 425n; Congress action on, 452, 453; suspension of sentences, 509, 510n;

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  courts-martial, 535; Sergeant's memorial, 970.

• Nagle, Christian, 565, 566; court-martial, 509; petition, 517n.
• Nantucket, inhabitants, memorial, 182n, 187, 193, 195, 206; British protection of vessels, 187; whale-ship license, 938.
• Naples and Sicily, King of, treaty with, 405, 531, 821.
• Nash, Abner, a delegate from North Carolina. Credentials: 341. Committees: Grand, 93; Howell and Jones motion, 114; Hall petition, 153. Votes: 35, 36, 94, 116. Mentioned: 114n.
• Natchez, Mississippi, inhabitants, memorial, 402; settlers, 436.
• Navigation, agreement with Holland, 392, 393.
• Navy, recall of armed vessels, 211, 950; officers' memorial, 347n, 516; agreement not to keep a force on the Northern and Western lakes, 348, 966; officers' forfeiture of commissions, 384; building and equipping, 386; captains' commissions, 437; ships' expense, 438, 446; support of by States, 486; officers' accounts, 516; officers' memorial, 516; pay depreciation, 516; pensions, 569; peace establishment, 954.
• Navy, British, commanders at New York to be notified of peace, 950, 951; refuses to stop hostilities, 951.
• Navy, France, detachment from West Indies to protect trade, 3.
• Navy, States, 639.
• Needham, Isaac, 368.
• Negroes, see Slaves.
• Neilson, John, 8, 9, 32.
• Netherlands, see Holland.
• Neutral confederacy, 969.
• Neutral flag, West Indies trade permits, 46.
• Neutrality, violation of, 228, 386, 387, 349, 351, 393, 394, 587, 619, 631, 966; agreement with Europe on armed, 393; instructions to United States ministers abroad, 619, 631; convention of European powers, 756.
• Nevis, West Indies, 46.
• New Brunswick, New Jersey, address of inhabitants to Congress, 501, 501n, 502n, 504; Congress' approval of, 501, 502.
• New England, in favor of Vermont, 888; States convention, 951, 952.
• New Hampshire, 230; vote in Committee of the Whole, 118, 119, 120n, 125, 126; grants, 164n, see also Vermont; quota of public debt, 172, 231, 259, 953; vote, 215n; population, 231, 953; officers' resignations, 304n; Continental loan officer in, 445, 489, 513, 605; President's letter, 445, 446n, 513; delegates, 456, 836; plan of managing Continental loan office certificates, 489, 490, 513, 605, 606n; legislature 513, 672, 673, 673n; President, 606n; permanent residence of Congress in, 649; troops, 786; attendance in Congress, 836; attitude toward revenue measure and land abatements, 913n; loan office debt, 915n; declines to join the New England convention, 952.
• New Jersey, 552, 885; governor's letter, 108n; governor, 749, 770, 836; vote in Committee of the Whole, 118, 119, 120n, 125, 126; quota of public debt, 172, 231, 259, 953, 954; officers' memorial, 202; vote, 215n; population, 231, 953, 954; officers' resignations, 304n; council and assembly remonstrance, 407, 408, 972, 973; delegates, 407, 408, 836; offer of permanent residence for Congress, 422n, 651, 770; speaker of assembly letter, 422n; Congress's sense of spirit and attachment, 423; interference with public finance, 454; troops, 786; representation in Congress, 836; impost, 884; attitude toward revenue measure and land abatements, 914n; loan office debt, 915n; western lands, 968, 969.

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• New London, Virginia, 395, 395n.
• New Orleans, Louisiana, governor's letter, 227, 228, 386; Continental agent at, 235; governor, 323.
• New York (State), 544; cession of Western lands, 104; delegates, 108n, 164n, 836; Clinton's letter to delegates, 108n; vote in Committee of the Whole, 118, 119, 120n, 125, 126; letter to delegates, 164n; quota of public debt, 172, 231, 259, 953; officers' memorial, 202; governor's letter, 229n, 285n, 376, 532; population, 231, 953; legislature's resolutions augmenting powers of Congress, 285n, 532; officers' resignations, 304n; cession of site for permanent residence of Congress, 381; recommended to grant citizenship to Canadian refugees, 497; commissioner to settle accounts, 498; council and assembly resolutions, 532; recommended to settle pay of officers, 534; claim for damages committed by allied troops, 567; executive, 591, 592, 760, 836; troops, 642, 687, 688, 786; land grants to soldiers, 642, 687, 688; permanent residence of Congress in, 381, 650; representation in Congress, 836; vote on half-pay to officers, 865; attitude toward revenue measure and land abatements, 914n; loan office debt, 915n; convention with New England States, 951.
• New York (City), tobacco shipped from Virginia to, 121, 886, 894, 895; British evacuation, 274, 368, 422n, 436, 813n; citizens' memorial, 815, 816n.
• New York, ship, 122; tobacco shipped in, 106.
• Newark, New Jersey, magistrates, etc., address, 439, 439n.
• Newburgh, New York, officers' meeting at, 210n; Addresses, 294, 295, 298, 311, 926, 986, 990; general orders on, 297.
• North, William, rank, 438; brevet commission, 552.
• North Carolina, 971; vote in Committee of the Whole, 118, 119, 120n, 125, 126; quota of public debt, 172, 231, 259, 953; vote, 215n; population, 231, 953; troops, 275, 365, 794n; delegates, 318, 341; delegates' memorial, 318; French consul general in, 554; permanent residence of Congress in, 653; legislature provides for paying the Continental line troops, 794n; governor's letter, 794n; collection of revenue, 883; impost, 884; attitude toward revenue measure and land abatements, 915n; loan office debt, 915n.
• North River, see Hudson River.
• Northwest frontiers, Indians on, 496.
• Northwest Territory, Virginia's expenses in, 406, 407; troops in, 560; citizenship in, 560; land grants in, 625, 677, 678; government established in, 677, 678, 679, 690, 691, 694; settlers in, 689, 692; boundaries, 691; plan of government, 693n; land titles subject to fulfillment of engagements of Royal Proclamation of 1763, 746, 747.
• Nourse, Joseph, 574, 716n, 759, 759n, 802, 983.
• Oath of office (fidelity), 255, 625.
• Officers, 154, 550; half-pay, 43, 95, 170, 178, 179, 339, 578, 583, 607, 608, 609, 611, 612, 863, 865, 911, 912, 990; deranged, 43n, 170, 213, 339, 593, 857; brevet, 97, 99; accounts, 97, 99, 143; exchange of, 140, 140n; pay, 143, 144, 146, 147, 178, 178n, 179, 202, 203, 204, 272, 291, 293, 366n, 401, 426, 427, 454, 488, 503, 504; line acting in staff departments, 144; memorial, 146, 176, 202, 203n, 207, 209, 209n, 290, 291, 293n, 339, 986, 990; retirement, 161, 183, 272, 345, 345n; retained in Army, 161n, 358, 364; wounded, pension and discharge, 174; allowance of horses, etc., 176, 177; commutation of pay, 178, 178n, 179, 401, 578, 582, 583, 607, 608, 609, 611, 612, 990, 991; staff, 183, 213, 621; commissions, 206; Newburgh meeting, 210n, 294, 295n, 297n, 298, 299n, 300, 306, 311n' unattached,

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  272; commanding, 273, 392n distress, 291; clothing, 292; Newburgh Addresses, 294, 295, 297, 297n, 298, 299n, 300, 306, 311n; repudiate Newburgh Addresses, 311; on reduction of regiments, 304n; resignations, 304n, 585, 610; Southern, 304n, 332n; additional compensation, 305; Washington's address to, at Newburgh, 306; Congress's confidence in, 306n; thanks of Washington, 310; protection from damages, 330, 963, 964; subsistence money for prisoners with the British, 330, 332n, 454; promotions, 343, 344, 345, 345n, 366, 383, 435n, 438n, 533, 534, 632, 633, 645n, 680; furloughs, 359; discharged, 364; rank, 366n; foreign, 488, 680; commanding, address to Washington, 392n; agreement to accept full pay, 401; Invalid corps, 401n; petition for lands, 421n; Canadians, 496, 497, 498; supernumerary, 503; trading with Indians, 550; list sent to States, 578; furlough, 621; subsistence, 621; general, 621; desiring place on peace establishment, 836n; convention report, 986, 990; address and petition to Congress, 986, 990.

• Officers, civil, lists, 180n; salaries, 608, 609, 611, 612.
• Ogden, Matthias, 847, 850, 851; leave to visit Europe, 263; letter, 263n; speech on pay for Army, 852.
• Ohio River, navigation of, 427; Indian lands on, 640.
• Oneida Indians, see Indians.
• Onondaga, New York, lands granted to soldiers, 642, 687.
• Ordnance, surveyor, see Surveyor of ordnance.
• Orphans, see Widows and orphans.
• Osborne, Henry, 9, 27.
• Osgood, Samuel, a delegate from Massachusetts. Credentials, 795; attends, 795. Committees: Inquiry into Foreign Affairs Department, 37n; Superintendent of Finance, 43, 49, 49n, 771n, 802, 840n; regulation of Quartermaster Department, 45n; French minister's notification, 46n; Grand, 93, 230; Army memorial, 95; report of Grand committee, 95n, 145; Wiggans memorial, 108n, 192; Ross memorial, 108n; Howell and Jones motion, 114; Cazeau memorial, 117; Hall petition, 153; Franklin letter, 176n, 346; letter from Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, 204n; letter from General Assembly of Virginia, 204n; Washington letter, 204n, 210n, 237n, 265n, 269, 305n, 337; Lafayette letter, 211n; Desdevens' representation, 213n, 273; Secretary at War letter, 222n, 227n, 230, 254, 254n, 705n; Laurens, Jefferson, and Dana letters, 225; Blake and others, memorial, 262n, 271; Pennsylvania letter, 264, 375n; week, 267, 705, 980; Superintendent of Finance, continuance in office, 268, 283; Hazen memorial, 268, 956; salary of United States ministers abroad, 312; Franklin and Adams letters, 346; Jay's instructions, 486; Quaker address, 660n; Knox memorial, 711; letter of Risberg and others, 748n, 758; Stewart's letter, 759n; memorial of Ettween and others, 794n; Virginia and Pennsylvania instructions to delegates, 936; on Western country, 956; to confer with Superintendent of Finance, 848. Votes: 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 94, 116, 155, 162, 163, 165, 166, 167, 179, 192, 201, 205, 210, 215, 216, 217, 219, 224, 226n, 233, 240, 256, 261, 266, 275, 313, 314, 315, 654, 655, 656, 657, 658, 659, 665, 666, 667, 670, 671, 674, 675, 676, 679, 698, 706, 708, 709, 712, 713, 718, 719, 763, 764, 765, 766, 768, 769, 770, 807, 818. Mentioned: 36, 39, 41, 42, 43, 98n, 146, 216, 222, 226, 230n, 231n, 269n, 271, 273, 274, 285n, 311n, 705n, 759n, 760, 761n, 766, 772n, 800, 803, 805, 806n, 810, 856, 891, 933, 949, 952.
• Oswald, Richard, 241, 243, 244, 250, 251, 273, 645, 924, 929, 984.
• Otto, Bodo, 786.

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• Otto, Frederick, 786.
• Ottoman Porte, treaty with, 821.
• Outrages, by enemy to be reported for retaliation, 149.
• Pace, William, 985.
• Packets, United States, carrying of cargoes forbidden, 384.
• Page, Mann, 798.
• Paine, Ephraim, a delegate from New York. Committees: John Baptist Pequet, 828n.
• Paine, Thomas, letters, 401, 402n, 409n, 512; appointed historiographer, 513.
• Papacy, Nuncio at Versailles, application, 825, 826.
• Parke, Matthew, court martial, 362n, 380, 386n.
• Parker, Joseph, affidavit, 817n.
• Partridge, George, a delegate from Massachusetts. Credentials, 810. Committees: Superintendent of Finance letter, 483n; New York memorial, 815; week, 817, 980; Patton memorial, 818n. Votes: 819. Mentioned: 810, 816n.
• Passport, privilege abused by British, 82; marine, 78, 82, 83, 122, 141, 404; for tobacco, 121; for Nantucket whaling ships, 207; Commander in chief's ignored, 859, 897.
• Pasturage, of public stock on State Island, 267.
• Patterson, John, 293, 564, 565.
• Patton, Robert, pay, 767; memorial, 818n.
• Patton, Thomas, artificer company, agrees to accept commutation of pay, 786.
• Patty, privateer, 546, 547.
• Pay, 94, 183, 186, 187, 203, 204, 206, 213, 253, 284, 310, 325, 415, 421n, 426, 428, 430, 432, 441, 442, 447, 448, 449, 450, 453, 454, 483, 483n, 496n, 500, 520, 567n, 582, 583, 696, 704, 710, 760, 761, 767, 851; half pay, 43, 95, 140, 146, 147, 155, 170, 178, 181, 202, 203, 213, 302, 321, 339, 345, 346, 347n, 302, 387, 388; 401, 578, 607, 608, 609, 611, 612, 786, 853, 863, 865, 889, 911, 912, 916, 918, 923, 926, 936, 938, 954, 991; Army memorial, 93, 862; civil and military establishments, 140; additional, 144; officers, 144, 202, 203, 204, 272, 291, 503, 582, 583; commutation, 178, 207, 208, 209, 209n, 345, 347n, 401, 586, 607, 608, 609, 611, 612, 786, 889, 918, 923, 936, 938, 954, 990, 991; arrearages, 181, 262, 426, 800, 801, 852, 862, 898; officers' memorial, 202, 203, 203n; depreciation, 220, 262, 340, 343, 440, 488, 502, 504, 512, 516, 532, 534, 569, 570, 697; expectation of Army, 270; distress, 291; by States to Army, 327, 331, 366n, 403; measures for, 333, 865; settlement, 367; three months, 483; supernumerary and deranged officers, 503; for furloughed troops, 519; brevet rank, 541; peace establishment, 728, 732; advance to Army, 847; made a consolidated debt, 851; Army pay irregularity compared with civil list, 852; ordered, 863, 864; half-pay opponents, 926; commutation frustrated, 936.
• Paymaster General, 447, 450, 483n, 541, 839; instructions to, 194n; letters, 254n, 499, 500, 800; to settle Army accounts, 426, 801; pay, 500; deputy, 500.
• Peace, 849; French King's conduct in negotiations, 5; French minister's note on, 4; British naval victories causing change in British willingness for, 5; negotiations, 142, 193, 194, 631, 714, 754, 856, 924, 925, 926; confidential report to be sent to Washington, 142; arrangements, 165n, 334, 953; separate article of Preliminary treaty, 193, 194, 714, 924, 929, 930, 931, 932, 933, 934, 935, 936, 939, 940, 941, 944; notification of, 210; Provisional articles, 212, 241, 242, 242n, 243, 243n, 645, 716, 924, 925, 926, 938, 950, 957, 958, 959, 967, 984, 985; commissioners, 238, 518, 518n, 714, 754, 812, 821, 924, 925; cessation of hostilities, 238, 242n; ratification, 242, 242n, 243, 243n, 269, 958, 959, 960, 985; seventh article, 242,

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  252; announcement of, 253, 319, 757; with Indians, 264, 504n, 591, 594, 595, 596, 681, 954; enlistment period continues until, 269; news to be transmitted to hostile Indians, 319; commissioners empowered to negotiate a treaty of commerce, 320; violated by British, 363, 364; instructions to commissioners, 320, 518, 518n, 715, 754, 821; Definitive treaty, 588, 589, 746, 812, 812n, 813n; signing of, 588, 589; Provisional articles of, 645; Congress's sense of commissioners' services, 714; treaty to be communicated to France before signing, 715; France resolves not to sign except in concert with United States, 746; commissioners' letter, 812; separate and secret with Great Britain, 924; journals of negotiations, 924; commissioners' conduct toward France and Great Britain, 924, 925; publication of, 925, 926, 957; responsibility for delay, 926; between France and Great Britain, 928; signing, 928n, 950; restoration of confiscated property, 936; uncertainty of, 944; proclamation, 957; ambiguity, 958, 959; debate on, 959, 960; States recommended to comply with certain of the Preliminary articles, 967.

• Peace arrangement, see Army, peace arrangement.
• Peace establishment, see Army, peace arrangement.
• Pearson, Joseph, 457.
• Peck, Jedidiah, letter, 604n, 677n.
• Pendleton, Daniel, 801, 802; artificer company, 786.
• Penet, Ignace, petition, 262, 262n, 274.
• Penet, Pierre, letter, 816, 817n.
• Penn, Richard, 14.
• Penn, Thomas, 14.
• Penn, William, 14.
• Pennell, Joseph, 402, 622n.
• Pennsylvania, 718, 764, 898, 956; comsioner to settle public accounts, 49, 154n, 807; President and Supreme Executive Council, 83, 508; legislative representatives' memorial, 99, 861; General Assembly resolves, attention called to subject of cession of western lands, 105; recommended not to embarrass Congress by diverting public funds, 105n, 110n, 149n, 530, 593, 594; public creditors' relief, 99, 100; compliance with requisitions of Congress, 104; Assembly committee conference with committee of Congress, 109; Supreme Court judges, 110; vote in Committee of the Whole, 118, 119, 120n, 125, 126; inhabitants seize supplies for British prisoners, 128n; General Assembly committee, 160, 889; quota of public debt, 172, 231, 259, 527, 953; citizens, prisoners of British, 184; Supreme Executive Council letter, 184, 373, 374, 442n, 452; Supreme Executive Council, 204n, 410, 412n, 961, 971, 973; delegates, 204n, 241n, 267, 319, 429, 430, 507, 508, 526, 530, 591, 593, 595, 926, 936, 950, 954, 966; vote, 215n; legislature, 225, 526, 527, 537, 591, 595, 717, 748n, 762, 766, 828; requested to indemnify Brodhead, 225; population, 231; letter to delegates, 241n, 267; slaves of inhabitants, 241n; President's letter, 241n, 264, 265n; troops, 273, 275, 390, 415, 425, 595, 621, 753, 786; officers, 303, 304n, 425n; frontiers, 319; and the mutiny, 405n, 413, 414, 417, 418, 419, 424; troops mutiny, 405n, 410, 411, 412n, 413, 416, 418, 419, 424, 452, 453, 506, 509, 510n, 535, 541, 564, 566, 567, 970, 971, 973, 974, 988; committee of Congress conference with, 405n, 414, 416, 971, 973, 974; address of mutineers to Supreme Executive Council, 412n; letters and papers on the mutiny, 413; Council refusal to call out militia against mutineers, 414, 418, 419; President, letter to, 421; conduct of Council in the mutiny, 424; officers' declaration, 425n; ambiguity of delegates, 430, 432, 433; Congress's action on mutiny, 452,

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  453; accounts, 499, 511, 828, 829, 830, 831, 832, 833, 834, 835; delegates' motion, 507; invitation to Congress to return to Philadelphia, 508, 530, 531; pledges protection to Congress, 530; mutiny courts-martial, 535; permanent residence of Congress, 537, 651; instructions to delegates, 508, 595, 936, 954, 966; sentences of mutineers, 509, 510n, General Assembly minutes, 526, 527; repeal of eighth article of Confederation, 527; answer to delegates, 591; legislature's conference with Indians, 591, 592, 595, land purchases from Indians, 591, 592, 594, 595, 596, 717, 762, 766; land grants to soldiers, 595; boundary line, 594; treaty-making power with Indians, 594, 595; encroachment on Indian lands, 640; extract of journal of General Assembly, 748n; Executive, 749, 770, 971, 974; treaty with Indians, 763; controversy with Connecticut, 6, 32, 845; seizure of supplies for British and German prisoners, 859, 860, 861; controversy with Congress over sovereignty 860, 861; controversy with Virginia, 866; application of revenue, 870; memorial from, 874, 876; finances, 886; citizens' loans to United States, 886, 905; influence on financial measures, 901; seizure of goods, 906; attitude toward revenue measure and land abatements, 914n; loan office debt, 915n; population, 953; resolve of Council, 954; unwilling to order militia out against mutineers, 971, 974.

• Pennsylvania and Connecticut dispute, proceedings of commissioners, 6, 32; decision, 31.
• Pennsylvania and Virginia, inhabitants, petition, 866.
• Pennsylvania Packet, The, 539.
• Penobscot, British evacuation of, 664n; expedition, 947.
• Pension, 634, 719, 856, 863; wounded officers, 174; granted, 569.
• Pentecost, Dorsey, memorial, 203.
• Pepin, Andrew, petition, 809n.
• Pequet, John Baptist, 828.
• Perkins, William, suit against, 368.
• Peters, Richard, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Credentials, 811. Committees: St. Clair letter, 2n; inquiry into War Department, 37n, 669, 803; regulation of Quartermaster Department, 45n; further European loans, 48; Grand, 93; Williamson motion, 98n, 185; Wiggan memorial, 108n, 192; to meet Pennsylvania Assembly committee, 110n; Cazeau memorial, 117; Washington letter, 126n, 142, 210n, 211, 232n, 234, 265n, 269, 306n, 367n, 387, 405n, 501n, 526n, 528n, 646n, 673; Superintendent of Finance letter, 140, 168, 358, 427n, 442, 483n, 512n; Hall petition, 153, 672n, 696; Webster and Judd memorials, 154n, 169; Buchanan letter, 154n, 174n, 311; Blaine letter, 158n; amendment of ordinance for trial of piracies, 160; Commissaries' memorial, 170n; Pennsylvania Supreme Executive Council letter, 184; Secretary at War report, 185, 254, 254n, 347n, 358, 367n, 400n, 401n, 438n, 492n, 498n, 500, 541, 567n, 632, 644, 673, 680, 787, 787n; Armand letter, 211; Board of War report, 213n, 620; reduction of expense in military department, 230, 230n; Superintendent of Finance continuance in office, 268, 283; Governor of New York letter, 285n; Du Cambray letter, 285n; Tilghman letter, 315; Invalid corps, 321; Villefranche, L'Enfant and Du Cambray memorials, 323; reduction of expenses, 337; Ternant's promotion, 345n; promotions, 345n; Superintendent of Finance and Secretary of War letters, 358; Secretary at War and Commander in chief's letters, 367n; Holten memorial, 368, 377; Allan memorial, 379; Paine letter, 402n, 409n, 512; Castaing letter, 402n; Assistant Secretary at War, Washington, and Putnam letters, 405n; conference with Pennsylvania Executive,

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  405n; Butler letter, 413; permanent residence of Congress, 428n, 444n, 603, 659, 841; Mercer petition, 435n; Assistant Secretary at War letter, 438n, 517n, 584n; Weare letter, 445, 446n; Killbuck memorial, 491; Dejean memorial, 492n; report of committee of week, 492n; Schuyler letter, 501n; Finney letter, 503n; Allen letter, 504n, 620n; New York resolution, 532; Jackson letter, 538n; New York's claim for damages, 567; Elliot petition, 567n, 710; instructions to Pennsylvania delegates, 591; Ternant memorial, 623; Conte letter, 626n, 664; Varick letter, 632n; Pierce letter, 659n; Washington, Secretary at War, and Kosciuszko letters, 673; Indian affairs, 677, 680, 681, 689, 689n, 747, 989; Hutchins memorial, 710; De Witt letters, 711; Peters motion, 717, 851; Adam letter, 758; Paymaster General letter, 800; secrecy, 849; ratification of Preliminary articles, 958; discharge of Army, 966; conference with Pennsylvania Executive, 971; week, 977; Indian affairs, 989. Votes: 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 94, 120, 127, 129, 135, 137, 150, 155, 156, 163, 166, 167, 179, 201, 205, 206, 210, 224, 226n, 243, 252, 257, 261, 266, 314, 329, 339, 352, 353, 355, 356, 359, 360, 372, 407, 478, 479, 481, 482, 484, 493, 494, 505, 507, 508, 509, 525, 537, 540, 542, 543, 544, 545, 552, 553, 559, 564, 613, 622, 637, 641, 642, 644, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 655, 656, 657, 658, 659, 665, 666, 667, 670, 671, 672, 674, 675, 676, 679, 698, 719, 763, 764, 765, 766, 768, 769, 771. Mentioned: 3, 29, 48, 49, 96, 96n, 97, 97n, 99, 105n, 117, 118n, 126, 140n, 148, 149, 149n, 154n, 169n, 184n, 193n, 234n, 251, 252n, 315n, 324, 371, 378n, 380n, 390, 446n, 481, 482, 492n, 496, 503, 508n, 510n, 552, 567n, 591n, 621n, 633, 666, 672, 680, 698, 699, 717, 747n, 762, 767, 769, 770, 850, 857, 895, 906, 933, 968, 969.

• Phelon, Edward, memorial, 571n, 634, 635.
• Philadelphia, 145; Court of Appeals in, 98, 212; Congress return to, 424, 425, 506, 507, 508, 530, 666; citizens' address, 444n, 452; Congress' sense of citizens exertions, 452; house of President of Congress in, 500; accommodations for Congress in, 530; militia unwilling to act against mutineers, 971, 974.
• Physician, of the Army, half pay, 387, 388.
• Pickering, Timothy, 45n; letter, 106, 567, 567n; suits against him, 106.
• Pickles, William, memorial, 343, 343n, 437.
• Pickman, James, 369; suit against, 368.
• Pierce, John, 801, 802; letters, 412n, 427n, 496n, 553n, 659n, 813n, 483n.
• Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, promotion, 800.
• Pintard, John Marsden, 778n, 779; appointed agent at Madeira, 779, 780.
• Piracy, ordinance for trial of, 160, 164; courts, 889, 983.
• Pitkin, William, 797.
• Plater, George, 145, 159.
• Platt, Richard, memorial, 644, 644n.
• Plumb, William, 786; petition, 427, 427n.
• Poland, 528n.
• Poll tax, 877n, 880.
• Pollock, Oliver, 266, 964: letters, 149n, 333, 333n; memorial, 234, 318, 323; damages, 235, 236, 237, 238; presents Galvez portrait to Congress; 333, 333n; appointed agent at Havana, 372; commission, 376; correspondence, 695n.
• Population, basis of Continental quotas, 527, 530.
• Pork, export duty on, 255.
• Porto Santo, 780.
• Portsmouth, England, American prisoners at, 619, 632.

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• Portugal, treaty of amity and commerce with, 404, 405, 531, 587, 618, 630, 821; United States minister to, 587.
• Post, Anthony, 519n, 534, 604n, 677n; company petition, 696, 696n.
• Post, see Mail.
• Post Office, Continental, inquiry into, 37n, 329; franking of letters, 156; dead letters, 528; theft, 790.
• Postage, letters of United States ministers abroad, 346.
• Postmaster, letter, 110; with main Army, 229.
• Postmaster General, 315, 790; letters, 229, 229n, 816; at headquarters, 316; accounts, 329.
• Postriders, 315.
• Posts, evacuated by British, 964.
• Potomac River, lower falls, residence of Congress near, 654, 656, 698, 707, 708, 709, 712, 714, 768; Congress committee to visit, 768, 770; buildings for Congress near, 770.
• Potts, John, 547.
• Potts, Stacy, letter, 332, 332n; memorial, 515.
• Powell, William, memorial, 332, 332n.
• Pownall, Thomas, memorial, 816, 817n.
• Preliminary Articles of Peace, 717n; dependent on peace between France and Great Britain, 928. See also under Peace.
• Presents, diplomatic, 351, 352, 353.
• President of Congress, pay, 220; directions to, 228; household, 337, 500, 805; rank precedence, 391, 392n; house for, 500, 500n, 552n; letter, 532n; absent, 537, 539; choosing of, 767; elected, 799; address to Washington on his resigning commission, 838.
• Price, Richard, tables of mortality, 865; table of annuities, 889.
• Princeton, New Jersey, Congress at, 410, 411, 506, 507, 974, 988; inhabitants' letter, 417n, 425; Congress's sense of inhabitants' action, 425; house for President of Congress in, 532n; offer accommodations to Congress, 695n; Van Berckel at, 749, 750; mail robbery at, 817n.
• Princeton College, New Jersey, Indian boys at, 660, 745; governors' letter, 412n, 423; offered for use of Congress, 423.
• Prisoners of war, 38n; British, 47, 82, 83, 128, 128n, 141, 145, 149n, 242, 243, 251, 818, 859, 897, 957, 958, 959, 960, 964, 965, 966; release of, 47, 184, 242, 251, 957, 958, 959, 960, 964, 965, 966; German, 82, 83, 141, 859; American, 140, 140n, 619, 632, 828; Pennsylvania citizens, 184; officers, 330, 453, 454; accounts, 348, 376; of Indians, 684.
• Prisoners, Commissary General of, accounts, 397.
• Prisons, guards, 455, 456.
• Privateers, bonds, 377, 378; abuses, 377.
• Prizes, 80; accounts, 619; money, 787, 788; duties on, 96, 170, 200, 526; and prize goods, 526; appeal case, 547, 548; sent to Denmark, 588; restitution, 619.
• Proclamations, 983, 984; cessation of hostilities, 238, 241n, 242n, 957; pardon, 400; prohibiting purchase and settlement of Indian lands, 602; treaty with Sweden, 613, 614n; British in restraint of commerce, 617; British, 628; enforcing sixth article of Provisional treaty, 645, 645n; Thanksgiving, 699, 703, 989; British royal (of 1763), 746, 747; treaty with Holland, 858; of peace, 957; British cessation of arms, 957; on adjournment to Princeton, 974; Indian lands, 988; convening Congress, 988.
• Promotions, see Army, Continental, promotions.
• Property, restitution of confiscated loyalist, 204n, 373, 936, 964, 965, 966; delivery by British, 242; confiscation, 249; destroyed by British, 483n; damages allowed, 511; seizure, 697; alien rights, 823; carried away by British, 825; destroyed by troops, 829.

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• Protections, British, 187.
• Providence, Rhode Island, military stores at, 804, 805.
• Providence, 597, 599, 600.
• Provisional treaty, with Great Britain, approval recommended, 619; adopted as substance of Definitive treaty, 632, 757; explanation of marine captures paragraph, 757; restoration of loyalist property, 964, 965. See also Preliminary articles.
• Prussia, treaty with, 618, 630, 821.
• Public credit, see under Finance.
• Pulaski's corps, officers, 633.
• Putnam, Israel, 310.
• Putnam, Rufus, promoted, 38; letter, 405n, 421n.
• Quakers, address to Congress, 654, 660, 660n.
• Quartermaster Department, 332; regulation of, 44, 45, 45n; officers' salaries, 44; system of allowance of horses, etc., to officers, 176, 177; pay and subsistence in, 388; expense, 398.
• Quartermaster General, 182; letter, 44; deputy for Southern Army, 182; accounts, 397.
• Quebec, Congress's sense of zeal of inhabitants, 271.
• Quotas, State, 40, 138, 230, 259, 527, 529, 638; New Hampshire plan, 513; of interest on loan office certificates, 606n; of public debt, 638.
• Ramsay, David, a delegate from South Carolina. Committees: Inquiry into Agent of Marine, 37; memorial of Pennsylvania representatives, 99; week, 184, 185, 977. Votes: 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 94, 116, 121, 127, 129, 131, 132, 148, 150, 151, 155, 156, 179, 210, 216, 217, 218, 219, 226n. Speech on revenue measures, 869. Mentioned: 46n, 47n, 143, 145n, 156n, 855, 856, 869, 884, 888, 898, 905.
• Randolph, Edmund, a delegate from Virginia. Resignation, 110, 111. Mentioned: 182n.
• Rangers, militia. 203.
• Rank, 141n, 185, 366n, 438, 787; brevet, 97, 99, 366n, 438, 534, 541, 632, 633, 634, 672, 673, 800; honorary, 383; civil Men precedence, 391, 392n; promotion, see Army, Continental, promotions.
• Rations, Army memorial, 93; expense, 398; deficiencies, 426, 863; allowance, 735.
• Read, George, 212.
• Read, Jacob, a delegate from South Carolina. Credentials, 396; attends, 396, 799. Committees: Week, 401, 427, 440, 532, 676, 978, 979, 980; DeWitt letter, 402n; Hutchins memorial, 402n, 436; Washington letter, 422n, 436, 439, 646n; Livingston and other letters, 412n, 423, 424, 425; permanent residence of Congress, 428, 444n, 603, 841; Newark, N. J., citizens' address, 439; Virginia assembly resolve, 483n, 533; New Brunswick, N. J., citizens' address, 501, 501n; prohibition of settlement on Indian lands, 506n; Dayton letter, 521n, 548; courtmartial of mutineers, 541n; Pennsylvania mutiny, 564; Grand, 602; committee report on dispatches from United States ministers abroad, 664n; commerce, 664n; letters of Commander in chief, Secretary at War, and Kosciuszko, 673; Indian affairs, 692n; government of Western Territory, 693n; Read resolution, 787n, 788; Secretary at War letter, 794n; Greene letter, 809n; Adams, Franklin, and Jay letter, 812n; Duportail letter, 839n; Netherlands minister letter, 841n. Votes: 407, 429, 431, 484, 493, 494, 505, 507, 508, 509, 525, 526, 537, 540, 542, 543, 544, 545, 552, 553, 559, 564, 573, 579, 580, 581, 582, 584, 586, 587, 592, 593, 596, 613, 622, 635, 637, 641, 643, 644, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 655, 656, 657, 658, 660, 665, 666, 667, 668, 670, 671, 672, 679, 763, 764, 765, 766, 768, 769, 771, 807, 819. Mentioned: 402n, 423n, 424n, 427n, 439n, 440n, 484, 492, 506,

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  507n, 525, 533, 539, 539n, 541, 541n, 542, 543, 548n, 564, 565n, 567n, 641, 659, 665, 667, 673n, 676n, 762, 765, 787n, 788n, 810, 817, 819, 825n, 842, 973.

• Reciprocity, 720, 721; with Russia, 267.
• Records, return of, 517, 518.
• Reed, Joseph, 9, 12, 13, 16, 24, 25, 27, 31; letter, 836n.
• Refugees, see Canadian refugees; also Loyalists.
• Relief, regulations for, 539, 539n.
• Remsen, Henry, jr., 494n, 580n, 669n, 672n; elected Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, 524; memorial, 638n, 772.
• Rendon, Francisco, letter, 546, 548n.
• Representation, in Federal District 604; measures, 790, 791; proportion of white and slave, 948, 949, 952; in Congress, 968, 990.
• Resignations, see Officers, resignations.
• Retaliation, outrages by enemy to be reported for, 149.
• Returns, military (for 1782), 213n.
• Revenue, see Finance.
• Rhode Island, 32, 119, 125, 126, 230; delegates in Congress, 34, 339, 340, 340n, 343, 380, 388, 411 597, 598, 598n; extracts of letters desired by, 34, 35; extracts of letters transmitted to, 45, 46; deputation of Congress to, 102; quota of public debt, 172, 231, 259, 953; vote, 215n; resolutions, 222n: Governor's letter, 222n, 286, 950; population, 231, 953; delegates' motion, 339, 340, 340n, 343, 388; accounts, 340, 380; pay and depreciation allowed officers, 340, 343; delegates elected, 411; list of half-pay officers, 578; delegates' application to Congress, 597, 598, 598n; permanent residence of Congress in, 649; troops, 786; concurs on Army memorial, 865; refusal to comply with impost, 882, 902, 986; refusal to comply with requisitions of Congress, 911; attitude toward revenue measure and land abatements, 914n; loan office debt, 915n; address to, 963.
• Rice, 966.
• Richmond, Virginia, Court of Appeals to be held at. 98.
• Risberg, Gustavus and others, letter, 748, 748n, 758.
• Rochambeau, Comte de, embarkation of Army under, 1, 317; Congress's sense of his services, 2; vote of thanks to, 845.
• Rodney, Caesar, a delegate from Delaware. Credentials, 177.
• Rome, treaty with, 821.
• Root, Jesse, 9, 10, 11, 13, 23, 24, 25, 29.
• Ross, John, memorial, 108n.
• Rotch, William, memorial, 182n, 187.
• Rum, see Spirits.
• Rush, --, 526.
• Russell, Joseph, 547.
• Russell, William, promotion, 800.
• Russia, 546; negotiations with, 226, 227, 349, 350, 351, 354, 357, 587; treaty with, 267, 821, 966; Empress's declaration as to armed neutrality, 393.
• Rutledge, John, a delegate from South Carolina. Committees: Inquiry into War Department, 37n, 669, 803; Grand, 39, 93, ll4n, 376n; Superintendent of Finance letters, 43, 151n, 165, 168n, 194n, 195n; Greene letter, 47; Hannum, Frazer, and Gardner memorial, 82; suits against Pickering, 106; to meet Pennsylvania Assembly committee, 109, 889; Howell and Jones motion, 114; Hazard letter, 121n, 133; report of Committee of the Whole, 124, 124n, 135n; Washingten letter, 126n, 142, 186, 186n, 294n, 926. Assistant Secretary at War letter, 128n; Jefferson letter, 132; restoring public credit, 143n, 170, 188, 190n, 911, 916; Hall petition, 153; amendment of ordinance for trial of piracies, 160; Franklin letter, 175, 176n;report of Secretary at War, 175n, 222n, 224; finance, 181; Lafayette letter, 211n; Board of War report, 213n; Hancock letter, 219; Secretary for Foreign Affairs letter, 221, 269, 389, 986, 964; Argote case, 228n; permanent residence

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  of Congress, 229n; Bland motion, 271, 381; Carleton letter, 274; Adams letter, 320; President's household expenses, 337n; treaty with Russia, 357; Governor of New York letter, 376; Virginia cession of western lands, 381n, 406, 559, 988; land grants to Army, 383; Governors of New Orleans and Havana, letters, 386; draft of treaty with Great Britain, 404; Jay's instructions, 486; Pennsylvania mutiny, 541n, 564; dispatches from United States, ministers abroad, 617, 621, 628; letters from peace commissioners, 714; confer with Superintendent of Finance, 848; pay advance to Army, 853; Conference with Pennsylvania Executive, 859; seizure of supplies over Washington's passport, 897; Morris letter, 915. Votes: 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 94, 116, 121, 127, 129, 131, 132, 135, 137, 148, 150, 151, 155, 156, 163, 166, 167, 179, 192, 201, 205, 206, 210, 216, 217, 218, 219, 224, 226n, 233, 240, 243, 252, 255, 257, 261, 266, 276, 314, 315, 329, 331, 339, 352, 353, 354, 355, 356, 357, 359, 360, 361, 372, 540, 542, 543, 544, 545, 552, 553, 559, 564. Letter, 114n; elected chairman of Congress, 538; on State vote in the Confederation, 848; speech on revenue, 871; debate on revenue, 882; speech on separate article of treaty of peace, 930, 941. Mentioned: 34n, 35, 35n, 43, 44n, 83n, 97, 110n, 113n, 124, 125, 125n, 126, 133n, 135n, 140, 141n, 143, 143n, 164n, 165, 165n, 225n, 228, 228n, 256, 261n, 262, 275, 318, 318n, 337n, 339n, 352, 376n, 381n, 389n, 487n, 563n, 804n, 854, 856, 857, 865, 871, 876, 877, 879, 881, 883, 884, 885, 887, 890, 894, 895, 896, 898, 899, 900, 902, 903, 904, 928, 930, 931, 934n, 935n, 939, 941, 947, 949, 950, 958, 962, 965, 988.

• Rutledge, Thomas, 38.
• Sage, Comfort, 797.
• St. Christopher, West Indies, 46.
• St. Clair, Arthur, 418, 420, 971, 973; letters, 2n, 836n; orders, 425n.
• St. Lawrence River, navigation privileges, 212.
• St. Petersburg, Dana's conduct at, 545; United States minister to, 958.
• St. Vincents, see Vincennes.
• Salaries, 334, 572, 573, 580, 582, 965, 968; increase disapproved, 49; diplomatic, 175, 176; civil list, 180n, 705; United States Ministers abroad, 312; civil, objected to, 608, 609, 611, 612; inadequate, 705; reduction of, 584.
• Salt, duty on, 254, 880, 917, 927; French duty diminished, 589.
• San Antonio. brig, case, 387, 546, 547.
• Santheuvel, B. V. D., 66, 67.
• Sappers and Miners, 786.
• Sardinia, treaty with, 821.
• Sargent, Winthrop, letter, 512n, 527; rank, 527, 528.
• Sartine, Antoine Raymond Jean Gualbert Gabriel de, 826.
• Sawyer, Edmund, 160, 160n.
• Saxony, Elector of, treaty with, 821.
• Schuyler, Nicholas, memorial, 626, 626n.
• Schuyler, Philip, letter, 501n, 681, 759n; nominated as Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 969.
• Schweiniz, Hans Christian de, memorial, 794n.
• Scotland, exports to America, 286.
• Scott, William, 293.
• Sea letter, 79.
• Sears, Isaac, 547; petition, 546, 548n.
• Secession, hint of, 608, 611.
• Secrecy, injunction removed, 627; agreement, 849, 850; of debate on finances in Congress, 901; of American Commissioners in peace negotiations, 924, 925; of separate article of peace, 935, 936, 938, 941, 942.
• Secret committee, accounts, 511, 590n.
• Secret papers, see Congress, secret papers.
• Secretary of Congress, 83, 92n, 121, 122; employees, 108n; receives papers of

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  Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 382; rank precedence, 391, 392n; letter, 504n; calls attention to absence of acknowledgments in ratification of loan contract with France, 864; authority to enter result of vote, 918. See also Thomson, Charles.

• Secretary at War, 585n; interview with Commander in chief, 253.
• Segond, James, Chevalier de, 37, 621, 680, 786; promotion, 367n; letter, 633.
• Selden, --, 797.
• Serapis, 568, 787, 788.
• Sergeant, Jonathan Dickinson, 9, 12, 13, 16, 27, 29.
• Sergeants, Connecticut line, address, 367n; petition, 382.
• Settlers, on western lands, 534n, 562.
• Shelburne, William Petty, Earl of, 925, 940.
• Sherburne, Henry, regiment, officers' resignations, 304n.
• Sherman, Roger, a delegate from Connecticut. Committees: Superintendent of Finance letter 512n, 809n, 835n; Stewart letter, 759n.
• Shipbuilding States, favor Russian treaty, 966.
• Ships' passport, 78; certificate, 79; sea letter, 79; papers, 187; naval carrying of cargoes forbidden, 384.
• Shreve, Israel, memorial, 158, 158n, 159, 159n; letter, 526n.
• Sicily, treaty with, 405.
• Slave trade, suppression, 660n.
• Slavery, 949.
• Slaves, securing of, 241n; delivery by British, 242, 347n, 964, 966; confiscation, 249; carried off by British, 361, 363, 364, 825, 967; tax on, 877n; proportion in representation, 948, 949, 952.
• Smith, Ebenezer Augustus, petition, 532, 533n.
• Smith, Isaac, 7.
• Smith, Israel, 866.
• Smith, Robert, death, 362.
• Smith, Samuel S., 425.
• Smith, William P., 439.
• Snuff, duty on, 816.
• Somerset County, New Jersey, militia, officers' address, 445, 445n; Congress's approval, 445.
• South, war in, Greene's account to be copied, 789.
• South Carolina, vote in Committee of the Whole, 118, 119, 120n, 125, 126; citizens returned home, 145; quota of public debt, 172, 231, 259, 953, 954; vote, 215n, 865; population, 231, 953, 954; troops, 275; governor, 340n; delegates, 369, 396, 848, 856, 857; French consul general in, 554; residence of Congress in, 654; dragoon deserters, 794n; Executive to be informed of need of attendance of delegates to Congress, 836; attitude toward revenue measure and land abatements, 915n; loan office debt, 915n; favors Russian treaty, 966.
• Spaight, Richard Dobbs, a delegate from North Carolina. Credentials, 341. Committees: Superintendent of Finance report, 512n, 695n, 809n, 835n; Greene letter, 664n; Indian affairs, 692n; John Baptist Pequet, 828n. Vote: 819. Mentioned: 380n, 810.
• Spain, 930, 931, 932, 935, 936, 939, 941, 943, 944; United States minister to, 34, 102, 105n; flag insulted, 227, 386, 387; loan, 286; United States minister to, 486, 487; treaty, 487, 618, 630, 821; and the Definitive treaty, 588; pretensions with America, 859; bills drawn on, 885; amount borrowed in, 954; peace with Great Britain, 957.
• Specie certificates, 39.
• Specific supplies, delay in States accounts, 397.
• Spencer, Oliver, regiment, officers' resignations, 304n.
• Spirits, rum, 213, 327, 365; duty on, 917, 918, 920, 923, 927; tax on wine and spirits, 881.

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• Spitfire, privateer, 368.
• Staff officers, see Officers.
• Staphorst, Jacob Van, letter, 389n.
• Starbuck, William, memorial, 182n, 187.
• State Island, pasturage of public stock on, 267.
• States, deficiencies in sinking Continental bills charged against, 39; redemption of quotas of old bills of public credit, 40; failure to furnish funds, 43, 102; directed to settle accounts of their line troops, 93; funds for public debt to be obtained from, 95; provisions for payment of public creditors, 100; vote in Committee of the Whole, 109; lands, 112, 113, 113n, 114, 114n, 115, 118, 119, 120, 124, 125, 129, 130 130n, 133, 134, 136, 190, 191, 197, 887, 888, 890, 913, 913n, 914n, 947, 962, 983, 986; accounts with United States, 119, 123, 124, 134, 135, 137, 162, 197, 255, 499, 523, 535, 807, 808, 922, 961; land value, 112, 113, 113n, 114, 114n, 115, 118, 119, 120, 124, 125, 129, 130, 130n, 133, 134, 136, 191, 197, 888, 890, 913, 913n, 914n; quota of public debt, 112, 113, 113n, 114, 114n, 115, 118, 119, 120, 124, 125, 126, 138, 171, 172, 189, 190n, 191, 197, 201, 230, 258, 259, 514, 527, 604, 606n, 637, 638, 953; land census, 113, 113n, 114, 115, 118, 119, 124, 125, 129, 130, 130n, 133, 134, 136; to value their lands and improvements, 114n, 115, 118, 119, 124, 125, 129, 130, 130n, 133, 134, 136; commissioners for estimating value of public lands, 125; to take a census, 129, 133, 191, 197; funds for payment of public debt, 139, 143, 170, 188, 189, 190, 190n, 197, 199, 204, 214, 222, 258, 454, 637, 638, 945, 946, 953; pay of officers, 143, 147, 209, 366n, 426, 427, 503, 578, 582, 865, 911, 916, 918, 963, 964; circular letter to, 143, 261, 277, 382n, 450, 618, 629, 661, 662, 664n, 716, 963, 986, 987, 988; representation in Congress, 143, 445, 486, 790, 791; allowances to, 152, requisitions on 152, 256, 491n; abatements among, 152, 913, 913n, 914n, 919; compact between, 172, 190, 197, 259; cessions of territory, 172, 190, 197, 947, 962; defense debts assumed by the general government, 173; commissioners for settling accounts with, 180n; debts due, 181, 947; requested to grant power to Congress to levy duties, 188, 195, 198, 257, 921; to appoint customs collectors, 189, 196, 199, 257, 278, 920; revenue officers, 190, 190n, 196, 198; estimate of the public debt, 200; proportion of expense for common defense, 214; credited for payments, 232, 327, 337; commissioners of claims, 255; claims against United States, 255, 947; vote under Articles of Confederation, 256n, 403, 570, 571, 848, 899, 918, 970n, 971; address to, 277, 618, 629, 661, 662, 664n, 963, 963n, 986, 987; taxes, 325, 604, 606n, 637, 638, 869, 871, 872; legislatures, convening recommended by Congress, 335; to be charged with expense of frontier posts, 338; neglect to retire Continental bills, 357, allowed interest on Continental bills, 357; recommended to restore confiscated estates, 370; to remove obstructions to execution of treaty, 371, 717n, 967; failure to account for specific supplies, 397; payment of notes issued to army, 403, 964; Continental tax receivers to pay troops, 430; Superintendent of Finance letter to governors, 438n; support of Navy, 486; recommended to encourage manufactures, 515; new, from western lands, 558, 560; interest on loan office certificates, 604, 606n; authorized to issue certificates for interest, 605, 606n, 638; oppose half pay, 578, 582; executives, 627, 791; forbidden to maintain armed forces, 639, 723; propositions respecting a permanent seat of government, 647; recommended to care for invalids, 680; territorial claims and legislative rights, 693; Preliminary Articles of Peace transmitted to, 716; laxness in sending delegates to Congress,

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  790, 791; committee of the, 791; powers, 826; Southern, 855, 865; rights, 860, 910; Eastern, 864, 865; vote on half pay, 865; coercion of, 871; object to impost on trade, 875; jealousy of Congress, 872, 878, 909n; finances, 885; to make returns of lands, 887; revenue from, 908; opposition to Congress, 911; authority to Congress to make abatements in land valuation, 913, 913n, 914n; loan office debt due, 915n, 5 per cent. impost and duty on spirits to be recommended to, 918; customs to be credited to, 921; war expenses, 922, 947, 961, 962; debts incurred without the sanction of Congress, 946; population, 953; recommended to restore loyalist property, 965.

• Steel, manufactory, 515.
• Stelle, Benjamin, letter, 401n, 511, 807.
• Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Augustus Henry Ferdinand, Baron von, 438, 552; to receive Western frontier posts from British, 427n; instructions to, 427n, 501n; report, 532n; correspondence with Haldimand, 532n.
• Stevens, John, 786.
• Stevens, Nathaniel, letter, 222n.
• Stevens, William and others, petition, 362.
• Stewart, Charles, 499; letter, 759, 759n, 836.
• Stewart, William, see Stuart.
• Stirling, Earl of, see Alexander, William.
• Stoddard, Darius, letter, 262, 262n, 316; claim, 329n.
• Stone, Thomas, a delegate from Maryland. Credentials, 812.
• Storekeeper, for Indian goods, 747.
• Stores, Commissary of Military, 804.
• Stores, military, 804; magazine, 395, 804, 805; guards, 455, 456; sale of, 479; field commissaries' petition, 794.
• Stores, Military, Department of, pay depreciation, 697; placed under War Department, 804.
• Story, John, memorial, 160, 183;accounts, 184.
• Strong, Jedidiah, a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 796, 797.
• Stuart, William, 794; memorial, 567n, 793.
• Subsistence, accounts, 330; money, 332n; officers, 621.
• Sugars, duty on, 918, 920, 927.
• Sullivan, James, authorized to sue, 368.
• Sullivan, John, a delegate from New Hampshire. Committees: Instructions to United States ministers abroad, 934n. Mentioned: 974.
• Sullivan, John, Lieutenant, 565, 565n.
• Sumner, Job, letter, 141n, 158, 158n; memorial, 160.
• Supplies for British and German prisoners, seized, 859, 897.
• Surgeons' mates, Southern Department, petition, 362.
• Surveyor of ordnance, pay, 704.
• Sweden, treaty with, 457, 477n, 504n, 613, 824, 989.
• Swift, Herman, 293.
• Symonds, Jonas, sentenced, 566.
• Talbot, Silas, accounts, 369.
• Tariff, 171n, 182, 901, 923; 5 per cent, 526; French, 589; duties, 927.
• Tascaud, Joseph, memorial, 440, 440n.
• Taxes, 97, 126, 451, 879, 880; failure to levy, 161n; land, 200, 876n, 877, 879, 927; house, 200; collection by States, 325, 869; land grants free from, 386; Continental receivers to pay troops, 428, 430; payment of notes by receivers, 441; to pay troops, 454; Superintendent of Finance notes in payment of, 478, 480; instructions to receivers of Continental, 480, 481, 482; weakness of the New Hampshire plan, 490; receiver abolished, 580; States to lay, 605; State quotas, 637, 638; impost power granted by Congress, 752n; speeches on, 866--884; collection of, 868, 869, 870, 871, 872, 875; poll, 877n; slave, 877n; classes of, 923; opposition, 927; interference among States, 952.
• Taylor, James, memorial, 590.

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• Taylor, --, 798.
• Tea, duty on, 918, 920, 927.
• Telfair, Edward, a delegate from Georgia. Committees: Grand, 39.
• Temple, Sir William, 942.
• Ternant, Jean Baptiste, promotion, 344, 345n, 400; memorial, 623; brevet, 672.
• Territory, restitution of conquered, 250.
• Tetard, John Peter, memorial, 347, 347n.
• Thacher, Nathaniel, memorial, 816, 817n.
• Thanksgiving proclamation, 699, 989.
• Thompson, Benjamin, memorial, 262n.
• Thompson, John, memorial, 232, 262, 262n.
• Thomson, Charles, 44n, 92n, 98n, 105n, 118n, 119n, 120n, 121n, 124n, 125n, 126n, 129n, 131n, 132n, 135n, 137n, 162, 169n, 171n, 172, 173, 191n, 202n, 209n, 212, 226n, 244n, 260n, 261n, 332n, 510n, 518n, 537n, 560n, 563n, 573n, 614, 620n, 623n, 627n, 693n, 727n, 745n, 750n, 764, 767n, 817n, 828n, 984n, 986, 990. See also Secretary of Congress.
• Three Friends, prize, 826.
• Thruston, --, 798.
• Tilghman, Matthew, 389; nominated as Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 969.
• Tilghman, Tench, letter, 315.
• Tilton, James, a delegate from Delaware. Credentials, 177; attends, 597. Committees: Massachusetts Legislature letter 572n; reduction of civil departments, 577n; Jones memorial, 625; week, 626, 979; Indian affairs, 692n; Secretary at War letter, 705n; Knox memorial, 711; Nourse memorial, 759n; Frothingham petition, 794n; Lincoln letter, 805; Ward memorial, 817n; Houdin memorial, 817n; Thacher memorial, 817n; Chever memorial, 878n; McHenry letter, 836n. Votes: 601, 613, 622, 635, 637, 641, 643, 644, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 655, 656, 657, 658, 659, 665, 666, 667, 668, 670, 671, 672, 674, 675, 676, 679, 698, 706, 708, 709, 710, 712, 713, 719, 819. Mentioned: 626n, 658, 752, 786, 810.
• Tjassens, H., 66, 67.
• Tobacco, shipment from Virginia to New York, 106, 121, 122, 886, 894, 895; remitted in payment of French loan, 792, 793.
• Tories,see Loyalists.
• Torrey, Joseph, letter, 483n.
• Trade, protection of, 456; Indian, 686, 690, 693, 763; ordinance to be prepared, 690, 693; Congress's exclusive right to manage Indian, 763; impost on, 927, 937; with Great Britain, 944.
• Traders, Indian, 690, 693.
• Traversi, Joseph, petition, 638, 638n.
• Treasurer of the United States, 541; notes furnished by, 839.
• Treasury unable to pay officers, 204; certificates, 276, 487; receipts and expenditures, 398.
• Treasury, Comptroller of, 316, 574.
• Treasury Department, officers, list, 180n.
• Treaty, 588, 619, 630, 631, 720, 858; ratification form, 50, 51; with Netherlands, 50, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 393; Preliminary articles with Great Britain, 193, 194, 211n, 587, 588, 645, 716; commercial, 267, 320, 321, 357, 404, 405n, 587, 901, 958, 964, 966. See also Amity and Commerce infra. Peace with Great Britain, 348, 632, 821, 936; with Russia, 349, 350, 351, 354, 357; Definitive, 369, 370, 371, 373, 374, 375, 376, 587, 588, 589, 746, 756, 812, 813n, 815; Amity and Commerce, 404, 405, 457, 477n, 531, 613, 618, 754, 821, 824, 826, 857, 858; with Spain, 487; with France, 487, 556; with Sweden, 504n; with Indians, 591, 695, 718, 763, 766; Congress's exclusive right to negotiate, 763; stipulations, 821; supplementary, 824; question of languages, 858, 862; inaccuracies, 878; confiscated property, 936; payment of British debts, 936; favored nation, 958; proclamations, 983, 984, 985, 989.
• Trent, William, memorial. 276n, 322, 322n.

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• Trenton, New Jersey, 506, 841; British subjects detained at, 108n; Congress's sense of spirit of inhabitants, 424; residence of Congress near, 654, 712, 714; removal of Congress to, 666, 670, 707, 708, 974; inhabitants offer accommodations to Congress, 695n.
• Tripoli, treaty with, 824.
• Triumph, 210, 211n.
• Trumbull, Jonathan, 10, 990, 991; nominated as Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 969.
• Trumbull, Jonathan, jr., petition, 538, 538n, 570; account against U. S., 538.
• Trumbull, Joseph, 64.
• Tunis, procuring of ship passports from, 404; treaty with, 824.
• Turner, George, 786.
• Tuscany, Grand Duke of, treaty with, 405, 531, 618, 630, 821.
• Tuscarora Indians, see Indians.
• United Provinces of the Netherlands, see Holland.
• United States, southern boundary, 193; accounts with States, 255, 535; power to levy duties, 257; common defense expense, 260; contract with the French King, 290; intercourse with foreign nations, 334; boundaries by treaty (of 1782), 555; western lands, 558; energy in government needed, 621, 629; general commercial and political arrangements necessary, 622; commerce, 628, 629, 630, 662; see also under Commerce; not desirous of joining the convention of neutral European powers for freedom of seas, 756.
• Unity, 597, 599, 600.
• Unzaga, Luis de, correspondence with Pollock, 695n.
• Valnais, -- de, 827.
• Van Acken, James, 28.
• Van Berckel, Peter John, 784; letters. 748, 753; audience with Congress, 748, 749, 753, 753n, 759n, 780; quarters at Princeton, 749, 750; reception, 750; address to Congress, 759n, 780; reply of Congress, 785.
• Van Heekeren, D. J., 66, 67.
• Van Ingen, Dirck, 532; petition, 440, 440n, 502.
• Van Kuffeller, Joan, 66, 67.
• Van Kuffeler, Joost, 784.
• Van Lynden, W. C. H., 66, 67.
• Van Randwyck, George, 66, 67.
• Van Schaick, Goose, promoted, 38.
• Vandalia, tract, 322.
• Varick, Richard, 816n; letter, 184, 184n, 632n, 760; pay, 220, 760; petition, 538, 538n, 569.
• Vaudreuil, Marquis de, letter, 362n.
• Vauguyon, Duc de la, see La Vauguyon.
• Venice, treaty with, 821.
• Vergennes, Charles Gravier, Comte de, 51, 52, 57, 58, 63, 287, 288, 289, 290, 588, 589, 639, 773, 778, 826, 925, 928, 929, 930, 931, 940, 942, 943, 944; agreement with Franklin, 49n, 50; letter, 589.
• Vermont, affairs, 138n; papers relative to, 367; admission to Union, 367; remonstrance from, 888; attitude toward, 888.
• Versailles, United States minister to Court of, see France, United States minister to.
• Vessels, recaptured, 50, 64, 65, 66, 67, 80, 857.
• Vienna, Court of, treaty with. 821.
• Villefranche, --, memorial, 186n, 323; promotion, 324.
• Vincennes, Virginia's expense in capturing, 406, 407, 560.
• Virginia, 338, 678, 876, 964; delegates to Congress, 96, 111, 333, 373, 425, 435, 517, 638, 640, 868, 886, 936, 941, 966; repeal of enabling act, 96, 102; cession of western lands, 104, 271, 381, 384, 406, 408, 409, 444n, 552, 554, 559, 560, 962, 968, 972, 973, 987, 988; loss of papers and vouchers of public expenditures, 106, 123; settlement of account with United States, 106, 123; quota of

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  public debt, 106, 172, 231, 259, 868, 953, 953n, 954; legistature's resolutions, 106, 106n, 121, 122, 123, 372, 373, 425, 438n, 483n, 486, 533, 894, 895; vote in Committee of the Whole, 119, 120n, 125, 126; vote in Congress, 215n, 256n; population, 231, 953, 953n, 954; uses goods consigned to United States, 234, 237; troops, 273, 275, 390, 455, 456, 496, 561, 786, 972; officers' resignations, 304n; governor, 389n, 400, 425, 435, 591, 592, 640, 770, 868; expense in capturing Vincennes, 406, 407, 560; legislature, 868, 871, 875, 969, 988; repeal of five per cent. impost, 868, 871, 875, 882, 884, 886, 897, 902; inconsistence in revenue matter, 870n; collection of revenue, 883; resolutions on tobacco exportation to New York, 894, 895; citizens' loans to United States, 905; attitude toward revenue measure and land abatements, 914n; loan office debt, 915n; jurisdiction over Illinois, 956; land office opening, 972; western boundaries, 973.

• Virginia and Pennsylvania inhabitants, petition, 866.
• Voght, Caspar & Co., 816; letter, 64n; memorial, 446, 446n.
• Votes, in Committee of the Whole, 109; method of voting in Congress, 344.
• Wadsworth, Jeremiah, 311.
• Walke, Thomas, 964; letter, 333, 333n.
• War, history of the, 513; expense, 922, 947; termination of legislative acts enforced during, 961.
• War Board, letters, 47, 99; notifies Indians of cessation of hostilities, 681; report, 681; papers laid before Congress, 859.
• War Department, inquiry into, 37n, 669, 803; employees, 213n, 572, 804; reduction of expense, 230, 624; management of Indian affairs, 264; abolished, 571; secretary, 572, 804; letter, 620; reorganization, 624.
• War, Secretary at, 38n, 45n, 47, 95, 97n, 99, 139, 140, 141n, 144n, 145, 154n, 158, 158n, 159, 160, 174, 213, 230, 243, 253, 262n, 272, 273, 274, 275, 332, 340, 344, 365, 378n, 380, 383n, 386n, 388, 389n, 399, 401, 410, 441, 441n, 444n, 480, 491, 492, 492n, 496, 503, 519, 534n, 536n, 537, 541, 567, 567n, 624, 673, 705, 749, 750, 752, 752n, 761n, 786, 787, 789n, 790, 957, 970, 971; letters and reports, 38, 161n, 164n, 181n, 183, 183n, 185, 185n, 186n, 222n, 224, 227n, 230, 254, 254n, 276n, 319, 320, 323n, 330, 330n, 332n, 337, 340n, 347n, 358, 358n, 362n, 367n, 390, 392n, 394n, 395, 395n, 400, 401, 401n, 453, 479, 480n, 492n, 495n, 496n, 498n, 500, 504n, 533, 534, 534n, 626n, 632, 634, 644, 645n, 673, 677n, 680, 696, 704, 705n, 748n, 761, 771n, 794n, 800, 801; to sign furloughs of troops, 390; rank precedence, 391, 392n; proclaration, 400; correspondence with Superintendent of Finance, 480n; salary, 572; resignation, 626n, 753; surveys of geographer to be deposited with, 711; retirement, 804; authorized to retake seized goods, 897.
• War, Assistant Secretary at, 83, 141, 428, 429n, 804; letters, 128n, 405n, 438n, 517n, 536n, 621.
• Ward, Edward, petition, 451.
• Ward, Henry, 411.
• Ward, Joseph, memorial, 816, 817n.
• Ward, Miles, jr., 368.
• Warren, Winslow, letter, 428n.
• Washington, George, 140, 230, 320, 333, 440, 646, 702, 749, 847, 859, 912, 940, 964, 990, 991; letters, 47n, 96, 96n, 108n, 126n, 142, 161n, 182n, 186, 186n, 204n, 210, 211n, 232n, 234, 241n, 263n, 265n, 294, 294n, 300, 302n, 305n, 306n, 312n, 824, 329n, 337, 340n, 347n, 367n, 368, 382, 387, 392n, 402, 403, 405n, 412n, 421, 422n, 427n, 428n, 435, 436, 438n, 439, 448, 449, 501n, 519n, 526n, 528n, 532n, 585n, 590n, 644, 645, 646n, 664n, 673, 681, 702, 744n, 813n, 817n, 818n, 836n, 856, 866, 926, 938, 954, 963, 988, 990, 991; Chittenden's correspondence

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  with, 108n, 138n; Congress glad to receive his sentiments, 142; confidential report on peace negotiations to be made to, 142; arrangements to carry out 7th article of Preliminary treaty, 242, 252; arrangements to free British prisoners, 243, 251, 965, 966; Secretary at War's interview with, 253; furlough of troops, 270, 359, 364, 403; representations to Congress, 301n, 306n; opinion of justice due the Army, 305; address to officers at Newburgh, 306, 938; Congress's opinion of his management of the Newburgh affair, 306n; feeling for the Army, 307, 309; confidence in Congress, 308, 309; officers' thanks to, 310; correspondence with Carleton, 329n, 340n, 363, 364; statue of, 330, 494, 495, 963; directions as to British evacuation of frontier posts, 338; conference with Carleton, 340n; address to, 392n, 521, 522, 838; rank precedence with Congress officials, 392n; suppression of Pennsylvania mutiny, 410; correspondence with commissioners for superintending embarkation in New York, 422n; letter to, 427n, instructions to Steuben, 427n, 501n; audience with Congress, 452, 501n, 519, 521, 522n, 818, 819n, 820, 837; conference with Congress, 492, 493, 494, 496, 501n, 522, 549, 681; house for, in Philadelphia, 496; northern tour, 501n; observations on peace arrangements, 501n, 549; address of President of Congress to, 521, 522n, 838; reply to address of President of Congress, 522, 523n, 988; committee of conference on peace arrangement, 522, 549; on militia force in time of peace, 551; access to secret papers of Congress, 568, 585n; secret motion referred to, 606; dragoon guard, 646; conference with Indian Affairs Committee, 681; directed to present cannon to Greene, 701; directed to discharge troops, 753, 806; arrival at Annapolis, 818; entertainment for, 818; resignation, 818, 819n, 837, 838; ceremony of public audience, 820; correspondence with Wayne, 836n; speech resigning his commission, 837; in favor of Vermont, 888; passport for goods ignored, 897; loss of popularity in the Army, 906, 907; Hamilton's opinion of, 907; conduct on Newburgh Addresses, 926; directions to, 960; recommends soldiers retaining arms, 963; circular letter to States, 988, 990, 991.

• Washington, packet, 183n, 323n, 343, 369n, 622n, 695, 924, 942; expense of, 446.
• Watson, Elkanah, jr., letter, 794n.
• Wayne, Anthony, correspondence with Washington, 836n.
• Weare, Meshech, 985, 990; letters, 445, 446n, 489, 514n, 517, 535, 604, 637. See also New Hampshire, President.
• Webb, Samuel Blatchley, 293.
• Webster, Pelatiah, petition, 43n, 154n, 169.
• Webster, --, 857.
• Weedon, George, letter, 50.
• Weights and measures, regulations, 954.
• Wells, Samuel, seizure of, 866.
• West, Indians on frontiers, 496; frontier protection, 526n.
• West Florida, 933, 939; boundary, 715; limits, 928; secret article of treaty relating to, 928; British expedition against, 936, 939.
• West Indies, French trade permits, 46; trade with America, 532n, 587, 617; British trade prohibitions, 628; French campaign in, 944.
• West Point, New York, lands, 361, 428n, 616; troops sent to, 519; chain across river at, 585n; damage to property at, 614, 615; purchase of, 616; garrison, 715n.
• Western lands, see Land, Western.
• Western posts, British withdrawal from, 532n.
• Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, 225.
• Whale fishery, British protections, 187.
• Whale ships, licenses, 938.

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• Wharton, Samuel, a delegate from Delaware. Committees: Inquiry into Finance Department, 37, 222n; week, 108, 977; Grand, 114n; Franklin, 176n. Votes: 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 94. Mentioned: 29.
• Whipple, William, 6, 8, 9, 32.
• White, Alexander, 798.
• White, Phillips, a delegate from New Hampshire. Committees: Inquiry into War Department, 37n; Grand, 93, 230; Chittenden letter, 108n, 367; Washington letter, 138n; Hall petition, 153; week, 157, 158, 232, 977, 978; George Clinton letter, 164n; Votes: 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 94, 116, 120, 127, 129, 131, 132, 135, 137, 148, 150, 154, 155, 162, 163, 179, 192, 201, 205, 210, 215, 216, 217, 219, 224, 226n, 240, 243, 252, 255, 256, 261, 266, 275, 313, 314, 315, 328, 331, 338; petition, 160, 181, Mentioned: 160n, 162, 313, 952.
• White Eyes, George M., 660, 661.
• Whiteford, Caleb, 250, 251.
• Whitehill, --, 526.
• Widows and orphans, allowance, 95, 146, 863.
• Wiggans, Thomas, petition, 108, 108n, 192, 192n; letter, 252n.
• Williams, Otho Holland, retirement, 47; letter, 401, 402n.
• Williamsburg, Virginia, offered as site of permanent residence of Congress, 438n, 444n; inhabitants' proceeding, 444n; adjournment of Congress to 675.
• Williamson, Hugh, a delegate from North Carolina. Credentials, 341; attends, 341, 799. Committees: Inquiry into Post Office, 37n; Grand, 39, 230; Greene letter, 47, 809n; books for Congress, 83; Williamson's motion, 98, 185, 503, 505, 571n, 970n, 971; postmaster's letter, 110; Secretary for Foreign Affairs' letter, 156; Blaine letter, 158n; Shreve memorial, 159n; Secretary at War's letters or reports, 161n, 183n, 330, 347n, 394n, 704, 705n, 794n; Superintendent of Finance letters, 168n, 194n, 195n, 276n, 315, 483n, 488n, 491n, 513n, 514n, 623n, 695n, 771n; copyright, 180n, 326; Harrison letter, 211n; Barlow letter, 211n Mortimer memorial, 212; Kirk memorial, 213n; Postmaster General's letter, 228; Gilmer letter, 229n. 265; Edison letter, 265; Hazen memorial, 268, 957; Collins and Arnold letter, 268n; War Office report, 272; United States ministers' salaries, 312; Post Office, 285n, 329; indemnification for military destruction, 330, 963; Potts letter, 332n, 515; Rhode Island delegates' motion, 339, 340n, 343, 388; Franklin and Adams letters, 346; Lucas memorial, 358n, 719; Dyer's motion, 366, 383; J. Arnold's accounts, 367n; Connecticut Line sergeants' address, 367n, 382; Du Radieu letter, 378n; Allan memorial, 379; Washington letter, 382, 387, 422n, 436; De Witt letter 402n, 711; amendment to Articles of Confederation, 404n; Moore memorial, 428n, 614; McMechen memorial, 433; Hutchins memorial, 402n, 436, 710; Van Ingen petition, 440n, 502; Pennsylvania letter, 442n; Philadelphia citizens' address, 444n; New Jersey militia officers' address, 445n; Pennsylvania and Howe letters, 452; Potts memorial, 515; Virginia resolve, 483n, 533; President's household, 500; Pierce letters, 553n; Elliot petition, 567n, 710; Massachusetts Legislature letter, 572n, reduction of civil departments, 577n, 580n, 623; Taylor memorial, 590n; application from Rhode Island delegates, 597, 600n; Weare letter, 604; Lytle memorial, 646n; commerce, 664n; New Hampshire Legislature proceedings, 672; Conyngham memorial, 672n; Howell motion, 676n; government of western territory, 693n; Bond letter, 705n, 761, 762; Knox memorial, 711; Fowler memorial, 746; letter of Risberg and others 748n, 758; Armand memorial,

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  752; conference with Boor, 758; Nourse memorial, 759n, 802; Stewart's letter, 759n; residence of Congress on the Delaware, 770; Duportail letter, 771n; Frothingham's petition, 794n; memorial of Ettween and others 794n; Lincoln letter, 805; letters from United States ministers in Europe, 813n, 821; Massachusetts letter, 875n; Ward memorial, 817n; Houdin memorial, 817n; Thacher memorial, 817n; Chever memorial, 818n; secrecy, 849; books for Congress, 858; western country, 957; week, 977, 979. Votes: 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 94, 116, 121, 127, 129, 131, 132, 135, 137, 148. 150, 151, 155, 156, 163, 166, 167, 179, 192, 201, 205, 206, 210, 216, 217, 218, 219, 224, 226n, 233, 240, 243, 252, 255, 257, 261, 266, 276, 314, 315, 329, 331, 339, 352, 353, 354, 355, 356, 357, 359, 360, 361, 372, 407, 429, 431, 478, 479, 484, 493, 494, 505, 507, 508, 509, 515, 525, 526, 540, 552, 553, 559, 564, 573, 579, 580, 581, 582, 584, 586, 587, 592, 593, 596, 601, 613, 622, 635, 637, 641, 643, 644, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 655, 656, 657, 658, 660, 665, 666, 667, 668, 670, 671, 672, 674, 675, 676, 679, 699, 706, 707, 708, 709, 710, 712, 713, 719, 763, 764, 765, 766, 768, 769, 771, 807, 819. Memorial, 318, 318n; debate on revenue measure, 883; on slavery, 948. Mentioned: 39, 48n, 98n, 110n, 143, 156n, 157n, 167n, 180n, 185, 185n, 193, 194n, 212n, 216, 217, 218, 229n, 243, 252, 265n, 266, 266n, 272n, 274, 312n, 313, 316n, 318n, 327, 329n, 333, 333n, 337n, 346n, 352, 353, 359, 364, 364n, 365n, 384, 384n, 388n, 391n, 404n, 429, 432, 433n, 436, 436n, 437n, 452n, 453n, 456n, 478, 496, 500n, 503, 503n, 505, 506n, 516n, 525, 564, 565, 571n, 598n, 606n, 616n, 659, 666, 705n, 711, 715n, 720, 752, 753n, 763n, 764, 764n, 765, 767, 767n, 771, 772n, 790, 794, 805, 807, 810, 822n, 836, 837, 850, 872, 883, 888, 889, 898, 904, 905, 930, 947, 948, 960, 964, 966, 967, 970, 970n.

• Willink, Wilhelm Jan, letter, 389n.
• Wilmington, Delaware, residence of Congress near, 658; school trustees, petition, 161, 161n.
• Wilson, James, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Attends, 2. Committees: Inquiry into Foreign Affairs Department, 37n, 334; Army memorial, 95; report of Grand committee, 95n, 145; suits against Pickering, 106; to meet Pennsylvania Assembly committee, 109, 889; Grand, 114n, 376n; Hazard letter, 121n, 133; Jefferson letter, 132; Lafayette letter, 211n; Harrison letter, 211n; Griffin letter, 212; President of Pennsylvania letters, 264, 267, 373; Hazen memorial, 268, 957; Bland motion, 271, 381; Governor of New York letter, 285; Commander in chief letter, 337, 340n; Secretary at War letter, 362n; land grants to Army, 383; Superintendent of Finance letter, 422n; permanent residence of Congress, 428n, 444n, 603; Washington's reception, 495, 501n; week, 503, 512, 705, 978, 979, 980; Williamson motion, 503, 505; Dayton letter, 521n; conference with Commander in chief, 548; letters from peace commissioners, 714; Army peace establishment, 722; contract with France, 773; land valuation method, 855, 886; half pay, 866; conference with Superintendent of Finance, 886; William Lee letter, 901; Secretary of Foreign Affairs letter, 936; western country, 957. Votes: 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 94, 116, 120, 127, 131n, 132, 166, 167, 179, 192, 201, 205, 206, 210, 215, 216, 217, 219, 233, 240, 257, 266, 314, 315, 329, 339, 359, 360, 372, 493, 494, 505, 507, 508, 509, 537, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 655, 656, 657, 658, 659, 665, 666, 667, 670, 671, 672, 675, 676, 679, 719, 904. Motion, 790; speech on public revenue, 866, 867, 868, 871, 876, 947; debate on revenue question, 880, 881; speech on separate article of Treaty of Peace, 933.

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  Mentioned: 9, 12, 13, 16, 24, 25, 27, 29, 30, 105n, 110n, 119, 119n, 125, 127, 140n, 191, 192, 197, 242n, 313, 313n, 314, 315, 325, 375n, 506n, 507, 508, 651, 654, 657, 715n, 854, 854n, 855, 858, 859, 861, 862, 866, 870, 871, 876, 877, 879, 880, 885, 887, 889, 890 892, 895, 896, 898, 900, 901, 904, 919, 923, 927, 933, 939, 940, 942, 947, 948, 949, 955, 956, 957, 960, 962, 971.

• Wilson Mills, Pennsylvania, 841.
• Wine, see Spirits.
• Witherspoon, John, a delegate from New Jersey. Committees: Grand, 39; instructions to United States ministers abroad, 934n.
• Wolcott, Oliver, a delegate from Connecticut. Credentials, 796, 797. Committees: Week, 36, 184, 185, 977; inquiry into Marine Agent, 37; Superintendent of Finance letter, 38, 38n, 151n, 165, 168n, 194n; Hannum, Frazer, and Gardner memorial, 82; Grand, 93; Chittenden letter, 108n, 241n, Washington letter, 138n, 201n, 306n; petition, 153; Buchanan letter, 154n, 311; Blaine letter, 158n; George Clinton letter, 164n; commissaries' memorial, 170n; Stevens memorial, 222n; Secretary at War letter, 254, 254n; conference with Pennsylvania, executive, 859; Morris letter, 915. Votes: 36, 40, 41, 42, 94, 116, 120, 127, 129, 131, 132, 135, 137, 148, 150, 154, 155, 162, 163, 165, 166, 167, 179, 192, 201, 205, 210, 215, 216, 217, 219, 224, 226n, 233, 240, 904. Mentioned: 34, 34n, 40, 132, 176, 184n, 186n, 204, 209, 209n, 850, 856, 868, 870, 882, 883, 888, 889, 895, 896, 897, 899, 905, 911, 916, 918, 929, 939, 940, 948.
• Woodruff, Elias, letter, 421n.
• Wren, --, 588; thanked by Congress, 619, 632.
• Wyllys, George, 10, 796, 797.
• Yates, Peter W., letter, 585, 585n.
• Yorktown, Virginia, capitulation, 121; leveling of military works at, 483n, 533.

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