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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 --SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1783
Congress assembled: Present as before.
The Committee consisting of Mr [Elbridge] Gerry, Mr [Richard] Peters, Mr [Abraham] Clarke, Mr [William] Ellery, and Mr [Jacob] Read, who were to repair to the falls of Delaware to view the situation of the country in the neighborhood, and to report a District for a federal town, submit the following report,
That three of the Committee, in the absence of the other two, who were notified of the meeting repaired to Trenton, on the 6th of November last, and surveyed the ground from Howell's ferry to Lamberton on the New Jersey side, and from the opposite points on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware. That after a careful attention, they deemed it expedient to report a district in each of the said States that a preference might be given to the State which should secure the soil on the most reasonable terms, and comply with the resolution of Congress respecting the jurisdiction; that the District on the New Jersey side, is at Lamberton, and the District on the Pennsylvania side is near the falls of the Delaware beginning at a hill above the mills owned by Colonels Wilson and Bird and extending a mile up the River.
That the Committee were attended by Captain Hutchins, Geographer to the United States, whose plan of the two Districts and remarks thereon is also submitted to the consideration of Congress.2
[Note 2: 2 This report, in the writing of Elbridge Gerry, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 23, folio 157. The indorsement states that it was delivered this day, entered and read.
On this day, as the indorsement indicates, was read a letter of December 20 from the Superintendent of Finance, transmitting a letter from the Minister of the Netherlands, respecting Mr. Dumas. It was referred to Mr. [Arthur] Lee, Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry and Mr. Jacob Read. It is in No. 137, III, folio 321.]
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