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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Journals of the Continental Congress --MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1784.
Congress assembled: Present, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pensylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina; and from the State of New Hampshire, Mr. [Abiel] Foster, and from the State of South Carolina, Mr. [Jacob] Read.
Ordered, That the order of the day for electing election of a chaplain be postponed till Monday next.
The committee of the week [Mr. Richard Dobbs Spaight, Mr. Edward Hand and Mr. James Monroe] are of opinion the within memorial [of Captain F. Paschke] should be read in Congress.2
[Note 2: 2 This report, in the writing of Richard Dobbs Spaight, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 42, VI, folio 285. The memorial of Captain Paschke, dated January 11, 1784, is on folio 282. According to the indorsement it was read January 12 and referred to Mr. [James] Tilton, Mr. [Arthur] Lee and Mr. [David] Howell.]
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