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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 --NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1785.
According to adjournment, the following states assembled: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey; and from the state of Virginia, Mr. [Richard Henry] Lee, and from North Carolina, Mr. [Hugh] Williamson.
Mr. Lambert Cadwallader, a delegate for New Jersey, Mr. Pierce Long, a delegate for New Hampshire, and Mr. Zephaniah Platt, a delegate for the state of New York, produced the credentials of their respective appointments.1
[Note 1: 1 For Cadwallader's credentials see November 9, 1784, and Platt's under December 2, 1784.]
The Sovereign and Independent State of
New Hampshire
To the Honorable Pierce Long Esquire Greeting.
We the said state reposing special trust and confidence in Your wisdom, virtue and fidelity, do by these presents, constitute and appoint You the said Pierce Long Esquire a Delegate to represent this State in Congress untill the first Monday in November next agreeable to the rules and regulations established by Law. And We do hereby vest in you all the powers, authorities, rights and privileges appertaining or belonging to this your appointment, You governing Yourself from tune to tune agreeable to such orders as shall be transmitted to you by authority of our General Court. Witness Meshech Weare, Esquire, Our president and Commander in Chief in and over the said State, as given under his hand and the Great Seal of the State
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this first day of December Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and Eighty four and in the Ninth Year of Our independence.
By His Excellency's command
M. Weare.
Joseph Pearson Dep Secy
[SEAL]1
[Note 1: 1 The original is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, New Hampshire, Credentials of Delegates. It was entered in No. 179, Record of Credentials, and not in the Journal. The spelling of Long's first name varies in the Credentials. (See October 25, 1785, entered in the Journal of November 28, 1785.) His signature, as a witness to the privateer bond for the schooner McClary, of Portsmouth, September 2, 1776, is plainly Pierse Long; Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 196, IX, folio 110.]
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