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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 --THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1785.
Mr. William Samuel Johnson, a delegate for the state of Connecticut, attended, and produced the credentials of his appointment, which were read.
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Congress assembled: Present, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Virginia; and from the State of Maryland, Mr. [James] McHenry.
State of Connecticut.
At a General Assembly of the State of Connecticut in America holden at New Haven on the second Thursday of October Anno Dom 1784.
This Assembly do appoint William Samuel Johnson Esqr. a Delegate to represent this State in the Congress of the United [SEAL] States for the Term of One Year from the first Monday of November, 1784, in the room of Charles Church Chandler Esqr. resigned.
A true Copy of Record
Examind.
By George Wyllys Secrety.1
[Note 1: 1 The original is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, Connecticut, Credentials of Delegates. It was entered in No. 179, Record of Credentials, and not in the Journal.]
[Motion of Mr Elbridge Gerry, referred to Mr Elbridge Gerry, Mr William Ellery, Mr Hugh Williamson:]
That the Postmaster General and Secretary in the War Office be directed forthwith and that the officers of the several departments of the Treasury be directed on or before the 21st day of March next as they may deem it expedt., to remove the papers of their respective offices to this City where they are to be Kept till the further orders of Congress.2
[Note 2: 2 This motion, in the writing of Elbridge Gerry, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, I, folio 527. See post, February 2.
According to Committee Book, No. 186, the committee on Gerry's motion also considered and reported this day on the letters of December 3 and 23, 1784, on post office matters, from Postmaster General Ebenezer Hazard. The letter of December 23 is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 61, folio 181, which is indorsed as having been referred to the Committee on the Post Office. The Gerry committee reported February 2 and a resolve was adopted February 7.
January 13: On this day a letter of December 15, 1784, from Major L'Enfant, with inclosures was referred to Mr. [David] Howell, Mr. [Archibald] Stewart and Mr. [Hugh] Williamson, who reported January 24.
The report of the Commissioner for settling marine accounts of the advances made for the frigate Confederacy at Martinique was referred to Mr. [Rufus] King, Mr. [William S.] Johnson and Mr. [Pierse] Long, who reported February 18.
The letter of December 24, 1784, from the Governor of Connecticut and proceedings of the Connecticut legislature on the claims of the Wyoming settlers and their memorial thereon was referred to the Committee of the Whole, to meet on Tuesday, January 25. See post, August 19.
Committee Book, No. 186.
Also, on this day, was read according to its indorsement, a letter from Samuel Purviance, Dec. 20, 1784, enclosing a letter from Arthur Campbell and a memorial from the inhabitants of the Western country on the expected attack of the Cherokees on the Kentucky settlements. The letter and enclosures are in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 48, folios 273--289.
Also on this day, according to indorsement, was read a "Memorial of the Freemen inhabiting the Country Westward of the Allegany or Apalachian Mountain and Southward of the Ouasioto," praying for the erection of the western territory, as bounded in the memorial, into a free and independent state. It is in No. 48, folio 281.
Also, a letter of December 3, 1784, from Meshech Weare, President of New Hampshire, transmitting an act of the general court of that state to invest Congress with additional powers for a limited term. It is in No. 64, folio 248.
Also, a letter of December 24, 1784, from Matthew Griswold, Governor of Connecticut, relative to the claims of settlers upon the Wyoming. It was referred to the committee of the whole house to meet Tuesday, January 25. It is in No. 66, II, folio 292.
Also, a letter of January 5 from Joseph Hardy applying for appointment as commissioner for adjusting accounts of the State of Maryland with the United States, which was referred, on January 17, to Mr. [John] Beatty, Mr. [David] Howell and Mr. [Samuel] Holten. On January 24 the committee was discharged and the letter ordered to be filed. The letter is in No. 78, XII, folio 357.]
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