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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, OCTOBER 17, 1785.
Congress assembled. Present, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Georgia; and from the State of New Hampshire, Mr. [Pierse] Long; from New Jersey, Mr. [William Churchill] Houston; from Virginia, Mr. [Richard Henry] Lee, and from North Carolina, Mr. [William] Cumming.
Congress being informed, that Mr. Samuel Hardy, one of the delegates for the State of Virginia, died this morning, and that it is proposed to inter him to Morrow evening,
Resolved, That Congress will, in a body, attend the funeral to morrow evening at five o'clock, with a crape round the left arm, and will continue in mourning for the space of one Month.
Resolved, That Mr. [William] Grayson, Mr. [Jacob] Read and Mr. [John] Kean, be a committee to superintend the funeral; and that the chaplains of Congress be notified to attend, and one of them officiate on the occasion.
Ordered, That the committee invite the Governor of the State, the Ministers of foreign powers, the Mayor of the city, and other persons of distinction in town, to attend the funeral.
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Information being given, that Mr. James Green, late commissioner of the Continental loan Office for North Carolina is dead,
Congress proceeded to the election of a commissioner of the Continental loan Office for the State of North Carolina, and, the ballots being taken, Mr. William Skinner was elected, having been previously nominated by Mr. [William] Cumming.
Office Of Secretary Of Congress,Oct. 15, 1785.
On the petition of captain Johannes Schrine an Indian chief of the Mohawk tribe, stating that in 1778 he was sent by genl. Schuyler with a letter and a flag to the british Officer at Niagara, who confined him in prison to the end of the war, by which he suffered much loss and inconvenience. And that he has received no pay during the war, although entitled to the pay of a captain,
The Secretary of Congress reports,
Agreed to Sept. [Oct. 17, 1785. R.H. LEE, P. That the petition be referred to the Secretary at War to report.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Charles Thomson, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 180, Reports of the Secretary of Congress. According to Committee Book No. 190, the Secretary at War delivered a report January 17, 1786. Schrine's petition is in No. 151, folio 145.]
Office Of Secy. Of Congress,
Oct. 15, 1785.
On the petition of "Peter Huet de la Valiniere, priest chosen to be a general vicar for New Skotland which he has refused" stating his losses and sufferings and praying for an answer, 1. concerning some succour; 2d. concerning the recovery of his baggage which he left last spring at Newbury; and, 3rdly. concerning his being employed at Illinois or some other place.
The Secretary of Congress reports,
Agreed to Sept. [Oct.] 17,1785. R. H. LEE, P. That the said petition be filed referred to the Board of treasury to report.2
[Note 2: 2 This report, in the writing of Charles Thomson, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 180, Reports of the Secretary of Congress.]
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[Motion of Mr Pinckney]
That the board of treasury be directed to procure with all possible expedition a suitable vessel of abouttons burthen and have the same Completely equipped for the purpose of going as a flag to the Emperor of Morocco and the Regencies of Tunis, Tripoli and Algiers; and that the Secretary for foreign affairs be directed to report the draught of such instructions as it may be necessary to furnish the person with carting such flag to inform the said powers of Congress's willingness desire to enter into treaties with them, and of the steps they had previously taken to ensure their friendship, and requesting that there might be a suspension of hostilities on their part until the arrival of the person charged with the negotiation of the said treaties.1
[Note 1: 1 This motion, in the writing of Charles Pinckney, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 81, I, folio 465. According to indorsement it was made this day and referred to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs to report.
On this day also consideration of the report of the Secretary for Foreign Affairs on consuls was carried over to October 24.]
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