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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 --WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1786.
Congress assembled. Present as yesterday.
The Agents for the States of New York and Massachusetts, presented to Congress the following representation and request, to wit:
To the honorable the United States of America in Congress assembled, the subscribers, Agents of the States of New York and Massachusetts, beg leave to represent that they have agreed upon the honble. William Hooper, Esqr. of North Carolina, to be a judge instead of the honorable James Monroe, esquire, who hath declined his appointment to sit in a federal court, for the trial of a controversy between the said states of Massachusetts and New York, which controversy is suggested in the petition of the former, now on the journals of Congress; and thereupon the said Agents do humbly request that notice hereof may be given to the said William Hooper, esqr. and that upon his acceptance, a commission may be issued to him, together with the Honorable Thomas Johnson, George Wythe, George Read, Isaac Smith, William Patterson, Samuel Johnson, William Fleming and John Seagraves, esquires, constituting them a court, according to the Confederation, to hear and determine the controversy aforesaid.
Dated 22d September, 1786.
N. Gorham, R. King, N. Dane,
Agents for Massachusetts.
Jas. Duane, John Haring, Melancton Smith, Egbert Benson,
Agents for New-York.1
[Note 1: 1 The original is in No. 67, II, folio 507. A draft of Thomson's letter to William Hooper, notifying him of his appointment, is in No. 55, folio 327.]
Office of Secretary of Congress,
Sept. 27, 1786.
On the petition of Robert Yauncey stating that in March, 1777, he acted as paymaster to the first regiment of Cavalry; that in discharge
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of his duty he repaired to Middlebrook and before he had finished paying the Men the enemy advanced and he lost a horse.
The Secretary of Congress reports that the petition Agreed 28 Sept. of Robert Yauncey be referred to the board of treasury.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is entered in Reports of the Secretary of Congress, No. 180.
On this day also, according to indorsement, was read a letter of September 25 from Samuel Holden Parsons, explaining his delays in starting under his appointment. It is in No. 78, XVIII, folio 611.]
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