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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, NOVEMBER 6, 1786.
Pursuant to the articles of Confederation and perpetual Union, the following gentlemen attended as delegates:
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, To our trusty and well beloved [SEAL] Nathaniel Gorham, Esqr. of Charleston in our County of Middlesex, Greeting:
Whereas the General Court of our Commonwealth aforesaid did on the twenty-seventh day of June Ao. Di. 1786, agreeable to the Constitution of our said Commonwealth appoint The Honble. Nathaniel Gorham, esqr. a Delegate to represent our said Commonwealth in the Congress of the United States for one year commencing the first Monday in November, 1786.
Now therefore Know ye that we do by these presents and in pursuance of the said appointment Commission you the said Nathaniel Gorham Esqr. to represent our said Commonwealth in Congress, and vest you with all and singular the powers and authorities to the said Office or place of Delegate belonging by virtue of the Constitution of said Commonwealth and the appointment aforesaid and to hold said Office until the first Monday in November, 1787. And you the said Nathaniel Gorham Esqr. are hereby required to observe the instructions which from time to time shall be given to you by the General Court of our said Commonwealth.
In Testimony whereof we have caused our Publick Seal to be hereto affixed.
Witness James Bowdoin Esqr. our Governor and Commander in Chief at Boston the fourteenth day of October, A. D. 1786, and in the Eleventh Year of the Independence of the United States of America.
James Bowdoin.
By His Excellency's Command:
John Avery, junr. Secretary.1
[Note 1: 1 This commission is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, Massachusetts, Credentials. It is also entered in Record of Credentials, No. 179, where it is noted as read November 6.]
State of Pennsylvania,
In General Assembly,
Tuesday October 31st, 1786, A. M.
Agreeably to the order of the day the House proceeded to the election of Delegates to represent this State in the Congress of the United States and the ballots being taken, it appeared that the Honorable Arthur St. Clair, Charles Pettit, William Irvine, Samuel
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Meredith, and William Bingham, Esquires, were duly elected. (Extract from the Minutes.)
I. Shallus, Asst. Clk.1
[Note 1: 1 This certificate is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, Record of Credentials, No. 179. Thomson has noted in the margin "Produced Nov. 6, 1786."]
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