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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, DECEMBER 4, 1786.
The following gentlemen attended, viz.
Mr. [William] Blount informed, that the honble. Abner Nash, his colleague, died on Saturday last, having directed his corpse to be deposited in his family vault in North Carolina; Mr. [William] B1ount, therefore, desired to know whether it be necessary that the rites of burial should be performed here, and if so, in what mode. Whereupon the gentlemen were of opinion, that the rites of funeral be performed here in the forenoon in the usual mode, and that Mr. [William] Blount, Mr. [Edward] Carrington and Mr. [Charles] Pinckney superintend the funeral.
After this tune the gentlemen attended occasionally, till the 17 January, 1787, when Congress assembled as follows:
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