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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 --1FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1788.
[Note 1: 1 Roger Alden takes up the entry.]
Congress Assembled, present as before.
[Letter of Secretary at War respecting Western territory2]
[Note 2: 2 Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 150, III, p. 77, read February 22, 1788. The enclosures were copies of the following: Letter of J. Harmar to H. Knox, November 24, 1787, giving an account of his trip to Post Vincennes, pp. 89--100; Harmar's speech to the Indians, September 7, 1787, pp. 81--83; and letter from the Magistrates of Kaskaskia to J. Harmar, August 25, 1787, p. 85. The fourth enclosure, a copy of an address of the Inhabitants of Vincennes to Congress, July 26, 1787, is in Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 48, pp. 107--111. According to indorsement and the Committee Book, Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 190, p. 183, this address was referred to a committee consisting of Mr. Jeremiah Wadsworth, Mr. William Irvine and Mr. James White, which reported March 6, 1788. See March 27, 1788. See also February 25, 1788.]
War Office, February 21st. 1788.
Sir: I have the honor and satisfaction to transmit to Congress, copies of the dispatches of Brigadier General Harmar which have been missing. They were contained in a portmanteau belonging to Mr Tardiveau, which he has received yesterday, and which had been unfortunately detained by the unfaithfulness of a waggoner.
I have the honor to be, etc.,
H Knox3
[Note 3: 3 February 22, 1788. According to the Committee Book, Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 190, p. 183, the following committee was appointed:
Mr. Abraham Clark, Mr. Nathan Dane, Mr. James Madison, Mr. William Irvine and Mr. Jeremiah Wadsworth, to revise the land ordinance. Report rendered March 19, 1788. See June 19 and July 9, 1788.
Also according to indorsement and the Committee Book, the petition of John Woods, dated February 21, read February 22, 1788, for the settlement of his accounts for services with the Commissioners to the Southern Indians, was referred to the Board of Treasury to report. Report rendered February 29, 1788. See May 13 and 15, 1788.]
His Excellency
the President of Congress.
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