1776. |
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Agents for Prizes in the several Colonies, appointed, |
1685 |
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Report on Supplies for the Army, and the fulfilment of promises to the Indians, |
1686 |
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Commissioners to Canada desired to publish an Address to the people of Canada, |
1686 |
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The Commisioners to cause justice to be done to the Canadians, |
1686 |
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Commanding Officer in Canada directed to be very attentive to Military discipline, |
1686 |
Apr. 24, |
Credentials and Instructions of the Delegates from South-Carolina presented, |
1687 |
25, |
Report on the charge that Governour Penn had invited the Indians to Philadelphia, |
1689 |
26, |
Secret Committee directed to pay to Connecticut, the Powder lent to General Washington, |
1689 |
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Committee to consider the state of the Eastern Department, |
1690 |
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Report on the Petition of Colonel James Easton, |
1690 |
27, |
William Palfrey elected Paymaster-General, |
1691 |
29, |
Captain McGee permitted to go at large on giving his parole to the Committee of West-Augusta, |
1692 |
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Committee on Indian Affairs in the Middle Department instructed to prepare a plan of an expedition against Fort Detroit, |
1692 |
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Committee on Indian Affairs in the Middle Department instructed to prepare a plan of an expedition against Fort Detroit, |
1692 |
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Governments of Massachusetts, New-Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode-Island, requested to collect as much hard money as possible for the Northern Army, |
1692 |
30, |
Standing Committee for Indian Affairs elected, |
1692 |
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Committees of Inspection are to cease regulating the prices of goods other than Green Tea, |
1693 |
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Committee to inquire into an alleged counterfeiting of Continental Bills, |
1693 |
May 2, |
Captain Wynkoop to take command on the Lakes, in case Major Douglass declines, |
1694 |
3, |
Expense of an expedition against Fort Detroit reported, |
1695 |
6, |
Instructions to General Washington, as to his conduct towards the Commissioners said to be coming from Great Britain to America, |
1696 |
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Ten millions of Dollars to be raised for carrying on the War the current year, |
1696 |
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Treaties to be held with the Indians in the different Departments as soon as practicable, |
1696 |
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Committee to devise ways and means for raising the ten millions of Dollars, |
1697 |
7, |
Sixth Continental Battalion to be raised in North-Carolina, |
1697 |
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Secret Committee directed to procure and forward twelve Field-Pieces and three tons of Powder to North-Carolina, |
1697 |
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Field-Officers of the six Continental Battalions in North-Carolina elected, |
1697 |
1776. |
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Twenty of the heaviest Cannon taken by Commodore Hopkins, at New-Providence, to be delivered to the Committee of Safety of Pennsylvania, |
1698 |
May 8, |
Committee on a Petition of Gideon Warren, and a Letter from Joseph Woodward, Chairman of the Committee of the New-Hampshire Grants, |
1698 |
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Committee on the Instructions of the Naval Committee to Commodore Hopkins, |
1698 |
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Committee to devise ways and means to retake Kirkland, escaped from Jail, |
1699 |
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Whenever any Officer, bearing a Continental commission, departs from orders, an inquiry shall be made, |
1699 |
9, |
Five millions of Dollars, in Bills of Credit, to be emitted, in part of the ten millions voted for the service of the year, |
1700 |
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The Thirteen Colonies pledged for the redemption of the five millions, |
1700 |
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Committee to consider the propriety of exchanging Seamen, |
1700 |
10, |
General Washington directed to open a road between Newbury, on Connecticut River, and Canada, by way of St. Johns, |
1700 |
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Commanding Officers of Departments and Posts to make monthly returns to the Commander-in-Chief, |
1701 |
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Congress will exercise the power of promoting Officers in the Continental service according to their merit, |
1701 |
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Assemblies and Conventions of the respective United Colonies recommended to adopt new Governments, |
1701 |
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Report on the Letters of the 25th and 26th of April from General Washington, and the case of Alexander Ross, |
1701 |
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Report on the state of the Eastern Colonies, |
1702 |
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Committee of Secret Correspondence directed to lay their proceedings before Congress, withholding the names of the persons they have employed, |
1702 |
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Exchange of certain seamen authorized, |
1702 |
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Reward offered for the apprehension of Moses Kirkland, |
1702 |
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Alexander Ross discharged from confinement, |
1703 |
11, |
The two Rhode-Island Battalions to be taken into Continental pay, |
1703 |
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Treaty to be held at Pittsburgh with the Indians in the Middle Department, on the 20th of July, |
1703 |
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John Harvey appointed a Commissioner for Indian Affairs in the Middle Department,
1703 |
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Resolutions of the Board of Officers of Philadelphia, and a Petition of the Committee of Privates, presented,
| 1703 |
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