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[Wednesday April 10. 1776.]
[from the Autobiography of John Adams]

[Wednesday April 10. 1776.]

Wednesday April 10. 1776. Resolved that the Letters from General Washington be referred to a Committee of the whole Congress.1

1. These were two additional letters, both dated 1 April (JCC description begins Worthington C. Ford and others, eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, Washington, 1904–1937; 34 vols. description ends , 4:266); they are printed in Washington, Writings, ed. Fitzpatrick description begins The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745–1799, ed. John C. Fitzpatrick, Washington, 1931–1944; 39 vols. description ends , 4:456–457.

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    “[Wednesday April 10. 1776.] ,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-03-02-0016-0097. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, vol. 3, Diary, 1782–1804; Autobiography, Part One to October 1776, ed. L. H. Butterfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961, p. 378.]