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[Wednesday July 31. 1776.]
[from the Autobiography of John Adams]

[Wednesday July 31. 1776.]

Wednesday July 31. 1776. The Board of War brought in a report, which was taken into Consideration: whereupon Resolved as in the Journal.1

A Committee of the whole on the Articles of Confederation Mr. Morton in the Chair.

1. JCC description begins Worthington C. Ford and others, eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, Washington, 1904–1937; 34 vols. description ends , 5:623. Concerning “musquet powder” for Washington’s troops, and rations and pay for Massachusetts militia replacing Continental troops withdrawn from that state.

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    “[Wednesday July 31. 1776.] ,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-03-02-0016-0156. [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. 402.]