153911774 Wednesday. Octr. 19. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Home.
15392[Diary entry: 19 October 1774] (Washington Papers)
19. Dined at Mr. Willings & Spent the Evening at my own lodgings.
15393[Diary entry: 19 October 1774] (Washington Papers)
19. Again cool & somewhat lowering.
15394To George Washington from Fairfax Independent Company, 19 October 1774 (Washington Papers)
In compliance with an order made at a meeting of forty nine subscribers of the Fairfax Independant Company, we take the Liberty to request, (if it does not interfere with the more important business you are engaged in) that you will please to make some enquiries with regard to the furnishing the company with a pair of Colours, two Drums, two Fifes, and two Halberts, if they are to be had in...
153951774 Thursday Octr. 20. (Adams Papers)
Dined with the whole Congress at the City Tavern, at the Invitation of the House of Representatives of the Province of Pensylvania, the whole House dined with Us, making near 100 Guests in the whole—a most elegant Entertainment. A Sentiment was given, “May the Sword of the Parent never be Stain’d with the Blood of her Children.” Two or 3 broadbrims, over against me at Table—one of em said this...
15396Isaac Smith Jr. to Mary Smith Cranch, 20 October 1774 (Adams Papers)
If it was possible to tell you, my dear Mrs. Cranch, how much I think myself obliged to you, for your kind, sensible and polite letter of the last week I would do it with the sincerest pleasure. As it is not easy to me, to express the sense I have of your own, and the benevolent intentions and wishes of other of my good friends with regard to me, I must only beg you, to accept my thanks in...
15397To John Adams from Samuel Swift, 20 October 1774 (Adams Papers)
Yours of the 30th. Ult. I Recd, by Mr. Revere. He shew me Also your Cautionary paper, which was needless with respect to Any thing containd in your favour. But I have forbore to read it to Any Enemies or Suspected friends. In Obedience to your injunctions and my own inclinations, I carry’d your friendly mention of Mr. Wheelwright to him who was glad to hear of you &c. When I read your Amusing...
15398[Diary entry: 20 October 1774] (Washington Papers)
20. Dind at the New Tavern with the Pensa. Assembly. Went to the Ball afterwards. dind at the new tavern : “On Thursday last an elegant entertainment was given at the City Tavern, by the Assembly of this province, to the Gentlemen of the Congress” ( Pa. Packet , 24 Oct. 1774). GW’s cash memoranda book shows a payment of 7s. for the ball ticket and a 1s. offering to Christ Church ( CSmH ).
15399[Diary entry: 20 October 1774] (Washington Papers)
20. Warm, & lowering, but no rain fell.
15400Continental Association, 20 October 1774 (Jefferson Papers)
We his Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Delegates of the several Colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Three Lower Counties of Newcastle, Kent, and Sussex, on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, deputed to represent them in a Continental Congress, held in the City of...
154011774 Fryday. Oct. 21. (Adams Papers)
Dined at the Library Tavern with Messrs. Marcoo’s Markoes and a dozen Gentlemen from the W. Indies and N. Carolina. A fine bowling Green here—fine Turtle, and admirable Wine. On this day Congress approved an “address to the people of Great-Britain” and a “memorial to the inhabitants of the British Colonies”; and Galloway, McKean, JA , and Hooper were named “a committee to revise the minutes of...
15402[Diary entry: 21 October 1774] (Washington Papers)
21. Dined at my lodging & Spent the Evening there also.
15403[Diary entry: 21 October 1774] (Washington Papers)
21. Warm and still lowering but no Rain.
15404Address to the People of Great Britain, 21 October 1774 (Jay Papers)
To the people of Great-Britain, from the delegates appointed by the several English colonies of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the lower counties on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, and South-Carolina, to consider of their grievances in general Congress, at Philadelphia, September 5th,...
154051774. Saturday. Octr. 22. (Adams Papers)
Dined in the Country, with Mr. Dickinson, with all the Delegates from N. England. Mr. Duane, Mr. Reed, Mr. Livingstone &c.
15406[Diary entry: 22 October 1774] (Washington Papers)
22. Dined at Mr. Griffins & drank Tea with Mrs. Roberdeau. Mary Bostwick Roberdeau (d. 1777), daughter of Rev. David Bostwick of New York, was the wife of Daniel Roberdeau, a Philadelphia merchant and Patriot.
15407[Diary entry: 22 October 1774] (Washington Papers)
22. Very foggy & lowering Morning but clear and warm afterwards. In the Evening Rain.
154081774. Sunday. Octr. 23. (Adams Papers)
Heard Mr. Piercy, at Mr. Sprouts. He is Chaplain to the Countess of Huntingdon. Comes recommended to Mr. Cary of Charlestown, from her, as a faithful servant of the Lord. No Genius—no Orator. In the Afternoon I went to the Baptist Church and heard a trans Alleganian—a Preacher, from the back Parts of Virginia, behind the Allegany Mountains. He preached an hour and an half. No Learning—No Grace...
15409[Diary entry: 23 October 1774] (Washington Papers)
23. Dined at my lodgings and spent the Evening there.
15410[Diary entry: 23 October 1774] (Washington Papers)
23d. Foggy Morning but clear and warm afterwds.
154111774. Monday. Octr. 24. (Adams Papers)
In Congress, nibbling and quibbling—as usual. There is no greater Mortification than to sit with half a dozen Witts, deliberating upon a Petition, Address, or Memorial. These great Witts, these subtle Criticks, these refined Genius’s, these learned Lawyers, these wise Statesmen, are so fond of shewing their Parts and Powers, as to make their Consultations very tedius. Young Ned Rutledge is a...
15412To Benjamin Franklin from Jan Ingenhousz, 24 October 1774 (Franklin Papers)
Abstract: Ingenhousz letterbook, Gemeente-Archief, Breda That every body here expects his vindication but that I begin to suspect it will not be published till the American affairs are settled; that I allwas looked upon America as the abode of tranquillity. That I was much pleased with the translation of his work in Fransh. That mr. Reich Van der schoot gardiner to the Emperour has sollicited...
15413[Diary entry: 24 October 1774] (Washington Papers)
24. Dined with Mr. Mease & Spent the Evening at the New Tavern.
15414[Diary entry: 24 October 1774] (Washington Papers)
24. Foggy again in the forenoon, but clear afterwds. & Warm.
15415To George Washington from Benjamin Harrison, Peyton Randolph, and Richard Bland, 24 October 1774 (Washington Papers)
We Depute Colo. George Washington to sign our Names to any of the Proceedings of this Congress. LS , in the hand of Benjamin Harrison, DLC:GW . In PHi : Dreer Collection, there is a document in GW’s hand listing the Virginia delegates to the First Continental Congress with the number of votes each received in the August convention: “Peyton Randolph Esqr. 104[,] Richd Henry Lee 100[,] Geo....
154161774 Tuesday [25 October]. (Adams Papers)
Dined with Mr. Clymer. General Lee &c. there.
15417[Diary entry: 25 October 1774] (Washington Papers)
25. Dined at my lodgings.
15418[Diary entry: 25 October 1774] (Washington Papers)
25. Again foggy in the forenoon but clear and warm afterwards.
154191774. Wednesday [26 October]. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Home. This Day the Congress finished. Spent the Evening together at the City Tavern—all the Congress and several Gentlemen of the Town. Among other things Congress this day debated and approved the address to the people of Quebec, signed the address to the King, voted a resolution of thanks to the Pennsylvania Assembly “for their politeness to this Congress,” and “then dissolved...
15420The Continental Congress to Franklin, William Bollan, Edmund Burke, Charles Garth, Arthur Lee, Thomas Life, and Paul … (Franklin Papers)
LS : Library of Congress This letter from the Congress over the signature of its president carried to England the official news, so long awaited, of what had happened in Philadelphia. The letter was drafted at the end of the session by a committee of two and approved on the last day, October 26. Charles Thomson, the Secretary of the Congress, enclosed it in a covering letter of the same date...