Adams Papers

[Fryday March 1. 1776.]
[from the Diary of John Adams]

[Fryday March 1. 1776.]

Fryday March 1. 1776. Resolved that this Congress will tomorrow resolve itself into a Committee of the whole, to take into Consideration the Letter of General Washington of the 14th with the Papers inclosed.

Resolved That the Memorial from the Merchants of Montreal be referred to a Committee of five Mr. Wilson, Mr. J. Adams, Mr. W. Livingston, Mr. L. Morris and Mr. Tilghman.1

1. JA here again overlooked a date heading in the Journals. This committee was appointed on 4 March; it reported on the 13th (report not found), and on the 20th Congress voted “That the memorial from the Indian traders, residing at Montreal, be delivered to the Commissioners going to Canada” (JCC description begins Worthington C. Ford and others, eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, Washington, 1904–1937; 34 vols. description ends , 4:182, 200, 219).

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    “[Fryday March 1. 1776.] ,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-03-02-0016-0066. [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. 368.]