Henry Laurens, Richard Henry Lee, and John Adams to Joseph Trumbull, 5 September 1777

Henry Laurens, Richard Henry Lee, and John Adams to Joseph Trumbull

State House Philadelphia 5 September 1777

Sir

The Resolve of Congress which you will receive under this Cover will shew you that we are appointed a Committee and for what purposes.1

We request you to transmit to us by the earliest good opportunity the fullest intelligence in your late department of Commissary General and you will further oblige us by adding any further information properly authenticated relative to the enquiries which we are ordered to make.2 We are with great regard sir, Your most obedient servant

Henry Laurens

Richard Henry Lee

John Adams

RC (Ct: Joseph Trumbull Coll.).

1. The resolve of 27 Aug. called for the collecting of evidence by correspondence with appropriate persons and bodies relative to the evacuation of Ticonderoga. The three-man committee was elected the next day (JCC description begins Worthington C. Ford and others, eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, Washington, 1904–1937; 34 vols. description ends , 8:684–686, 688).

2. Similar letters went out to others, including Richard Varick (offered for sale, The Collector, July–Aug. 1954, p. 75) and George Clinton, who laid the committee’s letter and the congressional resolve of 27 Aug. before the New York legislature (Clinton to Laurens, Lee, and JA, 23 Sept., Public Papers of George Clinton, 10 vols., Albany, 1899–1914, 2:342–343).

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Title: Henry Laurens, Richard Henry Lee, and John Adams to Joseph Trumbull, 5 September 1777
Authors: Laurens, Henry
Lee, Richard Henry
Adams, John
Recipient: Trumbull, Joseph
Date: 5 September 1777

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Cite as: “Henry Laurens, Richard Henry Lee, and John Adams to Joseph Trumbull, 5 September 1777,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-05-02-0169. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 5, August 1776 – March 1778, ed. Robert J. Taylor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006, p. 283.]