Adams Papers

[Fryday August 2. 1776.]
[from the Diary of John Adams]

[Fryday August 2. 1776.]

Fryday August 2. 1776. The Board of War brought in a report, which was accepted as in the Journal.1

The Marine Committee brought in a report, on the Conduct of Commodore Hopkins.

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 , 5:627–628. This concerned funds for the paymaster of the northern department, the employment of Stockbridge Indians in the army, the repair of old arms, a plan for weekly returns from commissaries and quartermasters, &c.

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    2 August 1776

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    “[Fryday August 2. 1776.] ,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-03-02-0016-0158. [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. 403.]