[Fryday Feb. 16. 1776.]
[from the Autobiography of John Adams]

[Fryday Feb. 16. 1776.]

Fryday Feb. 16. 1776. Agreable to the order of the day, the Congress resolved itself into a Committee of the whole, to take into consideration the Propriety of Opening the Ports &c. After some time spent Mr. Ward reported, that not having come to a conclusion, The Committee asked leave to sit again. Granted.1

1. See Diary entry (Notes of Debates), 16 Feb. 1776.

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Title: [Fryday Feb. 16. 1776.]
Author: Adams, John
Date: 16 February 1776

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Cite as: “[Fryday Feb. 16. 1776.] ,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-03-02-0016-0057. [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. 364.]