Adams Papers

[Wednesday August 7th. 1776.]
[from the Autobiography of John Adams]

[Wednesday August 7th. 1776.]

Wednesday August 7th. 1776. A Letter from George Measam referred to the Board of War.

A Report from the Board of War, as in the Journal.1

A Committee of the whole on the Articles of Confederation, Mr. Morton in the Chair.

1. JCC description begins Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, ed. Worthington Chauncey Ford, Gaillard Hunt, John C. Fitzpatrick, Roscoe R. Hill, and others, Washington, D.C., 1904–1937; 34 vols. description ends , 5:636. This ordered payment for the board and lodging of certain Canadian prisoners at Bristol.

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    “[Wednesday August 7th. 1776.] ,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-03-02-0016-0162. [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. 404.]