JOURNALS OF CONGRESS, FROM MONDAY, JUNE 7TH, TO SATURDAY, JUNE 12TH, 1779, INCLUSIVE.
Philadelphia: Printed by David C. Claypoole, Printer to the Honorable the Congress of the United States of America, [1779]. 19, [1 blank] pp. Disbound and lightly foxed, else Very Good.
1779 was the only year in which Congress's Journals were published on a weekly or monthly basis, rather than annually. Forty-one were published that year, each a rare separate imprint.
This weekly Journal records Congress's rejection of Commissary General Wadsworth's resignation, which Wadsworth had tendered because abuses "have been committed by inferior officers." Votes are recorded on the decision to recall Ralph Izard of South Carolina [who had been appointed commissioner to the Court at Tuscany] and Arthur Lee of Virginia [who, with Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane, had been appointed to negotiate the Treaty of Alliance with France]. Congress ordered Lee to testify concerning his "several allegations and suggestions...against the said Silas Deane."
Loans, subscriptions, and other financial arrangements to finance the War are also considered.
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