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Book/Printed MaterialThe committee consisting of Mr. St. Clair, Mr. Lee and Mr. Lawrance, to whom was referred a report of the secretary at war, on the articles of war and courts-martial, report as … Reported in Congress on March 30, 1786. Cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 30, p. 145-146. Caption title. Imprint from Evans. Ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in Journal of the Continental Congress, v. 31, p. 960 (#525), an attribution later rejected. Cf. v. 33, p. 753. Evans 20061 Journals of the Continental Congress, 525 LC copy annotated to show amendments passed…- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1786
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Book/Printed MaterialWar Office. September 12, 1785 : The secretary at war reports, that it may be a subject worthy the attention of Congress, whether it would not be necessary to appoint some confidential … Followed by: The committee to whom was referred a letter from Mr. Kirkland, of the 14th of September, together with its enclosures, submit the following report ... "The broadside could not have been issued before October 11 [1785]"--Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 822. Imprint from Evans. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in JCC, v. 29, p. 929 (#504);…- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. War Office - Kirkland, Samuel - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1785
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Book/Printed MaterialWar-Office, April 25, 1785 : Sir, On the memorial of Captain Jesse Grant and Captain Jesse Cook, referred to me from Congress, I beg leave to report ... Signed: H. Knox. Place of publication from Evans. Evans erroneously gives imprint date of 1785. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 31, p. 959 (#521); but later volumes reject Dunlap as printer. Cf. JCC, v. 33, p. 753. Followed by: The committee consisting of Mr. Dane, Mr. Lee and Mr. St. Clair, to whom…- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. War Office - United States. Continental Congress - Knox, Henry
- Date: 1786
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, Wednesday, April 3, 1776 : Instructions to the commanders of private ships or vessels of war, which shall have commissions or letters of marque and reprisal, authorising them to make … Signed: By order of Congress. John Hancock, president. Imprint from Evans. The third and fourth lines end: vessels, them. In other editions the third and fourth lines end: war, make; shall, vessels. Evans 15137 Source: Transfer from Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Dunlap, John - United States. Continental Congress - Hancock, John - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1776
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Book/Printed MaterialAn address of the Congress to the inhabitants of the United States of America : Friends and countrymen, three years have now passed away since the commencement of the present war ... "In Congress, May 9, 1778. Resolved, that it be recommended to ministers of the Gospel, of all denominations, to read, or cause to be read, immediately after divine service, the above address to the inhabitants of the United States of America, in their respective churches and chapels, and other places of religious worship. Published by order of Congress. Charles Thomson, secretary." Signed: By order…- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Thomson, Charles - Purdie, Alexander - Laurens, Henry - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialAn address of the Congress to the inhabitants of the United States of America : Friends and countrymen, three years have now passed away, since the commencement of the present war. ... "In Congress, May 9, 1778. Resolved, that it be recommended to ministers of the Gospel, of all denominations, to read, or cause to be read, immediately after divine service, the above address to the inhabitants of the United States of America, in their respective churches and chapels, and other places of religious worship. Published by order of Congress, Charles Thomson, secretary." Signed: By order…- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall & Sellers - Thomson, Charles - Laurens, Henry - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialAn address of the Congress to the inhabitants of the United States of America : Friends and countrymen, three years have now passed away since the commencement of the present war. ... "In Congress, May 9, 1778. Resolved, that it be recommended to ministers of the Gospel, of all denominations, to read, or cause to be read, immediately after divine service, the above address to the inhabitants of the United States of America, in their respective churches and chapels, and other places of religious worship. Published by order of Congress, Charles Thomson, secretary." Signed: By order…- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Thomson, Charles - Carter, John - Laurens, Henry - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, Wednesday, April 3, 1776 : Instructions to the commanders of private ships or vessels of war, which shall have commissions or letters of marque and reprisal, authorising them to make … Signed: By order of Congress, [blank]. This edition, not recorded in Evans or Bristol, was filmed as the second copy of Shipton & Mooney 43190; the copy filmed is annotated as a true copy of instructions received with a commission from the governor of Rhode Island, June 9, 1779, by order of John Jay, president. "This form was reprinted, and continued to be in…- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1779
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, Wednesday. April 3, 1776 : Instructions to the commanders of private ships or vessels of war, which shall have commissions or letters of marque and reprisal, authorising them to make … Signed: By Congress, [blank] president. "This form was reprinted, and continued to be in use ... certainly as late as 1780; the later editions being signed in ms. by the president of Congress"--Evans 15137. Imprint date based on terms of the presidents of Congress who signed extant copies: NYPL copy signed by Henry Laurens (president, Nov. 1777-Dec. 1778); LC and Rhode Island Historical Society…- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1777
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Book/Printed MaterialWar-Office, November 14, 1776. To the Associators of Pennsylvania : Gentlemen, Congress have received intelligence that a fleet of the enemy, consisting of several hundred sail, were yesterday discovered near Sandy-Hook, steering … Signed: Benjamin Harrison ... [and 3 others]. Attest. Richard Peters, secretary. Place and date of imprint from Evans. Evans 15192 Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3480 Source: Transfer from Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Dunlap, John - Harrison, Benjamin - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress. Board of War and Ordnance
- Date: 1776
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Book/Printed MaterialBy the United States in Congress assembled. February 20, 1782 : Whereas it is become indispensably necessary to settle and adjust, and finally to determine the proportions to be borne by the … Printer from Evans. Evans 17758 Journals of the Continental Congress, 379 LC copy signed in ms.: Chas Thomson secy. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress - Claypoole, David C.
- Date: 1782
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, April 23, 1778 : Whereas persuasion and influence, the example of the deluded or wicked, the fear of danger, or the calamities of war, may have induced some of the … Resolution of the Continental Congress recommending pardons to British sympathizers who freely turn themselves in. Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Evans 16119 Journals of the Continental Congress, 203 LC copy annotated on verso: Vote[?] of Congress to receive returning Sinners. Dated in another hand: 23 Apr. 1778. Numbered at head of text: 124. Also available in digital form on the Library…- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - United States. Continental Congress - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall & Sellers
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialThe committee consisting of Mr. Kearney, Mr. Carrington, Mr. Bingham, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Dane, to whom was referred the report of the secretary at war, and sundry papers relative to Indian … Imprint from Evans. Former attribution to the press of John Dunlap rejected in the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 33, p. 753. Recorded in Dunlap's account book. Cf. JCC 587. Evans 20770 Journals of the Continental Congress, 587 LC has two copies on one folded sheet. Copy 1: [A]1; copy 2: [A]2. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web…- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1787
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, December 19, 1777 : Whereas Sir William Howe, commander in chief of His Britannic Majesty's forces, has required, that provisions should be sent in for the subsistence of the American … Imprint supplied from Evans. Followed by: In Congress, January 21, 1778. The Board of War ... esteem it their duty to state to Congress the following facts relating to the American prisoners, in the power of the enemy ... Signed at the end: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Evans 16112 Journals of the Continental Congress, 195 Also available in digital form on…- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - United States. Continental Congress - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, May 21, 1776 : Resolved, that all persons taken in arms on board any prize, be deemed prisoners, to be taken care of by the supreme executive power in each … Evans gives "Philadelphia." as first word of title transcription, but LC copy filmed for microform edition begins "In Congress." Signed: Extract from the minutes, published by order of Congress, Charles Thomson, secretary. Imprint from Evans. Text includes the form of the parole for prisoners of war. Evans 15142 Journals of the Continental Congress, 108 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress…- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - United States. Continental Congress - Dunlap, John - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1776
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Book/Printed MaterialBy the United States in Congress assembled. October 20, 1786 : The committee consisting of Mr. Pettit, Mr. Lee, Mr. Pinckney, Mr. Henry and Mr. Smith, to whom was referred the letter … Imprint from Evans. Evans 20052 Journals of the Continental Congress, 564 LC copy signed in ms.: Chas. Thomson, secy. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1786
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Book/Printed MaterialProclamation : Whereas, in just punishment of our manifold transgressions, it hath pleased the Supreme Disposer of all events to visit these United States with a calamitous war ... Resolved, that it … Signed: Done in Congress, this twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine ... John Jay, president. Attest. Charles Thomson, secretary. Evans 16552 Journals of the Continental Congress, 250 LC copy annotated on verso: Proclamation for Continental Fast 1779. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Formerly LCCN tes54-321. qr01 09-06-90- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall & Sellers - Thomson, Charles - Jay, John - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1779
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Book/Printed MaterialBy the United States in Congress assembled, August 7, 1782 : Resolved, that the secretary at war, on or before the first day of January next, cause the non-commissioned officers and privates … Six resolutions replenishing the strength of the senior regiments and retiring the surplus of officers, especially in the southern army. Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, sec. Imprint supplied by Evans. Evans 17759 Journals of the Continental Congress, 385 LC copy annotated on verso: Augt. 7. 1782. Resolve of Congress for a reform of the army. Source: Transfer from Manuscript Division, Library of…- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - United States. Continental Congress - Claypoole, David C. - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1782
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Book/Printed MaterialInstructions to [blank] superintendant of Indian affais [i.e. affairs] for the [blank] Department.
Instructions to superintendant of Indian affairs for the Department Signed: Given at the War-Office of the United States this [blank] day of [blank]. Imprint from Evans. Former attribution to the press of John Dunlap rejected in the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 33, p. 753. Recorded in Dunlap's account book. Cf. JCC 568. Evans 20771 Journals of the Continental Congress, 568 LC copy annotated on verso: Instructions to Indian agents. In another…- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. War Office - Johnson, William Samuel - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1787
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, April 3, 1776 : Resolved, that every person intending to set forth and fit out a private ship or vessel of war, and applying for a commission or letters of … Signed: By order of Congress, [blank] president. Imprint supplied from Evans. Evans 15138 Journals of the Continental Congress, 105 LC copy signed in ms.: John Hancock. Annotated on verso: Duplicates. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1776
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress. December 11, 1776 : Whereas, the just war into which the United States of America have been forced by Great-Britain, is likely to be still continued by the same violence … Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thompson [i.e. Thomson], secretary. Evans 15176 Journals of the Continental Congress, 137 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Formerly U.S. Broadside portfolio 211, no. 3aa. Pencilled at top: AC.2413.- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - United States. Continental Congress - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1776
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ArticleOrganizing a War Instructions to the Captains and Commanders of Private Armed Vessels. Passy, France: Printed by B. Franklin, 1781. Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division. The huge task of organizing thirteen separate governments and militia into a united, effective fighting force was a main concern of the Continental Congress. The hastily assembled Continental Army was an army without a precedent; Congress had to… -
Book/Printed MaterialBy the United States in Congress assembled, February 17, 1783 : Whereas by the eighth article of the confederation and perpetual union, it is agreed and declared, that all charges of war … Caption title. Prionter from Evans. Includes a resolution of the Continental Congress dated Apr. 18, 1783, imposing duties on imported goods. Evans 18232 Journals of the Continental Congress, 404 LC copy signed in ms.: Chas Thomson secy. Source: Transfer from Manuscript Department, Library of Congress. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1783
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Book/Printed MaterialThe committee consisting of Mr. King, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Monroe, Mr. Lawrance, and Mr. Pettit, to whom was referred an act of the state of New-York, passed on the 4th day of … Imprint from Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 33, p. 753; formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap by v. 31, p. 963 (#539). Bristol gives Dunlap as printer and Philadelphia as place of printing. Bristol B6395 Shipton & Mooney 44991 Journals of the Continental Congress, 539 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1786
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Book/Printed MaterialOffice for Foreign Affairs, 20th October, 1785 : The secretary of the United States for the Department of Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred his letter of 13th instant, to His Excellency … Recommending "measures be taken for protecting the American trade, and meeting these predatory enemies in a proper manner"--P. [1]. Includes the letters and the motion listed in the title. Title taken from opening lines of text. Signed on p. [2]: All of which is submitted to the wisdom of Congress. John Jay. Imprint from Evans. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in…- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Dept. Of Foreign Affairs - United States. Department of Foreign Affairs - Jay, John - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1785
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