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United States Lottery
the scheme is, that this lottery consist of four classes, of one hundred thousand tickets each -
Proclamation
Whereas it becomes us humbly to approach the throne of Almighty God ... Resolved, that it be recommended to the several states to appoint Thursday the ninth day of December next to be a day of public and solemn thanksgiving ... Done in Congress the twentieth day of October ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine ... State of Massachusetts-Bay. Council-chamber in Boston, November 3, 1779. Agreeable to the above recommendation of the Honorable Continental Congress ... do hereby appoint Thursday the ninth day of December next, to be observed ... as a day of public thanksgiving and praise -
In Congress, March 6, 1779
Resolved, that Congress, or such person or persons as they appoint to hear and determine appeals from the courts of admiralty, have necessarily the power to examine as well into decisions on facts, as decisions on the law, and to decree finally thereon -
In Congress, March 5, 1779
Resolved, that the quarter-master general, commissary-general of purchases, and cloathier-general ... are hereby authorised and directed to pay all certificates -
In Congress, March 2, 1779
the Board of War having represented, that application has been made to the board for arrearages of cloathing ... Resolved, that a proper person be forthwith appointed and commissioned, to settle and pay all accounts of arrearages of cloathing due to the troops of these states for the year 1777 -
In Congress, March 15, 1779
Resolved, that all officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers ... commissioned and inlisted since the 16th of September, 1776 ... be considered as parts of the quotas of the several states to which they did or shall respectively belong when so commissioned or inlisted -
In Congress, January 13, 1779
We cannot review the progress of the revolution which has given freedom to America, without admiring the goodness and gratefully acknowledging the interposition of Divine Providence -
In Congress, August 16, 1779
Resolved, that the cloathier general estimate the value of the several articles of soldiers cloathing at the prices they were respectively worth at the end of the year 1778 -
In Congress, October 8, 1778
Resolved, that all limitations of prices of gold and silver be taken off -
Proclamation
Whereas it becomes us humbly to approach the throne of Almighty God ... Resolved, that it be recommended to the several states, to appoint Thursday, the ninth of December next, to be a day of public and solemn thanksgiving ... Done in Congress, the twentieth day of October ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine -
Proclamation
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 be recommended to the several states to appoint the first Thursday in May next to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer ... Done in Congress, this twentieth day of March ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine -
Proclamation
... resolved, that it be recommended to the several states to appoint the first Thursday in May next to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer ... Done in Congress, this twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine, and in the third year of our independence -
In Congress, June 29, 1779
As congresses are bound by every motive of policy and of public & private justice to maintain the credit of the paper money emitted by their authority on the faith of the United States -
An estimate of the average price in December 1778, of the different articles of cloathing allowed the soldiery by the act of Congress September 6th, 1777
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List of prices for the town of Salem
the inhabitants of Salem, in town-meeting assembled having approved of the proceedings of the state convention held at Concord, and the county-convention held at Ipswich ... have fixed the following prices and rates of labor, &c -
State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, August session, 1779
It is voted and resolved, that the inlistments of the non-commissioned officers and soldiers in the Continental service, in the hands of the officers of the respective Continental regiments ... be forthwith delivered to the auditor of accounts -
Providence, July 26, 1779. Sir ; By the annexed vote of the town of Providence, you will perceive the anxious desire they possess of having the purposes therein expressed carried into execution
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Providence, July 3, 1779
At a meeting of the freemen of the town of Providence ... on Friday the 2d day of July, 1779, to take into consideration the alarming state of the public currency ... appointed a committee, who made the following report -
Proceedings of the convention begun and held at Concord, in the county of Middlesex, in and for the state of Massachusetts-Bay, on the 14th day of July, 1779, for the purpose of carrying into effect the several interesting and important measures recommended by Congress, to the inhabitants of the United-States, in their late wise, seasonable and animating address
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Proceedings of the convention, began and held at Worcester, in and for the county of Worcester, on the 3d day of August, 1779
For the purpose of carrying into effect the several interesting and important measures, first recommended by Congress to the inhabitants of the United states, and since, to the inhabitants of this state by a convention of their delegates at Concord on the 14th ult -
The address of the Committee of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, to their fellow-citizens throughout the United States
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In committee, July 14, 1779
Resolved, that the plan for stopping emissions be printed in hand-bills, and distributed for the consideration of the public ; and that a town-meeting be held in the state house yard, on Monday the 26th instant, at ten o'clock in the forenoon -
By His Excellency the president, and Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a proclamation
Whereas there is just cause to believe that our cruel and inveterate enemies, despairing of the conquest of America by open and manly force, are about to adopt the mean and savage policy of distress and depredation. ... Given ... at Philadelphia, this second day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine -
In Council. Philadelphia, February 3d, 1779
Present, His Excellency Joseph Reed, Esq. president, Hon. George Bryan, Esq. ... This board having maturely considered the general tenor and course of the military command exercised by Major General Arnold, in this city and state -
General militia orders
Philadelphia, October 27, 1779