| Jonathan R. Dull - Biography & Autobiography - 1982 - 106 pages
...committee assignment, however, was on the Committee of Secret Correspondence, established 29 November 1775 "for the sole purpose of corresponding with our friends in Great Britain, Ireland and other parts of the world."25 The committee's foreign correspondents initially were comprised of Franklin's own contacts.... | |
| 1813 - 560 pages
...who had agents abroad to procure military stores, and who were ' empowered to correspond with their friends in Great Britain, Ireland, and other parts of the world.' And among the grounds of hope by which Washington was encouraged to bear up agamst difficulties and discouragements... | |
| English literature - 1813 - 1102 pages
...who had agents abroad to procure military stores, and who were 'empowered to correspond with their friends in Great Britain, Ireland, and other parts of the world.' And among the grounds of hope by which Washington was encouraged to bear up against difficulties and discouragements... | |
| United States. Continental Congress - Law - 1823 - 644 pages
...read and debated, was agreed to. Ordered, That a fair copy be made, signed and forwarded. Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed for the sole...Great Britain, Ireland, and, other parts of the world, iiiiil that they lay their correspondence before Congress when directed. Resolved, That Congress will... | |
| John Farmer - New Hampshire - 1824 - 492 pages
...congress resolved, that a committee of five of its members, should he appointed for the sole porpose of corresponding with our friends in Great Britain, Ireland, and other parts of the world, who should lay their correspondence hefore congress when required. It does not appear that the members... | |
| 1834 - 766 pages
...states that there was a secret committee in America, " who were empowered to correspond with their friends in Great Britain, Ireland, and other parts of the world." And among the hopes that animated Washington, in his various struggles, he enumerates " Irish claims, and... | |
| Robert Taylor Conrad - Declaration of Independence - 1846 - 900 pages
...he was appointed the chairmen of a committee organized under the following cautious resolutions : " That a committee of five be appointed for the sole...their correspondence before congress when directed. That congress will make provision to defray all such expenses as may arise, by carrying on such a correspondence,... | |
| John Adams - United States - 1851 - 596 pages
...importation of arms, ammunition, sulphur, and saltpetre." * On Wednesday, November 29th, it was f " Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed for the sole...their correspondence before Congress when directed. * See the Journals of Congress for 1775, p. 238. Wednesday, November 8th, 1775, and the note. (Also... | |
| Benson John Lossing - Presidents - 1860 - 872 pages
...the adoption of a resolution by the continental Congress, on the twenty-ninth of November, 1775, " That a committee of five be appointed for the sole...with our friends in Great Britain, Ireland, and other part* of ihe world, and that the}' lay their correspondence before Congress, when directed."* The hints... | |
| George Bancroft - 1860 - 490 pages
...Johnson, Dickinson, and Jay were appointed a secret " committee for the sole purpose of corresponding with friends in Great Britain, Ireland, and other parts of the world;" and funds were set aside "for the payment of such agents as they might send on this service." " It is an... | |
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