III 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 351 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
SEPTEMBER 25 (legislative day, SEPTEMBER 17), 2008 
Received 
OCTOBER 2 (legislative day, SEPTEMBER 17), 2008 
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Honoring the 225th Anniversary of the Continental Congress 
meeting in Nassau Hall, Princeton, New Jersey, in 1783. 
Whereas, in response to the financial difficulties of the times, 
the Continental Congress departed the city of Philadel-
phia suddenly due to a possible uprising by discontented 
Continental Army soldiers who had not been paid; 
Whereas the President of the Continental Congress, Elias 
Boudinot, 
established 
a 
temporary 
capital 
at 
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Princeton ‘‘in order that further and more effective meas-
ures may be taken for suppressing the present Revolt, 
and maintaining the Dignity and Authority of the United 
States’’; 
Whereas members of the Continental Congress were in-
structed to meet in Princeton on June 26, 1783; 
Whereas the 300 residents of Princeton took members of the 
Congress into their homes; 
Whereas Princeton University offered the prayer hall and the 
library in Nassau Hall for Congress to use to conduct the 
governmental business of the United States; 
Whereas the Congress conducted essential business in Nassau 
Hall, which helped shape the foreign relations of the 
fledgling Nation; 
Whereas General George Washington was called to Princeton 
by a letter from President Boudinot to receive the formal 
thanks of the Nation for his dedicated service as com-
mander-in-chief; 
Whereas, on August 18, General Washington left Major Gen-
eral John Knox in charge of the encamped army at New-
burgh, New York, and traveled with a guard of dragoons 
and his wife, Martha Washington, to the Rockingham es-
tate in Rocky Hill, New Jersey, which was made available 
for his use over the next three months; 
Whereas General Washington met with the Continental Con-
gress in Nassau Hall on August 26 and received the pub-
lic thanks of his country for his success in the struggle 
for liberty; 
Whereas, in late October at Rockingham, Washington com-
pleted writing his Farewell Orders to the Armies of the 
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United States dismissing the troops and announcing his 
retirement; 
Whereas, while Congress was meeting in Princeton, the Trea-
ty of Paris was signed in Paris by John Adams, John 
Jay, and Benjamin Franklin on September 3, 1783, 
marking the end of the American Revolution and estab-
lishing the boundaries of the new Nation; and 
Whereas Congress departed Princeton in early November 
1783 to winter in Annapolis, Maryland: Now, therefore, 
be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That it is the sense of the Congress that the 
225th Anniversary of the Continental Congress meeting 
at Nassau Hall in Princeton, New Jersey, should be com-
memorated. 
Passed the House of Representatives September 24 
(legislative day September 23), 2008. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
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