In Congress, April 14, 1777
Subtitle: Whereas the state of Pennsylvania is threatened with an immediate invasion, and, from the adjournment of the legislative and executive authorities of the commonwealth, it is impracticable to carry into immediate execution many measures of the utmost importance ... Resolved, that it is the indispensible duty of Congress to watch over all matters ...
Contributors: Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824.; Dunlap, John, 1747-1812, printer.; Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by John Dunlap
Published: 1777
Place of publication: [Philadelphia]
Language: eng
Subjects: Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783.; Pennsylvania -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
Notes: Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary.
Place and date of publication from Evans.
Followed by: In Congress, April 15 : The committee appointed by Congress on the 14th day of April, to confer with the president and members of the Supreme Executive Council of the Common-wealth of Pennsylvania ...
LC copy annotated on verso: The report of committee of Congress, April 15, 1777.
Source: Transfer from Manuscript Department, Library of Congress (DLC #37552, 1903).
Evans 15667
Journals of the Continental Congress, 165