three, ---- /

/New-London: Printed by Timothy Green,

Printer to the Governor and Company. /

Fo. Broadside.

Followed by a proclamation by Governor Trumbull, dated November 7, 1783
A copy is in the Library of Congress. It measures 50 x 38 cms.

This proclamation appoints the second Thursday in December (11th) as a day of Thanksgiving. Evans notes the original imprint, by Claypoole, Philadelphia; and also an imprint, Exeter, November 14, 1783, preceded by an order for the observance of the day in New Hampshire, signed by M. Weare.

November I.

Resolutions on Congressional Representation.

419. By the United States in / Congress Assembled. / November 1, 1783. / Fo. pp. 2.

A copy is in the Library of Congress, signed by Thomson. It measures 32.5 x 20 cms.

Half-Pay and Commutation.

420. A Collection of Papers, / relative to / Half-Pay / and / Commutation / of / Half-Pay, / Granted By / Congress / to the / Officers of the Army. / Compiled, / By Permission of His Excellency General Washington, / from the Original Papers in his Possession. / Fish-kill:/ Printed by Samuel Loudon. / M,DCC,LXXXIII.

8°. pp. 36.

A copy is in the Library of Congress. It begins with an extract of a representation made by General Washington to a Committee of Congress, January 29, 1778, and closes with a letter from Washington to the President of Congress, June 7, 1783. It includes the various resolutions of Congress during that period, on the subject of half-pay; the address and petition of the Officers of the Continental Army, the Newburgh addresses and the report of the Convention of Officers, 1783.

421. A / Collection of Papers / relative to / Half-Pay, / and / Commutation Thereof, / granted by / Congress / to the / Officers of the Army. / Together with a / Circular Letter/ from/ His Excellency General Washington, / to the several / Legislatures of the United States. / Boston: / Printed by Order of the General Court / of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. / M,DCC,LXXXIII.

4°. pp. 24.

A copy is in the Library of Congress. It omits the memorial of the Officers to Congress, the Newburgh addresses, the report of the Convention of Officers, and some other papers that are in the Fish-kill publication (No. 420), but contains General Washington's "last official communication," addressed to Governor Hancock, and dated: Head-Quarters, Newburgh, June 11th, 1783.

Half-Pay and Commutation; and

Washington's "Last Official Address" to the states.

422. The Last Official / Address, / of His Excellency / General Washington, / to the / Legislatures of the United States. / To which is annexed, / A / Collection of Papers Relative to / Half-Pay, / and Commutation of / Half-Pay, / Granted by Congress to the / Officers of the Army. / Hartford: / Printed by Hudson and Goodwin. / M.DCC.LXXXIII.

8°. pp. 48.

A copy is in the Library of Congress. The "Last Official Address”—a circular letter to all the states-is addressed to Governor Trumbull; and the "Collection of Papers relative to Half-pay" includes the papers printed in the Fish-kill publication, No. 420 above.

Journals. 1782-3.

423. Journal of the / United States / In Congress Assembled, / containing / The Proceedings / from/ The First Monday in November 1782, /to/The First Monday in November 1783. / Volume VIII. / Published by order of Congress. / Philadelphia: / Printed by David C. Claypoole. / M,DCC,LXXXIII.

A copy is in the Library of Congress.
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8°. pp. 483, xxxvi.

INDEX

Accounts, 140n, 447, 538; adjustment 162, | Algiers, procuring of ship passports from,

620, 922; commissioners, 180m, 265n,

523, 562, 808; delay, 397; settlement,
153, 340, 358, 361, 367, 369, 380, 388,
392n, 402, 406, 414, 415, 425, 426, 427,
434, 435, 436, 440, 498, 499, 500, 511,
512, 516, 519, 523, 535, 590, 626, 636,
669, 673, 677, 697, 719, 748n, 757, 759,
761, 801, 802, 806, 807, 808, 828, 829,
830, 831, 832, 833, 834, 835, 961, 966;
States with United States, 134, 135,
137, 162, 255.

Adams, John, 33, 34, 66, 67, 68, 103, 241,

243, 245, 250, 251, 286, 290, 321, 645,
784, 858, 878, 878n, 936, 939; authority
to negotiate, 531; commission to nego-
tiate treaties, 321, 405, 824; conduct
as peace commissioner, 924; loan nego-
tiation, 848; resignation, 225, 952.
Letters, 50, 183n, 225, 320, 346, 587,
588n, 617, 618, 620n, 621, 628, 629, 630, |
758, 812n, 813n, 857, 957.

Adams, John, Benjamin Franklin and
John Jay, letter, 588, 588n.

Adams, Samuel, 609, letter, 890.

404.

Aliens, property rights, 823.

Allan, John, memorial, 379, 380; com-
mission, 379; reappointed, 379. Let-
ters, 362n, 620n.

Allen, Ebenezer, letters, 504n, 681.
Alliance, 342, 536n, 826; expense, 446;

inquiry into cruise with the Bon-
homme Richard, 619, 631, 755; officers,
451n; prizes, 588, 619, 631, 755; repairs,
538, 840.

Alvey, John Durham, 229; memorial,
285n, 315, 316.

Amazon, 82, 83; passport for, 141n, 145;
supplies for British prisoners in, 128n,
141.

Amazone, chaplain of, 817n,
America, French and British colonies,
boundary, 554.

Amity and commerce, treaties, 50, 64, 65,
66, 67, 68, 404, 405, 457, 477n, 531, 613,
618, 619, 630, 631, 754, 821, 824, 826.
857, 858.
Ammunition, sale of, 479.

Adjutant General, agrees to accept com- Annapolis, Congress at, 484, 507, 767,

mutation of pay, 786.

Adjutant General's department, allow-
ance of horses, etc. to officers, 176.
Admiralty Court, judges, 109, 110; ordi-
nance establishing, 109, 110.

770, 802, 807; ceded for permanent
residence of Congress, 381; permanent
residence of Congress, 526n, 537, 670,
707, 708, 709, 712, 714, 809.
Annemours, Chevalier d', 554.

Agent of Marine,573, 573n, See also under Antill, Edward, letter, 483n.
Morris, Robert.

Agents, commercial, 372; Indian, 690,
693.

Alexander, James, petition, 267, 267n,
268, 272.

Alexander, William, Earl of Stirling, 26,
31, 184; Congress's sense of merit, 96;
death, 96, 866.

Appeals, Court of, 185, 212, 627; places of
holding, 98; judge, 186n.
Appointments, 620; collectors of cus-
toms, 920, 924; loan officer, 445.
Archives, return of, 517, 518.
Argote, Antonio, 548; brig captured, 227;
memorial, 546, 548n; redress, 228;
letters, 228, 386.

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