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" Committee of Secret Correspondence Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed for the sole purpose of corresponding with our friends in Great Britain, Ireland, and other parts of the world ; and that they lay their correspondence before Congress... "
The Department of State of the United States: Its History and Functions - Page 3
by Gaillard Hunt - 1914 - 459 pages
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Franklin the Diplomat: The French Mission

Jonathan R. Dull - 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....
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The Quarterly Review, Volumes 9-10

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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 10

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...
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Secret Journals of the Acts and Proceedings of Congress, from the First ...

United States. Continental Congress - 1820 - 600 pages
...OF THE CONFEDERATION. FOREIGN AFFAIRS. SECRET JOURNAL. FOREIGN AFFAIRS. NOVEMBER 29, 1775. RESOLVED, That a committee of five be appointed for the sole...arise by carrying on such correspondence, and for the payment of such agents as they may send on this service. The members chosen — Mr. Harrison, Dr. Franklin,...
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Journals of the American Congress: from 1774-1788: In Four Volumes, Volume 1

United States. Continental Congress - 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...
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Collections, Historical and Miscellaneous: And Monthly Literary ..., Volume 3

John Farmer - 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...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 3

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...
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Sanderson's Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence

Robert Taylor Conrad - 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,...
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The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States ..., Volume 3

John Adams - 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...
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Life of Washington: A Biography, Personal, Military, and Political, Volume 2

Benson John Lossing - 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...
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