Committee report : Princeton, N.J., 1783 July 1.

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Committee report : Princeton, N.J., 1783 July 1.

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Extract from the minutes of the Continental Congress giving the report of a committee (Alexander Hamilton, Oliver Ellsworth, and Richard Peters) appointed to confer with the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania regarding a mutiny of Continental troops of the Pennsylvania line. The soldiers had mutinied at Lancaster over back pay and marched to Philadelphia, where they were threatening the council in the State House. Congress, meeting in the same building, also felt threatened and on 21 June voted to adjourn to Princeton. The report includes the committee's letter to Major William Jackson, the Assistant Secretary at War, 19 June, directing him to meet and negotiate with the mutineers; the committee's report of 24 June on its meeting with the council; and the committee's letter to the council, 23 June. The extract is certified with the signature of Charles Thomson, the secretary of Congress.

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