http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/index.php?title=Charles_Thomson_to_Wythe_et_al.,_21_June_1785&feed=atom&action=historyCharles Thomson to Wythe et al., 21 June 1785 - Revision history2024-03-28T12:14:33ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.27.5http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/index.php?title=Charles_Thomson_to_Wythe_et_al.,_21_June_1785&diff=73857&oldid=prevGwsweeney at 17:28, 21 June 20232023-06-21T17:28:19Z<p></p>
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</table>Gwsweeneyhttp://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/index.php?title=Charles_Thomson_to_Wythe_et_al.,_21_June_1785&diff=73854&oldid=prevGwsweeney: Reverted edits by Gwsweeney (talk) to last revision by Mvanwicklin2023-06-21T17:24:10Z<p>Reverted edits by <a href="/wythepedia/index.php/Special:Contributions/Gwsweeney" title="Special:Contributions/Gwsweeney">Gwsweeney</a> (<a href="/wythepedia/index.php?title=User_talk:Gwsweeney&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User talk:Gwsweeney (page does not exist)">talk</a>) to last revision by <a href="/wythepedia/index.php?title=User:Mvanwicklin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Mvanwicklin (page does not exist)">Mvanwicklin</a></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[File: WytheetaltoCharlesThomson21june1785.jpg |right|thumb|450px|<p>"Charles Thomson to Wythe et al, 21 June 1785." Image from ''The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789.''</p>]]</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Massachusetts and New York went to Congress to settle a dispute over a piece of land between the Merrimac and Charles rivers<ref> <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Carson, Hampton Lawrence. Sources of the Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1680-1774. Vol. 1. N.p.: n.p., n.d. 75. Google Books. Web. 19 July 2017. </ins>[https://books.google.com/books?id=<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">0oFIAQAAMAAJ</ins>&pg=<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">PA75&lpg=PA75&dq=george+read,+isaac+smith,+william+paterson,+james+monroe,+george+wythe</ins>,<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">+thomas+johnson&source=bl&ots=eH-3PQv-Yl&sig=YKOF7WcFflotL_OGAMq2_6UiEyo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi52q-56pXVAhWFVT4KHRIrDFoQ6AEILTAC#v=onepage&q=george%20read%2C%20isaac%20smith%2C%20william%20paterson%2C%20james%20monroe%2C%20george%20wythe%2C%20thomas%20johnson&f=false</ins>] </ref>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </ins>The two states had agreed on appointing [[Wikipedia: John Rutledge| John Rutledge]], [[Wikipedia: Robert H. Harrison| Robert Hanson Harrison]], [[Wikipedia: William Grayson| William Grayson]], [[Wikipedia: Thomas Johnson (jurist)| Thomas Johnson]], [[George Wythe]], [[Wikipedia: George Read (American politician, born 1733)| George Read]], [[Wikipedia: James Monroe| James Monroe]], [[Wikipedia: Isaac Smith (New Jersey)| Isaac Smith]], and [[Wikipedia: William Paterson (judge)| William Paterson]] to oversee the case. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </ins>However, Harrison, Grayson, and Rutledge declined, so [[Wikipedia: William Fleming (judge)| William Fleming]], [[Wikipedia: Samuel Johnson| Samuel Johnson]], and [[Wikipedia: John Sitgreaves| John Sitgreaves]] were appointed to replace them. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </ins>[[Wikipedia: <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Charles Thomson</ins>| <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Charles Thomson</ins>]]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, the secretary </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the Continental Congress, </ins>informed the selected group that the court would meet in Williamsburg, Virginia on the third Tuesday of November 1785 and that as soon as the three recently appointed members were approved, a commission would be made for a court to hear and determine the result of the dispute in accordance with the Articles of Confederation. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Massachusetts and New York went to Congress to settle a dispute over a piece of land between the Merrimac and Charles rivers<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.</ins><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">pWgFAAAAQAAJ</ins>&pg=<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">PA310 ''Journals of Congress: 3d day of Nov. 1783 to 3d day of June</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1784''] (Philadelphia: John Dunlap)</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">310.</ins></ref>. The two states had agreed on appointing [[Wikipedia: John Rutledge| John Rutledge]], [[Wikipedia: Robert H. Harrison| Robert Hanson Harrison]], [[Wikipedia: William Grayson| William Grayson]], [[Wikipedia: Thomas Johnson (jurist)| Thomas Johnson]], [[George Wythe]], [[Wikipedia: George Read (American politician, born 1733)| George Read]], [[Wikipedia: James Monroe| James Monroe]], [[Wikipedia: Isaac Smith (New Jersey)| Isaac Smith]], and [[Wikipedia: William Paterson (judge)| William Paterson]] to oversee the case. However, Harrison, Grayson, and Rutledge declined, so [[Wikipedia: William Fleming (judge)| William Fleming]], [[Wikipedia: Samuel Johnson| Samuel Johnson]], and [[Wikipedia: John Sitgreaves| John Sitgreaves]] were appointed to replace them. [[Wikipedia: Charles Thomson| Charles Thomson]], the secretary of the Continental Congress, informed the selected group that the court would meet in Williamsburg, Virginia on the third Tuesday of November 1785 and that as soon as the three recently appointed members were approved, a commission would be made for a court to hear and determine the result of the dispute in accordance with the Articles of Confederation.</div></td></tr>
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