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Letter text, December 5, 1777
Sir.
I beg Leave to communicate to the General Assembly, the Resolutions of Congress241 & the Letter from Mr Laurens242, which accompany this243. I also inclose [sic] you a Letter from General Washington & have the Honor to be,
The Honble
George Wythe Esqr
Speaker of the House of Delegates
Footnotes
241On November 20 Congress considered a lengthy report on the subject of conditions at Detroit and at Fort Pitt etc. See “Journals of the Continental Congress,” Vol. IX, p. 942 et seq.
242On November 1 Henry Laurens, vice-president of South Carolina, had been chosen, by a unanimous vote, to succeed John Hancock as President of Congress.
243The above letter was laid before the House of Delegates the same day.
Ordered, That the said resolutions and papers be referred to the committee of the whole House, on the letters from the Governor, which, with several other papers, were ordered to lie on the table.