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Appointments 54
Finances 66
Foreign affairs 154
Loan Office 12
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Letters (to president)195
From JA (1780)113
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From JA (1781)52
From JA (1777)1
PJA05
mentioned60
revaluation of currency by36
and accession to armed neutrality25
issues bills of exchange21
and revocation of JA's powers (1781)18
appoints commissioners to negotiate commercial treaties17
commends JA for representations on revaluation16
draws bills of exchange on diplomats in Europe16
Journals of16
and La Luzerne15
appoints Franklin minister to France13
correspondence with JA13
debates peace ultimata13
elects JA to negotiate Anglo-American treaties13
fails to recall or appoint JA to new position13
JA defends revaluation of currency by13
need to appoint Amer. ministers to European courts13
appointment and compensation of Commissioners by (1776-1777)12
conduct of foreign relations by12
and Deane-Lee controversy11
appoints committee of thirteen to consider charges against JA and other Commissioners11
plan of treaties, appointment of, and instructions to 1st joint mission to France10
approves JA’s letter to Vergennes in defense of new monetary policy9
fails to communicate with diplomats in Europe9
alters JA’s sole powers to joint powers to negotiate peace8
and dispute over command of Alliance and control of naval vessels8
JA’s commission and letters of credence to the States General and William V8
Letters (by president)8
provides compensation for ministers and secretaries8
resolution and preamble on instituting state governments8
rights and grievances of, set forth and discussed8
sends JA commissions and instructions as minister to Netherlands8
actions taken in Adams-Vergennes controversy7
debates on and measures leading to establishment of U.S. Navy7
Mass. delegates elected7
requires Commissioners to pay interest on loan office certificates in Europe7
adopts instructions for negotiation of Anglo-American treaties6
commissions and instructions for joint peace commission6
revokes JA’s powers to negotiate commercial treaty with Great Britain6
AA criticizes5
AFC07
appoints and instructs JA as minister to treat of peace and commerce with Great Britain5
considers and votes on charges against JA and others in report of committee of thirteen5
committee to state colonial rights and its report (“Declaration of Rights”)4
debates and resolves on nonimportation and nonexportation (“Continental Association”)4
deficiencies in and favoritism toward conservative faction in Thomson's record of proceedings4
nonimportation, nonconsumption, and nonexportation agreement (“Continental Association”)4
permits Commissioners at other courts to draw for expenses on the Commissioners at Paris3
declines to thank Provost William Smith for his Oration on Montgomery's death or to print it2
election of JA as minister to treat of peace and commerce with Great Britain2
JA commissioned minister to States General vice Henry Laurens to negotiate treaty of amity and commerce2
AA2 imagines JQA as member of1
AFC07
accounts with Francis Dana settled1
AFC04
a “Constelation”1
AFC01
action on Rush-Shippen dispute over military hospitals1
AFC02
actions on proposals of Hartford Convention1
AFC04
acts to protect its members1
PJA05
address to people of Great Britain1
PJA02
adjournment in August1
AFC01
adjourns at Philadelphia when Howe threatens the city1
AFC02
adjourns for celebration of Fourth of July1
AFC02
adjourns for lack of delegates1
AFC06
adoption of Treaty Plan of 1776 by1
PJA08
adopts Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms1
AFC01
adopts Suffolk Resolves1
PJA02
advises N.H. Provincial Convention to call for new form of government1
AFC01
Amer. ministers expect orders from1
AFC05
“A more serious Spirit prevails”1
AFC01
and Anglo-American relations1
DJA03
and authority of Parliament1
PJA02
and British depredations1
PJA03
and Carleton-Digby letter1
AFC04
and Dumas as Amer. agent in Netherlands1
DJA03
and Dutch loan1
DJA03
and embargo on naval stores1
PJA11
and engravings of William Tell1
PJA08
and financial improprieties in clothier general’s office1
PJA11
and funds for outfitting South Carolina 1
PJA10
and Joseph Galloway’s Plan of Union1
PJA02
and law on recaptures1
PJA07
and Lee-Neufville treaty1
PJA10
and Matthews conspiracy1
PJA07
and mutiny of Penn. Line1
PJA11
and peace based on uti posseditis 1
PJA11
and peace negotiations in 17781
PJA09
and peace terms1
PJA06
and responsibilities of JA and Franklin1
PJA09
and sale of tea1
PJA03
and secret contract with Roderigue Hortalès & Cie.1
AFC03
and settlement of Ross’ accounts1
PJA07
and Silas Talbot1
PJA11
and titles of dignity1
AFC03
and treatment of British deserters1
PJA10
and use of captured British seamen1
PJA04
and Vermont independence movement1
PJA10
“an heterogeneous Body”1
AFC01
anti-Massachusetts bias charged1
AFC04
appointment of foreign ministers1
AFC02
appointment of Laurens' secretary by1
PJA10
appointment of Washington as commander1
DJA03
appoints Amer. agent in Lisbon1
PJA09
appoints and instructs JA as minister to Great Britain1
DJA03
appoints and recalls Izard as Commissioner to Tuscany1
PJA07
appoints commissioners to negotiate commercial treaties (1784)1
PJA11
appoints commissioners to Spain, Tuscany, Prussia, and Austria (1777)1
PJA11
appoints committee on destructive acts by British troops1
AFC01
appoints Dana secretary to 2d joint commission1
PJA11
appoints Dr. Church director and chief physician of Continental hospital1
AFC01
appoints Dr. Morgan director general and chief physician of Continental hospitals1
AFC01
appoints eight Continental brigadier generals1
AFC01
appoints joint commissioners to negotiate treaties of amity and commerce1
DJA03
appoints secretary for foreign affairs1
PJA10
appoints secretary to Amer. commissioners1
AFC05
appoints U.S. agent to Portugal1
PJA11
appoints Wm. Palfrey first consul in France1
AFC04
appoints WSS to inspect evacuation of N.Y.1
AFC07
approves Suffolk Resolves1
DJA02
aroused at the conduct of the British (1785)1
AFC06
Articles of Confederation printed and submitted to the states1
DJA02
asks Britain to appoint mininster to U.S.1
AFC07
assumes Army claims and pays with Pierce's notes1
AFC06
as “their High Mightinesses”1
PJA13
“a strong jealousy” of New Englanders in1
AFC01
attacks on foreign ministers in1
AFC07
attempts to restrict imports from Great Britain1
AFC04
attitudes toward JA and Franklin in1
AFC05
authorizes negotiation of Dutch-Amer. treaty1
PJA11
authorizes payment to Curson1
PJA12
authorizes Pulaski’s “Legion”1
AFC03
Barclay acts as commissioner of accounts1
AFC06
Board of War1
PJA11
Board of War and Ordnance1
LJA02
Board of War's report recommending retaliation for British mistreatment of Amer. prisoners1
AFC02
Brit. doubt power of1
AFC07
“Business is ... spun out to an immeasurable Length”1
AFC01
business of summer session1
DJA02
called JA's “Sovereign”1
AFC05
capacity and honor of, questioned1
PJA05
chaplain of1
PJA11
commends officers for conduct at Camden1
PJA10
commissioners' letter to, on loyalists, published1
AFC06
commissions J. Laurens to assist Franklin1
AFC04
committee from, expected in England1
PJA02
Committee of 13 and charges against JA (1779)1
PJA09
committee on captured papers of N.J. Quakers1
AFC02
committee “on Spies”1
AFC02
committee to design medal on evacuation of Boston1
AFC02
committee to report on Sullivan's resignation1
AFC02
committee to revise Articles of War1
AFC02
committee to view Delaware River fortifications1
AFC02
communication of proposal for Anglo-Amer. negotiations under Austro-Russian mediation to1
PJA11
Congress in Baltimore1
DJA02
considers federal city1
AFC07
contracts with Roderigue Hortalez & Cie.1
PJA06
controversy over plural officeholding1
DJA03
Cotton Tufts on fears of stability of1
AFC07
credentials of Mass. delegates to1
PJA02
Dana seeks copy of Journals 1
PJA12
dangers in traveling to1
PJA05
Deane on self-importance of1
PJA12
debate on Army clothing account1
DJA02
debate on Conn.-Penn. land dispute1
DJA02
debate on Galloway's plan of union1
DJA02
debate on method of voting1
DJA02
debate on mode of appointing Continental officers1
DJA02
debate on Purviances' petition1
DJA02
debate on stopping the “ministerial Post”1
DJA02
debate on Willing & Morris gunpowder contract1
DJA02
debates on Amer. trade1
DJA02
debates on Atlantic fisheries1
DJA03
debates on territorial claims of certain states1
AFC02
debates price-fixing measures1
AFC02
debates procurement of gunpowder1
PJA03
“Declaration of Independency” first mentioned1
DJA02
Declaration of Rights and Grievances (1775)1
PJA09
“Deliberations . . . spun out to an immeasurable Length”1
DJA02
development of Navy1
LJA02
dispute with Washington rumored in France1
DJA04
dissolves1
DJA02
“Distinguished American” as policy statement of1
PJA09
disunion in, reported1
PJA02
division in Va. delegation1
DJA03
divisive effect of1
PJA02
does not adjourn for hot days1
AFC06
drafting and voting of Declaration of Independence1
DJA03
effect of, in England1
PJA02
effect of return of Jay and Laurens on plans of1
AFC05
efforts to raise army1
PJA09
elects Jay to replace Laurens as president of1
PJA07
elects person to examine accounts in Europe1
PJA08
elects Washington commander in chief1
AFC01
encourages desertions from British army1
PJA06
establishes Board of War1
PJA04
European interest in proceedings of1
PJA09
excess clerks in1
PJA05
excursion to inspect Delaware River defenses1
DJA02
extends JA’s stay in Netherlands1
AFC04
fails to support JA's mission1
AFC07
financial difficulties of1
AFC05
Francis Dana in1
EJA01
French forces ordered to cooperate with1
PJA10
full representation from thirteen states1
AFC02
“general Disposition to proceed slowly”1
AFC01
gift of ship America to France voted1
AFC04
gives France America to replace Magnifique 1
PJA10
gives Laurens and Dana leave to return1
AFC05
gives Washington extraordinary powers1
PJA05
has 200 copies of Constitutions of the Several Independent States of America printed1
PJA12
Huntington elected president of1
PJA08
importation of all British goods prohibited1
AFC04
inability to collect import duties1
AFC04
informed by JA of long illness1
AFC04
inherent war power of1
LJA02
insists upon independence as price of peace1
PJA05
instituting new state governments1
DJA03
instructions regarding Portugal1
PJA09
instructs Franklin on Atlantic fisheries1
DJA04
interest due on Loan Office certificates1
AFC05
“I wish We were good Architects”1
AFC01
JA: “Congress has not cutt off our heads for making Peace, and that is some Comfort”1
AFC05
JA advises on sugar production1
AFC07
JA authorized to act in Laurens’ stead on financial matters1
AFC04
JA consults on Prussian-American treaty1
AFC05
JA describes routine of meetings and committee meetings1
AFC01
JA in1
EJA01
James Jay and1
PJA13
JA negotiates loan with Dutch bankers for1
EJA01
JA objects to clergymen serving as delegates1
AFC01
JA on1
PJA11
JA on foreign alliances for1
PJA02
JA on nonexportation as issue in1
PJA02
JA on service in1
PJA12
JA provides letters of introduction for John Anstey to1
AFC07
JA requests instructions from1
PJA08
JA’s additional instructions regarding peace (1780)1
PJA11
JA's campaign for independence rather than reconciliation1
DJA03
JA's draft resolution concerning instructions to delegates1
DJA02
JA sends correspondence with Vergennes to1
PJA08
JA's list of measures to be taken up1
DJA02
JA's memorandum of measures to be pursued1
DJA02
JA’s notes on debates of1
PJA02
JA's plan for a military establishment1
AFC02
JA's proposal for rotating Mass. delegates1
AFC02
JA's recollections of his proposed measures1
DJA03
JA takes leave of for 17801
PJA10
JA thinks that no European sovereign more enlightened than1
PJA13
JA will not leave Britain until recalled by1
AFC07
“jealousy” of Massachusetts in1
AFC03
John Wentworth's intercepted letter read in1
AFC02
journey of Mass. delegates to Philadelphia1
DJA02
lack of financial support for JA criticized in London press1
AFC06
lack of secrecy at1
PJA08
lacks policy of dealing with debt1
AFC06
Lafayette's return to America and1
PJA13
Laurens' return to America and1
PJA13
letter from JA listed (1781)1
PJA12
letters (to president) from JA listed (1781)1
PJA11
498
(3)
letters from JA to the president listed (1778)1
PJA08
393
(2)
letters from JA to the president listed (1779)1
PJA08
396
(2)
levies to support soldiers1
AFC04
list of residences of delegates in Philadelphia1
DJA02
“Little Things . . . designedly thrown in the Way of Great Ones”1
DJA03
Livingston requests information from JA for1
PJA12
loss of influence1
PJA11
major issues facing1
PJA13
makes arrangements for JA’s passage on La Sensible 1
PJA08
makes requisition of funds from the states1
AFC06
Marine Committee1
LJA02
Massachusetts proposes convention to revise Confederation1
AFC06
Massachusetts seeks guidance on art. 4 of peace treaty from1
AFC05
Mass. delegates elected to1
AFC01
medal voted to Washington1
DJA03
memorandum of instructions on Anglo-American commercial treaty listed (1779)1
PJA08
monetary cost of serving in1
PJA05
motion to censure Wooster and Hopkins1
AFC02
motion to recall ministers fails1
AFC04
moves to Annapolis1
AFC05
names Franklin to negotiate with Sweden1
AFC05
names John Laurens special envoy to France1
AFC04
nation’s financial problems addressed1
AFC03
Naval Committee1
AFC02
need for a loan1
PJA11
need for information in1
PJA02
need to halt depreciation of currency1
PJA10
“nibbling and quibbling—as usual”1
DJA02
notification of Dutch recognition received1
AFC04
nullifies Saratoga Convention1
PJA11
Olive Branch Petition (1775)1
PJA10
on need for supplies1
PJA11
opposes granting habeas corpus1
PJA05
opposes trade with Britain1
PJA13
oratory in1
DJA02
orders payment for capture of neutral Portuguese vessel1
PJA11
orders portrait of Gérard1
PJA09
papers of1
LJA01
papers transported from Philadelphia1
AFC02
payment of interest on Loan Office certificates stopped1
AFC05
people concerned about extending powers of1
AFC06
people reportedly tired of government by1
PJA07
permits seizure of West Indian vessels1
PJA05
petition from Amer. prisoners at Mill Prison to1
PJA12
petition to for private relief, No. 581
LJA02
“plaid upon like Children” by French ministers1
DJA03
policy of, toward Indians1
PJA03
post office regulations passed1
AFC03
power to pledge credit impaired1
AFC04
Preliminary Treaty with Great Britain1
AFC04
prints Constitutions, etc.1
PJA11
prints Schuyler's letter on battle of Bennington1
AFC02
prohibits Amer. ministers to have chapels1
AFC06
proposed appointment of minister to Netherlands1
DJA04
proposes to name minister to Netherlands1
PJA06
publishes no official account of JA's presentation to King1
AFC06
ratifies 2d Dutch loan1
AFC05
ratifies Preliminary Treaty with Great Britain1
DJA03
ratifies treaty with Netherlands1
DJA03
ratifies treaty with Prussia1
DJA03
reaction to American Prohibitory Act1
AFC01
reason for calling of1
PJA02
recalls JA with thanks1
DJA03
receives blank dispatches from France1
AFC02
receives copy of Commissioners’ Letterbook1
PJA08
receives Memorial on Williams’ accounts from A. Lee1
PJA07
receives report of Middlesex Convention1
PJA02
receives report that JA's 1781 illness affected his brain1
PJA13
recommends attack on British in R.I.1
PJA05
recommends leniency for debtors1
PJA03
refuses to print William Smith's oration1
PJA04
regular printing of Journals authorized1
AFC03
rejects Arnold-Forster cartel at The Cedars1
AFC02
rejects British peace overtures1
PJA07
rejects Franco-American consular convention1
AFC05
rejects Franklin’s request to resign1
PJA11
rejects sending ambassador to France (1775)1
PJA04
relations with Washington1
AFC02
“remarkable Want of Judgment in some of our Members”1
DJA02
reopening of1
PJA03
reorganizes army1
PJA11
reported disunity of1
PJA03
reportedly plans to leave Phila.1
PJA09
repudiates Paine’s charges about French aid1
PJA08
requests portraits of king and queen of France1
PJA07
resolution on importation of gunpowder1
AFC01
resolution on salaries for Amer. commissioners1
AFC03
resolution praising Catherine II1
PJA11
resolution regarding prizes1
PJA07
resolution respecting prayers in1
AFC01
resolutions for fitting out armed vessels1
AFC01
resolutions on transport of British property1
resolves concerning “the eastern department”1
AFC01
resolves that Dana should not present credentials1
PJA11
resolves to adhere to the Armed Neutrality1
AFC04
retaliates for cruel treatment of Amer. war prisoners1
PJA05
rumored to cede portions of R.I. to France1
PJA10
secret committee of correspondence and appointment of Deane as its agent in Europe1
DJA03
seeks information on European armies1
PJA13
seeks to raise European loan1
PJA07
separation of judicial and legislative powers1
LJA02
“Slow, as Snails”1
AFC01
sole negotiator with foreign powers under Arts. of Confederation1
PJA11
some in, favor creation of nobility1
PJA06
sovereignty of U.S. resides in1
PJA09
state land claims ceded to1
AFC04
Sullivan delivers Howe's conciliation proposals to1
AFC02
supplies JA with letters of credence to the States General1
AFC04
suspends embarkation of Convention troops1
AFC02
tables report on coins1
PJA05
tactics in Va. campaign devised in concert with Washington1
AFC04
“The Fidgets, the Whims, the Caprice, the Vanity ... of some of us”1
AFC01
“the most perfect body”1
AFC01
“There is a great Spirit in the Congress”1
AFC01
toasted by Rotterdam merchants1
PJA12
to investigate loss of forts1
PJA05
“too irresolute, and backward”1
AFC01
treachery within, suspected1
PJA05
“treated with great freedom” by Rush1
AFC04
treaties of alliance with foreign nations1
AFC02
treaties with Indians1
PJA06
treatment of letters to president of, during second mission in Papers of JA 1
PJA07
unfamiliar with German language1
PJA12
urges drafting of militiamen1
PJA05
Virginia cedes land to1
PJA11
votes commissions for Gates and Mifflin1
AFC01
war-weariness in1
PJA11
work of the Board of War1
DJA02
See also:
Articles of Confederation
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Board of War and Ordnance
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Declaration of Independence
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Marine Committee
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Massachusetts
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Naval Committee
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Treaties
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