Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 3
Ordered, That Mr. Paine be directed to write to Governor Trumbull respecting the practicability of enlarging the furnace at Salisbury, for casting heavy cannon there, and request his opinion concerning the same.
The delegates for New York having communicated to Congress a letter of the 9th, from the committee of safety of that state, with sundry papers enclosed:
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Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to take the same into consideration, and report thereon with all convenient despatch:
The members chosen, Mr. Chase,1 Mr. Paine and Mr. Stockton.
Journals of the Continental Congress, 5:807–808
Samuel Chase (1741–1811) practiced law in Annapolis, Md., beginning in 1761. While a member of the General Assembly of Maryland, Chase also served as a delegate to the Continental Congress (1774–1778). In 1776 he went on a special mission to Canada to encourage that country to join in the revolutionary cause. After the war, Chase was a judge in Maryland until 1796, when President Washington appointed him to the U.S. Supreme Court. The House impeached him in 1804, but the Senate acquitted him on each of the eight charges and he served until his death (
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