Cambridge, November 8, 1775.
[Extract]
I should be very glad if the Congress would, without delay, appoint some mode by which an examination into the captures made by our armed vessels may be had, as we are rather groping in the dark till this happens.2
1. Fitzpatrick, ed., Writings of Washington, IV, 75, 76.
2. This was Washington's effort in a private letter to prod the Continental Congress to take action upon the problem of prize condemnation, a necessity he had previously explained in several letters to John Hancock, president of the Congress.
