[Philadelphia] Wednesday, March 6, 1776
As several of the marine committee are absent,
Resolved, That their places be supplyed by Mr.[Samuel] Huntington, for Connecticut, Mr.[Jonathan Dickinson] Sergeant, for New Jersey, Mr. [Benjamin] Harrison, for Virginia, and Mr. E[dward] Rutledge, for South Carolina 2
1. Ford, ed., JCC, IV, 185-87.
2. George Read to Caesar Rodney, March 6, 1776: "The state of the publick business in Congress has been such that I cou'd not leave this place with Propriety for these two days past tho' truly little has been done in them particularly the Marine Committee is so wanting in Attending Members that for 2 Evenings past we could not procure a sufficient Number to proceed to business, it is proposed to supply some vacancies this day if Congress shall be prevailed on to attend to it," Rodney Papers, HSD.