Journal Of The Continental Congress, July 8, 1778

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[Philadelphia] Wednesday, July 8, 1778

Resolved, That the governors of Maryland and Virginia¹ be severally requested to take proper measures for giving the earliest intelligence to any French fleet or ships of war that may appear off the Bay of Chesapeake, of a fleet of British ships of war being ready to sail for North America, as by the information transmitted from the American commissioners at Paris;² and that they be respectively desired to accommodate any such French fleet or ships of war with good pilots for bringing them safely into the Bay, should they incline to come there:
That a similar request and proper advice be transmitted to each of the governors of North and South Carolina, and Georgia.³

JCC 11: 675-76.

1. Gov. Thomas Johnson of Maryland and Gov. Patrick Henry of Virginia.

2. On this same date, Congress ordered that the letter from the American Commissioners in France "To the Governor, or any Counsellor, or Senator, or Member of any House of Representatives, in any of the Thirteen United States of America,” dated 18 May, be printed. JCC 11: 675. For that letter, addressed to “to the Governor or Member of any House of Representatives in any of the 13 United States of North America," see NDAR 12: 706–7.

3. Gov. John Houstoun of Georgia, Gov. Richard Caswell of North Carolina, and Pres. Rawlins Lowndes of South Carolina. As seen in Henry Laurens, President of Congress, to General George Washington, 10 July, below, the French fleet commanded by the comte d'Estaing reached the coast of the United States on 5 July and by 8 July was anchored off Delaware Bay, and was in need of pilots.

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1778 July 8

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Volume 13

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American Theater, June 1 to August 15, 1778

Naval Documents of the American Revolution

Journal Of The Continental Congress, July 8, 1778

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