1776 : John Pluckrose is paid 132 Dollars by Congress


Source: Library of Congress
Title:  Journals of the Continental Congress 1774-1789. Edited from the Original Records in the Library of Congress by Worthington Chauncey Ford, Chief, Division of Manuscripts. Volume V. 1776 June 5 – October 8, 1906, Washington, D.C., 826
Date:  25 September 1776
Place:  Philadelphia

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1776

. . .

The Committee of Treasury farther reported that there is due,
To John Pluckrose, for going express from Congress to Charleston, South Carolina, one hundred and thirty two dollars:

. . .

Ordered, That the said sum be passed to his credit.

 

Twelve weeks earlier the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776. The Declaration announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.

 

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