Delegates to Congress
. Letters of delegates to Congress, 1774-1789, Volume 7, May 1 1777-September 18 1777
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Marine Committee to To: Thomas Johnson
Sir,
In Marine Committee. May 1. 1777
The President will inclose you certain resolves of Congress relative to the contempt offered by Captain James Nicholson against the Executive power of the State of Maryland.(1)
The Marine Committee have directed Wm Lux Esqr. the Marine Agent at Baltimore to serve the Said Nicholson with a Copy of them,(2) and to inform your Excellency of the time of Such service. The Committee have also ordered the Commanding Officer on board the Frigate Virginia to set at Liberty all persons who have not Signed the Marine Articles and received the Continental bounty.(3) We request your Excellency to give the President of Congress the most early notice whether or not Capt Nicholson makes such concessions to the Executive power of the state as they shall require within the limited time. We have the honor to be, yr. Excellencys Most obedt. Servts,
John Hancock
Wm. Whipple
Phil. Livingston
Oliver Wolcott
Tho Burke
Richard Henry Lee
William Ellery
Note: RC (MdAA). In a clerical hand and signed by Burke, Ellery, Hancock Lee, Livingston, Whipple, and Wolcott.
1 See JCC, 7:318-19. For a discussion of Maryland's controversy with Captain Nicholson, see Marine Committee to James Nicholson, April 29, 1777, note.
2 On this day the Marine Committee also wrote this brief note to William Lux, the Continental prize agent in Maryland: "You'll please to Serve Captain James Nicholson with the inclosed Copies of Resolves of Congress in presence of Some one or more Credible persons and inform Governor Johnston and this Committee of the time of such Service." PCC, item 70, 1: 207.
3 See preceding entry.