Diary of John Adams, volume 3

Fryday Feb. 23. 1776.

Tuesday Feb. 27. 1776.

[Monday Feb. 26. 1776] JA

1776-02-26

[Monday Feb. 26. 1776] Adams, John
Monday Feb. 26. 1776

Monday Feb. 26. 1776 arrived, and a Letter from General Lee, was referred to Mr. McKean, Mr. John Adams and Mr. Lewis Morris,1 but no Resolution of Congress into a Committee of the whole.

1.

Lee's letter, dated 22 Feb., is in PCC, No. 158. A “Report [thereon] was delivered in by J Adams” on 28 Feb.; action was deferred until 1 March and then quashed (Richard Smith, Diary, Burnett, ed., Letters of Members , 1:367, 371).