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Collection Reference Number GLC00505.02
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to 1775 
Title Congressional resolve to appoint committee to compile list of hostilities
Date 18 October 1775
Author Thomson, Charles (1729-1824)  
Document Type Government document
Content Description Appointed John Adams, Silas Deane and George Wythe to the committee.
Subjects President  Declaration of Independence  Congress  Continental Congress  Revolutionary War  Military History  Global History and Civics  Government and Civics  
People Adams, John (1735-1826)  Wythe, George (1726-1806)  Deane, Silas (1737-1789)  Thomson, Charles (1729-1824)  
Place written Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Theme Foreign Affairs; The Presidency; Government & Politics; The American Revolution
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Additional Information Notes: The responses received to this document's request for a list of British hostilities may have been the source for that list in the Declaration of Independence.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859