[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 351 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. CON. RES. 351

 Honoring the 225th Anniversary of the Continental Congress meeting in 
              Nassau Hall, Princeton, New Jersey, in 1783.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 15, 2008

  Mr. Holt (for himself, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Saxton, Mr. Garrett of New 
 Jersey, Mr. Ferguson, Mr. Rothman, Mr. Frelinghuysen, Mr. Sires, Mr. 
 LoBiondo, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Pascrell, and Mr. 
    Payne) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
      referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
 Honoring the 225th Anniversary of the Continental Congress meeting in 
              Nassau Hall, Princeton, New Jersey, in 1783.

Whereas, in response to the financial difficulties of the times, the Continental 
        Congress departed the city of Philadelphia suddenly due to a possible 
        uprising by discontented Continental Army soldiers who had not been 
        paid;
Whereas the President of the Continental Congress, Elias Boudinot, established a 
        temporary capital at Princeton ``in order that further and more 
        effective measures may be taken for suppressing the present Revolt, and 
        maintaining the Dignity and Authority of the United States'';
Whereas members of the Continental Congress were instructed to meet in Princeton 
        on June 26, 1783;
Whereas the 300 residents of Princeton took members of the Congress into their 
        homes;
Whereas Princeton University offered the prayer hall and the library in Nassau 
        Hall for Congress to use to conduct the governmental business of the 
        United States;
Whereas the Congress conducted essential business in Nassau Hall, which helped 
        shape the foreign relations of the fledgling Nation;
Whereas General George Washington was called to Princeton by a letter from 
        President Boudinot to receive the formal thanks of the Nation for his 
        dedicated service as commander-in-chief;
Whereas, on August 18, General Washington left Major General John Knox in charge 
        of the encamped army at Newburgh, New York, and traveled with a guard of 
        dragoons and his wife, Martha Washington, to the Rockingham estate in 
        Rocky Hill, New Jersey, which was made available for his use over the 
        next three months;
Whereas General Washington met with the Continental Congress in Nassau Hall on 
        August 26 and received the public thanks of his country for his success 
        in the struggle for liberty;
Whereas, in late October at Rockingham, Washington completed writing his 
        Farewell Orders to the Armies of the United States dismissing the troops 
        and announcing his retirement;
Whereas, while Congress was meeting in Princeton, the Treaty of Paris was signed 
        in Paris by John Adams, John Jay, and Benjamin Franklin on September 3, 
        1783, marking the end of the American Revolution and establishing the 
        boundaries of the new Nation; and
Whereas Congress departed Princeton in early November 1783 to winter in 
        Annapolis, Maryland: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That it is the sense of the Congress that the 225th Anniversary of the 
Continental Congress meeting at Nassau Hall in Princeton, New Jersey, 
should be commemorated.
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