Delegates to Congress . Letters of delegates to Congress, 1774-1789, Volume 25, March 1788-July 1789, With Supplement
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Charles Thomson to To: John Langdon


Sir,
Office of Secretary of Congress, [October 2? 1788]
(1)

   I have the honor to transmit to Your Excy herewith enclosed, An Act of the United States in Congress Assembled on a petition of Brigr Genl James Reed. His situation & sufferings are such that Congress have been pleased to recommend them to the consideration of the State of New Hampshire, that in case he can produce proper evidence to substantiate his claim to the pension of an invalid, the State may make provision for payment thereof out of the specie requisitions agreeably to the resolutions of the 11th of June last.(2)

   With great respect &c


Note:

   LB (DNA: PCC, item 18B). Addressed: "His Excy. The President of New Hampshire."



1 For this date, see the following note.



2 James Reed, a New Hampshire general who had lost his sight after contracting smallpox while on active duty in 1776, had submitted a September 20 petition to Congress that was referred September 30 to a committee consisting of Nicholas Gilman, Edward Carrington, and James R. Reid. The committee's recommendation, embodied in this letter, was submitted to Congress October 1 and adopted October 2, the date assigned this letter. See JCC , 34:572n, 574, 577; and PCC, item 42, 6:534-37. For the background of Reed's petition, see also these Letters , 16:547-48 , 18:249n ; and Thomson to the States, June 14, 1788.




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