Letters of Members of the Continental Congress, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from Letters of Members of the Continental Congress, Vol. 1: August 29, 1774 to July 4, 1776Those who have had occasion to give to the journals Of the Continental Congress more than a casual examination can not fail to have Observed that the record of proceedings from the first assembling of Congress in September, 1774, to its virtual expiration in the autumn of 1788, is not only uneven through the years, in some periods being comparatively full, in others lean to exasperation, but at almost all points leaves us much in the dark as to what was said and done within the congressional chamber. The journal is in fact scarcely more than the Skeleton of proceedings.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.